Summary
Two engineering students from Sundargarh, Odisha, have proposed ParaSync, a platform designed to analyse para-athletes’ sporting videos and connect promising talent with national-level scouts. The team is among the Top 20 innovations in Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2026.
Two engineering students from Sundargarh, Odisha, have proposed ParaSync, an AI-assisted platform intended to help identify para-athletes through videos of their sporting performance. Samsung India says the student team, Code Blooded, is among the Top 20 innovations in its Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2026 programme.
The idea addresses a scouting gap the founders say they observed in smaller cities and rural areas: promising athletes may not have accessible routes to national-level talent scouts. ParaSync is designed to let athletes record or upload a 10–20-minute performance video using a smartphone. Its computer vision system is intended to analyse sporting technique and physical mechanics, with the platform aiming to connect promising athletes to scouts.
From video assessment to athlete development
Computer vision is software that analyses visual information in images or video. In ParaSync’s proposed use, that analysis would focus on how an athlete performs a sport-specific movement. The platform also envisages tailored warm-up routines, automated progress tracking and secure records to support medical screening and athlete development.
Those additional functions are described as plans for the platform, rather than reported results from an operating service. Samsung’s account does not give assessment results or describe a completed scouting placement. The project is therefore best understood as a proposed pathway for identifying talent, not as a demonstrated scouting system.
The founders stress that para-athletes have varied needs and may require different adaptations, coaching and support. That makes individualisation central to the idea: an assessment intended for this community would need to account for athletes’ differing circumstances, rather than treat them as a single group. The announcement does not explain how ParaSync would translate video observations into individual recommendations or scout decisions.
A student project in Samsung’s programme
Vatala Harika, 21, and Ritesh Routray, 20, developed the idea while studying at the same college in Sundargarh. The team’s participation in Samsung Solve for Tomorrow has also included a bootcamp. According to Samsung, it prompted the students to consider how the concept might work at larger scale, who would use it and how it could be sustained.
The immediate significance of ParaSync is its attempt to use smartphone video as a possible link between athletes outside established scouting networks and national-level talent scouts. Whether that link becomes useful in practice will depend on how the proposed assessments handle individual needs and how athletes and scouts use the platform.