Cardstat.AI

2026 · 2026 Competition

School: School of Computer and Information Sciences
Category: Corporate SponsoredPrimary

Project Overview

One Liner: Photo in, defect map out. AI-powered defect detection for trading cards.

Abstract

Cardstat.AI — AI-powered defect detection for trading cards.
Phone photo in, defect map out, in seconds.

Built as our senior capstone at Drexel's College of Computing &
Informatics, Cardstat.AI brings AI to a trading-card grading
process that today is slow, expensive, and inconsistent.
Collectors pay $17 to $1,000 per card and wait weeks or months
for a grade they often can't reproduce. We rebuilt that process
around computer vision.

Under the hood: a custom photometric lighting fixture, normal +
curvature surface maps, a custom pixel-level annotation tool,
and a U-Net + ResNet-18 deep-learning segmentation model trained
on ~800 hand-labeled cards. The result: a working web application
that takes a phone photo and returns a per-pixel defect
breakdown.

Team: Kevin Mastascusa, Chris Jarocha, Asef Ajmain, Dean Huneke,
Hung Phang, Khoi Ma, Jiky Dong.

Drexel CCI Senior Capstone · 2026

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Team Members

Kevin Mastascusa
Kevin Mastascusa
Lead
Jiky Dong
Jiky Dong
Asef Ajmain
Asef Ajmain
Dean Huneke
Dean Huneke
Chris Jarocha
Chris Jarocha
Khoi Ma
Khoi Ma
Hung Phang
Hung Phang

Advisors

Jeff Salvage
Jeff Salvage

Stakeholders

Brad Denenberg