Thought Leaders Brainstorm On Bringing Rural Students Back To School
A roundtable meeting on ‘AI & Emerging Tech for Grassroots school education post-pandemic’ was recently organised by International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) to uncover and deliberate on challenges faced by children in rural government schools. When the ICMR chief Dr. Balram Bhargava recently suggested the reopening of primary schools first followed by secondary […]
Getting A Sense Of Time
Cognitive researchers at IIITH uncover novel insights into time perception that seem to refute the popular Theory of Magnitude. It is said that in order to fend off persisting questions from the press, Einstein came up with a tongue-in-cheek explanation of his famous theory of relativity: When you sit with a nice girl for two […]
Mental Well-Being, Multiculturalism and Diversity In Focus At This International Music Research Conference
Eleven research studies from IIITH’s Cognitive Sciences group that span a gamut of areas – from a cross-cultural study on music usage during the pandemic to generating an ML model that automatically creates appropriate mood tracks for specific passages in a book – will make their presence felt at the 16th International Conference on Music Perception […]
IIITH’s Computer Vision Method For Counting Avenue Trees
In a development that could greatly assist urban planners, city councillors and communities, IIITH researchers unveil a computer vision-assisted tool to count roadside trees and automatically generate maps showing extent of urban tree coverage. The importance of an urban green cover can’t be stressed enough. From mitigating the effects of air and noise pollution to […]
Starting A Racquet: The evolution of IIITH’s sports analytics research to a full-fledged startup
With its first break at the Premier Badminton League, followed by an endorsement by Pullela Gopichand, this sports analytics startup is using data insights to evolve badminton and football for future generations. And it all started with research papers at the CVIT lab. In early 2019, a research paper from IIITH’s Centre for Visual Information […]
Blockchain’s Scalability Dilemma Presented in Comic Strip Format Walks Away With Award At AAMAS 2021
At the 20th edition of the recently concluded International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) 2021, IIITH researcher Anurag Jain won the Best Poster Design Award for innovatively capturing constraints faced in scaling blockchain technology with the help of a comic strip. Early this month, IIITH researchers from the Machine Learning lab presented […]
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s KiteCam!
In a move that puts a novel spin on aerial photography, IIITH researchers unveil a unique kite camera that promises to be a cost-effective alternative to drones and the existing Kite Assisted Photography (KAP). Time was when aerial photography was limited to photographs taken from aircrafts. With the advent of the ubiquitous drones, photography and […]
SPECs of Gold In the Dust
The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad believes in diversity and runs a special mode of admission to induct talented students from rural hinterlands. We trace the remarkable journeys of two such youngsters from its inaugural batch that will leave you inspired. This semester, when Prerna Gupta recorded her dance moves and sent it over […]
IIITH Creates Mortality Prediction Model For Indian COVID-19 Patients
At a time when the country is grappling with a severe Covid resource crunch, IIITH researchers show how ML models can help in prioritizing healthcare based on risk and mortality prediction. The more we learn about the Coronavirus, the less we know. With the virus affecting different people differently – from showing no symptoms at […]
What do haircuts have to do with health?
Apparently everything, if you ask the Chairperson of the Campus Health and Medical Committee, Dr Prabhakar Bhimalapuram. 13 months on (and counting), he’s been the institute’s public face in the fight against Covid-19. And arranging for a barber so that no one leaves campus in the quest of a haircut is just one instance of […]