When Modern AI Meets Classical Robotics
IIITH’s Self Driving Car is an electric vehicle that performs point to point Autonomous Driving with collision avoidance capabilities over a wide area. Equipped with 3D LIDAR, Depth Cameras, GPS systems and AHRS (Attitude and Heading Reference System which essentially means sensors on three axes to estimate it’s orientation in space), the car can also accept Open Set Natural Language commands and follow those commands to reach a desired destination. SLAM-based point cloud mapping is used to map the campus environment and a LIDAR-guided real-time state estimation allows for localization while driving.
GenAI Tech by IIITH Team Enhances Accessibility For Indian e-Tailers
Spearheaded by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the initiative aims to create generative AI systems that can generate high-quality text and multimodal (speech and computer vision) content in various Indian languages. The implementation of the project is by the TIH Foundation for IOT and IOE at IIT Bombay with academic partners from other academic Institutes that include IIT Bombay, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Mandi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIM Indore, and IIT Madras.
Sushil Umasudhan – International Olympiad in Informatics champion
When IIITH’s Sushil Raaja Umasudhan won the silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI-2024) at Alexandria recently, it was his third international medal. He won the silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI-2024), held at Alexandria, Egypt in September this year. He and his team had earlier won the bronze at Hungary’s IOI-2023 and Gold medal in this year’s Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO-2024), an online competition hosted by China in which 35 countries from the Asia Pacific region participated.
IIITH’s social incubator hosts Roundtable on Startup Innovation in Climate Action
IIITH’s Social Incubator, AIC-IIITH, held a roundtable discussion on ‘Financial and Non-Financial Support for Startup Innovation in Climate Action’ at IIITH. This collaborative event brought together key stakeholders to discuss challenges and solutions for supporting climate-tech startups through financial mechanisms, policy enhancements, and ecosystem collaboration. Participants in the Roundtable included Gareth Wynn Owen, British Deputy High Commissioner to Hyderabad, and representatives from RICH and IIITH.
Efficiency and security for financial applications with federated learning
AI and ML have significantly impacted our daily lives, including financial services. Consider a specific scenario: a company wants to create a module for predicting loan defaulters and offer it as a service to different banks. The company aims to enhance customer experiences and refine the underlying machine learning models. To achieve this, the company needs to gather data from client banks to improve the models. However, due to legal and privacy concerns, banks may be hesitant to share their data. Such situations have led to the concept of federated learning (FL).
IIITH researchers turn stethoscope into a tool that can help people speak
A team of researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad has developed an innovative Silent Speech Interface (SSI) that can convert non-audible murmurs into vocalised speech.
This groundbreaking technology has the potential to improve communication for people with speech impairments. The research team, led by TCS researcher and PhD student Neil Shah, along with Neha Sahipjohn and Vishal Tambrahalli, worked under the guidance of Dr Ramanathan Subramanian and Prof Vineet Gandhi.
IIITH develops AI tool to mine information from documents
AI has been put into play by researchers at IIITH, to demonstrate how information can be quickly mined from documents. While the AI process developed by them was used to analyse, extract and tag information from documents of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the researchers pointed out that it can be easily applied to many other domains such as health, scientific literature, manuals etc. The researchers developed a multi-layer Applied Semantics Extraction and Analytics (ASEA) framework for document processing with the support of JP Morgan AI Faculty Research Award.
IIITH’s SCLL wins Best Education Institute Exhibit of the year Award at IMC-2024
IIITH’s Smart City Living Lab was awarded ‘Best Education Institute Exhibit of the Year’ at the India Mobile Congress Exhibition. The eighth edition of India Mobile Congress took place from 15-18 October 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, in concurrence with WTSA’24, the governing conference of the ITU Standardization Sector (ITU-T). The event featured global attendance, including international delegates from diverse sectors such as member states, standardization bodies, industries, academia, and start-ups.
Workshop on data centres for AI – Global expansion and environment
Telangana is not the only State that is supportive of these industries. State governments are bending backwards to attract data centres and they include Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka which have attractive policies to host these centres. Because data centres are seen as a critical infrastructure we cannot ask any questions,” said Pradip Thomas of University of Queensland at a workshop on ‘Data Centres for AI: Global Expansion and the Environment’ hosted in hybrid mode at the International Institute of Information Technology.
Prof. P J Narayanan’s views on how institutions can shape the Indian IT industry
Several esteemed foreign universities are setting up their campuses in the country and a lot of prestigious institutions from India have secured higher ranks in global rankings. Still, there is a large skill gap, especially in the technology domain as companies are always on the lookout for candidates for exceptional technical prowess.
TechGig recently had the opportunity to have a deep discussion with Prof P J Narayanan, Director, IIIT Hyderabad about the role of premium educational institutions in shaping the Indian IT industry.