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 […]
Research Is Not All Ha Ha, Hee Hee
On the heels of the recently concluded 11th Humour Research Conference, we find out just why humour research is not a laughing matter at the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC). Joking one’s way through a crisis has long been considered a coping mechanism. Research has shown how using laughter as a stress-buster provides the much-needed […]
IIITH Kicks Off Largest Crowdsourcing Speech Project To Connect Voice with Vernacular
According to the Artificial Intelligence for Speech Recognition Market in India 2019 report, more than 50% of the Indian population use devices that are embedded with AI-based speech recognition technology. However, in a multilingual country like ours with 22 official languages and 12 different scripts, these voice-enabled devices are dominated by English-speaking assistants such as […]
IIITH Team Shortlisted in International Hackathon on Air Quality
In a global event conducted jointly by the University of Helsinki and Slush to tackle the growing urban air pollution crisis, a IIITH team of students made the jury’s cut and featured among the 8 shortlisted teams. It is a fact well-known that the quality of air we breathe has significant effects on our health […]
How To Better Online Teaching?
With the large scale adoption of virtual learning, Prof. Vishal Garg takes a look at it from the teachers’ point of view. Through useful tips and pointers on making it a wholesome experience, he reveals how it’s much more than just turning on the camera. When educational institutions were forced to shut down worldwide in […]
Now A Machine Learns to Map Music-induced Movement To Your Traits
Just like physical gestures are quick giveaways of your personality and your current emotional state, the way you groove to music also says a lot about you. In a new study that has significant implications for music cognition research, scientists at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) have developed a machine learning model […]
Dial D For Diversity
As International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad kicks off its admission process for the academic year 2020-21, here’s a low-down on different modes of admission, with the spotlight on the ‘Diversity’ channel where the ‘extraordinary’ are welcomed – both in terms of talent as well as circumstances. Read On. ‘Girls Outperform Boys’. Headlines like this […]
Learning from the Laureates at Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Every year, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) brings together top visionaries of Mathematics and Computer Science and winners of the Abel Prize, Fields Medal, Nevanlinna Prize, Turing Award and ACM Computing Prize for a week-long discussion with young researchers on the advancements and future of Mathematics and Computer Science. Here are Prof P J Narayanan’s takeaways […]
IIITH Researchers Use ML Tools To Salvage The Shastras
Ancient palm leaf manuscripts are our cultural heirlooms with a wealth of knowledge residing in them. While previous conservation efforts have been made in the direction of digitizing these fragile texts, IIITH researchers have gone a step further and created the first ever large-scale database of such manuscript images that can automatically identify and label […]
Spotlight on SPCRC
With high-speed connectivity becoming the latest buzzword and businesses, devices and individuals getting connected like never before, the Signal Processing and Communications Research Centre (SPCRC) at IIIT Hyderabad gets its spot in the sun. Here’s how. When the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) was formally launched in 1998, it offered only a BTech […]