Take a Trip Down History Lane With Your Own Choice Of Stories
For those who love soaking in history and enjoy an unhurried pace through ruins and monuments, an audio guide seems to be the preferred choice. Europe-bound travellers, hard-pressed for time yet desperate to tick off the must-sees from their list of museums, castles, amphitheatres and palaces, prefer popular (and free!) audio tour guides such as […]
Prof Vineet Gandhi wins patent for split screens research
One usually associates split screens with news channel panel discussions with multiple guests in the same frame. And that is typically done with an elaborate camera crew and their multiple cameras, a cameraperson focussing one camera each on a panel member. Similar is the case of stage performances like a dance recital or a play. […]
How This Pahadi Prof Is Plotting Progress In Spiti With Computational Tools
Having spent most of his childhood and adolescent years in Shimla, for Prof. Aniket Alam of the Centre for Exact Humanities, the hills do come alive with the sound of music. However, his first research interest into the social history of the Himalayas began in the aftermath of the recommendations of the Mandal Commission, forcing […]
Young and Innovative Start-ups from IIIT-H Students
A brilliant business idea can come out of anywhere. But it takes a certain amount of genius to know just where to look. It could be a solution to an everyday common problem, a gap in an existing market, or expertise or skill set that you possess and would like to cash in on. Several […]
Detecting The Fakes In Online Misinformation
Fake news (feik nju:z)noun: false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting. In 2017, Harper Collins named fake news as the “word of the year” beating other short-listed words, equally influenced by Politics. Not only was this term consistently in the news, it seemed to be the most favoured word appearing on […]
Best Paper Award for Using Deep Learning In Retrieval And Recognition of Handwritten Word Images
Simplistically put, Document Analysis is about trying to extract content from a scanned document image so that it is easily editable and searchable. While the currently popular Optical Character Recognition software gives almost 100% accuracy for recognizing scanned and printed Latin text, the approach doesn’t work very well with scanned handwritten (HW) Latin text, due […]
Information and The Art of Relevant Retrieval
Who amongst us is not guilty of doing a quick internet search in the midst of an argument to prove a point? Or which millennial parent has not resorted to the Internet to answer their child’s queries? Simplistically put, such a process through which relevant answers are fetched for us is essentially known as Information […]
Lab to Land: Challenges & Approaches to Productizing Research
With the world today being driven by intellectual property and deep technology, there’s an increased and immediate need for getting research evidence into policy and practice – basically getting research adopted by the Industry, startups, new products et al. The importance of getting research used by the stakeholders in leveraging the new technology towards higher […]
Building Energy Simulations
Buildings are responsible for a large form of energy consumption and carbon emission across the globe, and efforts to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide has been on for more than a decade. As a part of this process, scientists have been working on various building energy simulation models, some of which include studies like […]
Understanding Music Cognition
Not everyone can sing or play musical instruments. But almost all can hum a tune. It’s not uncommon either to find most people listing “listening to music” as one of their hobbies. Whether music predates language or speech has been debated and argued famously among historians. Research conducted on infants to determine their music perception […]