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 […]
Smart technology on your finger tips
India is on the cusp of a big technology leap. Smart phones will soon control fully automated homes in smart cities. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Read on to know how IIITH is contributing to these smart homes. The technology of tomorrow will have your fingers tap-dancing on your mobile phone […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
IIITH’s Unique E-Bike Charging Solution Overcomes Current Pitfalls
Game changing one-design-fits-all fabrication is not only compact and cost-effective, but is also based on the OCP protocol widely accepted world-wide. The government may be pushing to make Indian automobiles 100% electric by 2030 – a number that was later rolled back to 30% – but what is bulldozing the trend is the pandemic. A […]
Lyrics to fine-tune Music emotion recognition
A sweet lyrical revolution is playing out at IIITH labs. The Cognitive Science laboratory worked on a Natural Language Processing-based Transformer model to identify emotions from the lyrics of a song, a hitherto underexplored area of study. We met with the team to learn more. Imagine you are navigating through dense traffic, while an online […]