Standing On The Shoulders Of Srinivasa Ramanujan
When 27-year-old Dual Degree student Sumit Kumar Jha quietly revealed the publication of not one but three single-author papers during the course of the tumultuous 2020, the research community sat up and noticed. We probed a bit to first learn more about his area of expertise, the genius himself, and discovered what the excitement was […]
IIITH Researchers Set Stage For Artistic AI Video Editing
After an unprecedented year, live entertainment is set to make a comeback in 2021 with live audiences et al. However experts are of the opinion that a hybrid model where the same performance is recorded and streamed will also co-exist. An AI tool developed by researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) at […]
IIITH Makes A Mark At Annual Cognitive Science Conference
At the recently concluded Annual Conference of Cognitive Science that was conducted virtually, not only were there a sizeable number of acceptances of research work by IIITH students but also four of them were selected for live presentations. Read more below. The domain of Cognitive Science in India got a boost when the Government recognised […]
Smartphone-based Algorithm To Help Farmers In Crop Disease Diagnosis
Agricultural extension acquires a novel mobile avatar with Crop Darpan, a diagnostic tool developed by IIITH under an Indo-Japan Joint Research Laboratory Project. It is not merely anecdotal that the next green revolution is being preceded by the smart phone revolution among farmers. With a ubiquitous presence of these gadgets, a ICRIER study in […]
IIITH Campus Emerges As Hotbed For International Academic and Business Collaboration on Smart Cities Research
With the establishment of the Centre of Excellence on IoT, a Smart City Research Centre and a Living Lab, the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) has set the ball rolling for interesting collaborative opportunities in research, education and entrepreneurship in the field of ICT for smart city research. In July 2020, at the […]
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 on a HAI with Novel Interdisciplinary Research
Even as the COVID – 19 pandemic applied breaks to ongoing research and innovation activities world-wide, there has been a satisfactory research outcome at IIITH that originally began brewing as an interdisciplinary experiment. Read On. At the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH), the emphasis has always been on dissolving boundaries – physical or […]
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 […]
IIITH Implements LoRaWAN-based Energy Meters On Campus
With over 80 energy meters, this is a one-of-a-kind deployment of such a scale in the country. In a bid to drive more efficient operations on campus, the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad took a decision early this year to replace all traditional energy meters with state-of-the-art IoT enabled devices. While such a large […]
CVIT Researchers Show How Deep Is Their Tech
From education to entertainment, deep learning technology perfected by researchers at the Centre for Visual Information Technology, IIITH also finds potential in futuristic scenarios involving virtual humans. Read On. On May 12, 2020, just a little after 8 pm, Google Search reported a surge in queries for the term ‘Atma Nirbhar’. This was in response […]