IIIT Hyderabad’s Fine Analysis Of Traffic Violations
Researchers from IIITH analyse Ahmedabad traffic e-challans data and discover interesting patterns in motorists’ behaviour both in terms of repeat offenses as well as fine payment. – Traffic offenders with more number of e-challans are less likely to pay fines – Payment of smaller fines preferred over larger ones – ML model trained on dataset […]
What Drives The Uber Wallah?
Ethnographic study by IIITH researchers provides new insights about the ride-sharing workforce in the Indian gig economy that is fundamentally different from that of the West. Driving for Uber is viewed as a permanent, full-time livelihood option in India. Religious minorities and nomadic communities find it non-discriminatory in providing employment. Uber drivers see themselves as […]
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 […]
IIITH Builds ML Models to Detect Cancer
Researchers at IIIT Hyderabad have developed an automatic system for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. The deep learning networks can automatically classify subtypes of renal cancer and predict patient survival outcome from digital histopathological images. The foray of Computer Vision in the medical healthcare space has turned diagnostic imagery on its head. Convolutional Neural […]
The Datafication of Music And Its Implications On Mental Well-being
Mental illness identification in India gets a boost with non-intrusive methods developed by music psychology researchers at IIIT Hyderabad. It was while streaming Coldplay in an endless loop that I first discovered Kodaline. A suggested playlist that popped up based on my listening history seemed to exhort me to consider Steve Garrigan’s soulful voice. Needless […]
Calling Angels…Is Anybody Online?
NLP researchers at IIITH join hands with social scientists in first-of-its-kind multi-disciplinary project that seeks to build a digital mentor shielding adolescent girls from online toxicity while promoting their emotional well being. The Age of Adolescence is a trying one. Ask the parents! But seriously, it’s a deadly concoction of raging hormones and a roller […]
IIITH Researchers Develop first-of-its-kind Hinglish Code-Mixed Data NLP tool
Researchers from the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), IIITH make a first-of-its-kind attempt at semantic role labelling of Hindi-English code mixed tweets. This was presented at the Linguistic Annotation Workshop during ACL 2019, Italy. Chalo jaldi karo, or we’ll miss the beginning of the movie. Nothing out of the ordinary in this sentence here. In […]
How This Frenchman Came About An Internship Chez Nous
It’s been raining international interns at IIITH lately. This time, we tracked down Marius Dufraisse for a tête-à-tête. Did you know he has quietly been working at the Machine Learning Lab for over 5 months? Well, now you do! ‘An Indian experience’ wasn’t entirely novel for 22-year-old Marius Dufraisse, having toured Kerala and Tamil Nadu […]
IIITH team develops tool to generate blog titles from research articles
At the risk of sounding self-disparaging, we nevertheless begin meetings with the scientific research community by asking them to “dumb down” their research for us. What we essentially mean is of course to explain it such that a layperson with little or no exposure to the Sciences (much less machine learning or deep learning) can […]
Advances in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems
Analysing or modelling strategic interactions between rational decision-makers is Prof. Sujit Gujar’s forte. With specific research interests in the application of game theory to artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology, it comes as no surprise that Prof. Gujar has been regularly attending the prestigious conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS). Here’s a […]