IIITH Invites Solutions For Urban Water Woes
Ahead of World Water Day, through an open contest hosted by its Living Lab, IIITH seeks innovative solutions to one of the biggest challenges of urbanization; that of adequate water and sanitation. Recognizing that population growth is the fastest in
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
Finding Math in a Slice of Citrus Fruit
Such exciting mysteries were the topic of intense debate at the Teaching the Learning Brain 2021 workshop for primary school teachers held earlier this month. Researchers at IIITH’s Neuro-cognitive Science Research laboratory have been working on getting educators to take
ASR makes the world your oyster
IIITH is poised to disrupt Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in India by building a six language multi-lingual system by August 2021. Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala from IIITH’s Speech Processing Lab helps deconstruct this emerging industry. Industry pundits forecast that the
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
IIITH Researchers Set Stage For Artistic AI Video ...
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.