How AI is helping Crowd Control at Mega Melas
It’s a theme that has been rehashed to death by Bollywood: siblings separated at melas. While a happily-ever-after reunion happens in reel, massive, unorganized crowds, pandemonium and panic often leading to stampedes are real. Let’s look at how technology from
Meet IIIT-H Student Sri Teja Allaparthi Who Thinks...
As a Masters student under Prof. Vikram Pudi, Sri Teja Allaparthi has been working on detection of misinformation in social media. But not many know that apart from developing a deep learning model that tags news articles in media based
Online Social Media: ‘Like’ It or Hate it, You...
It’s said that ‘Google before you Tweet’ is the new ‘Think Before You Speak’. Living and breathing this very adage are today’s millennials. Hence the runaway success and the response generated by a recent poster presentation on campus about ‘Privacy
Serious Games Lab Shows How Power of Belief Helps ...
Displaced families, disinterested physiotherapists and a sense of despondency. This is what greeted Prof. Kavita Vemuri when she initially set out to study plasticity of the brain at rehab centres. She found her ‘why’ in the lack of motivation witnessed
Gayam Motor Works Shows How To Conductor Business
In our alumni series this month, we put the spotlight on electric vehicle company Gayam Motor Works (GMW). Its CEO Raja Gayam and COO Sri Harsha Bavirsetty are both IIIT-H alumni. Its CTO Rahul Gayam was on the 2018 edition
IIIT-H’s Computer Vision Lab In Focus
IIIT-H researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology made their mark in the international arena by presenting papers at 3 of the most distinguished conferences in the field of computer vision. Here’s a brief look at the conferences and