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Assistive Mobility

Towards an Interactive Autonomous Wheelchair

Dr. Madhava Krishna and Dr. Vineet Gandhi - International Institute of Information Technology , Hyderabad

Autonomous navigation in any known environment, Vision Language Navigation on simulations and real-life, Deployment in hospitals / homes .


Systems

Drone based infrastructure assessment

Dr. Harikumar Kandath , Dr. Ravi Kiran S and Dr. Pradeep Kumar R - International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Automate the estimation of key building parameters for seismic risk assessment. Real-world deployment , Develop and maintain an open-source software library for civil inspection.

Development of an Energy Efficient mmWave Radar System Prototype forAll-Weather Road-Safety and Traffic Applications

Dr. Abhishek Srivastava and Dr. Ravi Kiran S - International Institute of Information Technology , Hyderabad

To develop a weather-agnostic, portable, low power, battery operated mmWave radar system and demonstrate its utility in road-safety and traffic applications

Identification of Salient Structural Elements in Buildings (Phase - I)

Dr. Harikumar Kandath , Dr. Ravi Kiran S , Dr. K Madhava Krishna and Dr. R Pradeep Kumar - Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

A computer vision based pipeline is proposed and implemented to detect the number of windows, their placement and contribution to the structural deformity for particular importance in disaster management. We also evaluate other salient properties such as the height of the building, number of storeys.​

Highly Scalable Distributed Architecture for Spatio-Temporal Analytics on Large Scale Camera Network

Dr. Suresh Purini and Dr. Ravi Kiran - International Institute of Information Technology , Hyderabad

Build a scalable distributed cloud-fog-edge infrastructure to ingest large number (50,000+) of video streams.


Computer Vision

Drivable Area Detection for Unstructured Environments

Dr. S Indu - Delhi Technological University and Dr. Ayesha Choudhary - Jawaharlal Nehru University

To integrate pothole detection, muddy area detection, obstacle detection and lane marking detection for detecting the drivable area.

Road Quality Indicator (RQI) for heterogeneous nature of Indian roads

Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman - Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City

A novel Road Quality Index(RQI) indicator based on Indian road and Traffic scenarios ;that would also take into account the vehicle type, while giving a RQI score. The RQI is dynamic and would be updated at different times of the day and week, depending on real-time traffic scenarios.​

Assessing Strategies to enhance situational Awareness of connected vehicles in Traffic Junctions, via Agent Based Simulations

Dr. Balasubramanian Kandaswam and Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman - Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City

Assessing strategies to enhance situational awareness of connected vehicles in traffic junctions through agent-based simulation provides a powerful tool for evaluating and optimizing real-time communication protocols and decision-making algorithms, ultimately improving safety and efficiency in traffic management.

Computer Vision for Automated Road infrastructure Assessment:Enhancing Safety and Informed Decision-Making in Transportation

Dr Indrajit Ghosh and Kaliprasanna Mudili - Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Annotate road distress images using Civil Engineering insights.

Ride2Safety: Identification & Quantification of Rash Riding among MTW Riders

Dr Amit AGarwal and Anurag Thombre - Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Development of a computer vision algorithm for the detection of rash riding under heterogeneous traffic conditions and Development of rash riding index (RRI) for MTW riders.


Human factors in Mobility

Generating evidence based solutions (from public health perspective) on road user-vehicle interaction: Inputs for developing tech based interventions for safe mobility in Hyderabad

Dr. Shailaja Tetali - Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad

To provide the tools and data for safe 'road user and vehicle interaction' to improve road safety for vulnerable road users.

Human driver visual scene perception & information processing with special focus on differentiating semantic and task salience - an eye-trackingstudy

Dr. Kavita Vemuri - International Institute of Information Technology , Hyderabad

Intelligent Solutions for Road Safety - An Anthropological Approach

Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy - International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

To understand Road Safety as Concept and as Practice Offer a Holistic Approach to Safety, Understand a Multi Stakeholder Ecosystem, Study Social Context of Drivers


Two-Wheeler Projects

Low-cost Electronic system for accident detection in two wheelers

Dr. Aftab Hussain and Dr. Deepak Gangadharan - Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

We have developed a hardware system that can be deployed on a two-wheeler to collect the dataset with various parameters like acceleration, angular velocity, and speed. We have applied various machine learning models to the collected dataset to classify certain driving events.

Artificial Intelligence based Smart Driver Assistant for Reduction of Road Fatality

Dr.Nupur and Prof. Yogesh Pandit - Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology

Design & prototype a low-cost Smart Driver Assistant (Digital Dashboard unit) using Artificial Intelligence for navigating through unsafe road conditions to reduce fatality

Development of AI enabled integrated fall detection, critical events and road condition prediction with a smart heads up helmet display system.

Dr. S A Pasupathy , Dr. M. Ramesh kumar and R. Karthikeyan - Kumaraguru college of Technology

To develop & commercialize a mobile independent, detachable device which displays live vital driving parameters which includes but not limited to live road condition, fall detection, battery/fuel status and intimate the emergency contact and alert the nearest ambulance services.

Decoupled Power Flow Control of Triple Active Bridge Converter based Off-grid Solar DC Fast Top-up Charging Scheme

Dr. Indrajit Sarkar - NIT Rourkela

To design and develop a multi-port triple active bridge converter based solar and ESS integrated autonomous DC fast charging station to utilize the solar power for intermittent quick charging of EV BPs

Two-Wheeler Safety Quantification through Risk & Attitude factors Using Multi- sensory Integration Model for Improved Drivability

Dr.Jaswanth Nidamanuri - Woxsen University ,Hyderabad and Dr.Hrishikesh Venkataraman - IIIT-Sricity

Design a safety assistance system that can extract potential risks influential factors from road, traffic & vehicle condition combined with driver behavioral factors.

Data Analysis based Quantification of Road Quality Index (RQI) for Two-Wheelers

Dr.Hrishikesh Venkataraman , Dr.Sreeja S R - IIIT-Sricity

Develop the technology which uses the integration of data analysis and multi-sensory mechanisms to quantify RQI in real-time and provide alerts and warnings to the rider.

Fast Private Online Algorithm for Traffic Violations of 2 Wheelers

Girish Varma - International Institute of Information Technology , Hyderabad

Prototype Implementation on Edge GPU for 2-wheeler traffic violation(helmet detection, triple riding ,Automated Number Plate Recognition) & commercialization in collaboration with Industry partner.


Simulation

Exploring the Driving Simulator for Indian Roads

Prof. C V Jawahar , Dr. Shankar Gangisetty - International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

To build a simulator platform for facilitating driver behaviour in Indian driving situations.