Category: news

Feb 02

SIIM Framework Featured in Research Matters Article

Satellite images are a rich source of data and can play a significant role during a disaster scenario in planning and mitigation activities. The images captured here contain low-level features like colour, texture and shape, which are understood by the system, but hardly make sense for the user. For example, a user may be interested in a search for ‘flooded residential areas’. Since the images capture the flooded areas with a different colour or texture, the system fails to understand Read more

Feb 02

Exhibits at World Congress on Disaster Management

The 4th World Congress on Disaster Management was held at IIT Bombay during 29th January – 1st February 2019.It was organized jointly by the Government of Maharashtra (India), Disaster Management Initiatives and Convergence Society (DMICS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and was designed to be the largest assembly on disaster management outside the UN system and had a plethora of exhibits related to rapid response in the wake of a disaster. Geocomputational Read more

Jan 08

Team wins Esri India’s mApp Your Way 4.0

A team from Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering mentored by Prof. Surya S Durbha secured the first Runner Up position in the mApp Your Way 4.0 App Development Challenge held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi on January 8, 2019. The team of students comprising of Gaganpreet Singh, Sandeepan Dhoundiyal, Nidhi Kapoor, and, Aditya Vitthalrao Chondke developed a GIS based mobile and web application to address the issue of Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Congratulations to the Read more

Dec 15

Media Coverage at TechFest 2018 for Pothole Mapper

Ongoing research on mapping and monitoring of potholes presented at the TechFest 2018, IIT Bombay was covered by numerous print and video news media outlets. The primary objective of this research is to develop a Location Based Service(LBS) using Smartphone based Crowd-Sourcing application for: mapping and monitoring of potholes and pothole-free routing. Midday – A popular English newspaper covered the Pothole Mapper application in an article(https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-iit-bs-annual-tech-fest-to-display-human-like-robots-solar-powered-chai-stall-and-more/402059). Below is an excerpt from Lokmat – a local Marathi newspaper covering the exhibit. Read more

Jan 28

Team wins I_Hack at E-Summit 2018

  The team won the hackathon at E-Summit 2018, IIT Bombay’s Annual Flagship Event. The team comprising of students Rajat Shinde, Pankaj Tarone, Aarif Sheikh, Aman Verma, and, Abhishek V. Potnis developed a wearable to make the visually impaired aware of their surroundings and also aid them in general activities like reading books, making sense of objects like signboards and recognizing currency notes. The wearable was capable of extracting text and labels from surrounding objects and read them aloud through Read more

Jan 01

Team GeoSysIot presents their work at TechConnect 2017

Team Geosysiot presented their work at TechConnect exhibits during TechFest, Asia’s Largest Science and Technology Festival. It highlighted the fundamental research being carried out and the technologies developed at IIT Bombay and showcased 120+ projects from 15 Academic Units which included working models, demos, and products. Projects showcased included a mobile application for pothole mapping based on crowdsourcing of data, an embedded HPC tablet for remote sensing applications and SenseQube – a smart IoT based platform for agriculture.

Nov 18

Lecture on “Semantics Enabled Framework for Mining Large Remote Sensing Data Archives” at Space Applications Centre(SAC), ISRO , Ahmedabad

An Invited Lecture on “Semantics Enabled Framework for Mining Large Remote Sensing Data Archives” by Dr. Surya Durbha, Associate Professor, CSRE, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai was organised by ISG-AC during November 10, 2017 at Space Applications Centre, ISRO and it was well received by ISG members and scientists at SAC. It was attended by around 80 participants.