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Jul 19

Invited Tech-Talk by Prof. Durbha at NASA IMPACT

Prof. Surya S Durbha, our group leader was invited to present expert insights at the NASA IMPACT Tech Talks. Prof. Durbha delivered the talk on the topic – “Five Geo-Computational Challenges for Rapid Assessment of Post-Disaster Areas Using Earth Observation (EO) Data“. More information on the NASA IMPACT can be found here. The talk covered expert insights on highlighting the five important challenges in rapid post-disaster assessment and possible solutions to address them. The quick estimation of area and amount of 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 05

NVIDIA Innovation Award 2016

Prof. Surya Durbha and his team were felicitated with the NVIDIA Innovation Award 2016 at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics, for their work in the areas of Image Information Minning and High Performance Computing (HPC). The team members (PhD Scholars) Mr. Kuldeep Kurte and Ms. Ujwala Bhangale have made significant contributions in this study. Congratulations to Prof. Surya Durbha and students for the award. We hope to see more of such accolades Read more