Current Projects

Online Hindi Handwritten Recognition

Online handwritten word is generated as X-Y coordinates of pen like device applied on touch sensitive screen. X-Y coordinates of pen tip are recorded as time dependent signal. Pen-down state occurs when the pen touches the screen and pen-up state occurs when pen is lifted from the screen.

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Speech Enhancement Approaches

In the past decade, there has been tremendous improvements in the field of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Despite these, the performance of an ASR system degrades significantly in the presence of noise due to the mismatch be- tween the training and test environments.

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Document Image Enhancement

Recognition of low-resolution historical document image by an optical character recognizers (OCR) is very challenging almost (NP-Hard problem). Our task is to enhance the quality of such document images so the recognition of such type of document images improves.

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Noisy Speech Analysis

Real life speech signals generally contain a foreground speech by a particular speaker in the presence of a background environment like factory or traffic noise. These audio signals termed as noisy speech signals are available in the form of recordings.

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Tamil Speech Recognition

This project focuses on building an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for Tamil language. The Kaldi open-source toolkit is used to develop a robust domain-independent, large vocabulary speech recognition system for Tamil giving stellar performance.

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Past Projects

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Madhura - Gift of Voice

This project, started in 2000 is to develop a good quality, natural TTS for South Indian languages, which will enable and empower people with visual and vocal disability to learn and communicate easily and more effectively.

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Bharath through my script

This project is an initiative started by MILE Lab, IISc in late 2014. The vision is to facilitate every Indian to go beyond the script barrier and read online documents in any Indian script through an already known familiar script.

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Gift of New Abilities

This project involves development of tools and technologies to make the lives of the specially abled easier. The focus is on creating or making accessible products like Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems for the blind.

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Development of Online Handwriting Recognition System for Indian Languages (OHWR)

Deployment of an application and improvement of engine performance" sponsored by Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL), Ministry Of Communication And Information Technology, Government of India

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Development of Robust Document Image Understanding System for documents in Indian Scripts - Phase II

This project was sponsored by Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL), Ministry Of Communication And Information Technology, Government of India, July 2010 to June 2013

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Image based Plant Diagnosis, funded by Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems

This project aimed to build systems which could efficiently perform Plant Diagnosis in real-time when deployed. It was under development during 2012 - 2015 with a budget of Rs. 63 lakhs rupees.

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Other Projects

"Vitiligo: Developing software as prognostic tool to assess the quality and quantity of repigmentation" sponsored by Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment, Feb 2010 to Feb 2011

"Development of Recognition Engines for Printed Tamil and Kannada" sponsored by Government of India, Nov 2006 to June 2010

"Online Handwriting Recognition System for Indian Languages (OHWR)" sponsored by Ministry Of Communication And Information Technology, Jan 2007 to April 2010. Click here for more information

"Automated Book Reader for the Visually challenged" sponsored by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, May 2007 to April 2008

"Extraction of Fields from Document Images" - company sponsored, Jan 2006 to June 2007

"Mobile Cam Capture" sponsored by Sasken Communications Technologies Ltd., Bangalore, May Dec 2005

"Investigation of Online Handwriting Recognition" sponsored by H P Labs, Bangalore, 2003-2004

MCIT funded scheme on Optical character recognition of South Indian Scripts, 2000-2004

Consultancy project on "Online Handwritten Character Recognition in Devanagiri", funded by HP Labs India, Bangalore,2003-2004

MCIT funded scheme on "Algorithms for Kannada Speech Synthesis", 2000-2004

Consultancy project on "Face detection and recognition", funded by Samsung SDS, Korea, 2001-2002

"Satellite Image processing and analysis", funded by Indian Space Research Organization,1997-2002