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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.

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

Dec 18

Team wins Esri India’s App Challenge

  A team from GeoSysIoT Research Group won the first prize in the mApp Your Way App Development Challenge at the 16th Esri India’s User Conference, held at New Delhi on December 4, 2015. The team of students comprising of Abhishek Potnis, Pankaj Randhe and Pratyush Talreja under the mentorship of Prof. Surya Durbha, developed a GIS based mobile and web application to address the issue of monitoring and managing potholes on Indian roads. The android application for citizens would enable them to Read more