Ravi Kiran S
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Associate Prof, IIIT-H, India | Vision@BharatGen | iHub-Data | Alum: UW, IISc | Enjoy interdisciplinary problems involving multimedia | Meme fan | 🇮🇳
Hyderabad, India
Joined March 2013
As ‘AI for India and of India’ gets a leg up with a 988.6 cr funding to BharatGen, IIITH’s Vision Language Model Team which is part of the BharatGen consortium, is playing a pivotal role in India’s sovereign AI ecosystem. https://t.co/2Hty0lkWTT
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✨ Two student paper awards at @ICDAR2025 🏆 Best Student Paper: TexTAR - text attribute recognition in docs [ https://t.co/zKgXaTShca] 🥈 Runner-Up: IndicDLP - foundational dataset and models for doc layout [ https://t.co/TtUcFj3eCx]
@iiit_hyderabad @ai4bharat @_BHASHINI
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@BharatGen_Com , India’s government-backed multimodal SovereignAI initiative, has secured ₹988.6 crore in funding under @OfficialINDIAai mission. Honored to be representing @iiit_hyderabad in this pioneering mission-mode national initiative.
#BharatGen, India’s government-backed multimodal #SovereignAI initiative, has secured ₹988.6 crore in funding from the @GoI_MeitY. The announcement was made by Hon’ble Union Minister Shri @AshwiniVaishnaw, during the @OfficialINDIAai Summit Pre-event in Delhi. #IndiaAI
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From taking root as a foundational step towards autonomous driving research, the Indian Driving Dataset continues to evolve to tackle a plethora of problems that are India-specific. https://t.co/JSXurHqxKx
#AutonomousDriving #DrivingDataset #AIResearch #ComputerVision
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From taking root as a foundational step towards autonomous driving research, the Indian Driving Dataset continues to evolve to tackle a plethora of problems that are India-specific. There’s a...
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With the launch of Adi Vaani, an AI-powered translator, IIITH is part of the government’s efforts at bridging the communication gap between tribal and non-tribal communities while safeguarding endangered languages.
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With the launch of Adi Vaani, an AI-powered translator, IIITH is part of the government’s efforts at bridging the communication gap between tribal and non-tribal communities while safeguarding...
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Sad to hear of the passing of legend Prof. CR Rao. A towering figure in statistics, he's known for many seminal contributions, including the Cramér–Rao bound, and Rao–Blackwell theorem. His legacy lives on. May his memory be a blessing.
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Academic institutes aspire for transparency in governance of their leadership but having lucid, and active participation of all relevant stakeholders in the selection of the said leadership itself is probably a first.
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Academic institutes aspire for transparency in governance of their leadership but having lucid, and active participation of all relevant stakeholders in the selection of the said leadership itself is...
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A little voice somewhere in Arunachal echoing a mighty nations anthem, letting the world know “I am India and India is me”. Jai Hind. @BJP4Arunachal @BJP4India @PemaKhanduBJP @TheAshokSinghal @KalingMoyongBJP
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Experience the future of assistive mobility. IIIT-H’s Smart Wheelchair, supported by IHub-Data, uses AI, sensors & vision to navigate and follow voice commands—empowering independence through intelligent design. Read more: 🔗 https://t.co/wpTX7EiwbL
#AssistiveTech #SmartMobility
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AI that understands India’s roads needs data from India’s roads. The India Driving Dataset (IDD), built by IIIT Hyderabad with IHub Data, now includes 11 datasets that capture the chaos & complexity of Indian traffic. By Dr. Anbumani 🔗 https://t.co/wyT8xL9c49
#AIforIndia #IDD
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How does OCR read complex Indian scripts? Dr. Gurpreet Singh Lehal explains segmentation — the key to breaking pages into lines, words, and characters. Tune in to #TechBehindBhashini to explore how machines learn to read like humans. #Bhashini #OCR #TechBehindBhashini
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When your compute budget only covers fine-tuning the last layer. The last layer 👇 https://t.co/BgMlHyXEup
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A large contingent from IIITH’s Computer Vision Lab participated at the Conference on Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) last month in Nashville. Read on about the cutting edge research that was presented and why it’s a big deal in the vision circles. https://t.co/RTFb0YEENe
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Here’s the astonishing story of @YanamalaNaveena the go-getter from Kadapa, whose stint in IIIT Hyderabad leapfrogged her into an enviable international career at the confluence of medicine and data science.
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In a rare honor, Indian-born data scientist Dr. Naveena Yanamala earned the highest excellence award from a top-seeded US medical school for unconventional innovation in cardiology! Here’s the...
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Gemini is torturing itself, and I'm started to get concerned about AI welfare
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VAL reunion at @CVPR📍 A heartwarming moment as current and former members of the Vision and AI Lab (VAL) came together at the conference!—Amazing to see how the VAL family continues to grow—grateful for the bonds, memories, and milestones shared. 💙 @iiscbangalore
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