Flagship Projects

Broad Domain– B.E. in Electronics & Communication and Computer Science Engineering

Focused domain– Unity Developer (C sharp), Modeling/Animations in Autodesk Maya.

Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. We are working on developing teaching/learning aids for engineering education using Augmented /Virtual Reality.AR/VR learning/teaching aids are an important opportunity for enhancing education due to their ability to present realistic simulations of real-life situations and provide engaging user experience to students. It has been done to enhance the interactive learning skills in engineering education.

No. of intern positions available in the project – 2

List of Publications from this project:

•  N. Tuli and A. Mantri, “Augmented Reality Teaching Aid: Making Chemistry Interactive,” Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, pp. 188-191, 2015.
• N. Tuli and A. Mantri, “Interaction Techniques: helping user manipulate AR virtual content,” in Fourth International Conference on Wireless Networking and Embedded Systems (WECON), 2015.

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Archana Mantri

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 01/11/2017

Broad domain – Image Processing
Focused domain – Image Segmentation

Carvana, a successful online used car startup, has seen an opportunity to build long term trust with consumers and streamline the online buying process.An interesting part of their innovation is a custom rotating photo studio that automatically captures and processes 16 standard images of each vehicle in their inventory. While Carvana takes
high-quality photos, bright reflections and cars with similar colours as the background cause automation errors, which requires a skilled photo editor to change.

In this competition, you’re challenged to develop an algorithm that automatically removes the photo studio background. This will allow Carvana to superimpose cars on a variety of backgrounds. You’ll be analysing a dataset of photos, covering different vehicles with a wide variety of year, make, and model combinations.

Prize Money

1st place – $12,000
2nd place – $8,000
3rd place – $5,000

ENROLLMENT OF STUDENTS

The enrollment of the students can be considered for the various roles with different responsibilities during the development of the model. The students must have following pre-requisites for the enrollment
 Programming Skills
 Working Knowledge in Python
 MATLAB Basics

Number of Positions: 02

Principal Investigator:

Dr Sheifali Gupta

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 01/11/2017

Broad domain –Computer Vision
Focused domain –Machine Learning

The predictive analysis using the machine learning has been incorporated to meet the requirements of growing era of machine learning and automation among the IT industry. In the coming projects, the work will be carried out towards the process automation, pattern recognition, data lineage, etc using the intelligent machine learning mechanisms. The main motive behind the consideration upon the research and innovation in the IT industry automation is to meet the standards and regulations for the implementation of the real-time projects. The projects would be carried forward with the enrollment in a competition held by “KAGGLE”, which is a popular for offering the competitions in the field of predictive modelling and related stuff for analysts, researchers, statisticians and data miners to meet up the new challenges of the industry. Various real time data sets are offered with the well-defined problems, mostly with prizes on the stake, undergo the KAGGLE data science competitive space. The enrollment for the competitions in predictive modelling and industrial automation (IT) on KAGGLE is most likely for the following competitions:
1. Passenger Screening Algorithm Challenge
2. Zillow Price: Zillow’s Home Value Prediction (Zestimate)
3. Draper Satellite Image Chronology
4. CIFAR-10
5. Depth Generation – Lightfield Imaging

ENROLLMENT OF STUDENTS
The enrollment of the students can be considered for the various roles with different responsibilities during the development of the model according to the life cycle of development of the projects. The following roles can be offered to the students during the project’s life cycle:
1. Literature study assistance
2. Programmers (Python, R, Scala, etc)
3. Data Visualization
4. Data preparation
5. Data analysis & report generation
6. Model’s performance evaluation
7. Segmental Analysis approach (Report generation and data integration/segmentation)
8. Reporting, Documentation and Packaging

No. of intern positions available: 02

Principal Investigator:

Dr Sheifali Gupta

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 01/11/2017

Broad domain – Sensor development, Data Mining and Data Science, Real-time Processing of Data, Wireless sensor networks, Arduino Processor

Focused domain – Data science and electromagnetics

Access to wireless sensor network facility at IOTREK Technology, Delhi and labs of DTU Delhi

The target is to pilot the project in University campus for monitoring of underwater pipe networking with help of data science and sensors at different nodes. The sensor nodes are capable of sensing physical, chemical and microbiological properties of water. The graphene based sensors are energy efficient and front end section embedded with the sensor allows remote monitoring of sensing information.

No. of intern positions available in the project – 01 (Engineering)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Nitin Saluja

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 01/11/2017

Broad domain – Data processing, MRI-CT imaging, Circuit design, power electronics, microwave designs and animal modelling

Focused domain – Data science and electromagnetics

Laboratory access at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, Thapar University Patiala and Rajindra Government Medical College, Patiala

The project is envisioned with a target to genetically modification in cancer cells with radio frequency based treatments on tissue scale. Currently, the target is to develop a physical device to cause reversible electroporation in cell membranes followed by CRISPR to introduce p53 genes in liver cells.

No. of intern positions available in the project – 01 (Engineering), 01 (Pharmacy)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Nitin Saluja

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 01/11/2017

Broad domain – Automobile Engineering, Power management, Image Processing, Machine Vision, Processor implementations, Machine Intelligence/Learning, Rural business, rural community sales and marketing, 3-D vision processing

Focused domain – Image Processing and Farm mechanization

Autofisker is a clean energy driven vehicle for traversing the farm without disturbing the crops. The vehicle is autonomous and offers multiple farm mechanization activities like zero tillage and crop planting. Further, the expansion is envisaged towards RF solution to crop protection problems. The top down camera allow the creation of logs for real time conditions of the farm.

No. of intern positions available in the project – 02 (Engineering), 01 (Sales and Marketing), 01 (Logistics)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Nitin Saluja

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 01/11/2017

This project will help in formation of a GUI based Punjabi Speech To Text Interface for the blind children. It processed the input speech utterances through open source toolkit like Kaldi.

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Virender Kadyan

Team Members:
Mr. Sunny Singh (PhD Scholar)
Mr. Puneet Bawa (M.E. Scholar)

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 11/01/2016

Diamond Like carbon films boasts of a wide variety of properties like high hardness, high Young’s modulus, high smoothness and bio compatibility etc. Owing to a large spectrum of properties in different directions, DLC films have found applications in fields like tribology, ophthalmic glasses, prosthetic joints and also in microelectronics.
Mentioned project centred around design and development of a DC based Saddle field Fast Atom Beam (FAB) source system and then using it for deposition of DLC films on silicon substrates with a broad range of dielectric constants and extremely low values of stress.
As an outcome of the project, DLC films could be deposited with dielectric constants varying from 1.6 to 3.1 with controlled values of stress.

Internships closed for this project.

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Rajnish Sharma

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 01/04/2015

In India, IT Act 2000 has been established to combat the challenges of cyber crime which has become a global phenomenon. It must be well understood that victimization of women is on the higher side in comparison to men. There are several issues related to cyber crime against women which need to be thoroughly understood as it may have great impact on the security of women.

Even with the increase in the number of enrollment of women for higher education the women in India are still not open minded and shy in reporting crimes against them.  The threat of cyber abuses and cyber crimes is more dreadful because of the modus operandi of committing cyber crimes. It is not easy to understand the intention of the culprit. They can escape comfortably and can use different websites therefore to identify the existent of the culprit is more difficult in the case of cyber crimes.

There are various methods of providing cyber security to women in particular and society in general. But it can be possible through two ways. One woman needs to report all cyber crimes against them so that the types of threats can be understood clearly and second, the law needs to give proper security measures to women against cyber crimes.

Therefore the proposed research project is destined to achieve these twin objectives. One is to make women more aware regarding all possible cyber abuses and cyber crimes and informing them to use cyber security measures to keep the privacy of their information. Second is to suggest various improvement in IT Act 2000 to make it stronger and ensure victimized women that strong actions will be taken against the offender.

INTERNSHIPS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS PROJECT.

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Renuka Gupta, Dr. Kiran Mehta, Dr. K.S. Bath

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 01/04/2016

OCULUS Project aims at mapping and standardising the Optometry Curriculum between Europe and India mentored by ECOO-European Council Of Optometry. The Pilot Project is taken up with 3 Indian Universities and 3 Israel Universities by Europe University partners who are engaged in Optometry education. Among Indian Universities, there are Chitkara University from Chandigarh, the University of Hyderabad from Hyderabad, Manipal University from Manipal Karnataka.

INTERNSHIPS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS PROJECT.

Principal Investigator:

Prof Preethi John

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 15/09/2015

WHAT IS THE PROJECT AND ITS UTILISATION

To develop a user friendly portable low cost wireless device for patients which can be under the surveillance of doctor virtually through the doctors smart phone/tablet/pc. It can be used in Ambulance, Rural hospitals, Home health care services for elderly, disabled and critically ill persons.

HOW IT WORKS

Smart and Portable Intensive Care Unit is a wireless unit, which work through Internet based technology equipped with Cloud based server, Special Video Trans-coding software, Virtual Private Network based fast, secured and low cost transmission, android and PC applications, Micro-controllers make it small and portable. With the system the patient will be under the surveillance of doctor virtually through the doctors Smartphone/Tablet/PC. Doctor can see the patients real time vital signs parameters, talk with patient or nearby health care staff, see the magnificent view of body parts like throat, eye etc., Plan or deliver the emergency drugs though the drug delivery system thereby resulting in an in-time treatment and immediate medical assistance to patient.

BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT

The project is specifically designed for Rural and needy population of India. Due to scarcity of doctors in India, currently we have 1:10000 doctor populations and there is a great issue of monitoring and managing the remote location patients and patients in ambulance. Even if the ambulance get stuck off in traffic, with the help of this system patient can get emergency medical assistance by specialised doctors.

NATURE OF WORK

Smart and Portable Intensive Care Unit has several innovative features which make it quite useful. First its portability, it is able to work in wireless mode, operating cost is low, user friendly applications.

WHO IS THE BENEFICIARY

It can be used in Ambulance, Elderly as well as disabled persons who do not have mobility outside the house, Home health care services, Rural hospitals, Mobile health care services, Medical Colleges, any other facility where the patient load is very large.

USP OF THE PROJECT

• Remote and in-site drug delivery and planning.
• Pain management switch and alarm (both in-site and doctors smart phone).
• Video conferencing with doctor and transmission of close and magnificent view of specific part of body to smart phone.
• Non invasive vital sign transmission to smart phone.
• Vital sign exception alarm (both in-site and doctors smart phone).
• Secured, fast transmission and maintain confidentiality of patient data.
• Low cost.

OTHER INFORMATION

Patent has been filed in India as well as internationally. It is also published in World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and we have received the International Search Report on which they have mentioned this system has novelty and industrial application.

Principal Investigator:

DR.S.N.PANDA AND TEAM

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 10/08/2016

Title of Project: Remote Vital Information and Surveillance System for Elderly and Disabled Persons  

Brief Description of the Project

• Its specially designed for disable and elderly persons providing very cost effective and suitable system for India and other developing countries.
• Disable and elderly persons will be under the surveillance of doctor virtually, apart from that the relatives of disable and elderly person can also see and talk with them on their smart phone, see the vital signs and also inform the doctor in case of emergency.
• Doctor can also see/talk them on his/her smart phone or PC or tablet and can also see their vital signs and perform the close loop drug delivery and administer the drug with the help of infusion pump already fitted.
• It is internet based smart and portable system attached in a dynamic wheel chair which can be converted into stretcher.

FEATURES

•           24X7 remote supervision of patient by Authorized relatives and Doctors on smart phone.
•           Vital Sign monitoring on Doctors smartphone.
•           Real time drug delivery plan by the doctor  with Infusion pump and alarm.
•           Doctor can plan the  exceptions and fix the Alarm.
•           System is portable and can also be shifted to ambulance.
•           All transmissions are wireless so there is no hassle of wires and connectivity.

Principal Investigator:

Dr.S.N.Panda and Team

Funding- External        Project Start Date - 10/03/2018