Research advances AI applications for well-being and education
India’s Oxford College claims Kaleidoscope 1st prize for research on AI support to stroke survivors
The latest Kaleidoscope academic conference organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) bestowed awards for research papers focused on ensuring that tech works for the good of people worldwide.
Researchers from India’s Oxford College in Bengaluru are this year’s recipients of the best paper award at Kaleidoscope 2024 for their research proposing a smart drinking device for stroke survivors.
The research proposes an AI-driven tilt sensor to monitor the movement of a drinking glass and provide real-time feedback to find the correct drinking angle.
Read the winning paper (presentation) authored by Preeta Sharan and Anup M Upadhyaya from India’s Oxford College of Engineering and R Vasanthan from the Oxford College of Physiotherapy.
ITU Kaleidoscope is a peer-reviewed academic conference. Each annual edition highlights emerging research trends and their implications for international standardization.
ITU Kaleidoscope 2024: Innovation and digital transformation for a sustainable world ran from 21 to 23 October in New Delhi, India, alongside the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-24), the governing conference for ITU standardization work that took place between 15 and 24 October.
And the runners up are…
Second prize this year goes to researchers from India and Japan for a proposed wellness companion for the elderly. The companion detects health anomalies in real time using voice emotion recognition and video-based posture recognition.
The voice emotion module is constructed using deep learning and the posture module by transfer learning, with both modules operating on a single-board computer based on the Raspberry Pi platform.
Read the paper (presentation) authored by Dhananjay, Kumar, Mehal Sakthi, Muthusamy Sivaraja, Sowbarnigaa, and Kogilavani Shanmugavadivel from the Department of Information Technology, Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai, India, and Ved P. Kafle from National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo.
Researchers from India and South Africa received third prize for their educational Android application, Alpha-Bit. Offering guided instruction and individual progress reports, the app aims to support universal access to tailored education experiences.
The app uses optical character recognition powered by deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks and sequential networks.
Read the paper (presentation) authored by Gobi Ramasamy, Arokia Paul Rajan, and Priyadharshini Rengasamy from India’s Christ University in Bengaluru and Antoine Bagula from South Africa’s University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.
Read all the papers and review all the talks
All papers accepted and presented at the conference are published in the Kaleidoscope Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Outstanding papers may also be published in international journals, including the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies and the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.
Authors of the three best papers received special recognition and shared in a prize fund of 6,000 Swiss francs (CHF).
Authors up to 30 years of age who presented accepted papers at the conference received a Young Author Recognition Certificate.
Review all presentations on the Kaleidoscope 2024 programme and revisit the conference’s recording on its homepage.
Thanks to the Kaleidoscope community
Kaleidoscope conferences – alongside the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies and ITU Academia membership – support growing collaboration between academia and industry in research and development, as well as in bringing the latest innovations to market.
ITU Kaleidoscope 2024, hosted by India’s Ministry of Communications, was organized with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE and the IEEE Communications Society and in partnership with Waseda University, the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University, the European Academy for Standardization, the University of the Basque Country, Liverpool John Mores University, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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