Athenaeum Talk Series - AI for Societal Applications
Speaker: Dr Makarand Tapaswi
Topic: AI for Societal Applications
No of Participants: 92
Key Points
Some key topics covered as a part of this talk are as follows:
- Various areas of research that are being conducted at Wadhwani AI.
- Targeted projects on the detection of neonatal fatality rates using Convolutional Neural Networks interfaced into an easy end-user application for the general public.
- Further discussed applications of AI in farming and crop disease detection.
- Spoke about the literacy and language proficiency research using real-time voice conversion and analysis techniques being conducted at Wadhwani AI for the rural middle school children.
- Live demos of the tools and website of Wadhwani AI, including the above-mentioned projects.
- Motivated students to pursue projects with real-world applications that can benefit the society.
Date and Time
Location
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- Date: 05 Oct 2023
- Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- All times are (UTC+05:30) Chennai
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- National Institute of Technology Karnataka
- Surathkal, Karnataka
- India
- Building: LHC C
- Room Number: CR4