Gesture Triggered Alarm for Security based on CV, Vector Concavity Estimation, OpenVINO, MQTT, and Pimoroni Blinkt on RPi or Jetson Nano. Notwithstanding notable advancements in technology, the developing economies are still trapped in the clutches of patriarchal evils like molestation, rape, or crime against women, in general. Women are often…

Facial Attendance on Raspberry Pi, with Movidius NCS2 and RPLIDAR A1 for depth sensing to enable Door Access Control simulated with Pimoroni Blinkt — Touch-free interaction of all public devices has become an imperative post-covid. No wonder, facial recognition-based entry, and attendance gadgets are in much demand to replace attendance registers and biometric access control. These embedded devices can be used in big companies, institutions, flats, or even to take class attendance.

Distributed Algorithms, Map-Reduce Paradigm, Scalable ML using Spark MLlib on Standalone, AWS EMR Cluster with Docker & Nvidia RAPIDS. — Since the early 2000s, the amount of data collected has increased enormously due to the advent of internet giants such as Google, Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, Facebook, etc. Near to 2010, another “data wave” had come about when mobile phones became hugely popular. In 2020s, we anticipate another exponential rise in…

NLP Models, Sentimental Analysis, Question Answering, Summarization, Knowledge Graph, Fraud Detection, Personalization & Fallbacks — To converse is as innate to humans as to quench thirst or satiate hunger. But even for powerful machines, the same is surprisingly complex, giving rise to the interesting discipline of NLP and the challenging use case of chat bots. Howsoever complex chat bots may be, they are incredibly helpful…

Enabling HCI on Edge: Multi-threaded Gesture & Sound Control of kiosks with Intel OpenVINO AI models. Eye Wink & Mouth Aspect with numerical models — Personal Note: Won Grand Prize at “Deep Learning Superhero Challenge” with Intel organized by Hackster.io for this project. It gives solace to finally hit the bull’s-eye, after a chain of near misses, despite the bounties — US$ 1000 & Intel Movidius NCS 2 sticks. …

Traditional ASR (Signal Analysis, MFCC, DTW, HMM & Language Modelling) and DNNs (Custom Models & Baidu DeepSpeech Model) on Indian Accent Speech Courtesy: Speech and Music Technology Lab, IIT Madras Notwithstanding an approved Indian-English accent speech, accent-less enunciation is a myth. Irregardless of the racial stereotypes, our speech is naturally…

Math Techniques viz. ARIMA, Frequency Decomposition, Fourier Filtering, Linear Regression & Bidirectional LSTMs on Feature Engineered Stock Market Data. “When weather changed, nobody believed the laws of physics have changed it” If AI can predict the future then why not predict the stock prices? Who don’t like to be rich…