Friday, August 10, 2012:
Using algae to control CO2 and NOx emissions, a generic gesture based controller which provides spatial coordinates for anything from the mouse to Robotic Arms, a robotic manipulator, an app that uses NLP and sentiment mining to match strangers and enrich avatars are only a few of the Top 10 entries that made it to the Finals of the ‘Samsung Innovation Awards 2012’. Instituted by Samsung India Electronics Ltd. and Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), the Samsung Innovation Awards in their inaugural year were open only to IIT Delhi students, this year, the Samsung Innovation Awards has been extended for student participation across the IITs in Delhi, Mumbai, Roorkee and Kanpur.
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The Samsung Innovation Awards invited innovative projects from IIT students in the areas of Web Technology, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Embedded & Hardware System Design, Graphics & Visualization, Audio/Visual Content Processing, Cloud Computing, Product Design and related aspects. The winners for the Samsung Innovation Awards 2012 in the area of Product Design Category were Anurag Kumar and Pranay Dighe for CLASAT, an audio based context and event recognition system for mobile platform; Bhushan N. Kharbikar, Nitin T. Pawar, Ajay V. Suryavanshi and Chaitali Joshi for ‘Drishti’ that seeks to develop universal eyeglasses using tunable-focus lens system and an intelligence module which quantifies refractive errors without human intervention. Abhishek Gupta, Devashish Tyagi, Saurabh Kumar, Sherjil Ozair, and Utkarsh received the Award in the Web Technology Category for their project Zumble.com, an app that uses NLP and sentiment mining to match strangers and enrich avatars. A special acknowledgement was made for Ganesh Pitchiah and Pragyanandesh, the team of VORWIS for their application which enables intuitive interaction with virtual objects in the real world via gesture recognition.
The top three Winning Project teams received Cash reward along with a Samsung Trophy and a Samsung Tablet for their institute. The Samsung Innovation Awards were given away by Mr. Dipesh Shah, Dy Managing Director, Samsung India Software Operations in the presence of the keynote speaker Mr. K. Chandrasekhar, CEO Forus Health Pvt., Mr. S.N. Singh, Dy. Director (Operations), IIT Delhi, Dr. Anil Wali, Managing Director, Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) and other senior IIT faculty members and students. At the Samsung innovations Awards felicitation ceremony, Samsung also organized a pan IIT Innovation Quiz that saw all the IIT students keenly compete for the Winners’ title and the prize of Samsung Mobile phones.
The Samsung Innovation Awards (SIA) 2012 which were initiated five months ago saw all student innovations being shortlisted through two jury rounds before the top 10 innovations being presented at the final jury round held earlier today. All the student projects were adjudged on the criteria of their innovativeness, feasibility, usability, relevance and overall impact on masses. The innovation projects were reviewed by a jury comprising of senior members from IITs, Samsung R&D as well as industry representatives. Speaking during the SIA Ceremony, Mr. Dipesh Shah, Dy. MD, Samsung India Software Operations said, “Samsung as a brand believes in the power of innovation and we believe that this program will encourage the culture of innovation amongst the student community. We would like to incubate and nurture fresh ideas that have the potential to be grown and supported either at our own R&D Centers or here at the IITs.”
“The objective of our partnership with industry is to create an eco system whereby our students get a sense of the industry’s requirements as well as push their own boundaries to come up with innovative solutions. The Samsung Innovation Awards provides a platform whereby the fresh ideas of our student will not only be recognized but the high potential ones will be further supported,” said Dr. Anil Wali, Managing Director, Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT).
The top 10 innovations that were shortlisted by the jury panel cover projects that are within the categories of Product Design, Human Machine Interface and Web Technology. In the Product Design Category, there are three entries that the jury felt are unique, impactful and relevant. CLASAT, is an under development audio based context and event recognition system for mobile platform, extracts information about the environment in which the audio has been recorded; Emission control through Algal Growth, a novel idea of using algae as a converting agent to control CO2 and NOx emissions in engines and “Drishti” that seeks to develop universal eyeglasses using tunable-focus lens system and an intelligence module which quantifies refractive errors without human intervention.
Human Machine Interface category has four shortlisted nominations - IMU-Avatar, a light weight Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) that that can be part of a playing kit and recreates a 3D model of the match being watched; Hand-PIC'd, a generic gesture based controller which provides spatial coordinates and tilts for anything that it is attached to, from the mouse to Robotic Arms;Teleportation through Brain Machine Interface that decodes brain signals to operate a robotic manipulator; and VORWIS, an application which enables intuitive interaction with virtual objects in the real world via gesture recognition.
Nominations in Web Technology were Zumble.com, an app that uses NLP and sentiment mining to match strangers and enrich avatars; AGROID, a content management infrastructure for the Android mobile operating system that includes a bundle of Android applications, the software stack needed to run the Content management system and components for synchronization with a remote server and Hardware Accelerated DDoS Attack Mitigator [HADAM],a plug and play device that is transparently deployed in front of server farms as a network bridge and protects the resources of web servers against DDoS attacks and reduces the impact of attacks on the response time experienced by legitimate clients.
The Samsung Innovation Awards is part of the company’s CSR initiative - Samsung Hope Project which is committed to the cause of the Indian community through projects in the areas of education, culture and social welfare. Dedicated to the cause of innovation and education, Samsung through its Programs like the Samsung Innovation Awards and Samsung Innovation Quotient seeks to support and encourage young talent/ professionals who have incorporated innovative approaches, sought to improvise different systems and processes, developed indigenous products and services for fulfilling mass needs thereby transforming lives and creating sustainable solutions for the benefit of the society at large.
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