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R & D Projects

  • Project Title: "Speech Enhancement and Automatic Speech Recognition". Funding Agency: Bharath Electronics Limited - Central Research Laboratory (BELCRL) through IIT Dharwad. Funds Received: Rs. 10 Lakhs. Role: Principal Investigator (PI). Duration: 1 year, 2018-2019, Collaborations: IIT Dharwad and IIT Guwahati, Status: Completed.

  • Project Title: "Autonomous Navigating Humanoid". Funding Agency: Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation and Data Acquisition Systems (TiHAN) at IIT Hyderabad. Funds Sanctioned: Rs. 70 Lakhs. Received Amount: Rs. 67 Lakhs, Role: Chief Investigator (CI). Duration: 3 years, Start Date: 26th April 2021, Collaborations: Dr. Pavan Kumar (Co-Investigator), Dr. Rajendra Hegadi (Co-PI), Dr. Chinmayananda (Co-PI), and Dr. Ramesh Athe (Co-PI) (all are my colleagues from IIIT Dharwad), Status: Ongoing.

  • Project Title: "Speech to Speech Translation for Tribal Languages using Deep Learning Framework". Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY), Govt. of Indian. Funds Sanctioned to IIIT Dharwad: Rs. 44.53 Lakhs, Received Amount: Rs. 35 Lakhs, Role: Co Principal Investigator (Co-PI). Duration: 3 years, Start Date: 26th March 2021, Collaborations: IIT Dharwad (Lead Institute), IIT Hyderabad, and IIT Bhubaneshwar along with 4 other partners which include NGOs, University, and Colleges, Status: Ongoing.

  • Project Title: "Speech Technologies in Indian Languages under the project titled National Language Translation Mission (NLTM): BHASHINI". Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY), Govt. of Indian. Funds Sanctioned to IIIT Dharwad: Rs. 22.23 Lakhs, Received Amount: Rs. 8.06 Lakhs, Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI). Duration: 3 years, Start Date: 10th March 2022, Collaborations: It is a large consortium of academic institutes and companies lead by IIT Madras, Status: Ongoing.

  • Project Title: "Standalone Domain Specific Speech to Speech Translator for English, Hindi and Tamil Languages". Funding Agency: SERB-DST, Govt. of Indian. Funds Sanctioned to IIIT Dharwad: Rs. 70 Lakhs, Received Amount: Rs. 23.49 Lakhs, Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI). Duration: 3 years, Start Date: 10th July 2023, Collaborations: IIT Dharwad (lead institute), SSNCE Chennai, and SNU Chennai, Status: Ongoing.

Consultancy
Projects,

CSR
Grants,
Consultancy
Workshops

  • Project Title: "Gherkin X-Ray Image Segregation using Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Convolutional Neural Networks". Company: Wide Mobility Networks, Hubli. Duration: 1 year (2017-2018), Status: Completed.

  • Project Title: "Software Architecture for Integration of Software Modules". Agency: Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of Karnataka, India. Date: 2021 - till date, Funds Received: Rs. 60 Lakhs, Status: Ongoing, Role: Co-PI.

  • Consultancy workshop for Bharat Electronics Limited - Central Research Laboratory (BEL-CRL) in collaboration with IIT Dharwad and IIT Guwahati (2017 - 2018), Grants: Rs. 0.5 Lakhs.

  • Project Title: "Automatic Speech Recognition, Speaker Verification, Text to Speech Synthesis, and Large Language Models". Company: ARMSOFTECH India Pvt. Ltd., India. Duration: 2 years (2021-2023), Total Funds Received: Rs. 8.5 Lakhs, Status: Completed.

  • Project Title: "Setting up of Bot Laboratory". Company: Path Partners (KPIT Technologies), India. Date: 2023, Total Funds Received: Rs. 5 Lakhs, Status: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds.

M.Tech, B.Tech Mini and Main Projects

M.Tech Projects

  • Pavithra Kulkarni, ”“Glottal Instants Extraction from Speech Signal using Generative Adversarial Network” ”, M.Tech in Digital Electronics, KLE Technological University, 2017.

  • Supritha M Shetty, ”A comparative study of different methodologies to classify xray gherkin image”, M.Tech in Digital Electronics, KLE Technological University, 2018.

  • Shraddha G. Revankar, "Fundamental Frequency(F0) Estimation From Telephonic Speech Signal Using GAN Networks", M.Tech in Digital Electronics, KLE Technological University, 2019.

  • Sahana Punagin, "Vehicle detection using Deep Transfer Learning on improved YOLO", M.Tech in Digital Electronics, KLE Technological University, 2019.

B.Tech Main Projects

  • Suraj Durgesht, Dinesh Pol, and Sashwat Sharma, ”Characterization of Electroglottograph Signal from Speech using Deep Feature Losses”, 2020.

  • Bhargava B C, Suroju Krishnakanth, Tejaswini C and Thulluri Amulya, “Speech synthesis from silent Video ,”, 2020.

  • K.Geethanjali, S Ramesh, R Varun, Sai Parimal V Sapuri, "Indian English Automatic Speech Recognition for in vehicle applications", 2021.

  • S.Moris, Supreet, Sai Venkat, Sai Monish, "ASR Development for Indic Languages", 2021.

  • Sai Chandra Koushik, Lohith Reddy, Sai Raj, V Rohith, "Style Transfer in Text to Speech Synthesizer", 2023. 

B.Tech Mini Projects

  • Premchand Panwar, Archana M D, "X-Ray Image Segregation of Gherkins", 2018.

  • K.Geethanjali, S Ramesh, R Varun, Sai Parimal V Sapuri, "Developing an IoT based cricket bat", 2020.

  • Supreet, T Sai Mounish Kumar, Vamsi, Krishna, Ashish, "Noise Estimation, Reduction, and Trigger Word Detection", 2020.

  • Sanket Avarali, Shivendra Pandey, Tarun Gupta, V.Chaitanya Sravanthi, Vidushi Verma, "Otoacoustic Medical Device", 2020.

  • Ankitha S Madanbhavi, Jennifer Yennam, K Lakshmi Gayathri, "Spoken Conversation Humanoid", 2021.

  • Kavana S Salunkhe, Samana B S, Arun A V K, Harshitha, "Data Collection Tool for Tribal Speech to Speech Translation and Applications", 2021.

  • Mahendra Chaurasiya, Neha Mahindrakar, Sreehari Premkumar, "Autonomous Navigation of a Humanoid Using LiDAR", 2021.

  • Bathina Anudeep, Jeevan Revaneppa Hirethanand, Aqtar Parveez, "Indian Language Automatic Speech Recognition (Hindi) for Humanoid", 2021.

  • Aakash Tiwari, Bhavya Tripathi, Rutvik Atul Yamkanmardi, S Namratha, "Porting Hindi ASR on Raspberry PI 3", 2021.

  • Jeevan Revaneppa Hirethanand, Neha Mahindrakar, Parvati Jayakumar, "Automatic Speech Recognition for an Indian Language", 2021.

  • Kavana S Salunkhe, Samana B S, Arun A V K, "Personal Voice Assistant", 2021.

  • Mahantesh Naikodi, K. Sai Ganesh, K.Sai Manoj, "IoT Based Cricket Coaching System", 2021.

  • Sahana V Appajigol, Aditi Jha, Lalithaanjale, Batchu Sathvick, "Hindi Intent Understanding", 2022.

  • M. Yashwanth, R. Mounika, N. Sujith Joseph Ratnam, A.S.S. Karthik, "Tribal Machine Translation System", 2022.

  • Ayaan Khan, Aparna Kholia, Jaynit Patel, "Survey on humanoid features - An Indian Perspective", 2022.

  • Deepti P Ranjolkar, K V L Amrutha, Kash Singh, M Roja, "Object Detection for Humanoid", 2022.

  • Golla Anjaiah, Rishabh Gautam, Anil Kumar, Abhishek Dubey, "Android App Development for Spoken Conversation Framework", 2023.

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