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Research Project Ongoing

AI for multimodal and multisensor situational awareness

Principal Investigator Prof. Sanasam Ranbir Singh
Duration Jul 2023 – Present

Project Overview

Research scope & objectives

This research project focuses on Artificial Intelligence for Situational Awareness, particularly in defence environments. This work focuses on computer vision and multimodal AI for understanding visual information, with research interests including military object detection, image understanding and summarization, and vision-language models. It also aims to develop reliable AI-based methods for extracting and interpreting relevant information from complex visual scenes to support situational awareness and decision-making.

Efficient Vision-Language Inference for Real-Time Situational Awareness

The project focused on developing a real-time situational awareness framework that enables efficient vision-language inference over video streams. The work addresses the computational and payload overhead of continuously processing visual data with cloud-based Vision-Language Models by selectively processing relevant scene changes and maintaining compact representations of active objects. The framework also supports semantic visualization for immersive XR environments, with evaluation focused on inference efficiency, latency, communication overhead, and quality of scene understanding.

Military Object Detection Dataset Development and Image Curation

This project focused on building and curating a dataset for military object detection. The work involved collecting images from multiple sources, organizing them into relevant object categories, and reviewing the data for consistency and quality. Additional images were collected to improve the representation of less common military objects and to include challenging conditions such as occlusion, camouflage, and cluttered backgrounds.

Research Team

Research Scholars (Ph.D) Monika Singh
Interns Abhinav Chetry, Kunal Dey,Karan Rai, Mandeep Baro, Rohan Basfore, Sidharth Chetri, Kunal Boro, Dwimalu Kherkatary,Aditya Nayak, Aditya Nath