Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies

Conference of State IT Secretaries12 Feb 2018

AI is contributing to a transformation of society “happening 10 times faster and at 300 times the scale, or roughly 3000 times the impact” of the Industrial Revolution.

- McKinsey Global Institute

Key Technologies in AI

Improve performance without specific instruction.

LearnBig Data Analytics

Work with textas humans do

Chatbot

Transcribe and generate speech withAccuracy

Voicebots

Identify objects, scenes, activities from images

Facial recognition

Cognitive tech sensors, actuators.

IoT

Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence deals with Design and developmentof computer systems that are able to perform tasks thatNormally require human intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Natural Lang. Processing

Speech Processing

Computer Vision

Robotics

Innovation: A historical view

AI Research in India

1986 -94

• DoE (currently MeitY) & UNDP launched the Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS) program in November 1986

• Aiming towards Research and capacity development & PoCs

1992-till date

• Technology Development In Indian Languages

• Language scripts/fonts, Prototype Machine Aided Translation Systems

• OCR, Mostly lab prototypes to small scale deployment systems

• Speech Synthesis systems for the Blind, Screen readers

2012-• Perception Engineering : Gaming

• Electronic Nose, e-tongue, Vision etc

2015-• Over 300 start ups and more than 100 Indian companies are reportedly working

in this area

Country AI Adoption and Action Plan

USA In 2016 Released 3 reports “Preparing for the Future of AI”

Applications of AI for Public Good.

Promote High risk, high reward Research

AI for Cyber defence and fraud detection;

Shared public datasets for AI

China "Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" July 2017 ,

Roadmap for 2030.

Applications in manufacturing, medicine, Agri.

Open-source hardware and software platforms for hybrid intelligence,

autonomous unmanned system,

South Korea Mid-Long term Master Plan in Preparation for the Intelligent Society: Managing

for the 4th Industrial Revolution”.

Establish World Class Infrastructure AI; Intelligent IT to all Industries; & Steps

towards Reforming and Strengthening the Social Support System.

International Scenario

Country AI Adoption and Action Plan

Canada Launched three AI Research centers in AI at Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton.

Emphasis of these centers is mainly on skill development and research

Canada.ai - AI web portal

UK Spent 17 million pounds in 2017 to support AI research by the Engg & Physical

Research Council (EPSRC).

Start ups seeded at Cambridge &Oxford universities achieved major AI

breakthroughs

Germany Identified AI as intrinsic to the Industry 4.0 initiative

Japan Investments Future Growth Strategy – Society 5.0 in AI Robotics, Big data, IoT

AI Research Focus Areas: Health, Self Driving Trucks and Drones

Two Research Centers proposed – US $ 214 million

India’s Competitive Advantage

• Advantage in IT, moving towards trillion dollar

digital economy by 2025, therefore in an

advantageous position for quicker adoption of AI.

• Program like Digital India programme, Start-up India

and Make in India

• India has already registered its capability in IT/ITES

sector. Adoption of AI and emerging technologies is

a logical next step.

MeitY Technical Institutions Initiatives

• NIC

– Development Programmes - Image Processing (searching/Matching)- Microsoft Cognitive Services

– Service Delivery/ServiceDesk - Audio Assistance to caller-Google APIs

• CDAC

– Education

– Health

– Agriculture

Techniques:

DSS, Machine Learning – ANN/ SVMText & Social Media Data Analytics Algorithms

Solutions:

Traditional medicine - iCare@Home, Ayusoft

Mobile based Disease Surveillance and Treatment Adherence systems (e.g. MoSQuIT, mDOTS+)

Computer Aided Detection System for Mammograms – mCAD

Automatic EEG Analyzer for Seizure Detection

Medical Document Semantic Analyzer (MEDSA)

IR based Diabetes Scanning system

Health Care Knowledge System - Concept Maps

iCare@Hme

Ayusoft

AI Resources / Solutions / Products CDAC-

Health

User AgenciesTripura StateAssam (ICMR/RMRC), DibrugarhRegional Cancer CentreRegional Institute of OphthalmologyVarious Medical Institutions

• Artificial Olfaction System (Electronic Nose)• Artificial Intelligence based Machine Vision System

(Electronic Vision)• Artificial Intelligence based Gustatory System

(Electronic Tongue)• Intelligent Advisory System for Farmers

A Precision Agriculture model

for sending Personalised Agro-

advisories to farmers

•Real-time acquisition of micro-climatic datafrom field•Timely assessment of crop condition•DSS & Personalized Agro-advisory servicesto farmers

ENOVISION

Sensor unit Temp & RH

sensors

Soil Moisture sensor Soil Temp sensor

Leaf Wetness sensor

CDAC Existing AI Resources / Solutions / Products

- Agriculture

CDAC Existing AI Resources / Solutions / Products

- Transportation

1. Vehicle Actuated Traffic Signal

Controller (WiTraC)

2. Traffic Monitoring and

Management Software (TraMM)

3. Adaptive Traffic Control System

(CoSiCoSt)

4. Red light Violation Detection

System (iRIDS)

5. Intelligent Parking Management

System (ePARK)

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Detection of Buffalo in Heat through

Electronic Nose & Colorimetric Sensing

A Tracing System for Safe Pork

Production in North-Eastern India Sensor Based Postharvest Management of

Selected Agri-Horticultural Commodities of

Bihar

ITRA Projects

AI in Agriculture

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ICT Based Livestock Information, Service

and Knowledge Management

Image Based Systems for Identification of Individuals, Breeds and

Diseases of Pigs and Goats

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Computer Vision Based Technology for

Automating Fish Species Identification

and Abundance Information for

Biodiversity and Energy Conserving

Fishery

In Situ Measurement of Active

Principles in Chemotypic Diversity in

Medicinal Plants

ITRA Applications

Environmental Science

Diagnostic Systems for Pests and Diseases of

Crops of Quarantine Importance

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A system to make 2-3 week forecast maps

for field level drought/rainfall

A system for sensing and wirelessly

disseminating consumer water quality

(contamination) and flow (leakage,

theft) information in a water distribution

network

ITRA Project

Water Supply,

Weather

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Introduction to IoT & CoE

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IOT 2.0

Intelligence of Things

AI / ML

Analytics

Sensors + Devices

Center of Excellence – IOT An Initiative by MeitY

Largest Existing Innovation Platform for enabling IOT

revolution through connected devices using

emerging technologies such as

Sensors, Big Data, Analytics,

AI/ML, AR/VR and Robotics.

IOT 2.0“Intelligence of

Things” leading to Smarter

IndiaExisting Bangalore CoE-IoT Lab

CoE IoT Summary-- Startups incubated- 34 + 2 Graduated- Support 250 plus Startups through Virtual Startups connect program -IP’s generated- 27 applied, 7 approved-Industry partners- 12 strategic and 4 technology partners- State of art IoT lab at Bangalore and equipped it with the best infrastructure and test equipment

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CoE Objectives

Innovative Solution Enabler

• Network with all solution providers/innovators in the country

• Connect with Organizations looking for technology adoption

• Co-Create program – bringing the innovators and enterprises together to create business solutions.

• Collaboration through the portal

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Center of Innovation for Intelligence of Things leading to Smarter India

Create Eco-System

• Create Industry forums

• Events/Seminars/Workshops/Meet ups

• Tie-up with relevant government and academic bodies – for Standards and Guidelines

• Constantly work on global technology trends

Enabling Entrepreneurship

• Setting up Innovation Labs and Physical Infrastructure

• Collaborate with NASSCOM entities such as 10K Start-ups

• Virtual Connect with Enterprises and Start-Ups

COE-IoT Activities and Focus Sectors

Co-Create solutions for real-world challenges

India’s Largest Deep Tech Innovation Hub for Start-ups

Enable Thought Leadership through seminars/events/workshops

Connecting Academia with Enterprise to bring latest research to the market

Facilitate connect with policy

Industry 4.0

Automotive/Transportation

Lifesciences/Healthcare

Energy

Agriculture

Smart CitiesAn eco-system for bringing Technologies, Standards and Security together

New Centres – Updates

Gurgaon MoA in advanced stage with Haryana Government.

Interior work at Hartron center nearing completion

Ahmedabad Agreement signed with Gujarat Government Gujarat Government representation visited Bangalore

to assess the Center requirements at Ahmedabad Finalization of the Center Location is in progress

Vizag Agreement is expected to be signed with AP

Government soon Center location is already finalized and ready to be

occupied Discussion with Industry representatives in Vizag

underway for implementing IoT enabled business

Gurgaon

Vizag

Ahmedabad

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Expectations from the States about COE/IOT

• Provide support in getting problems statements from different Govt depts like healthcare, transportation & agriculture for the solutions to be sourced from the local startup/ innovation network in the state

• Aid in growth of startup ecosystem to help propel innovative solution development

• Support in getting allied industry connects like manufacturing, automotive etc.

• Support in evangelizing technology solutions in different sectors

• Provide funding for any special programs and scaling up

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CoE-IoT Locations Vs. Focus Areas

08 Feb 2018

Industry Focus

CoE-IoT Location

Bangalore Gurgaon @ Ahmedabad @ Vizag @

Industry 4.0

Automotive/Transportation

Healthcare

Energy

Agriculture

Smart Cities Note: This is a working document. As we progress the industry focus areas may keep changing

AI Workshop held on 18 Jan 2018Chaired by Hon’ble MEIT, 50 Participants from academia, industry,

and Government

Outcome

• Need for a conducive policy framework

• More collaborations and sharing of best practices

• Setting up of Resource centres and repositories for AI Research

• All stakeholders to work together to take forward AI initiatives

• India specific AI implementation model to address Indian societal

problems

• As a pilot – focused initiatives in a few areas - Use of AI for increasing

the income of farmers; Handling of Traffic violation cases; AI for

Language Learning & Technology Development

Action Proposed

• Framing of a National Strategy Plan for AI with a focus on “AI

for Digital Inclusion andAugmentation”

• An inter-ministerial Apex Committee to be constituted

• 4 committees have been constituted to work in these areas-

Platforms and Data for AI

Leveraging AI for Citizen Centric Applications

Skilling , Re-Skilling, R & D

Cyber Security, Safety, Legal and Ethical Issues

……………. Suggestions• Platforms to bring all stakeholders, data, tools, institutions, big small and

tiny companies together

• Support research towards developing robust and new AI algorithms

• Mapping of existing technology capabilities and infrastructure in thecountry for policy enablers and Industry across sectors to leverage anddevelop framework for collaborative work

• Evolving a policy for data availability and data sharing for AI researchand applications conforming to data protection framework

• To promote research in AI, Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme could have morePhD Scholars in AI area

Indicative Mission Achieving Real Time

Translation across English

And Indian Languages

• Text to speech

• Speech to Text

• Speech to Speech

THANKS

Techniques:

DSS, Machine Learning – ANN/ SVMText & Social Media Data Analytics Algorithms

Solutions:

Medical Image Analyzer for Cervical Cancer Screening – CerviSCAN

Diabetic Retinopathy Identification Software for Timely Intervention – DRISTI

Virtual Endoscopy – ViEW2 polyps present

3D Iso-surface rendered on sub-

volume of data

set

Polyps detected as Red dots

Polyp detection by analyzing Volumetric

FeaturesPolyp Detection

Healthy retina Retina with DR

CDAC Existing AI Resources / Solutions / Products

- Health

Balshiksha

Hindi Online Exam

UsersOffered as hosted services for varioususers

GanitmitraLILA-Rajbhasha

Smart content AI teaching AssistantIntelligent Tutoring SystemsPersonalized Education with AI

e-Vigyanshala

OLABs

CDAC Existing AI Resources / Solutions / Products

- Education

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A hardware/software platform to

integrate sensors (humidity, soil

temperature, wind speed,…), human-

provided information, computational

models and wireless communications to

manage crop resources

A system for detecting and

estimating the size of ground water

resources in hard rock aquifers of

India

A service to optimally locate water

recharge sites and tube wells

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A system for communication

among fishing boats and with

shore

A real time information service

to guide offshore fishing and

disseminate offshore (market)

information to boats

A directional antenna for low

power communication from

offshore boats

A smartphone based cough

analyser

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Solution

Architecture

A smartphone based system

for real time bus information,

accident detection, and

accident forensics

A system to sense, analyze

and enhance home energy

usage

A smartphone accessory kit for

continuously monitoring ECG,

Pulse, Breadth, and

A smartphone kit enabled

environment for teaching CS/CE

courses