Projects of Yadav brothers from city selected for UNESCO event
| Date :21-Sep-2022 |
Staff Reporter
Artificial Intelligence projects of Yadav brothers - Krish and Yash, students of Class 12 and 11 respectively at MKH Sancheti Public School in Nagpur were selected for showcasing at UNESCO event in New Delhi on Tuesday. Krish presented ‘BhashaX code summariser’, Yash showcased AI Infant Monitoring System.
Sulakshana Yadav, mother of Krish and Yash, herself a Computer Science Engineer, who is a graduate from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) told ‘The Hitavada’, “Both participated in CBSE-Intel AI4Y mentoring programme. They both submitted separate projects. Thousands of students across the country had submitted their projects after attending the Intel AI4Youths mentorship programme. From it, top 10 students are selected for the event. Krish and Yash are among those 10 students. Krish has also been selected as top 3 students to represent India at Intel AI Global Impact Festival 2022 for his project Bhasha X Code summariser.”
Krish Yadav who is in Class XII has submitted Project ‘Bhasha X Code Summariser’. A study this year by UNESCO emphasises learning in the mother tongue is a key factor for inclusion and quality learning, and it also improves learning outcomes and skill performances. And Computer Science was not an exemption. On conducting a survey, Krish found that 76% of developers preferred to use their mother tongue for having a better understanding of their code. And in a country like India, where according to reliable estimates only 10% of the population knows English, for people from non-native English backgrounds programming is a difficult task. There is a 20% expected growth in software-related jobs in upcoming years. Moreover, it won’t only be software that would be doing programming in the upcoming year, professions such as biologist, chemist, etc also have. This has led me to the creation of BhashaX code summariser, an AI-based model aimed at improving the accessibility to programming by allowing developers from non-native English backgrounds, especially beginners to grasp code better by summarising it in their mother tongue. Krish came up with solution in action that can be currently accessed through the website. The model consists of an Encoder, Decoder, and Self-attention. After which the solution runs a text-to-text transformer for translation. The solution has been optimised by using Intel’s Openvino runtime. He has also started working on creating an IDE extension that will be able to give a summary of the code from the IDES. He plans to gather better hardware for longer durations for training on larger datasets. His project impacts SDG 10, which is reducing Inequalities. Thus his solution fosters inclusivity and equality by breaking the barrier of language for computer sciences.
Project of Yash Yadav, Class XI, Project is ‘AI Infant Monitoring System’. Nearly 4 million infants die before their first birthday. That’s roughly the population of the entire city of Los Angeles! Today, many families have working parents, who cannot be there to attend to their babies all the time. To solve this problem, he has created an AI enabled Infant Monitoring system. His project is not simply a live webcam feed but is instead a second pair of eyes supervising the infant. The AI model detects the face and the mood of the infant. A simple camera would take the continuous feed of the baby and send the live feed over to an Intel embedded system. If the AI model, then finds that the baby is currently crying, then it will send an alert to the parents’ phone, notifying that the infant needs assistance. The model trains itself to the needs of the baby, and after some time, predicts the reasons due to which the baby is crying, for example: if he’s hungry, cold, or simply bored. This would help the new parents in better understanding the needs of the baby. Yash has utilised a CNN model to determine the emotion of the baby. The current demo is on a webapp using Flask. He has created this system so that it can easily be added upon in the future, with models identifying the sleeping position, hazardous behavior and even more. This is a responsive web app, so it can easily be made into a mobile application.
Sulakshana Yadav, mother and Rajesh Yadav who runs a business kept encouraging their children and never interfered.
Mohan Gandhe, owner of MKH Sancheti Public School expressed happiness, “I felt happy that these students are from my school. I feel proud of their achievements.”
Uma Bhalerao, Principal of the school keeps talking about Krish and Yash. She said, “These children are self-motivated. If anyone has achieved whatever both children earned, one would develop attitude. But these children are so much humble, down to earth. I always get exhilarated by their success.”