IIT Madras Students Create AI-Based Crowd Analysis Technology; Offer It To Indian Army To Take On Stone Pelters

Students from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Madras have created an artificial intelligence (AI) - based technology which can predict crowd behaviour.

They have offered this system to the Indian Army for potential use in Jammu & Kashmir to take on violent stone pelters, reports Hindustan Times.

“Using action recognition algorithms, crowd density maps and analysis of live images coming in from CCTV cameras, it is possible to predict abnormal events including stone pelting. We think it could help the Indian Army that faces such attacks regularly in J&K,” the student executive head, Centre for Innovation, IIT-Madras, S Raghav Vaidyanathan stated.

Stone pelters routinely target security forces during anti-terror operations in order to enable terrorists to escape.

Recently, four of the IIT Madras students who were part of the project group travelled to Delhi to participate in the Army Technology Seminar-2019. This programme aims to bring together military, academia and industry on the same platform to come up with indigenous solutions to military needs.

The Army Design Bureau manages the initiative and acts as a connector between the army and the private sector to fulfil requirements of the former.

A group of army officers will be travelling to Chennai soon to take stock of the different solutions that offered by IIT Madras.