Mr Yashaswi Sinha, a second year PhD student at the Department of Design and Manufacturing won an ACM SIGAI Travel Award for his paper “Diffuse Your Data Blues: Augmenting Low-Resource Datasets via User-Assisted Diffusion” accepted as a full paper at ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interface. The conference received 387 submissions, among which 97 papers are accepted as full papers. The award contains a Travel award of $530/- and waiver of registration fee. A demo video on the paper can be viewed at https://youtu.be/3pHfFAvFggM?si=gR8lD1bNkX6VLjPw
Yashaswi’s research is exploring cutting edge Generative AI tools to improve machine perception of objects for enhancing interaction experience with XR technology under the supervision of Prof. Pradipta Biswas. He also first authored a full paper at ICRA 25, the top-tier conference on Robotics and co-authored papers at ACM IUI, IEEE Telepresence and Journal of Multimodal User Interface.
ACM SIGAI is the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence that promotes and supports the growth and application of artificial intelligence (AI) principles and techniques throughout computing for academic educators and researchers, professional practitioners, and students. Their activities, include sponsoring or co-sponsoring high-quality AI-related conferences; recognizing achievements of academic, professional and student members through major annual awards; publishing a quarterly newsletter (AI Matters) in the ACM Digital Library as well as maintaining a blog on AI matters
of interest to the community; providing scholarships to student members to attend conferences; funding, developing, and promoting AI education, publications and public outreach activities both within the AI community and beyond.
For more information, please check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pHfFAvFggM
