OPEN INNOVATION

We promote Open Innovation in India by Fostering partnership with university faculty and researchers.

SONY RESEARCH INDIA FELLOWSHIP

Professor Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

Professor & Chair, CSA Dept.,Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Banglore

Sony Research India has established Fellowships in 2022 for M.Tech and Ph.D. students under the guidance of Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya‬, Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Automation at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 2022 to support highly talented research students in the field of core Artificial Intelligence and its applications.

SPONSORED RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

Prof. Suyash Awate
Professor, CSE Dept.,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

Research Area:
 Computer Vision

Research Topic:
Deep Neural Networks for Image Analysis: Object Detection and Recognition

Prof. Anoop Namboodiri
Associate Professor, CVIT Lab, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad

Research Area:
Biometrics

Research Topic:
Deep Learning based Joint Fingerprint Verification and Liveness Detection

Prof. Sriram Ganapathy
Associate Professor, Learning and Extraction of Acoustic Patterns (LEAP) Lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

Research Area:
Media Analysis

Research Topic:
Automatic Speech Separation for Music Analysis using Deep Learning Methods

Prof. Sriparna Saha
Associate Professor, CSE Dept.,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Patna

Research Area:
Data Science

Research Topic:
Novel multi-modal recommendation system for online video recommendation

HEAR FROM OUR COLLABORATORS

Professor Sriram Ganapathy

Associate Professor,
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

“I have worked with Sony Research India on the interesting problem of speech to singing conversion and the automatic transcription of music. The collaboration has been rewarding and has resulted in advancing the research as well as in publications. The students involved in the project work also got an opportunity to learn the topics in industry relevant research. We will look forward to future collaborations with Sony Research India team.”

Professor Sriram Ganapathy

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

“I have worked with Sony Research India on the interesting problem of speech to singing conversion and the automatic transcription of music. The collaboration has been rewarding and has resulted in advancing the research as well as in publications. The students involved in the project work also got an opportunity to learn the topics in industry relevant research. We will look forward to future collaborations with Sony Research India team.”

SONY RESEARCH AWARD PROGRAM

The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research in India, the USA, Canada and selected European
countries. This has helped build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. With awards up to $150,000 USD*
per year for each accepted proposal, this program has created new opportunities for university faculties and research institutions
to engage in pioneering research that could drive new technologies, industries and the future. For more details, click here.

Congratulations to the Sony Research Award Program Recipients of 2024 from India:

Vaibhav Katewa- IISc
Prof. Vaibhav Katewa
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Prof Pushpak photo IITB
Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

Congratulations to the award recipients of 2021 from India:

Prof. Srijith PK
Indian Institute of Technology
Hyderabad (IITH)
Prof. Arpita Patra
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore (IISc)

SONY RESEARCH INDIA CONSULTANCY PROGRAM

The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research in India, the USA, Canada and selected European
countries. This has helped build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. With awards up to $150,000 USD*
per year for each accepted proposal, this program has created new opportunities for university faculties and research institutions
to engage in pioneering research that could drive new technologies, industries and the future. For more details, click here.

Congratulations to the award recipients of 2021 from India:

Prof. Vineeth N Balasubramanian
Indian Institute of Technology
Hyderabad (IITH)
Prof. Rajiv Ratn Shah
Indraprastha Institute of Information
Technology Delhi (IIITD)

PUBLICATIONS

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Large Language Model-based Recommendation System Agents

Authors: Tommaso Carraro, Brijraj Singh, Niranjan Pedanekar
Demo paper at RecSys | 2025

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Summarizing ‘KANITE: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for ITE Estimation’

Authors: Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar
ECML PKDD | 2025

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Graph-Assisted Culturally Adaptable Idiomatic Translation for Indic languages

Authors: Pratik Rakesh Singh, Kritarth Prasad, Mohammadi Zaki, Pankaj.W
ACL Findings | 2025

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In-Domain African Languages Translation Using LLMs and Multi-armed Bandits

Authors: Pratik Rakesh Singh, Kritarth Prasad, Mohammadi Zaki, Pankaj. W
ACL AfricaNLP Workshop | 2025

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LASPA: Language Agnostic Speaker Disentanglement with Prefix-Tuned Cross-Attention

Authors: Aditya Menon*, Raj Prakash Gohil*, Kumud Tripathi, Pankaj W
INTERSPEECH | 2025

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Attention Is Not Always the Answer Optimizing Voice Activity Detection with Simple Feature Fusion

Authors: Kumud Tripathi, Chowdam Venkata Thirumala Kumar, and Pankaj.W
INTERSPEECH | 2025

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REWIND: Speech Time Reversal for Enhancing Speaker Representations in Diffusion-based Voice Conversion

Authors: Ishan Biyani, Nirmesh Shah, Ashishkumar Gudmalwar, Pankaj.W and Prof Rajiv R. Shah
INTERSPEECH | 2025

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KANITE: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for ITE estimation

Authors: Ishan Eshan Mehendale, Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar
ECML PKDD | 2025

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DuET: Dual Incremental Object Detection via Exemplar-Free Task Arithmetic

Authors: Munish Monga, Vishal Chudasama, Pankaj Wasnik, Prof Biplab Banerjee
ICCV | 2025

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Dynamic Task-adaptive Meta Optimization for Cold-Start Recommendation

Authors: Tushar Prakash, Raksha Jalan, Brijraj Singh, Niranjan Pedanekar
ECAI | 2025

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Precise Event Spotting in Sports Videos: Solving Long-Range Dependency and Class Imbalance

Authors: Sanchayan Santra, Vishal Chudasama, Pankaj.W, Vineeth N. Balasubramanian
CVPR | 2025

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Faster Machine Translation Ensembling with Reinforcement Learning and Competitive Correction

Authors: Kritarth Prasad, Mohammadi Zaki, Pratik Rakesh Singh, Pankaj W
NAACL | 2025

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Enhancing Whisper's Accuracy and Speed for Indian Languages through Prompt-Tuning and Tokenization

Authors: Kumud Tripathi and Pankaj W.
ICASSP | 2025

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Ready for You When You Are Back: Content-driven Session-based Recommendation for Continuity of Experience

Authors: Brijraj Singh, Sonal Dabral, Niranjan Pedanekar
AAAI | 2025

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Enhancing Entertainment Translation for Indian Languages using Adaptive Context, Style and LLMs

Authors: Pratik Rakesh Singh, Mohammadi Zaki, Pankaj Wasnik
AAAI | 2025

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EmoReg: Directional Latent Vector Modeling for Emotional Intensity Regularization in Diffusion-based Voice Conversion

Authors: Ashish Gudmalwar, Ishan Biyani, Nirmesh Shah, Pankaj S. Wasnik, Rajiv R. Shah
AAAI | 2025

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LLM-BRec: Personalizing Session-based Social Recommendation with LLM-BERT Fusion Framework

Authors: Raksha Jalan, Tushar Prakash and Niranjan Pedanekar
Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR) workshop at the SIGIR conference | July 2024

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DubWise: Video-Guided Speech Duration Control in Multimodal LLM-based Text-to-Speech for Dubbing

Authors: Neha Sahipjohn, Ashishkumar Gudmalwar, Nirmesh Shah, Pankaj Wasnik, Rajiv Ratn Shah (IIIT Delhi)
INTERSPEECH | September 2024

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VECL-TTS: Voice Identity and Emotional Style Aware Cross-Lingual TTS

Authors: Ashishkumar Gudmalwar, Nirmesh Shah, Sai Akarsh, Pankaj Wasnik, Rajiv Ratn Shah (IIIT Delhi)
INTERSPEECH | September 2024

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Cross-Modal Fusion and Attention Mechanism for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

Authors: Ayush Ghadiya, Purbayan Kar ,Vishal Chudasama, Pankaj Wasnik
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 7th MULA Workshop | June 2024

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Isometric Neural Machine Translation using Phoneme Count Ratio Reward-based Reinforcement Learning

Authors: Shivam Ratnakant Mhaskar, Nirmesh Shah, Mohammadi Zaki, Ashishkumar Gudmalwar, Pankaj Wasnik, Rajiv Ratn Shah (IIIT Delhi)
Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL),: findings | June 2024

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Efficacy of Large Language Models in Predicting Hindi Movies' Attributes: A Comprehensive Survey and Content-Based Analysis

Authors: Prabir Mondal (IIT Patna), Siddharth Singh (IIT Patna), Kushum (IIT Patna), Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna), Jyoti Prakash Singh (IIT Patna), Brijraj Singh, Niranjan Pedanekar
WebConf (WWW) | May 2024

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Optimizing Movie Selections: A Multi-Task, Multi-Modal Framework with Strategies for Missing Modality Challenges

Authors: Subham Raj (IIT Patna), Pawan Agrawal (IIT Patna), Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna), Brijraj Singh, Niranjan Pedanekar
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) | April 2024

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Estimation of individual causal effects in network setup for multiple treatments

Authors: Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar, Naoyuki Onoe
38th Annual Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence [Graphs and Complex Structure for Learning and Reasoning (GCLR) Workshop] | February 2024

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Open-set Object Detection By Aligning Known Class Representations

Authors: Hiran Sarkar, Vishal Chudasama, Naoyuki Onoe, Pankaj Wasnik, Vineeth Balasubramanian (IIT Hyderabad)
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) | January 2024

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Efficient infusion of self-supervised representations in Automatic Speech Recognition

Authors: Darshan Prabhu, Saiganesh Mirishkar, Pankaj Wasnik
Poster presentation at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 3rd Workshop | December 2023

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Towards Developing a Multi-Modal Video Recommendation System

Authors: Sriram Pingali (IIT Patna), Prabir Mondal (IIT Patna), Daipayan Chakder (IIT Patna), Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna), Angshuman Ghosh
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) | September 2022

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***International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad **Indian Institute of Technology Patna *Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore #Michigan State University

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Our Director’s take on Open Innovation

Naoyuki Onoe

Associate Director, Sony Research India

“Research collaborations with Top-Tier institutes in India was one of my first roles when establishing  our R&D center in India. We believe such Open Innovation with excellent professors will enable Sony to create new technologies for India by combining academic research with our industrial expertise.”

Our Director’s take on Open Innovation

Dr. Naoyuki Onoe

Associate Director, Sony Research India

“Research collaborations with Top-Tier institutes in India was one of my first roles when establishing  our R&D center in India. We believe such Open Innovation with excellent professors will enable Sony to create new technologies for India by combining academic research with our industrial expertise.”
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