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)

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.”

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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.”

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

Authors: Subham Raj, Pawan Agrawal, Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna), Brijraj Singh, Niranjan Pedanekar
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) | April 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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Enhancing Social Recommendation with Multi-View BERT Network

Authors: Tushar Prakash, Raksha Jalan, Naoyuki Onoe
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM) | December 2023

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Fiducial Focus Augmentation for Facial Landmark Detection

Authors: Purbayan Kar, Vishal Chudasama, Naoyuki Onoe, Pankaj Wasnik, Vineeth Balasubramanian
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) | November 2023

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Impulsion of Movie's Content-Based Factors in Multi-Modal Movie Recommendation System

Authors: Prabir Mondal, Pulkit Kapoor, Siddharth Singh, Sriparna Saha, Naoyuki Onoe, Brijraj Singh
International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) | November 2023

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LLM Based Generation of Item-Description for Recommendation System

Authors: Arkadeep Acharya, Brijraj Singh and Naoyuki Onoe
Recommender Systems Conference (RECSYS) | Sept 2023

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CR-SoRec: BERT driven Consistency Regularization for Social Recommendation

Authors: Tushar Prakash, Raksha Jalan, Brijraj Singh and Naoyuki Onoe
Recommender Systems Conference (RECSYS) | Sept 2023

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Iteratively Improving Speech Recognition and Voice Conversion

Authors: Mayank Kumar Singh, Naoya Takahashi, Onoe Naoyuki
INTERSPEECH | August 2023

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Cd-HRNN: Content-Driven HRNN to Improve Session-Based Recommendation System

Authors: Sonal Dabral, Brijraj Singh and Naoyuki Onoe
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN Main Conference) | April 2023

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A Multi-Modal Multi-Task Based Approach for Movie Recommendation

Authors: Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna) and Naoyuki Onoe
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN Main Conference) | April 2023

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A Meta-Learning Based Generative Model with Graph Attention Network for Multi-Modal Recommender Systems

Authors: Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna) and Naoyuki Onoe
INNS DLIA Workshop /IJCNN | April 2023

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Task-Specific and Graph Convolutional Network Based Multi-Modal Movie Recommendation System in Indian Setting

Authors: Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna) and Naoyuki Onoe
INNS DLIA Workshop /IJCNN | April 2023

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Revisiting Class Imbalance for End-to-end Semi-Supervised Object Detection

Authors: Purbayan Kar, Vishal Chudasama, Pankaj Wasnik and Naoyuki Onoe
Efficient Deep Learning for Computer Vision (ECV) Workshop in CVPR| April 2023

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Nonparallel Emotional Voice Conversion For Unseen Speaker-Emotion Pairs Using Dual Domain Adversarial Network & Virtual Domain Pairing

Authors: Nirmesh Shah, Mayank Kumar Singh, Naoya Takahashi, Naoyuki Onoe
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) | February 2023

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Hierarchical disentangled representation learning for singing voice conversion

Authors: Naoya Takahashi, Mayank Kumar Singh, Yuki Mitsufuji
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) | January 2021

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Graph Network based Approaches for Multi-modal Movie Recommendation System

Authors: Daipayan Chakder**, Parbir Mondal**, Subham Raj**, Sriparna Saha**,  Angshuman Gosh, Naoyuki Onoe
IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) | November 2022

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Semi-supervised Acoustic and Language Modeling for Hindi ASR

Authors: Tarun Sai Bandarupalli*, Shakti Rath*, Nirmesh Shah, Onoe Naoyuki, Sriram Ganapathy*
INTERSPEECH | September 2022

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Towards Developing a Multi-Modal Video Recommendation System

Authors: Sriram Pingali**, Prabir Mondal**, Daipayan Chakder**, Sriparna Saha**, 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

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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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