| Sanction Date: | 10-10-2019 | |||
| Project Category | SG | |||
| Year | 2019-2010 | |||
| Project Duration | 2 Years | |||
| BTA : | BCM | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
IIT Mandi campus Kamand village, Mandi dist, Himachal Pradesh |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175005, Himachal Pradesh | |||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | ||
| 1. | IIT Mandi | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. Padmanabhan Rajan |
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| Project Brief Description: | Since the development of the IIT Mandi in Kamand village, Mandi district, there has been some degradation of the environment in the area. This study proposes to track the bird diversity in the region around the campus by using artificial intelligence and data analytics. By using automatic sensors like microphones and cameras, data will be collected and analysed by machine learning algorithms. | |||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | HP Forest department, HP Tourism and Wildlife Institute of India |
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| Activity Chart (For 3 years) | Click Here | |||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 34,36,200/- (Rupees: Thirty six lakh thirty six thousand two hundred only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
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• Continuous collection of bird data in the form of images, audio and video. • Research and algorithm development for detection and identification of birds from images, sounds and videos. • Long term monitoring of bird population • Constructing datasets of local bird species and making these available to the research community Establishing a system |
• Developed an interactive Web based Portal System with easy to use interface to identify birds. • Creation of an app (Android or iOs) which can be used for species identification. • Developed a long term Biodiversity monitoring system • Develop the database of local bird species (>100 bird species) • Develop the 04 knowledge products: 01 Policy, 01 manual document and 2 publications in well reputed journal |
• Interactive Web Portal system developed • APP (Android or iOs) developed • Developed Biodiversity monitoring system (Nos of datasets) • Database on local bird species (No of specis) • No. of Reports/Research articles/Policy documents prepared and published (Nos.) |
| S.No. | Name (Sanctioned) | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | 02 SPF | @ Rs. 18,000/- per month for two years. | ||
| 2. | 01 SPF | @ Rs. 18,000/- per month for five months each year. |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Use of Equipment/ Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | SM4 bioacoustic recorder- 1 nos Rs.1.00 lakh, Desktop PC Netweb stems, 16 GB RAM, core 17- 1 nos Rs.1.00 lakh, GPU based workstation and peripherals, GTX 2080 Ti GPU, Xeon, Netweb systems- 1 nos Rs. 4.00 lakh and Sony audio recorder ICD-UX56OF - 1 nos, Swift bioacoustic recorder- 10 nos, Wildlife Acoustics-1 nos, Studio monitor speakers Yamaha HS8- 1 nos, USB audio interface DAC Schiit Modi- 1 nos, , , Sound Level meter HTC instruments- 1 nos, Camera trap Moultrie M-50i- 4 nos, Camera trap Cuddeback C2- 4 nos, Recording media Sandisk SD cards- 15 nos, Headphones Sennheiser HD25plus- 1 nos. of Rs.4.50 lakh. | 10,50,000/- |
