Conference is jointly organized by Indian research institutes (IT Dharwad, IIIT Dharwad, NIT Goa, KLE Tech, KIIT Gurugram) in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS), www.iitdh.ac.in/specom-2023.

Professionals of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) have learned to recognize human speech by lips via artificial intelligence algorithms and "computer vision". The development will contribute to improving the accuracy of voice assistants in noisy environment, like, crowded places or at controling heavy machinery.

Congratulations to the staff members of SPC RAS on receiving grants from the Russian Science Foundation!

Right now, robotics is one of the leading research areas that opens up great opportunities for enhancing automation and labor productivity in various sectors of the Russian economy – from industry and agriculture to space exploration and cargo delivery.

Research team of the laboratory of autonomous robotic systems presented various modifications for a ground-based robotic platform, like GD-4 UAV designed to solve problems in the agricultural sector of the economy, a set of specialized sensor bracelets, and also a drone for playing football.

On March 21, 2023 was a Joint meeting of the Public Council at the Committee for Informatization and Communications and the Scientific Council for Informatization of St. Petersburg.

Workshop took place on March 14 at the premises of SPC RAS, in the already familiar hybrid format; three presentations were delivered, versatilely highlighting the problem under discussion and approaches to its solving.

Researchers of St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) have developed a software package able based on intelligent video analysis to recognize the sign language of people suffering hearing impairments and converting it into text. The application is planned to be used by medical institutions in order to improve the effectiveness of medical care for deaf patients. The development will contribute to improving the quality of life of people with disabilities; results of the study are published in the Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

Upon completion of thorough studies concerning physical and chemical parameters that compose bottom sediments of Lake Ladoga at fish breeding sites, the scientists of St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) arrived to a conclusion that specific sediment layers enriched with organic matter are formed directly below the trout tanks. The problem affects only those lake bays where fishery enterprises are located, and their influence does not spread to the rest of the reservoir. Scientists deem that potential future changes in the properties of bottom sediments can cause emissions of gases or toxic elements. The repercussions may produce certain effect both on the fishery farms and aquatic organisms living in trout breeding areas at Lake Ladoga. The scientists' work is published in the journal Aquaculture and Fisheries.

Researchers of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) have launched a new interdisciplinary scientific direction – aerolimnology. Within its framework, researchers propose an approach aimed at studying internal reservoirs (e.g., lakes and reservoirs), that comprehensively combines classical methods of limnology, methods of acquiring information by drones and sensor systems, as well as processing big data arrays as based on artificial intelligence technologies. The information acquired through aerolimnology methods can be used, in particular, to study bottom landscapes, aquatic organisms (like the Ladoga ringed seal or hydrobionts) and to search for minerals in hard-to-reach water areas. The concept of this new research direction is introduced in the scientific journal “Informatics and Automation”.