My Experience as a Research Intern at IIT Gandhinagar
Research Internship at IIT Gandhinagar
Working at IIT Gandhinagar has been a transformative experience. I joined the lab under Prof. Nipun Batra to work on thermal imaging-based respiration monitoring.
Key Takeaways
- Learned to work with thermal cameras and infrared imaging
- Developed skills in YOLO-based object detection for nostril tracking
- Gained experience with signal processing for breathing rate extraction
- Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team of researchers
Technical Challenges
The biggest challenge was dealing with noisy thermal data and ensuring robust detection across different sleeping positions. We addressed this through:
- Data augmentation techniques
- Multi-scale feature extraction
- Temporal smoothing algorithms
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. — Marston Bates