7 papers
ThermEval: A Structured Benchmark for Evaluation of Vision-Language Models on Thermal Imagery
Ayush Shrivastava, Kirtan Gangani, Laksh Jain +2
Vision language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on RGB imagery, but they do not generalize to thermal images. Thermal sensing plays a critical role in settings where visib…
VayuChat: An LLM-Powered Conversational Interface for Air Quality Data Analytics
Vedant Acharya, Abhay Pisharodi, Rishabh Mondal +2
Air pollution causes about 1.6 million premature deaths each year in India, yet decision makers struggle to turn dispersed data into decisions. Existing tools require expertise and…
Constraining the 3HDM Parameter Space using Active Learning
Nipun Batra, Baradhwaj Coleppa, Akshat Khanna +2
One of the standard ways to study scenarios beyond the Standard Model involves extending the Higgs Sector. This work examines the Three Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) in a Type-Z or de…
Space to Policy: Scalable Brick Kiln Detection and Automatic Compliance Monitoring with Geospatial Data
Zeel B Patel, Rishabh Mondal, Shataxi Dubey +3
Air pollution kills 7 million people annually. The brick kiln sector significantly contributes to economic development but also accounts for 8-14\% of air pollution in India. Polic…
Benchmarking Active Learning for NILM
Dhruv Patel, Ankita Kumari Jain, Haikoo Khandor +2
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) focuses on disaggregating total household power consumption into appliance-specific usage. Many advanced NILM methods are based on neural netwo…
VayuBuddy: an LLM-Powered Chatbot to Democratize Air Quality Insights
Zeel B Patel, Yash Bachwana, Nitish Sharma +2
Nearly 6.7 million lives are lost due to air pollution every year. While policymakers are working on the mitigation strategies, public awareness can help reduce the exposure to air…