Minal Moharir

Pranav A, Shashank B, Pranav Siddappa et al.

Diffusion models are rapidly redefining 3D anomaly detection in point cloud data. As 3D sensing becomes integral to modern manufacturing, reliable anomaly detection is essential for high-throughput quality assurance and process control. Yet practical deployment on resource-constrained, latency-critical systems remains limited. Existing methods are often computationally prohibitive or unreliable in complex, unmasked regions, and diffusion pipelines are inherently bottlenecked by iterative denoising. In this work, we address this bottleneck by reformulating reconstructionbased anomaly detection through consistency learning, enabling direct prediction of anomaly-free geometry in one or two network evaluations. We further introduce a novel hybrid loss formulation that explicitly enforces reconstruction toward clean data. This design substantially reduces inference cost, achieving up to 80x faster runtime than the current state-of-the-art method, without GPU acceleration, while preserving strong detection performance. It outperforms R3D-AD on Anomaly-ShapeNet with 76.20% I-AUROC and remains competitive on Real3DAD with 72.80% I-AUROC, enabling efficient, low-latency anomaly detection on resource-constrained platforms, including drones, smart industrial cameras, and other edge devices.

Nishant Vasantkumar Hegde, Aditi Agarwal, Minal Moharir

Road safety is a critical global concern, with manual enforcement of helmet laws and vehicle safety standards (e.g., rear-view mirror presence) being resource-intensive and inconsistent. This paper presents an AI-powered system to automate traffic violation detection, significantly enhancing enforcement efficiency and road safety. The system leverages YOLOv8 for robust object detection and EasyOCR for license plate recognition. Trained on a custom dataset of annotated images (augmented for diversity), it identifies helmet non-compliance, the absence of rear-view mirrors on motorcycles, an innovative contribution to automated checks, and extracts vehicle registration numbers. A Streamlit-based interface facilitates real-time monitoring and violation logging. Advanced image preprocessing enhances license plate recognition, particularly under challenging conditions. Based on evaluation results, the model achieves an overall precision of 0.9147, a recall of 0.886, and a mean Average Precision (mAP@50) of 0.843. The mAP@50 95 of 0.503 further indicates strong detection capability under stricter IoU thresholds. This work demonstrates a practical and effective solution for automated traffic rule enforcement, with considerations for real-world deployment discussed.

Syed Farhan Ahmad, Raghav Rawat, Minal Moharir

Hybrid Quantum-Classical (HQC) Architectures are used in near-term NISQ Quantum Computers for solving Quantum Machine Learning problems. The quantum advantage comes into picture due to the exponential speedup offered over classical computing. One of the major challenges in implementing such algorithms is the choice of quantum embeddings and the use of a functionally correct quantum variational circuit. In this paper, we present an application of QSVM (Quantum Support Vector Machines) to predict if a person will require mental health treatment in the tech world in the future using the dataset from OSMI Mental Health Tech Surveys. We achieve this with non-classically simulable feature maps and prove that NISQ HQC Architectures for Quantum Machine Learning can be used alternatively to create good performance models in near-term real-world applications.