BLDE PGHCET gets research grants for vision sensors and sign language tools

Karnataka government’s Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST) has selected BLDE Association’s Dr. P.G. Halakatti College of Engineering and Technology for research grants of around ₹30 lakh.This is under the ‘Karnataka Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in Higher Educational Institutions’ (K-FIST-L1) for a project titled ‘Low-cost Smart Pavement Condition Assessment using Vision Sensors and Fuzzy Logic-based Decision Support System’. The Principal Investigator is Asif Iqbal Momin, Professor, co-Principal Investigator is Arun S. Bagi, both from the Department of Civil Engineering.The ‘Early Career Research Award’ (ECRA) will go to a project titled ‘Indian Sign Language Recognition with Multi-modal Video-based NLP-driven Kannada Translation’. Principal Investigator is Shilpa Kaman and co-Principal Investigator is Hemavati Biradar from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)The governing body of the BLDE institution, Principal Manjunatha P., Vice-Principals Leena Ragha and Pradeep V. Malaji, and the Heads of Departments congratulated the faculty members. Published - September 28, 2026 04:16 pm IST