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Project - RECOG
Team Name: BlueLeaf
Solution Name: RECOG
 
“Imagine a world where technology enables better education for all”
 
Through Recog, we aim to explore the possibility of ensuring better education through a better and more comprehensive learning experience. Better education for us is minimal loss of knowledge. It is extracting, preserving and channelizing information to grow into knowledge. Recog is an attempt at visualising learning as a continuous, incremental process.
 
Difficulties in Current Scenario
Statistics indicate that people tend to forget most of what they learn, over time. We also face difficulties when the knowledge acquired cannot be recollected when needed most. This could be attributed to the fact that learning has become an examination-oriented discrete process as of today. There is no one platform where various kinds of information can come together as knowledge to spurn ideas. For instance, the material from textbooks and notebooks that a student extensively makes use of never gets connected to the information that he/she finds on the internet. A combination of such media, which is absent in the current scenario, would be quite potent in achieving a comprehensive learning process.
 
How does Recog help?
Recog aims to provide the much needed conjunction between a student’s class notes – on paper and digital, readings from books, content from internet etc. It betters the learning experience by aligning, and correlating clusters of information into a consolidated, interconnected framework. Recog employs artificial intelligence to identify categories and keywords from whatever content is supplied to it, conduct non-intrusive automated searches for these, and then organise and link this information for the user.
Recog also ensures that any content supplied to it is indexed and easily searchable Also, Recog is built to respect the initial format of the content provided to it. So, if the notes from your notebook are non-linearly fashioned, Recog would re-construct them in your handwriting accordingly. With these facilities at your fingertips, education would become an entirely new and refreshing experience for you.
 
Team Members
1. Deepak Jagdish
  DAIICT
2. Vasudhara Kantroo
  DAIICT
3. Avi Mehta
  DAIICT
 

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