Papers & patents

Research

First-author papers on forecasting Delhi's electricity demand and on assistive perception for blind users, and patent applications in assistive navigation, sensing and infrastructure monitoring.

Papers

1 presented · 1 under revision

SIPCOV-2026Oct 2026First author

Presented

Solar-Aware Machine Learning Framework for Short-Term Electricity Demand Forecasting in Delhi Using Weather and Calendar Variables

Aditya Sridhar · 3rd International Conference on Signal Processing and Computer Vision (SIPCOV-2026), NIT Puducherry

Short-term forecasting of Delhi's electricity demand at 5-minute resolution, over 18 months of data, using only weather and calendar variables.

Rooftop solar output is not measured, yet it shapes the daytime dip and evening ramp of the duck curve. A solar-availability proxy lets the models capture that shape without any PV data.

Six models are benchmarked under leakage-free, time-aware validation. The best reached 0.77% MAPE and R² 0.9977, and the tabular learners beat the LSTM.

actual LightGBM, an hour ahead, 1.32% · public 2024 data, not the paper's · explore

Data: 18 months, 5-minute load, Delhi
Models compared: 6
Best MAPE: 0.77%
Best R²: 0.9977

Rerun on public data: try it

ICMLDE2026First author

Under revision

Cross-Layer Selective Abstention for Reliable Offline Assistive Perception with Tool-Mediated Voice Interaction for Visually Impaired Users

Aditya Sridhar and co-authors · ICMLDE, conference paper

The paper behind BlindAssist: for a blind user a confident wrong answer costs more than silence, so every layer of the system that can be wrong is able to decline to answer, each on its own terms rather than through one shared confidence score.

Name, when it cannot be sure: When neither model is confident about what it is, the warning still goes out, as “obstacle”, never a guessed noun.

Click a layer. Every layer that can be wrong can decline, each by its own rule rather than one shared confidence score · try BlindAssist

The BlindAssist project

Patents

2 published · 7 filed

Indian Patent Office2026

Published

Wearable Navigation Apparatus with Inertially Adaptive Detection and Staged Announcement Scheduling

Application No. 202641110070

See how it works

Indian Patent Office2026

Published

Protected Adaptive Pairwise Sensor Fusion System for Sub-Threshold Compound Hazard Detection and Automated Mitigation

Application No. 202641115711

See how it works

Filed, awaiting publication

Indian Patent Office2026

Filed

Detecting coordinated malpractice in examination halls

Indian Patent Office2026

Filed

Detecting externally assisted malpractice at examination stations

Indian Patent Office2026

Filed

Reconstructing missing traffic counts in detector networks

Indian Patent Office2026

Filed

Recalibrating vehicle-length classification at roadside detectors

Indian Patent Office2026

Filed

Correcting the stage offset of river gauging stations

Indian Patent Office2026

Filed

Gas-hazard classification and mitigation in ventilated spaces

Indian Patent Office2026

Filed

Self-recalibrating water-content sensors for greenhouse irrigation

Published application numbers can be looked up on the Indian Patent Office public search. Filed applications are listed by subject only; their titles and numbers are added once they are published.