UET team wins first prize in ‘Techfest 2005’
The University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore won the first prize in the three-day Asian Open Software Competition ‘Techfest 2005’ held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,
According to a press statement, over 200 teams from around the world participated in the competition. Renowned academia and industry giants, including IBM, judged the contest.
The UET software ‘IRTIQA’ simulates the aging effect on facial images. It can display a human face in various stages of life such as adolescence, middle-aged and old aged.
The software can be used by the police to identify missing children or by cosmetic surgeons to reconstruct faces. Hammad Sharif, Muhammad Usman Sheikh, Usman Nasir and Hafiz Atif Khan, four 2001-session students of the UET’s Computer Science and Engineering Department, comprised the winning team. Department chairman Prof Dr Shaiq A Haq supervised the team
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