At the recent TechForward seminar, Prof. C.V. Jawahar showcased how the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) at IIITH was building AI not just to detect, but anticipate road risks. “Most global models are trained on neat, rule-following traffic. That doesn’t help much in India,” Prof Jawahar explained. “Our goal is to build systems that work amid uncertainty, and on a phone, not just in a lab.”