summerofai2025

Ruchulu Lens AI

Ruchulu Lens AI is a cross-platform AI-powered application that celebrates India's regional food diversity. The app offers:

Regional Food Explorer – Shows local dishes based on user location, revealing region-specific ingredients, cooking styles, and preparation. Lens Feature (Food Recognition) – Users can upload or capture an image of a dish, and the AI will it and provide ingredients, recipe steps, and cultural context. AI Culinary Assistant – Interactive assistant to answer cooking-related questions, suggest dietary plans, offer substitutions, and guide users through cooking.

A crowdsourced platform to collect and categorize cultural data from across India for the Swecha Corpus project.

🍲 Hyderabad – The sanskrithika nagaram is a cultural-tech initiative to digitally preserve Hyderabad’s temples, artisan crafts, and festival traditions. Project theme: “Temples Amidst Tech – Hyderabad’s Sacred Pulse.”