India is the fifth more vulnerable country to climate change consequences, with 2.54.5 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at risk every year. In conclusion, India has committed to reducing the greenhouse emissions of its Gross Domestic Product by 33-35 per cent by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. However, India will need to raise $2.5 trillion between 2016 and 2030 to accomplish this goal (MOEFCC, 2015). However, climate-related investments — both public and private — in green infrastructure development remain restricted. While India has taken several measures to solve this issue, rising green investments would need a greater emphasis on India’s infrastructure development. Long-term infrastructure is essential for a better future in an era when India announced that it would begin its decarburization journey to reach specified green targets. Green infrastructure is innovation and practices that employ natural systems to get better the overall value of the environment and provide ecological, social, and economic rewards. The study describes the contribution and investment in green infrastructure to optimize the growth with sustainable development in India. The research reveals that effective planning for green investment helps to maintain the adequate trade-off between development and ecosystem.
With the uproar of touchless technology, the Virtual Continuum has seen some spark in the upcoming products. Today numerous gadgets support the use of Mixed Reality / Augmented Reality (AR)/ Virtual Reality. The Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) like that of Hololens, Google Lens, Jio Glass manifested reality into virtuality. Other than the HMDs many organizations tend to develop mobile AR applications to support umpteen number of industries like medicine, education, construction. Currently, the major issue lies in the performance parameters of these applications, while deploying for mobile application’s graphics performance, latency, and CPU functioning. Many industries pose real-time computation requirements in AR but do not implement an efficient algorithm in their frameworks. Offloading the computation of deep learning models involved in the application to the cloud servers will highly affect the processing parameters. For our use case, we will be using Multi-Task Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network (MTCNN) which is a modern tool for face detection, using a 3-stage neural network detector. Therefore, the optimization of communication between local application and cloud computing frameworks needs to be optimized. The proposed framework defines how the parameters involving the complete deployment of a mobile AR application can be optimized in terms of retrieval of multimedia, its processing, and augmentation of graphics, eventually enhancing the performance. To implement the proposed algorithm a mobile application is created in Unity3D. The mobile application virtually augments a 3D model of a skeleton on a target face. After the mentioned experimentation, it is found that average Media Retrieval Time (1.1471
μ
s) and Client Time (1.1207
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s) in the local application are extremely low than the average API process time (288.934ms). The highest time latency is achieved at the frame rate higher than 80fps.
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