This repository contains code for training image classifier on party symbols recognized by Election Commission of India.
We presented our paper titled, "An AI-Powered VVPAT Counter for Elections in India" at the AAAI workshop on AI for Credible Elections on February 14, 2023.
The Election Commission of India has introduced Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail since 2019. This mechanism has increased voter confidence at the time of casting the votes. However, physical verification of the VVPATs against the party level counts from the EVMs is done only in 5 (randomly selected) machines per constituency. The time required to conduct physical verification becomes a bottleneck in scaling this activity for 100% of machines in all constituencies. We proposed an automated counter powered by image processing and machine learning algorithms to speed up the process and address this issue.
Preprint version : https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11124
Dataset (Made available in Kaggle): https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/prasathm2001/indian-party-symbol-dataset
Web-app : https://votecounter.streamlit.app/
If you face any issues with the repository or have any questions for us, drop us mail at prasath.murugesan2001@gmail.com or shamtcs@gmail.com.