HP Labs India, Bangalore



HP Labs India was established in February 2002 with the principal focus on creating new technologies for addressing the IT needs of the next billion customers for HP. A large majority of these new customers arise from rapidly growing markets such as India with distinct technological, social and economic characteristics. By understanding this context deeply, HP Labs aims to create new and relevant technologies.

Some of the contributions from HP Labs India include the Personalized Video, SiteOnMobile, Gesture Keyboard, Lipi Toolkit, Trusted Hardcopy, Printcast and Educenter. These contributions have received recognitions such as the Asian Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award 2006, Manthan Award 2007, NASSCOM Award 2007 and NASSCOM IT Innovator 2009, MIT Tech Reviews Grand Challenge Awards 2010.

HP Labs India follows the tradition of deep technical research along with developing end-to-end solutions that have direct impact on HP’s business through innovations in products and services. Our current research thrust is on providing intuitive and rich user experiences through easy to use user-centric technologies, such as (1) intuitive human computer interaction, (2) simplified web access, and (3) compelling applications and services that seamlessly work across mobile and stationary domains.

The above research thrust is pursued in the following research streams

For more information about these areas, please visit the research pages corresponding to them and for our earlier projects please visit our Project Archive.


We are always interested in discussing employment or internship opportunities with researchers. We also have opportunities for consultants and visiting faculty on sabbaticals with expertise in our research focus areas.


HP labs India has won several awards and appreciation for it's inventions

Technology Review India's 2010 Grand Challenges for Technologists (2010 TRGC)
HP Labs India has won Technology Review India's 2010 Grand Challenges for Technologists (2010 TRGC) Program! Out of the seven winning solutions Technology Review has listed in its January 2011 issue, two belongs to HPL India - Future of School on Cloud and Delivering Health Care on Phone.

NASSCOM IT Innovator 2009
SiteOnMobile has been selected under top 50 innovations in India by NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2009.
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 Document Authentication System (DAS) among Asian Innovation Awards 2007 finalists.

 Lipi Toolkit from HP Labs India won a Manthan award for 2007 in the e-localization category.

 Gesture Keyboard runner up at the Technology Innovation Awards 2006. It also won the NASSCOM Innovation award in 2007.

For more info, visit our awards page.

HP Labs India announced the public beta release of its "Personalized Video" application on 21st June 2011.
The application helps users personalize their online video experience through user generated channels. Users can create channels on topics of their choice and the application will deliver multiple videos by matching the keywords and video metadata.

HP Labs India announced the launch of 'SiteonMobile' on July 08, 2010.
A breakthrough technology that can make Internet content and services available to the masses
even from low-end mobile phones.

Best Paper Award at ICDAR 2009
A research paper by HP Labs India and SUNY Buffalo won the best paper award at 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009). The paper, Markov Random Field Based Text Identification from Annotated Machine Printed Documents, authored by Xujun Peng, Srirangaraj Setlur, Venu Govindaraju, Ramachandrula Sitaram and Kiran Bhuvanagiri was covered as a significant breakthrough by Technology Review magazine in October 2009.

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife – Pernambuco, Brazil - Prof. R. D. Lins: "Noise Characterization and Filtering for Document Images"

Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC, Brazil - Prof. Joceli Mayer: "Undetectable information hiding techniques for print-scan channel"

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This page was last updated on June 29, 2011