Centre of Excellence in Signal Processing Activities and Progress Report
Broad areas of signal processing activities at the Centre of Excellence in Signal Processing include audio, speech, language, medical image processing, computer vision, wireless communications, and machine learning. The center focuses on addressing various challenges in audio/speech recognition, emotion recognition, language identification, image processing, CAD algorithm development, brain atlas development, sports analytics, wireless communication, coding for efficient delivery, IOT applications, and VLSI/embedded systems. Technical progress from 2013-2016 and April to September 2016 includes resource creation, academic activities, collaborations, and externally funded R&D projects.
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Centre of Excellence in Signal Processing (CESP) a report Jayanthi Sivaswamy and Suryakanth V Gangashetty
Broad Areas of Signal Processing Activities Audio, speech and language Medical image processing Computer vision (image and video) Wireless communications Wireless devices, Cognitive radio Machine learning for signal processing 2
Problems being addressed Audio/speech Recognition, synthesis for Telugu and Hindi Emotion recognition Language identification (12 Indian languages) Image processing CAD algorithm development for disease detection Brain atlas development for Indian population Computer vision Sports analytics Highlight generation from sports videos
Problems being addressed Wireless communication Coding for efficient delivery Coding for distributed storage IOT for India-specific applications (buildings, pollution monitoring/control) VLSI/embedded systems Hardware efficient solns for cognitive radio On-chip channel decoder for Turbo codes (for 5 G)
Technical Progress from 2013-16: Summary Resource Creation Outcomes Laboratory Lab facility for 20 research scholars, 15 trainees Conduct of academic activities 11 seminars and tutorials 4 workshops 1 winter school, 1 summer school 1 conference Special facilities for data acquisition and subjective studies (recording studio) Current Human resources 10 faculty members 20 PhD and 19 MS scholars 7 external advisors 2 office staff Theses awarded 3 PhD, 7 MS Publications 18 Journal, 50 Conference Externally funded R&D projects: 5 Collaborations 7 international + 12 national MoUs signed Samsung-Bangalore IDIAP research institute, Switzerland. National level Advisory Committee meeting held on 29th May 2014
Technical Progress (April to September 2016) New Faculty and Research Scholars 1 Faculty, 4 PhD, 9 MS, 1 Post doc. Academic activities Seminar Prof. Jos M. F. Moura (CMU) : Signal Processing on Graphs: The Data Science of Distributed & Unstructured Data Date: 22nd August, 2016 Summer schools Deep Learning for Computer Vision, 11 -16 July, 2016 Natural Language Proc., 20 June - 4 July, 2016 Participation in International Challenges Blizzard Challenge (Speech Synthesis), September 2016 6 Publications: 5 Journal, 19 Conference
Technical Progress (April to September 2016) Submission of new project proposals Lalitha Vadlamani (1 - approved) Jayanthi Sivaswamy (1- under review) Prasad Krishnan (1 approved) Sachin Chaudhari (3 approved, 1 under review) Vineet Gandhi (1 approved) 7
Outreach within Hyderabad Research L V Prasad Eye Institute, Continental hospital, Care hospital, Anand Eye hospital Indian Institute of Technology Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University G Narayanamma Institute of Technology & Sciences Student projects Osmania University VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology Indur Institute of Engineering & Technology Deccan College of Engineering & Technology CMR Institute of Technology 8 Geethanjali College of Engineering & Technology
Courses offered related to Signal Processing Advanced Courses Domain-specific Courses Artificial Neural Networks Speech Signal Processing Pattern Recognition Speech Technology Machine Learning Medical Signal Processing Multi-rate Signal Processing Genome Signal Processing Statistical Signal Processing Image Processing Time Frequency Analysis 9
CESP Faculty Faculty Name Research Area Speech signal processing, neural networks Dr. Suryakanth V Gangashetty Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala Speech signal processing Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy Image processing, medical image analysis Dr. Vineet Gandhi Mathematics of signal and image processing Dr. Sachin Chaudhari Cognitive radios, wireless communications, IoT Dr. Prasad Krishnan Coding theory Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani Coding theory, sparse signal processing 10 Dr. Rahul Shrestha VLSI and embedded systems
Some of our publications S. Chaudhari , M. Kosunen, S. Makinen, J. Oksanen, M. Laatta, J. Ojaniemi, V. Koivunen, J. Ryynanen, and M. Valkam. (2016) Performance Evaluation of Cyclostationary based Cooperative Sensing using Field Measurements, in IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech. , pp. 1982-1997, April. Chakrabarty L, Joshi GD, Chakravarty A, Raman G.V., Krishnadas SR and Sivaswamy, J. (2016) Automated Detection of Glaucoma From Topographic Features of the Optic Nerve Head in Color Fundus Photographs, Journal of Glaucoma, 25(7) pp. 590-597. Prasad RS and Yegnanarayana B. (2016) Determination of glottal open regions by exploiting changes in the vocal tract system characteristics, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 666-677. Shrestha R and Paily R (2016) Memory-Reduced Maximum-A-Posteriori-Probability Decoding for High-Throughput Parallel-Turbo Decoders, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, vol. 35, Issue: 8, pp. 2832 2854.
Some of our publications.. contd. Mounika KV, Achanta S, Lakshmi H R, Gangashetty SV, and Vuppala AK. (2016) An Investigation of Deep Neural Network Architectures for Language Recognition in Indian Languages,INTERSPEECH, San Francisco. Vadapalli A, Gangashetty AV. (2016) An Investigation of Recurrent Neural Network Architectures using Word Embeddings for Phrase Break Prediction, INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco. Mehta R and Sivaswamy J. (2016) A Hybrid Approach to Tissue-based Intensity Standardization of Brain MRI Images, Proc. IEEE Int l Symposium on Biomed. Imaging (ISBI) Prague. Krishnan P and Lalitha V. (2016) A class of index coding problems with rate 1/3, Proc. Int l Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
Future work Focus on signal processing solutions for India-specific problems Indian languages (recognition and synthesis) Communication in sparse and congested scenarios Set up a high performance computing facility Create an Indian population-specific data repository Outreach activities Training programs (foundation and research) Short term courses Compressive sensing, Deep learning, Biomedical signal processing, Coding for information flow networks, Signal processing for wireless communication, Internet-of-Things (IoT) National Level Advisory Committee Meeting: planned for Nov/Dec. 13
Financial Status (April to September) 2016 Expenditure and funds position (in Lakhs) Opening Balance as on 01st April 2016 Amount Received April-September 2016 Amount Spent Available Balance 34.12 0.12 110.00 76.00 Details of expenditure incurred during 01st April to 30th September 2016 (in Lakhs) Expenditure Heads Computing infrastructure 0.00 Manpower expenses 18.97 1.38 Short term courses and workshops Other expenses (Equipment, Journals, Books, Travel, Visitors, Contingency, Consumables, Course Material) 13.77 34.22 Total Expenditure 14
Financial Status as on 30th September 2016 Expenditure and funds position Amount Received Amount Spent Available Balance 3,15,00,000 2,38,99,565 76,00,435 15
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