Wavelet Signal Image Processing Lab

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Wavelet Signal Image Processing Lab

• Mukesh Motwani
• (mukeshAtimage-process.com)
• Image Process Technology (IPT), Inc. Reno,
  Nevada. USA
• 22nd May 2004

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Goals

• Involve software in every aspect of engineering.
  Introduce software assignments and software
  projects for courses.
• Explore the use of wavelets in all fields of
  science with emphasis on speech, image processing
  and computer vision.
• Improve student understanding of concepts by
  introducing online courses related to wavelets.

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Goals

• Take intra-department projects to setup a
  framework for future projects.
• Add features to the VIT website by asking
  students to take projects.
• Start foundation for a Robotics Parallel
  Processing Lab
• Development of low cost technologies to assist
  the blind and the poor.

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Invitation for students

• Students are invited to take projects involving
  use of FPGA toolkit, Lego Robotics toolkit and
  Fingerprint sensors
• Students should research the hardware and then
  IPT will purchase and donate the equipment to
  VIT.
• Equipment to be made available by Feb 2005.

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Invitation for students

• Projects involving .NET are invited for students
  from Computer Engineering
• SE/TE Students from Instrumentation, Mechanical,
  Elex, Computer Engineering are invited to start
  development on building a robot. Funding
  available up to 200 per year for a period of 3
  years.

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Invitation for students

• Funding available up to 1000 for student
  building tools and technologies for child
  development and disabled people.

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Equipment to be added

• Web cameras
• FPGA kit
• Fingerprint Sensor
• Lego Mindset Robotics toolkit.

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• All the equipment will donated to VIT and will be
  part of VITs infrastructure.
• IPT will hold all ownership rights to any
  intellectual property that is developed during
  the course of the project.
• Priority to students taking projects to use the
  equipment.

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Prize Structure

• Image Process Technology (IPT) Inc, will award
  100 for each group of students taking a research
  project. However, if more than 5 groups are
  participating in a year, then 3 prizes of 300,
  150, 50 will be awarded along with a
  complimentary prize of 20 to each group. No
  prize awarded for non-research based projects.

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Outstanding Researcher / Teacher of the Year
Award

• IPT wishes to give a prize of 100 to any teacher
  from the ELEX department who tries new methods in
  teaching or publishes in IEEE conferences/
  journal.
• Recipient of the award to be decided by the
  students and HOD.

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Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005

• Speech Processing 
• Microsoft Speech Server performance evaluation
• Gender Classification of Speech using SVM or
  Hybrid SVM/HMM
• Speech Verification
• Wavelet analysis for speech
• Indian Languages classification using speech
• Factor Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling
  Analysis for Speech

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Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005

• Design of DSP filters on FPGA
• Implementation of DSP architecture on FPGA
• Digital Circuit Design using FPGA
• Minesweeper using Lego Robotics toolkit

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Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005

• Computer Vision
• Face Recognition
• Face Detection
• Fingerprint identification
• Kernel PCA for Human Pose detection
• Object Pose Estimation
• Human Motion Detection
• Motion Detection and Tracking

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Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005

• Applications of Wavelets in
• Communication
• Finance
• Finite Element Analysis
• Computer Graphics
• Fluid Dynamics
• Power Electronics

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Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005

• Computer Graphics
• 3D Game Engine evaluation
• Creating a 3D Game
• Surface Modeling using Subdivision
• Mesh Streaming Server

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Suggested Non-research Project Topics for
2004-2005

• Online VIT library management
• Web based Email using .NET
• Web service using .NET and Java
• Advanced Data Structures Tutorial using STL
• Projects involving COM and .NET
• Projects involving DirectX

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Achievements by students of the Lab

• Accepted for publication in Sept 2004. Survey of
  Image Denoising Techniques, Mukesh Motwani,
  Mukesh Gadiya, Rakhi Motwani, Fred Harris,
  International Signal Processing Conference
  (ISPC) at GSPx, Santa Clara, USA.
• 2003-2004 Voice print for watermarking 3D
  models, Milind Choudhary, Parth Nilawar. Awarded
  second prize for the Inter-college Project poster
  competition at PICT,Pune.Awarded First prize at
  Projec2x4.
• 2002-2003  "Image Denoising", Mukesh Gadiya,
  Mahesh Dumbre Awarded second prize in the
  Inter-college Project Exhibition Competition held
  at Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune
• 2001-2002 "Gender Classification", Naresh
  Dusane,Mangesh Bhujpal,Sahil D'Mello.  Awarded
  Consolation prize in the Inter-college Project
  Exhibition Competition held at Cummins College of
  Engg, Pune