TIFAC - CORE  
 

(Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council - Center Of Relevance and Excellence)

M. S. R. School of Advanced Studies established a TIFAC-CORE in Digital Image Processing -April 2003

The vision of the CORE:

  1. To provide excellence in postgraduate education
  2. To Prepare young engineers for leadership in academia and industrial research and development
  3. To perform state-of-the-art research in Digital Signal and Image Processing and to develop applications
  4. To interact with industrial sponsors and government research agencies

The total non recurring cost of the CORE is 288 Lakhs.

The CORE has completed its first phase in March 2006 and the 2nd Phase started from April 2006. The CORE has applied for a non recurring cost of Rs. 120 lakhs during the second phase of two years duration.

TIFAC-CORE in DIP is in interested in partnering with industries who are working in the areas of Signal processing applied to communication, automotive, vibrations and image processing

  • Present Industry Partners:
    1. Valdel Corporation
    2. BPL- Medical
  • REACH Monitoring Committee
    1. Mr. Praveen Ganapathy, GM, Texas Instrument, Bangalore
    2. Prof. Vikram Gadre, Professor, IITB, Mumbai
    3. Mr. Debabrata Ghosh, TIFAC, New Delhi, Secretary
    4. Dr. S. R. Shankapal, Director, MSRSAS, Coordinator
  • Education and Training Offered by the TIFAC CORE
    1. PhD in Signal and Image Processing
    2. MSC [Engg.] in Signal Processing and Communication Technologies
    3. Advanced Certificate Training in Signal Processing and Communication Technologies
    4. MTP in Signal and Image Processing related areas.
  • Research Areas
    1. Signal Processing- communication application, automotive applications, Vibration applications, Biomedical Applications
    2. Image Processing- Medical Image Processing
    3. Signal processing for internal prosthesis development
  • Research and development Projects
    1. Insect Vision Inspired Navigation system- DRDO Extramural Research
    2. Multi-Seed Classification Technique for Multi-spectral Satellite Images Based on Fuzzy Logic Minimum Distance Classifier-ISRO-RESPOND
    3. Geodetic Alignment of Aerial Video with reference imagery-ADE-Bangalore
    4. Mathematical Modelling and Blood Flow Simulation in Atherosclerosis Cases-DRDO-Extramural Research
    5. Development of Optic Flow Navigated MAV
    6. Custom Made hemipelvis Models for implantation using Image processing and RPT Technique
    7. Software to process Images of Cervical Smear to identify malignancy
    8. Software to process Image of Lip Prints for Biometric Applications
    9. Software to process Images to screen and identify diabetic retinopathy
    10. Virtual Surgery Application
  • Consultancy
    1. Assembly Language programmes of Linear Algebraic Algorithms using a Sharc Processor-Client
    2. Medical Modeling of a skull
    3. Dental Modeling using MIMICS
  • Conferences
    1. National conference on Image Processing -NCIP 2005
    2. 3 workshops in Signal and Image Processing
  • Publications
    1. S.R. Shankapal, D.C. Sundaresh, Ratheesh Nath, Anindy deb, "CAE-Driven Design of a Customized Prosthesis for Hemi-Pelvis Replacement", National Conference on Biomechanics 2006, Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, Howrah, Dec-2006
    2. T.V. Ananthapadmanabha, Dr. Kishore Alva, K.M. Divya, Narinder Singh, "Image Processing of Cerevical Smear", National Conference on Image Processing, Bangalore, 2005
    3. H N Harish , T.V. Ananthapadmanabha, “Object Segmentation for Screening of Diabetic Retionpathy”, National Conference on Image Processing, Bangalore, 2005
    4. Anup John, T.V. Ananthapadmanabha, “ A Simple Algorithm for edge detection based on local standard deviation” , National Conference on Image Processing, Bangalore, 2005
    5. C K Kamath and T V Ananthapadmanabha, “Modeling QRS complex in dECG”, (Reported for Publication in IEEE-EMBS Journal)
    6. Pradeep Balachandran & T.V. Ananthapadmanabha, “Spectral Envelope Estimation using Wavelet Transforms”, 33rd All India Conference on Dravidian Linguistics, Trivandrum, 2004.
    7. C .K.Kamath, T.V. Ananthapadmanabha, “Synthesis of ECG signal based on a composite signal model”,National Symposium on Biomedical Engg., Vishakapatanam, 2004.
    8. Mr. Vijay K. Mehere, "Multispectral Image Classification Technique based on Data Driven Procedures and MDLBC Classifier”, " International Conference on Communication, Devices and Intelligent Systems”, Kolkatta, 8-10 January 2004
    9. Mr. K.T. Deepak, “Brain Electrical Activity Mapping (BEAM)”, National Conference on Document Analysis, PES Mandya, June 2003
    10. Mr. Arun V.S., “Automatic Face Detection”, SASTECH Working Papers Vol.II, No.2, Sept. 2003 3 papers have been accepted for publication in IEEE-Signal processing Journal
  • CORE- Faculty
    1. Dr. S.R. Shankapal, Coordinator,
    2. Dr. Govind Kadambi-Head
    3. Dr. S.L. Pinjare
    4. Dr. T.V. Ananthapadmanabha (Speech and Image Processing)
    5. Prof. Ravindra Mooditaya (DSP Processors)
    6. Mr. Viswanath K. (Speech and Image Processing)
    7. Mrs. Shobha (Image Processing)
    8. Mr. Thirugnanam (Biomedical Signal Processing)
    9. K.S. Sreenivas (Biomedical Instrumentation)
    10. Ms. Saima Mohan (Image Processing)
    11. Mr. Syed Mustafa Ali (Signal Processing)
    12. Dr. M.D.Deshpande (Bio Fluid Mechanics)
    13. Mr. Harshal Sawanth ( Virtual Reality)
    14. Mr. Vinay Ballal (Bio-Fluid Mechanics)
  • Background to TIFAC CORE

With the opening up of Indian economy, new & exciting opportunities have been created. Coping with the fierce & ruthless global competition requires the Indian industries & business to innovate & compete or else risk their basic survival. One of our unique strengths to combat this challenge is our country's huge & predominantly young population, a resource that can be ignited to empower the Indian industry to not only survive the challenge but avail the opportunity of becoming a major global player in its own right.

With the expanding base of knowledge-driven global competitiveness, excellence in education needs to be nurtured on a wider scale. The human resource potential in the country being enormous, the need is to provide an environment for bringing out excellence in specified fields.

Taking cognizance of the importance of higher education and having set a target of making India a developed nation by the year 2020, TIFAC has initiated a Technology Vision 2020 Mission Project to upgrade the science and engineering colleges.
Towards this end, a revolutionary initiative called Mission REACH (Relevance and Excellence in Achieving new heights in educational institutions) has been launched. Under Mission REACH, 80 -100 Centres Of Relevance and Excellence (COREs) will be created over a period of three years. These COREs will produce scientifically and technically qualified manpower of the very highest quality, tailor made for the requirement of the industries. This bold approach is a result of the synergistic convergence of the three most powerful pillars of economic growth - the industry, the educational institutions and the government.

TIFAC is implementing the Mission in association with concerned educational institutes, industries and entrepreneurs.