TIFAC CORE IN DIP (TIFAC-DST)

Coordinator and Contact Details

Dr. S.R. Shankapal
Coordinator - TIFAC CORE in DIP
M.S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies
#470-P, Peenya Industrial Area, Peenya IV Phase, Peenya, Banaglore-560058
Phone: +91-80-4906 5555

e-mail: president@msrsas.org

 

Objectives 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

 

REACH Monitoring Committee

• RMC Members

The members of RMC are

• 1. Mr. Praveen Ganapathy (TI-Bangalore) (Chairman)
• 2. Prof. Vikram Gadre (IIT Mumbai) -Member
• 3. Mr. V.S. Chandrashekar (ADE, Bangalore) -Member
• 4. Mr. Sahebrao Muneshwar (TIFAC)-Member Secretary

5. Dr. S.R. Shankapal  (MSRSAS)- Coordinator

 

Progress Report

1. The TIFAC CORE in Digital Image Processing (DIP) at M.S. Ramaiah School of Advanced studies was established in April 2003 and     completed its phase on 31st March 2006. During first phase TIFAC contributed Rs. 144 lakhs and matching contribution came from     its partner industry Valdel Corporation and the School.
      

2. The second phase formally started on April 2006. The second stage total expenditure is estimated to be Rs. 452 lakhs, out of which      the Industry contribution is Rs. 115 lakhs and the matching amount is from TIFAC.

3. The highlights of activities of second phase is shown in the following Figure

    

4. Industry Partners

Financial Year	Industry Partner
FY1 – 2003-04	AMSOFT  (VALDEL)
FY2 – 2004-05	VALDEL
FY3 – 2005-06	VALDEL
FY4 – 2006-07	BPL Telecom Pvt Ltd Kaveri Telecom Products Ltd Robert Bosch India Pvt Ltd Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
FY5 – 2007-08	BPL Telecom Pvt Ltd Kaveri Telecom Products Ltd Robert Bosch India Pvt Ltd Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
FY6 – 2008-09	BPL Telecom Pvt Ltd Kaveri Telecom Products Ltd Robert Bosch India Pvt Ltd Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
FY7 – 2009-10	BPL Telecom Pvt Ltd Kaveri Telecom Products Ltd Robert Bosch India Pvt Ltd Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
FY8 – 2010-11	BPL Telecom Pvt Ltd Kaveri Telecom Products Ltd Robert Bosch India Pvt Ltd Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

 

5. Courses Offered and Student Enrollment Details - PEPs

Course	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
DSIP	16	04	-	-	-	03	-	-
WOC	-	-	11	11	-	-	-	-
SPCT	-	-	-	-	11	05	17	04
AEL	-	-	-	-	13	17	11	13
AME	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	02

 

Student Enrollment Details - ACTP

Course	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
DSIP	04	07	16	11	-	-	-	-
WOC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
SPCT	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
AEL	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

 

Student Enrollment Details - MTP

Course	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
DSIP	16	30	26	20	04	10	16	18
WOC / SPCT	20	26	13	11	04	-	-	-
AEL	-	07	-	-	-	-	-	-

 

6. Conference / Symposia / Workshop organized

Sl. No.	Project Titles	No of Participants
1	1 week seminar on “Digital Image Processing & Its Applications”	84
2	2 day seminar on "Biomaterials & their application in Medicine"	18
3	2 day workshop on "Digital Signal Processors"	32
4	National Conference on "Image Processing with Focus on Medical Applications"	125
5	1 day top tech workshop on "Automotive Embedded System"	71
6	2 day workshop on "Wireless LAN"	71
7	2 day seminar on "Emerging Trends in Antenna Technology for Broadband Wireless Applications"	32
8	3 day workshop on "Image & Video Compression"	60
9	2 day seminar on "Automotive Crash & Safety"	38
10	2 day seminar on "Wireless, Adhoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks"	58
11	3 day Seminar on "Embedded Systems -Comprehensive Analysis and Design"	38
12	3 day Seminar on "Analog & Mixed Mode IC Design: A Practical Approach"	74
13	3 day Seminar Embedded OS & Microcontrollers	94
14	3 day Seminar on "FPGAs for Signal Processing & Embedded Applications"	122
15	3 day Seminar on "Microcontrollers & Sensor Networks for Embedded Applications"	28
16	3 day Seminar on "Applications Development on DSP Platforms"	61

 

7. Technical Papers published from 2003-2011

1. Mohan, Saima, Kadambi, G.R. Reddy, V.K., & Deshpande M.D (2008) Development of an Industry Standard QRS Detection Algorithm for Automated ECG Analysis, SASTECH Journal, 7, No.1, 74-82.

2. Ananthapadmanabha, T.V. (2008) Voice Characterization by Inverse Filtering.  Proc. Workshop on Voice: Assessment and Management, February 2008, AIISH, Mysore.

3. Ananthapadmanabha, T. V. (2008) Invited Talk on Articulatory and Formant Synthesiszers.  International Workshop, WiSSAP, 2 to 5 January 2008, IIT, Chennai.

4. Ananthapadmanabha, T. V. (2007) Invited Talk on Distinctive Features and Property Detectors for Automatic Speech Recognition.  National Symposium on Acoustics, 5 to 7 December 2007, KSR College of Technology, Tiruchengode.

5. Prakash, T. & Kadambi, Govind R. (2007) Design and Simulation of Phasing Network for Wireless Transceivers to Maximize Signal Radiation. SASTECH Journal, MSRSAS 7, 80-85

6. Rajashekar, Abhijit D., Chandra, Girish M. & Narayanaswamy, K. V. (2007) Implementation of OFDM Scheme for Cognitive Radio.  SASTECH Journal, MSRSAS 7, 66-74.

7. Shankapal, S. R., Deb, Anindya., Nath, Ratheesh R. & Sundaresh, D. C., 92007) A CAE-driven Design Methodology for a Customized Prosthesis for Hemi-pelvis Replacement, Indian Journal of Biomechanics, 1, 159-165.

8. Shankapal, S. R., Kadambi, Govind R., Nagpurwala, Q. H., Nagaraja, B., Nassar, A., Nath, Ratheesh R. Sawant, Harshal (2008) Development of an Autonomous Micro-Air Vehicle for Surveillance and Rescue Mission.  21st National Convention of Metallurgical and Materials Engineers, 10 to 11 January 2008.

9. Alakkat S. Patel, Sanotsh B. J & Meti, A. C. (2008) Development and Implementation of Control Algorithm for Adaptive Front Light System of a Car. SASTECH Journal, 7, No.1, 14-22.

10. Cyril Prasanna Raj P., & Prinjar, S. L (2009) Design and Analog VLSI Implementation of Neural Network Architecture for Signal Procesing. European Journal of Scientific Research, ISSN 1450-216X, 27, No.2, 199-216

11. Mohan, Saima, Kadambi, G. R., Reddy, V. K., & Desphande M. D (2008) Development of an Industry Standard QRS Detection Algorithm for Automated ECG Analysis. SASTECH Journal, 7 No.1, 74-82.

12. Murthy, A. D., Shobha, B. N. & Krishnamurthy, V. (2008)Design and Implementation of an Automobile Theft Deterrent System. SASTECH Journal, 7, No.2, 48-52.

13. Nikkam, Purushotham Rao D, Sawant, Harshal & Patil, Archana (2008) Development of Motion Tracking Based Running Exergame, SASTECH Journal, 7, No.1, 23-29.

14. Patil, Archana. & Sawant, Harshal (2008) Generation of Stereoscopic Images through Virtual Vehicles Vision from Real Terrain Geometric Model. International Conference on Trends in Product Life Cycle Modeling, Simulation and Synthesis – PLMSS08, held at NAL, Bangalore.

15. Rajan, Muralidhar, Sharma, Rinki & Naik, Sachin, (2009) Bluetooth Ad-hoc Routing Algorithm – Challenges and Design Approach. National Conference on Networks, Intelligence and Computing Systems (NCNICS’09), February 2009, Coimbatore.

16. Rehman, S. M. Ur & Cyril Prasanna Raj P. (2008)Design and Implementation of Digital Front End Module of MIMO-OFDM on FPGA. SASTECH Journal, 7, No.2, 96, 55-60.

17. Sanjana, T. S., Kumar, S R., Cyril Prasanna Raj P. (2008) Design and FPGA/ASIC Implementation of Distorted Template based Time-of-Arrival Estimator for Local Positioning Application. SASTECH Journal, 7, No.1, 90-95.

18. Sharma, Rinki &  Shiva Kumar, P. (2009) Effect of Propagation and Mobility Model on The Performance of MANETs. Proceedings of The National Conference on Information Processing, Communication Networks and Embedded System, pp. 141-144,January 2009, Bangalore.

19. Singh, R. R., Kadambi, G. R. & Krishnamurthy, V. (2008)Design and Development of Terminals of Hand-Held GPS using LinSeed Chip. SASTECH Journal, 7, No.2, 41-47.

20. Vikram, A. C., Kumar, S. & Laddha, Shridhar (2008) Design and Implementation of Motion Estimation Technique for H.264 Advanced Video Coder on FPGA. SASTECH Journal, 7, No.1, 96-101.

21. Anandhan, S., Sridhara, S. N. & Shankapal, S. R. (2009) Design and Analysis of Power Train of a Series Hybrid Electric Car.  SAE Paper No. 2009-28-044, SAEINDIA Mobility Congress, International Conference on Mobility, Chennai, India, 13th -15th Dec 2009.

22. Balaji, J. V., Deshpande, M. D. & Nassar, A. (2009) Design and Performance Evaluation of a Propeller for Micro-Air Vehicle Application.  Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicle (SAROD 2009), Bangalore 10th-12th December 2009.

23. Barua, N., Meti, A. C., Shobha, B.N. & Haas, R. E. (2009) Design and Development of a Human Machine Interface for an Automotive Application.  SASTECH Journal, 8, No.1, pp. 85 - 92.

24. Deshpande, M. D., Ballal, V., Shankapal, S. R., Prabhu, V. M. D. & Srinath, M. G. (2009) Subject-specific Blood Flow Simulation in the Human Carotid Artery Bifurcation.  Current Science, Vol. 97, No. 9, pp. 1303-1312.

25. D’Souza, K. N., Kadambi, G. R. & Mohan, S. (2009) Implementation of Phase Based Optic Flow Algorithm for Obstacle Detection. SASTECH Journal, 8, No.2, pp. 95 - 102.

26. Muralidhar, R., Sharma, R. & Naik, S. (2009) An Efficient Mobile Ad-Hoc Routing Algorithm for Bluetooth Nodes. International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN’09), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2009.

27. Prakash, S., Selva Kumar, R. & Vasudeva Murthy (2009) Design and FPGA Implementation of Systolic Array Architecture for Full Search Block Matching Algorithm.  SASTECH Journal, 8, No.2, pp. 103 - 108.

28. Vishwanath, J. P., Meti, A. C. & Shobha, B.N. (2009) Design and Development of Biometric Authentication Technology for Ignition System. SASTECH Journal, 8, No.1, pp. 93 – 100

29. Anukrishnan, N., Ramya, B. & Mohan, S. (2010) Design and Development of Car Ignition Access Control System Based on Face Recognition Technique. SASTECH Journal, 9, No.2, pp. 63-70.

30. Baig, M.S., Karthikeyan, B.R., Mazumdar, D. & Kadambi, G.R. (2011) Improved Receiver Architecture for Digital Beamforming Systems. Paper presented at the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Electrical Technology (ICCCET), 2011  pp. 208 – 214.

31. Deepthi, R., Bhargavi, R., Jagadeesh, K. & Vijaya, M. S. (2010) Rheometric Studies on Agarose Gel- A Brain Mimic Material. SASTECH Journal, 9, No.2, pp. 27-30.

32. Kadambi, G. R., Krishnan, K. & Karthikeyan, B. R. (2010) HF Channel Estimation for MIMO Systems Based on Particle Filter Technique. Journal of Communications, 5, No. 9, pp. 674-683.

33. Nandyal, V., Vasudeva Murthy, T. & Selva Kumar, R. (2010) Design and FPGA Implementation of Reconfigurable Digital Front End Module of MIMO-OFDM for UWB System. SASTECH Journal, 9, No.1, pp. 79-85.

34. Nikhil, S., Mohan, S. & Ramya, B. (2010) Design and Development of DSP Processor Based Gesture Recognition System for Real Time Applications.  SASTECH Journal, 9, No.1, pp. 65-72.

35. Nikhil S., Mohan, S. Ramya, B. & Kadambi, G.R. (2010) Design and Development of a DSP Processor Based Reconfigurable Hand Gesture Recognition System for Real Time Applications, International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, Chennai, December 2010.

36. Pandey, S., Pandey, V. & Kadambi, G.R. (2010) Integrating Power line and Wireless for Intelligent and Opportunistic Networking, International Journal of Computer Applications, 25, pp. 105–110.

37. Pandey, S., Pandey, V. & Kadambi, G.R. (2010) Optimizing Delivery Mechanisms Wireless Mesh Network QOS Constraints, International Journal of Computer Applications, 25, pp. 5–9.

38. Rao, A. M., Karthikeyan, B. R., Mazumdar, D. & Kadambi, G. R. (2010) Energy Detection Technique for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio.  SASTECH Journal, 9, No.1, pp. 73-78.

 

8. Industry Sponsored Projects

Sl. No.	Project Titles
1	Multi-Seed Classification Technique for Multi-spectral Satellite Images Based on Fuzzy Logic Minimum Distance Classifier - ISRO-RESPOND
2	Mathematical Modelling and Blood Flow Simulation in Atherosclerosis Cases - DRDO  -ER & IPR
3	Insect Vision Inspired Navigation System- DRDO - ER & IPR
4	Development of Optic Flow Navigated MAV – DRDO – ER & IPR
5	Geodetic Alignment of Aerial Video with Reference Imagery – ADE – Bangalore
6	Development of Optic Flow Algorithms for Autonomous Navigation of MAVs – ADE – Bangalore
7	Synthesis & Bioactivity Studies on Substituted Hydroxyapatite Coating for Biomedical Applications – DST, Delhi
8	Design of a MAV Test Bed and Development of Image Processing Algorithms for MAV Navigation – NP-MICAV
9	Shooter Localization  - CAIR, DRDO
10	Soldier Ad-Hoc network and Wireless Communication for Round the Corner Shooting  - CAIR, DRDO
11	Design and Development of Bionic Hand – LSRB, Delhi

 

9. Consultancy Projects

• > Assembly Language programmes of Linear Algebraic Algorithms using a Sharc Processor-Client: NPOL-Cochin
• > Medical Modeling of a skull- K.S. Hegde Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka
• > Dental Modeling using MIMICS- Bapuji Dental College, Davangere, Karnataka
• > Goa Dental College, Goa.
• > Commercial projects (10 industries)

 

Notables:

• > Software to process Images to screen and identify diabetic retinopathy – Arvind Eye Hospital, Madurai
• > Software to process Image of Lip Prints for Biometric Applications – Gao Dental College, Goa
• > Software to process Images of Cervical Smear to identify  malignancy – MSRMTH, Bangalore
• > Custom Made Prostheses Models Produced using RPT Technique – MSRMTH, Bangalore
• > Medical visualization application through Virtual Reality – MSRMTH, Bangalore
• > Redesign of Main PCB of ECG Recorder 6108T - BPL, Bangalore
• > Automatic ECG analyzer – BPL, Bangalore

 

10. PATENTS

Sl. No.	Particulars
1	Govind R. Kadambi, Rinki Sharma and  P. Shiva Kumar, “Adhoc Network “, Indian Patent Application : 60/CHE/2011, January 7, 2011 International  Patent Application : PCT/IB2011/050772, February 24, 2011
2	Dipayan Mazumdar, Cyril Prasanna Raj and Brahmananda Reddy, “Wavelet Transformation Using Multicore Processors”’ Indian Patent Application : 3635/CHE/2010, November 30, 2010 International Patent Application PCT/IB2011/050167, January 14, 2011
3	Dipayan  Mazumdar and Govind R. Kadambi, “Method  and  Apparatus  For Direct Digital Synthesis of Signals Using Taylor Series Expansion”, Indian Patent  Application: 2489/CHE/2010, August  27, 2010 International Patent Application PCT/IB2010/054721
4	Dipayan Mazumdar and Cyril Prasanna Raj, “Data Interface Circuit” Indian Patent Application: 2040/CHE/2010, July 16, 2010 International Patent Application PCT/IB2010/054706