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WEDNESDAY, February 20, 2019: TUTORIALS

Start End ECE Golden Jubilee Hall MP Building Auditorium MP Building Classroom
8.30 9.30 Registration in ECE building foyer
9.30 11.00 Tutorial AM: Session 1 Sargur N. Srihari "Part I: Overview of Machine Learning" Heiga Zen, "Generative Text-To-Speech Synthesis: From HMM-Based Speech Synthesis To Neural End-To-End TTS" Rajeev Gangula: Open-Prototyping of 4G/5G systems with OpenAirInterface
11.00 11.30 Tea/Coffee break
11.30 13.00 Tutorial AM: Session 2 Sargur N. Srihari "Part II: Deep Learning" Heiga Zen, "Generative Text-To-Speech Synthesis: From HMM-Based Speech Synthesis To Neural End-To-End TTS" Rajeev Gangula: Open-Prototyping of 4G/5G systems with OpenAirInterface
13.00 14.00 Lunch
14.00 15.30 Tutorial PM: Session 1 Sargur N. Srihari "Part III: Probabilistic Graphical Models" Aditya K. Jagannatham, "mmWave Radio: The Next Era in Wireless Communication" Dr. Amod Anandkumar and Ms. Pallavi Kar, "Introduction to Deep Learning in Signal Processing & Communications with MATLAB"
15.30 16.00 Tea/Coffee break
16.00 17.30 Tutorial PM: Session 2 Sargur N. Srihari "Part IV: Reinforcement Learning" Aditya K. Jagannatham, "mmWave Radio: The Next Era in Wireless Communication" Dr. Amod Anandkumar and Ms. Pallavi Kar, "Introduction to Deep Learning in Signal Processing & Communications with MATLAB"


THURSDAY, February 21, 2019

Start End Faculty Hall, IISc main building ECE Golden Jubilee Hall MP Building Auditorium MP Building Classroom ECE quadrangle
8.00 9.00 Breakfast (for attendees who come on time). Registration in IISc main building
9.00 9.30 Inauguration
9.30 10.00 Industry Keynote - Avichal Kulshrestha (NI): "Software defined architecture for a mmWave testbed"
10.00 11.00 Plenary Talk: Ashutosh Sabharwal
11.00 11.45 Tea/coffee break and move to ECE. Registration in ECE foyer Demos
11.45 13.15 BP1: Best Paper Awards Session 1 SP1: Speech Recognition RF1: Antenna Design
13.15 14.15 Lunch in ECE
14.15 15.45 BP2: Best Paper Awards Session 2 GSD1:Graduate Student Day NW1: Communication Networks
15.45 16.15 Tea/Coffee Break
16.15 18.15 BP3: Best Paper Awards Session 3 GSD2: Graduate Student Day ML1: Applications of Machine Learning


Friday, February 22, 2019

Start End Faculty Hall, IISc main building ECE Golden Jubilee Hall MP Building Auditorium MP Building Classroom ECE quadrangle
8.00 9.00 Breakfast (for attendees who come on time)
9.00 9.30 Industry Keynote - Dr. Kapil Bhattad (Qualcom):"Making 5G NR mmWave a Commercial Reality"
9.30 10.30 Plenary Talk: Yashwant Gupta
10.30 11.15 Tea/coffee break and move to ECE Demos
11.15 12.45 COM1: Communications Algorithms and Implementation INV1: Invited Talks Session 1 RF2: RF & Microwaves
12.45 13.45 Lunch in ECE
13.45 15.15 COM2: Optical and Quantum Communications SP2: Speech Segmentation and Detection INV2: Invited Talks Session 2
15.15 15.45 Tea/Coffee Break
15.45 17.15 COM3: Communication Theory ML2: Machine Learning and Optimization INV3: Invited Talks Session 3
17.15 17.30 Break
17.45 19.30 Silver Jubilee Reminiscences
19.30 21.30 Conference Banquet (Main guest house lawns)


SATURDAY, February 23, 2019

Start End Faculty Hall, IISc main building ECE Golden Jubilee Hall MP Building Auditorium MP Building Classroom
8.30 9.30 Breakfast (for attendees who come on time)
9.30 10.00 Industry Keynote - Ms. Pamela Kumar (TSDSI) "Standards-oriented Research – Need of the hour for India"
10.00 11.00 Plenary Talk: Ness Shroff
11.00 11.45 Tea/coffee break and move to ECE
11.45 13.15 COM4: Communications System Design SP3: Image Processing INV4: Invited Talks Session 4
13.15 14.15 Lunch in ECE
14.15 15.45 COM5: Information and Coding Theory SP4: Biomedical Signal Processing COM6: Detection and Estimation

SESSION DETAILS

BP1: Best Paper Awards Session 1
THURSDAY, February 21, 2019
11:45 Channels with Action Dependent States and Common Reconstructions
Viswanathan Ramachandran and Sibi Raj B Pillai (IIT Bombay, India); Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
12:03 Conditions for Optimality of Superposition Coding in Discrete Memoryless Broadcast Channels
Harikumar Krishnamurthy and Parikshit Hegde (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Andrew Thangaraj (IIT Madras, India)
12:21 Maximally Recoverable Codes with Hierarchical Locality
Aaditya M Nair (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); V. Lalitha (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
12:39 Probability Mass Functions for Which Sources Have the Maximum Minimum Expected Length
Shivkumar K Manickam (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12:57 Achieving Secrecy Capacity of Minimum Storage Regenerating Codes for All Feasible (n,k,d) Parameter Values
V. Arvind Rameshwar (Indian Institute of Science); Navin Kashyap (Indian Institute of Science, India)
SP1: Speech Recognition
THURSDAY, February 21, 2019
11:45 Data-pooling and Multi-Task Learning for Enhanced Performance of Speech Recognition Systems in Multiple Low Resourced Languages
Madhavaraj Ayyavu and Ramakrishnan Ganesan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12:03 On the Role of Linear, Mel and Inverse-Mel Filterbank in the Context of Automatic Speech Recognition
Hemant Kathania (NIT SIkkim, India); Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Waquar Ahmad (National Institute of Technology Calicut, India); Nagaraj Adiga (University of Crete, India)
12:21 Speaking-Rate Adaptation of Automatic Speech Recognition System Through Fuzzy Classification Based Time-Scale Modification
Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Hemant Kathania (NIT SIkkim, India); Nagaraj Adiga (University of Crete, India); Bandarupalli Tarun Sai (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Waquar Ahmad (National Institute of Technology Calicut, India)
12:39 Instantaneous Frequency Features for Noise Robust Speech Recognition
Shekhar Nayak (IIT Hyderabad, India); Shashank Dhar Burugula (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA); Saurabhchand Bhati (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Koilakuntla Bramhendra (IIT Hyderabad, India); Sri Rama Murty Kodukula (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
RF1: Antenna Design
THURSDAY, February 21, 2019
11:45 Slit Loaded Circular Ultra Wideband Antenna for Band Notch Characteristics
Ameya Kadam (D J Sanghvi College of Engineering, India); Amit Deshmukh (DJSCOE, India); Akshay Doshi (D J Sanghvi College of Egnigeering, India); Sanjay Deshmukh (Mumbai University & DJSCE, India); Kamala Prasan Ray (DIAT, Pune)
12:03 Analysis and Resonant Length Formulation of Dual Band Microstrip Antenna with Modified Ground
Poonam Kadam (DJSCE, India); Amit Deshmukh (DJSCOE, India); Akshay Doshi (D J Sanghvi College of Egnigeering, India); Sanjay Deshmukh (Mumbai University & DJSCE, India)
12:21 Proximity Fed Broadband Equilateral Triangular Microstrip Antenna Using Parasitic Rectangular Patches
Sanjay Deshmukh (Mumbai University & DJSCE, India); Amit Deshmukh (DJSCOE, India); Akshay Doshi (D J Sanghvi College of Egnigeering, India)
12:39 Slot Cut Modified Triangular Shape Microstrip Antenna for Circular Polarization
Akshay Doshi (D J Sanghvi College of Egnigeering, India); Amit Deshmukh (DJSCOE, India); Sanjay Deshmukh (Mumbai University & DJSCE, India); Kamala Prasan Ray (DIAT, Pune)
12:57 A Circular Fractal Antenna Array
Rahul Chauhan (DAIICT, India); Sanjeev Gupta (DA-IICT, India)
BP2: Best Paper Awards Session 2
THURSDAY, February 21, 2019
14:15 High Performance Multiplierless Serial Pipelined VLSI Architecture for Real-Valued FFT
Jinti Hazarika, Tasleem Khan and Shaik Rafi Ahamed (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Harshal Nemade (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
14:33 Efficient Methods for Estimating Sinusoidal Frequencies Using Line Spectral Pairs
Palakkal Vishnu (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); C S Ramalingam (IITM, India)
14:51 Adaptive Multiple-pixel Wide Seam Carving
Diptiben Patel (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India); Srivathsan Shanmuganathan (University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka & Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India); Shanmuganathan Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India)
15:09 Design of Discrete Frequency-Coding Waveforms Using Phase-Coded Linear Chirp for Multiuser and MIMO Radar Systems
Arijit Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Debasish Deb (DRDO, India); Harshal Nemade (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Ratnajit Bhattacharjee (IIT Guwahati, India)
15:27 Saliency Guided Image Detail Enhancement
Sanjay Ghosh, Ruturaj G. Gavaskar and Kunal Chaudhury (Indian Institute of Science, India)
NW1: Communication Networks
THURSDAY, February 21, 2019
14:15 Caching Partial Files for Content Delivery
Lakshmi Narayana V S Ch and Sambhav Jain (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
14:33 The HTTP/2 Server Push and Its Implications on Mobile Web Quality of Experience
Hema Kumar Yarnagula and Venkatesh Tamarapalli (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
14:51 A Graph Based Clustering and Preconditioning of V-MIMO Wireless Sensor Networks
Rakesh Mundlamuri and Thangapandian B (Shiv Nadar University, India); Vijay Kumar Chakka (Shiv Nadar University Greater Noida, India); Srikanth Goli (Shiv Nadar University, India)
15:09 Analysis of Mid-Haul Characteristics for LTE-NR Multi-Connectivity in Heterogeneous Cloud RAN
Ramakrishnan S and Subrat Kar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Dharmaraja Selvamuthu (IIT Delhi, India)
15:27 ASER Analysis of General Order Rectangular QAM for Dual-Hop NLOS UV Communication System
Kamal K Garg and Praveen Kumar Singya (Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India); Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
BP3: Best Paper Awards Session 3
THURSDAY, February 21, 2019
16:15 SSK Performance with SWIPT Based Dual-Hop AF Relay over Rayleigh Fading
Hemanta Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India); Pravas Ranjan Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
16:33 Interference Violation Probability Constrained Underlay Cognitive Massive MIMO Network Under Imperfect Channel Knowledge
Rama Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); Salil Kashyap (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Pothan Enukonda Venkata (IIT-GUWAHATI, India)
16:51 Improved Tail Bounds for Missing Mass and Confidence Intervals for Good-Turing Estimator
Prafulla Chandra, Aditya Pradeep and Andrew Thangaraj (IIT Madras, India)
17:09 Differential Phase Encoding Schemes for Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution
Shashank Kumar Ranu (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Anil Prabhakar (IIT Madras, India); Prabha Mandayam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
17:27 Truthful Double Auction Based VM Allocation for Revenue-Energy Trade-Off in Cloud Data Centers
Yashwant Singh Patel (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India); Animesh Nighojkar (Medi-Caps Institute of Technology and Management, India); Rajiv Misra (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)
ML1: Applications of Machine Learning
THURSDAY, February 21, 2019
16:15 Development of Assamese Text-to-Speech System Using Deep Neural Network
Abhash Deka (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Priyankoo Sarmah (IIT Guwahati, India); Samudravijaya K (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad, India)
16:33 Multimodal Fusion of Speech and Text Using Semi-supervised LDA for Indexing Lecture Videos
Moula Husain (VTU, India); Meena S M (B. V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, India)
16:51 Emotion Recognition from Varying Length Patterns of Speech Using CNN-based Segment-Level Pyramid Match Kernel Based SVMs
Shikha Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India); Kishalaya De (MIT Manipal, India); Dileep Aroor Dinesh (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi), India); Veena Thenkanidiyoor (NIT Goa, India)
17:09 Full-Reference Video Quality Assessment Using Deep 3D Convolutional Neural Networks
Sathya Veera Reddy Dendi (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Gokul Krishnappa (IIT Hyderabad, India); Sumohana Channappayya (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
17:27 Deep Learning-Based Modulation Classification Using Time and Stockwell Domain Channeling
Sambit Behura (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India); Shrishail M Hiremath (NIT Rourkela & Communication and Networks, India); Sarat Kumar Patra (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Siddharth Deshmukh (National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela, India); Subham Kedia (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India)
COM1: Communications Algorithms and Implementation
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
11:15 Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL)-Based Frequency-Selective Channel Estimation for Millimeter Wave Hybrid MIMO Systems
Suraj Srivastava (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Ch Suraj Kumar Patro (IIT KANPUR, India); Aditya K Jagannatham and Govind Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
11:33 MIMO-FBMC Channel Estimation with Limited, and Imperfect Knowledge of Channel Correlations
Prem Singh and Kasturi Vasudevan (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
11:51 Hardware Implementation of Filtered OFDM for BB-PLC Using Software Defined Radio
Sumesh KP and Ankit Dubey (National Institute of Technology Goa, India); Trilochan Panigrahi (National Institute of Technology, Goa, India)
12:09 Codebook Based Precoding for Multiuser MIMO Broadcast Systems: An MM Approach
Sai Subramanyam Thoota (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Prabhu Babu (CARE, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Chandra R Murthy (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12:27 Modified Generalised Quadrature Spatial Modulation
Kiran Gunde and K. v. s. Hari (Indian Institute of Science, India)
INV1: Invited Talks: Signal Processing
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
11:15 Tuning Free Algorithms for Sparse Estimation
Sheetal Kalyani(Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai)
11:33 An Improved Multitasking Diffusion APA Based on Controlled Inter-Cluster Collaboration
Mrityunjoy Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur)
11:51 Towards Self-Sustaining Devices Through Energy Harvesting
Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
12:09 Learning of Signal Sampled at Unknown Locations Generated by an Unknown Autoregressive Process
Animesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai)
12:27 Sparse Sampling for Product Graphs and Tensors
Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)
RF2: RF & Microwaves
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
11:15 Predistortion Linearizer Design for Ku Band RF Power Amplifier
Girish Chandra Tripathi (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Meenakshi Rawat (IIT Roorkee, India)
11:33 LSTM-Deep Neural Networks Based Predistortion Linearizer for High Power Amplifiers
Meenakshi Rawat and Deepmala Phartiyal (IIT Roorkee, India)
11:51 Design of Multiband Negative Permittivity Metamaterial Based on Interdigitated and Meander Line Resonator
Rohan Deshmukh, Dushyant Marathe and Kishore Kulat (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, VNIT, Nagpur, India)
12:09 Design of Frequency-Signature Based Multiresonators Using Quarter Wavelength Open Ended Stub for Chipless RFID Tag
P Prabavathi and Subha Rani S (PSG College of Technology, India)
12:27 Slot Antenna Miniaturization Using Dielectric Loading Techniques
Khan Masood Parvez, Enamul Khan, Sk. Moinul Haque and Jinia Aktar (Aliah University, India)
COM2: Optical and Quantum Communications
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
13:45 Quantum Random Number Generator with One and Two Entropy Sources
Gautam Shaw (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Sivaram SR and Anil Prabhakar (IIT Madras, India)
14:03 Simulation of Emission Wavelength of Quantum Dot Based Single Photon Sources
Jyothish M and Fredy Francis (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Manivasakan R (IIT, Chennai, India)
14:21 Adaptive Polarization Control for Coherent Optical Links with Polarization Multiplexed Carrier
Mehul Anghan and Rashmi Kamran (IIT Mumbai, India); Nihir Gulati (IIT Kanpur, India); Nandakumar Nambath (Indian Institute of Technology Goa, India); Shalabh Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
14:39 Analysis of Beam Wander Effect of Flat-topped Multi-Gaussian Beam for FSO Communication Link
Arka Mukherjee and Subrat Kar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); V K Jain (IIT Delhi, India)
14:57 Qubits Through Queues: The Capacity of Channels with Waiting Time Dependent Errors
Krishna P Jagannathan, Avhishek Chatterjee and Prabha Mandayam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
SP2: Speech Segmentation and Detection
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
13.45 Detection of Vowel-Like Speech Using Variance of Sample Magnitudes
Nagapuri Srinivas (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Gayadhar Pradhan (NIT patna, India); Kishore Kumar Puli (National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, India)
14.03 Detection of Vowels in Speech Signals Degraded by Speech-Like Noise
Avinash Kumar (NIT patna, India); Sarmila Garnaik (Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, India); Ishwar Chandra Yadav (National Institute of Technology Patna, India); Gayadhar Pradhan (NIT patna, India); Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna, India)
14.21 Modelling Glottal Flow Derivative Signal for Detection of Replay Speech Samples
Jagabandhu Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India); Debadatta Pati (National Institute of Technology Nagaland, India); Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad, India)
14.39 Comparison of Low Dimension Speech Segment Embeddings Application to Speaker Diarization
Srikanth Raj Chetupalli (Indian Institute of Science, India); Thippur Sreenivas (IISc, India); Anand Gopalakrishnan (National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal, India)
14.57 Improved Epoch Extraction from Speech Signals Using Wavelet Synchrosqueezed Transform
Govind D, S Lakshmi Priya and Akarsh S (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India); Ganga Gowri B (Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, India); Soman K P (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India)
INV2: 5G communications
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
13.45 Overview of the Indian 5G Testbed
Radha Krishna Ganti (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
14.03 CeWiT's 5G Testbed Efforts
Babu Narayanan (CEWIT, IIT Madras, India)
14.21 Unified Control of Multi-RAT Radio Access Network: An SDN & NFV based Approach
Pranav Jha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
14.39 Dynamic Mode Selection and Link Adaptation in 5G NR
Sreenath R (Lekha Wireless, India)
14.57 Fronthual and Timing Standards for 5G
Jishnu A (Tejas Networks, India)
COM3: Communication Theory
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
15:45 Performance Analysis and Optimization of Interference Limited Multi-Antenna BRN
Imtiyaz Khan (NIT ROURKLA, India); Dhulipudi Krishna Kanth (NIT Rourkela, India); Poonam Singh (National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela, India)
16:03 Outage Analysis of an Asymmetric Dual Hop PLC-VLC System for Indoor Broadcasting
Manan Jani and Parul Garg (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India); Akash Gupta (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, India)
16:21 Error Performance of QAM GFDM Waveform with CFO Under AWGN and TWDP Fading Channel
Sapta Girish Babu Neelam (Bharat Electronics Limited & IIT Bhubaneswar, India); Pravas Ranjan Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
16:39 Performance Analysis of Wireless Powered Decode-and-Forward Relay System
Pawan Kumar and Kalpana Dhaka (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
16:57 Performance Evaluation of Visible Light Communication for DCO and ACO Optical OFDM Techniques
Mahendra Pratap Singh Bhadoria (IIT Delhi, India); Gaurav Pandey (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India); Abhishek Dixit (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & IBBT, India)
ML2: Machine Learning and Optimization
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
15:45 Modelling and Short Term Forecasting of Flash Floods in an Urban Environment
Suraj Ogale (DA-IICT, India); Sanjay Srivastava (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India)
16:03 An Iterative Eigensolver for Rank-Constrained Semidefinite Programming
Rajat Sanyal (KPMG Advisory Services Private Limited, India); Aditya Singh and Kunal Chaudhury (Indian Institute of Science, India)
16:21 A Weighted Optimization for Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy
Parimala Kancharla (IITH, India); Sumohana Channappayya (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
16:39 Top-m Clustering with a Noisy Oracle
Tuhinangshu Choudhury (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Dhruti Shah (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Nikhil Karamchandani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
16:57 Unsupervised GIST Based Clustering for Object Localization
Saprem Shah (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India); Kunal Khatri (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Informtion and Communication Technology, India); Purva Mhasakar (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India); Rajendra Nagar (IIT Gandhianagar, India); Shanmuganathan Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India)
INV3: Networks and Applications
FRIDAY, February 22, 2019
15:45 Game-Theoretic Vaccination Against Networked SIS Epidemics and Impacts of Human Decision-Making
Ashish Hota (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India)
16:03 Making difficult things doable by leveraging communications: A case study of electric vehicles in India
Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
16:21 Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) Using LiFi Based System and Optical Camera Communication (OCC) Based System
Shailesh Prabhu (Wipro, India)
16:39 Millimeterwave Selection Optimization for Sustaining the 5G Use Cases
Gourab Ghatak (IIIT Delhi, India)
16:57 Distributed Smart Networks: A convergence of 5G, IoT, AI, and Blockchain
Dilip Krishnaswamy (Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, India)
COM4: Communications System Design
SATURDAY, February 23, 2019
11.45 Development of an Efficient Low-complexity Channel Estimator for Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting Systems
Ghanshyamkumar Sah and Pyari Mohan Pradhan (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India)
12.03 Power Domain NOMA Design Based on MBER Criterion
Amit Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
12:21 Full-duplex Multi-user Pair Scheduling with Time-selective Fading and Imperfect CSI
Prabhat Kumar Sharma and Prasanna Raut (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India)
12.39 A Planar Four-Port Integrated UWB and NB Antenna System for CR in 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz
Anveshkumar Nella (VIT, Bhopal, India); Abhay Gandhi (Viswesarayya National Institute of Technology, India)
12:57 Generalized Selection Combining for Dynamic SSK-BPSK Systems
Ananth A (IIITDM Kancheepuram, India); Palani Maheswaran (Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, India); Mandha Damodaran Selvaraj (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, India)
SP3: Image Processing
SATURDAY, February 23, 2019
11.45 Camera Zoom Detection and Classification Based on Application of Histogram Intersection and Kullback Leibler Divergence
Pavan Sandula (NIT Rourkela, India); Manish Okade (National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India)
12.03 Splitting Merged Characters of Kannada Benchmark Dataset Using Simplified Paired-Valleys and L-Cut
Shiva Kumar H. Ramagowda, Madhavaraj Ayyavu and Ramakrishnan Ganesan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12:21 Gamma Enhanced Binarization - An Adaptive Nonlinear Enhancement of Degraded Word Images for Improved Recognition of Split Characters
Shiva Kumar H. Ramagowda and Ramakrishnan Ganesan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12.39 Full Reference Stereoscopic Video Quality Assessment Based on Spatio-Depth Saliency and Motion Strength
Sameeulla Khan MD (Vellore Institute of Technology, Amaravati, India); Sumohana Channappayya (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
12:57 Interpolated Compressed Sensing for Calibrationless Parallel MRI Reconstruction
Bhabesh Deka and Sumit Datta (Tezpur University, India)
INV4: Communication theory and systems
SATURDAY, February 23, 2019
11.45 An OAI Based Testbed for Cellular-WiFi Convergence
Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India)
12.03 Solving a Distributed Stochastic Optimization Problem How Good is the Drift-Plus-Penalty Algorithm
Bharath Bettagere (IIT Dharwad, India)
12:21 Not Just Age but Age and Quality of Information
Rahul Vaze (TIFR Mumbai, India)
12.39 Authenticated Communication over Multiple Access Channels with Adversarial Users
Bikash K Dey (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
12:57 Adversarial Attacks on Next-Generation Wireless Networks by Cognitive Radios
Harshan Jagadeesh (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
COM5: Information and Coding Theory
SATURDAY, February 23, 2019
14:15 Performance Analysis of BCH and Repetition Codes in Gamma-Gamma Faded FSO Link
Sonali Garg (IIT Delhi, India); Nancy Gupta (IIT DELHI, India); Abhishek Dixit (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & IBBT, India); V K Jain (IIT Delhi, India)
14:33 Towards the Exact Rate Memory Tradeoff in Coded Caching
Vijith kumar K p, Brijesh Kumar Rai and Tony Jacob (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
14:51 On the Optimality of Simple Han-Kobayashi Schemes for Gaussian Interference Channels
Ragini Chaluvadi (IIT MADRAS, India); Srikrishna Bhashyam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
15:09 A Minimax Theorem for Finite Blocklength Joint Source-Channel Coding over an AVC
Anuj Vora and Ankur A. Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
15:27 General Compute and Forward for Virtual Full-Duplex Relaying
Roshan Sam (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Antony Mampilly (IIT Madras, India); Srikrishna Bhashyam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
SP4: Biomedical Signal Processing
SATURDAY, February 23, 2019
14:15 A SegNet Based Image Enhancement Technique for Air-Tissue Boundary Segmentation in Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Video
Renuka Mannem (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Valliappan CA and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science, India)
14:33 Edge Preserved Herringbone Artifact Removal from MRI Using Two-Stage Variational Mode Decomposition
Divya Pankaj (Amrita University, Coimbatore, India); Govind D (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India); Narayanankutty Kotheneth K a (Amrita School of Engineering & Amrita School of Engineering, India)
14:51 A Weighted SVM Based Approach for Automatic Detection of Posterior Myocardial Infarction Using VCG Signals
Eedara Prabhakararao and Samarendra Dandapat (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
15:09 Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Discriminator Loss
Joydeep Das (Indian Institute of Techmology Roorkee, India); Rashmin Patel (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India); Vinod Pankajakshan (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
15:27 Decision Support System for Liver Cancer Diagnosis Using Focus Features in NSCT Domain
B Lakshmi Priya (Pondicherry Engineering College, India); Kaliyaperumal Jayanthi (University of Pondicherry, India); Biju Pottakkat and G Ramkumar (JIPMER, India)
COM6: Detection and Estimation
SATURDAY, February 23, 2019
14:15 Detection and Estimation of Multiple DoA Targets with Single Snapshot Measurements
Rakshith Jagannath (IIT Madras, India)
14:33 Signal Design and Detection Algorithms for Quick Detection Under False Alarm Rate Constraints
Pavan Kumar Reddy (IIST, India); Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India)
14:51 Improved Data Fusion for Multi-Sensor Tracking Using a Reinforced Viterbi Algorithm
Rajarshi Biswas, Akash Doshi and Akankshya Bhatta (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Sibi Raj B Pillai (IIT Bombay, India)
15:09 Single Versus Multi-Source Discrimination in Birdcalls Using Zero-Frequency Filtering
Ragini Sinha (IIT MANDI, India); Vivek Vadluri, Ashish Arya and Padmanabhan Rajan (IIT Mandi, India)
15:27 An Objective Measure to Assess Musical Noise Using Connected Time-Frequency Regions
Ajey Saligrama (PESIT-BSC, India); H. g. Ranjani (IISc, India); Muralishankar R (CMR Institute of Technology, India); Shankar H N ((i) CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India)