SPCOM2016

Welcome to SPCOM 2016!

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:
Monday, Jan 11, 2016
Monday, Jan 18, 2016
Monday, Jan 25, 2016 (HARD DEADLINE)
Decision notification:
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Camera-ready submission:
Saturday, April 30, 2016

TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

IEEE IEEE Signal Processing Society

Monday, June 13

Monday, June 13, 08:45 - 09:00

Conference Inauguration [JN Tata Auditorium]

Monday, June 13, 09:00 - 10:00

Plenary Talk by Prof. Rama Chellappa [JN Tata Auditorium]

Monday, June 13, 10:10 - 11:20

Mo-AM1-1: Audio and Speech Processing 1
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
10:10-10:40 Dealing with Unwanted Information in Speech
Hynek Hermansky (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:40-11:00 A Fast Query-by-Exle Spoken Term Detection for Zero Resource Languages
Karthik Pandia Durai (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Malarvizhi Sundaresan Saranya (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Hema A Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
11:00-11:20 Changes in Shout Features in Automatically Detected Vowel Regions
Vinay Kumar Mittal (Indian Institute of Technology Chittoor, Sri City, India); Anil Kumar Vuppala (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India)
Mo-AM1-2: Forensics and Privacy
Room: Hall A
10:10-10:40 Hypothesis Testing in the High Privacy Limit
Jiachun Liao and Lalitha Sankar (Arizona State University, USA); Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Flavio P. Calmon (IBM, USA)
10:40-11:00 Improved Spread Spectrum Compressive Image Watermark Detection with Distortion Minimization
Anirban Bose and Santi Prasad Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
11:00-11:20 Enhancement of Latent Fingerprints on Banknotes Using Monogenic Wavelets
Parmeshwar Birajadar, Varun Patidar, Pushkaraj Shirvalkar and Shubham Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Vikram M. Gadre (IIT Bombay, India)

Monday, June 13, 10:20 - 11:20

Mo-AM1-3: RF Systems
Room: Hall B
10:20-10:40 Wide-Band Real-Time Frequency Measurement Using Compressive Receiver
Keerthan P, Ritesh Kumar and Kj Vinoy (Indian Institute of Science, India)
10:40-11:00 A Miniaturized Pre Select Filter Based on Quarter-cut Dielectric Resonator
Nishant Shukla (IIT Kanpur, India)
11:00-11:20 Exploring Fractional Order Elements for Single and Dual Band Impedance Matching for RF Applications
Shreya Singh (IIIT Delhi, India); Mohammad Hashmi (IIITD, India)
Mo-AM1-4: Image and Video Processing 1
Room: Hall C
10:20-10:40 Temporal Video Frame Interpolation Using New Cubic Motion Compensation Technique
Ragina Ghutke (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India)
10:40-11:00 Fully Automated Radiogrammetric Measurement of Third Metacarpal Bone From Hand Radiograph
Anu Shaju Areeckal (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India); Sumam David S. (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India); Michel Kocher (La Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD), Switzerland); Nikil Jayasheelan and Jagannath Kamath (Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Mangalore, India)
11:00-11:20 Fast and High-Quality Bilateral Filtering Using Gauss-Chebyshev Approximation
Sanjay Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Kunal Narayan Chaudhury (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Monday, June 13, 11:20 - 11:40

Coffee Break

Monday, June 13, 11:40 - 12:50

Mo-AM2-1: Cooperative Communications 1
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
11:40-12:10 Efficient CSMA Based on Kikuchi Approximation
Peruru Swamy, Venkata Pavan Kumar Bellam, Radha Krishna Ganti and Krishna P Jagannathan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
12:10-12:30 Outage Performance and Location Optimization for Traffic-Aware Two-Way Relaying with Direct Link
Suneel Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, Madhya Pradesh India, India); Ronshee Chawla (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India); Prabhat Kumar Upadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
12:30-12:50 Secure Amplify-and-Forward Relaying in Linear Chains with a Single Eavesdropper
Tulika Agrawal (IIT MANDI, India); Samar Agnihotri (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India)
Mo-AM2-2: Algorithms, Neural Nets, and Machine Learning for Signal Processing 1
Room: Hall A
11:40-12:10 Testing Against Independence with Multiple Decision Centers
Michele A Wigger (Telecom ParisTech, France); Roy Timo (Technische Universität München, Germany)
12:10-12:30 ARRNET: Action Recognition Through Recurrent Neural Networks
Kumaresh Krishnan (International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India); Nikita Prabhu and Venkatesh Babu R (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12:30-12:50 A Sparse Concept Coded Spatio-Spectral Feature Representation for Handwritten Character Recognition
Kalyan S Dash, Niladri Puhan and Ganapati Panda (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)

Monday, June 13, 11:50 - 12:50

Mo-AM2-3: Adaptive Signal Processing
Room: Hall B
11:50-12:10 Phased Antenna Array Design for L-band Aerospace Detection of Radiolytic Components
Jolly Rajendran (Amrita School of Engineering Coimbatore, India); GA Shanmugha Sundaram (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University &; Center for CEN, India)
12:10-12:30 A Method of Spatial Focus Control Using Electro-Optics for Camera Lens Systems
Shashank Agashe (Samsung Research and Development Institute-India, Bangalore, India); Gaurav Kumar (Samsung Research AND Development Institute Bangalore, India)
12:30-12:50 Natural Gradient Non-Parametric Maximum Likelihood Algorithm for Sparse Channel Estimation in Non-Gaussian Noise
Abhijeet Bishnu and Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Mo-AM2-4: Bio-Signal Processing 1
Room: Hall C
11:50-12:10 Robust Real-Time Pulse Rate Estimation From Facial Video Using Sparse Spectral Peak Tracking
Aditya Gaonkar P, Bhuthesh R, Dipanjan Gope and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12:10-12:30 Robust ECG Artifact Removal From EEG Using Continuous Wavelet Transformation and Linear Regression
Chinmayee Dora (IIIT Bhubnaeswar, India); Pradyut Biswal (IIIT Bhubaneswar, India)
12:30-12:50 Low-Complexity Detection and Classification of ECG Noises for Automated ECG Analysis System
Udit Satija (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India)

Monday, June 13, 12:50 - 14:00

Lunch

Monday, June 13, 14:00 - 15:30

Mo-PM1-1: SP Algorithms and Architecture 1
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
14:00-14:30 A Fast Algorithm for Demixing Signals with Structured Sparsity
Chinmay Hegde (Iowa State University, USA)
14:30-14:50 Reduced State MAP Algorithm with Modified Branch Metric
Kiran Kuchi (IIT Hyderabad, India); Dharma Teja Bade (Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd., India); Nanda Kishore Chavali (Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd. &; IIT Hyderabad, India); Anusha Kilari (Uurmi Systems Pvt Ltd, India)
14:50-15:10 Measurement of Transmitter IQ Parameters in HT and VHT Wireless LAN Systems
Markandeya Janaswamy (Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd., India); Nanda Kishore Chavali (Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd. &; IIT Hyderabad, India); Subhendu Batabyal (Uurmi Systems, India)
15:10-15:30 A Common Framework for ML Detection of Spatially Multiplexed and Space Time Coded MIMO Signals and Reducing Its Computational Complexity
Sheela Mounika (Uurmi Systems Private Limited, India); Nanda Kishore Chavali (Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd. &; IIT Hyderabad, India); Kiran Kuchi (IIT Hyderabad, India)
Mo-PM1-2: Detection and Estimation 1
Room: Hall A
14:00-14:30 Completely Blind Sensing of Multi-Band Signals
Massimo Franceschetti (University of California at San Diego, USA)
14:30-14:50 Despeckling of SAR Clutter Amplitude Data Using G 0 -MAP Filter
Dheeren Mahapatra, Soumya Ray and Lakshi Roy (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India)
14:50-15:10 An Improved Algorithm for Eye Corner Detection
Anirban Dasgupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Anshit Mandloi, Anjith George and Aurobinda Routray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
15:10-15:30 Decision Boundary for Under Water Acoustic Communication with Generalized Gaussian Noise Model
Snigdha Bhuyan (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Siddharth Deshmukh (National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela, India)

Monday, June 13, 14:10 - 15:30

Mo-PM1-3: Cognitive Radio 1
Room: Hall B
14:10-14:30 Cognitive Relay Sharing for Two-Way Primary Transmissions Under Nakagami-m Fading Channels
Sourabh Solanki, Pankaj Kumar Sharma and Prabhat Kumar Upadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
14:30-14:50 Outage Analysis of Cluster-Based Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks Using BLAR Routing Protocol
Hari Krishna Boddapati (IIT Delhi, India); Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
14:50-15:10 Trade-off on Spectrum-Energy Efficiency in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks
Subhankar Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India); Santi Prasad Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India); Tamaghna Acharya (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India)
15:10-15:30 Learning Based Primary User Activity Prediction in Cognitive Radio Networks for Efficient Dynamic Spectrum Access
Anirudh Agarwal (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India); Shivangi Dubey (The LNM Institute of Information and Technology, India); Mohd Asif Khan (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India); Ranjan Gangopadhyay (The L.N.Mittal Institute of Information Technology, India); Soumitra Debnath (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India)
Mo-PM1-4: Image and Video Processing 2
Room: Hall C
14:10-14:30 Fourth Order PDE Based Ultrasound Despeckling Using ENI Classification
Soorajkumar R and Krishna P (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, SURATHKAL, India); Girish D (Devi Scan Centre Kothamangalam, Kerala, India); Jeny Rajan (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, SURATHKAL, India)
14:30-14:50 A Hybrid Method for Long Term Moving Object Tracker
Kshitij Dwivedi, Parijat Prabhudesai and Sabari Shanmugam (Samsung R&;D Institute Bangalore, India)
14:50-15:10 Weighted-Average Fusion Method for Multiband Images
Hemalata Bhujle (SDM College of Engineering &; Technology, India)
15:10-15:30 Estimation of Small Motion for Dynamic X-Ray Computed Tomography Using a General Motion Model and Moments of Projections
Gokul Deepak Manavalan and Kasi Rajgopal (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Monday, June 13, 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Monday, June 13, 16:00 - 17:00

Mo-PM2-1: Invited Talks
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
16:00-16:30 On Nanopore Sequencing
Suhas Diggavi (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
16:30-17:00 Conditional Dependence Measures: Axioms, Estimators and Biological Applications
Sreeram Kannan (University of Washington Seattle, USA)
Mo-PM2-2: Invited Talks
Room: Hall A
16:00-16:30 On the Indexability of a Class of Restless, Hidden-Markov Model Multiarm Bandits
D. Manjunath (IIT Bombay, India)
16:30-17:00 Analysis of Double Covers of Factor Graphs
Pascal Vontobel (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Monday, June 13, 16:10 - 16:50

Mo-PM2-3: Sensor Networks
Room: Hall B
16:10-16:30 Power Delay Tradeoff for Dynamic Data Compression and Transmission Over a Wireless Channel
Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India); Utpal Mukherji (Indian Institute of Science, India)
16:30-16:50 Scalable and Accurate Sensor Network Localization Using Cliques
Rajat Sanyal and Kunal Narayan Chaudhury (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Mo-PM2-4: Bio-Signal Processing 2
Room: Hall C
16:10-16:30 Fragrance Effect on Beta Band Oscillations of Primary Visual and Prefrontal Cortices for Reading Tasks
Mani Kumar Tellamekala (Student at Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, India); Mohammad Rafi Shaik (Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, India)
16:30-16:50 Neural Signal Multiplexing Via Compressed Sensing
Nithin Nagaraj (National Institute of Advanced Studies, India); Sahasranand K R (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Monday, June 13, 17:00 - 17:40

High Tea

Monday, June 13, 17:45 - 19:00

Panel Discussion: "The Evolving Start-Up Environment in India" [JN Tata Auditorium]

Tuesday, June 14

Tuesday, June 14, 09:00 - 10:00

Plenary Talk by Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Dr. R.S.Panwar [JN Tata Auditorium]

Tuesday, June 14, 10:10 - 11:20

Tu-AM1-1: Wireless Networks 1
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
10:10-10:40 Speed Control in a Multiple Access Server Under Delay Constraints
Sibi Raj B Pillai (IIT Bombay, India)
10:40-11:00 Order Statistics Based Diagonal Precoding for 4×1 MISO System with Real Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes
Ankit Garg (IIT Delhi, India); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Olivier Berder (University of Rennes 1, IRISA, INRIA, France); Baptiste Vrigneau (University of Rennes 1 &; IRISA Granit, France)
11:00-11:20 A Statistical Block Fading Channel Model for Multiuser Massive MIMO System
Suresh Dahiya (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)
Tu-AM1-2: Cooperative Communications 2
Room: Hall A
10:10-10:40 Incorporating Scheduling in Poisson Point Process Model for Cellular Networks
Radha Krishna Ganti (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
10:40-11:00 Optimal Power Allocation for Decode-and-Forward Based Mixed MIMO-RF/FSO Cooperative Systems
Neeraj Varshney (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Parul Puri (Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India)
11:00-11:20 Outage Analysis for Path Selection Based MIMO-Beamforming Cooperative Wireless Systems with Node Mobility and Imperfect CSI
Neeraj Varshney and Aditya K Jagannatham (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

Tuesday, June 14, 10:20 - 11:20

Tu-AM1-3: Audio and Speech Processing 2
Room: Hall B
10:20-10:40 Countermeasure to Handle Replay Attacks in Practical Speaker Verification Systems
Anupama Paul, Rohan Kumar Das, Rohit Sinha and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
10:40-11:00 Low Complexity Language Recognition Exploiting Ensemble of Random Subspace
Om Prakash Singh and Rohit Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
11:00-11:20 Improved Phone-Cluster Adaptive Training Acoustic Model
Neethu Mariam Joy (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, India); Umesh S (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Basil Abraham and Navneeth K (IIT Madras, India)
Tu-AM1-4: Information Theory
Room: Hall C
10:20-10:40 The Feedback Capacity of the BIBO Channel with a No-Consecutive-Ones Input Constraint
Oron Sabag and Haim H Permuter (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Navin Kashyap (Indian Institute of Science, India)
10:40-11:00 A Cycle-based Rate-compatible Puncturing Technique for Non-binary LDPC Codes
Kuntal Deka (IIIT Guwahati, India); Alentattil Rajesh (IIT G, India); Prabin Kumar Bora (Indian Instituite of Technology, India)
11:00-11:20 Text Compression Using Lexicographic Permutation of Binary Strings
Sourya Basu and Shivam Chaturvedi (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Rajesh M Hegde (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

Tuesday, June 14, 11:20 - 11:40

Coffee Break

Tuesday, June 14, 11:50 - 12:50

Tu-AM2-1: Networks and RF Systems
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
11:50-12:10 Mean Delay Analysis of Cache Assisted File Transfers Over the Internet
Abhijit Bhattacharya and Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12:10-12:30 Design of a Novel Dual-Band Low Noise Amplifier Incorporating Dual-Band Impedance Transformer
Rusan Barik (IIITDM, India); Rehana Siddiqui (IIITD&;M Kancheepuram, India); K. v. Phanikumar (IIITD&;M Kancheepuram, India); Sholettai Subramanian Karthikeyan (IIITDM, Kancheepuram, India)
12:30-12:50 Reconfigurable Beam Scanning Using Hexagonal Slotted Parasitic Patch Antenna Array
Vikas Vishnu Khairnar (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Cus, India); Ramesha C K (Assistant Proffesor, India); Lucy J Gudino (BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Cus, India)
Tu-AM2-2: Optimization
Room: Hall A
11:40-12:10 Online Learning of Power Allocation Policies in Energy Harvesting Communications
Pranav K Sakulkar and Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA)
12:10-12:30 Online Load Scheduling Under Price and Demand Uncertainty in Smart Grid
Amrit Singh Bedi (IIT Kanpur, India); Ketan Rajawat (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
12:30-12:50 A Completely Uncoupled Learning Algorithm for General Utility Maximization
S. Ramakrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Venkatesh Ramaiyan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

Tuesday, June 14, 11:50 - 12:50

Tu-AM2-3: Audio and Speech Processing 3
Room: Hall B
11:50-12:10 Modification in Sequential Dynamic Time Warping for Fast Computation of Query-by-Exle Spoken Term Detection Task
Maulik C. Madhavi (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India); Hemant A. Patil (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India)
12:10-12:30 Who Spoke What? A Latent Variable Framework for the Joint Decoding of Multiple Speakers and Their Keywords
Harshavardhan Sundar and Thippur V. Sreenivas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
12:30-12:50 Significance of Constraining Text in Limited Data Text-independent Speaker Verification
Rohan Kumar Das, Sarfaraz Jelil and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Tu-AM2-4: Cognitive Radio 2
Room: Hall C
11:50-12:10 Outage Analysis in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks with Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer
Sanjay Yadav (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India); Tamaghna Acharya (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India)
12:10-12:30 GLRT Based Bartlett Detection for Spectrum Sensing in Multi-Antenna Cognitive Radio
Saumya Dwivedi and Anusha Kota (IIT Kanpur, India); Aditya K Jagannatham (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
12:30-12:50 On Optimal Offline Time Sharing Policy for Energy Harvesting Underlay Cognitive Radio
Kalpant Pathak (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Adrish Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)

Tuesday, June 14, 12:50 - 14:00

Lunch

Tuesday, June 14, 14:00 - 14:30

Tu-Sh: Expository Talk on Shannon's Work [JN Tata Auditorium]

Tuesday, June 14, 14:40 - 16:10

Tu-PM1-1: Shannon Centenary
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
14:40-15:10 Recent Results in Multi-version Codes, Update-Efficient Codes and Consistent Shared Memory Emulation
Viveck Cadambe (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
15:10-15:40 Sensitivity of Functions and Distributed Computing
Shun Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
15:40-16:10 The epsilon-Capacity Region of AWGN Multiple Access Channels with Feedback
Lan V. Truong, Silas L. Fong and Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Tuesday, June 14, 14:40 - 16:00

Tu-PM1-2: Image and Video Processing 3
Room: Hall A
14:40-15:00 Lens Adhering Contaminant Detection Using Spatio-Temporal Blur
Akkala Vivek (Uurmi Solutions, India); Parth Parikh (Uurmi Systems, India); Mahesh BS (Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd., India); Ajinkya S. Deshmukh (Uurmi System Pvt. Ltd., India); Swarup Medasani (Chief Technology Officer &; Uurmi Systems, USA)
15:00-15:20 Saliency and Memorability Driven Retargeting
Diptiben Patel (IIT Gandhinagar, India); Shanmuganathan Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India)
15:20-15:40 Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Matched Filter and Laplacian of Gaussian
Debamita Kumar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India); Ankita Pramanik (IIEST, Shibpur, India); Sudeshna Sil Kar and Santi Prasad Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
15:40-16:00 Denoising in a Jiffy: A Fast and GPU Friendly Algorithm for Image Denoising
Nithish Divakar and Venkatesh Babu R (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Tu-PM1-3: Audio and Speech Processing 4
Room: Hall B
14:40-15:00 Reverberation Robust TDOA Estimation Using Convex Region Prior
Harshavardhan Sundar and Thippur V. Sreenivas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
15:00-15:20 An Improved Block Sparse Method for Feedback Suppression in Hearing Aids
Vasundhara Vasundhara (IIT Bhubaneswar, India); Ganapati Panda and Niladri Puhan (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
15:20-15:40 A Comparative Study of Articulatory Features From Facial Video and Acoustic-To-Articulatory Inversion for Phonetic Discrimination
Abhishek Narwekar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science, India)
15:40-16:00 Global Soft Decision Based Speech Enhancement Using Voiced-Unvoiced Uncertainty and Harmonic Phase Decomposition Technique
Suman Samui (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Indrajit Chakrabarti (IIT Kharagpur, India); Soumya K. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
Tu-PM1-4: Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Room: Hall C
14:40-15:00 Group Delay Based Music Source Separation Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
Jilt Sebastian (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Hema A Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
15:00-15:20 Analysis of Hierarchical Bottleneck Framework for Improved Phoneme Recognition
Mohammadi Zaki (Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India); Hardik B. Sailor (DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India); Hemant A. Patil (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India)
15:20-15:40 Design and Evaluation of a Fast Half-Against-Half Support Vector Machine Classifier
Manikandan J (PES University (PESU), India)
15:40-16:00 Graph Fourier Transform Based on Directed Laplacian
Rahul Singh (Indian Institute of Space Science &; Technology, India); Abhishek Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India); Manoj Bs (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology &; California Institute of Telecommunication and IT, India)

Tuesday, June 14, 16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

Tuesday, June 14, 16:30 - 17:30

Tu-PM2-1: Shannon Centenary
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
16:30-17:00 Index Coding and Local Partial Clique Covers
Abhishek Agarwal (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA); Arya Mazumdar (University of Minnesota, USA)
17:00-17:30 Recent Results in Content Type Coding
Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA) (Cancelled)
Tu-PM2-2: Audio and Speech Processing 5
Room: Hall A
16:30-16:50 A Novel Lowpass Filtering-Based Approach for Estimating Strength of Excitation From Speech Signal
Deep Gandhi (V. V. P. Engineering College, India); Tanvina B. Patel and Hemant A. Patil (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India)
16:50-17:10 Design and Development of Bionic Ears for Rendering Binaural Audio
Sandeep Chitreddy (IIT Kanpur, India); Rajesh M Hegde (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
17:10-17:30 Exploring the Role of Pitch-Adaptive Cepstral Features in Context of Children's Mismatched ASR
Rohit Sinha, Syed Shahnawazuddin and Patri Karthik (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Tu-PM2-3: Image and Video Processing 4
Room: Hall B
16:30-16:50 Adaptive Image Compression Using Saliency and KAZE Features
Siddharth Srivastava (Center for Development of Advanced Computing, India); Prerana Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
16:50-17:10 Weighted Fusion of LBP and CCH Features for Effective Content Based Image Retrieval
Swati Jain (Institute of Technology &; Nirma University, India)
17:10-17:30 Classification of Bacterial Morphotypes From Images of ZN-stained Sputum-smears Towards Diagnosing Drug-resistant TB
Rijul Soans (Manipal University, India); Ramakrishnan G A (Indian Institute of Science, India); Vishnu Prasad Shenoy (Kasturba Medical College, India); Ramesh R Galigekere (MIT Manipal, India)
Tu-PM2-4: Wireless Networks 2
Room: Hall C
16:30-16:50 Quantization Methods for Precoder Feedback in Interference Channel
Navneet Garg and Govind Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
16:50-17:10 Rate Loss Analysis for Precoder Feedback in Interference Channel with Imperfect CSI
Navneet Garg and Govind Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
17:10-17:30 Outage Performance of Scheduling in a Distributed Multiuser Fixed-gain AF Relay System with Co-channel Interference and Noise
Anup Kumar Mandpura and Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)

Tuesday, June 14, 18:00 - 19:00

Cultural Program [Satish Dhawan Auditorium]

Tuesday, June 14, 19:30 - 21:30

Conference Dinner [Main Guesthouse Lawns]

Wednesday, June 15

Wednesday, June 15, 09:00 - 10:00

Plenary Talk by Prof. David Tse [JN Tata Auditorium]

Wednesday, June 15, 10:00 - 10:20

Awards Ceremony and Vote of Thanks [JN Tata Auditorium]

Wednesday, June 15, 10:30 - 11:40

We-AM1-1: SP Algorithms and Architecture 2
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
10:30-11:00 Difference Sets and Structured Quadratic Samplers for High Resolution Imaging
Piya Pal (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
11:00-11:20 Low Complexity, Low Latency Resling of Asynchronously Sled Signals
Ganesan Thiagarajan (Texas Instruments India Ltd, India); Abhijit Patki (Texas Instruments India Private Limited, India)
11:20-11:40 Reversible Radix-4 Booth Multiplier for DSP Applications
Nagamani A N (Visweswaraya Technological University &; P E S Institute of Technology, India); Nikhil R and Manish Nagaraj (PES Institute of Technology, India); Agrawal VK (Director- CORI, PESIT, India)
We-AM1-2: Wireless Networks 3
Room: Hall A
10:30-11:00 Remotely Powered Communications
Ayfer Özgür (Stanford University, USA)
11:00-11:20 Performance Analysis of a Delay Tolerant Network by State Aggregation
Karthik Velugoori, Utpal Mukherji and Vinod Sharma (Indian Institute of Science, India)
11:20-11:40 Interference Alignment Techniques in Cellular System with Multiple D2D Networks
Navneet Garg and Govind Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

Wednesday, June 15, 10:40 - 11:20

We-AM1-3: Networks
Room: Hall B
10:40-11:00 TCP/NC: Stability and Performance Analysis with Small Buffer Drop-Tail Queues
Santosh Chavan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
11:00-11:20 Transmission Impairment Aware Routing and Spectrum Allocation in CO-OFDM Based Elastic Optical Networks
Sadananda Behera (IIT Kharagpur, India); Jithin George (University of Melbourne); Goutam Das (IIT Kharagpur, India)
We-AM1-4: Bio-Signal Processing 3
Room: Hall C
10:40-11:00 Camera Based Respiration Rate of Neonates by Modeling Movement of Chest and Abdomen Region
Vishnu Vardhan Makkapati (Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd., India); Pujita Raman (Qualcomm Technologies, USA); Gautam Pai (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
11:00-11:20 Automatic Classification of Toco-Signals: An Approach Towards Comprehensive Monitoring of Labour Progress
Jyothi R, Rijul Soans and Parvati Bhat (Manipal University, India)
11:20-12:00 Accelerated Learning of Discriminative Spatio-temporal Features for Action Recognition
Munender Varshney and Renu Rameshan (IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India)

Wednesday, June 15, 11:40 - 12:00

Coffee Break

Wednesday, June 15, 12:00 - 13:00

We-AM2-1: Scheduling and Pricing
Room: JN Tata Auditorium
12:00-12:30 A New Competitive Ratio for Network Applications with Hard Performance Guarantees
Han Deng and I-Hong Hou (Texas A&;M University, USA)
12:30-12:50 Zero Rating: Can ISPs Choose Winning Content?
Kunal Phalak, D. Manjunath and Jayakrishnan Nair (IIT Bombay, India)

Wednesday, June 15, 12:10 - 13:10

We-AM2-2: Speech and Image Processing
Room: Hall A
12:10-12:30 Emotion Classification Using Residual Sinusoidal Peak Amplitude
Suman Deb (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Samarendra Dandapat (IITG, India)
12:30-12:50 No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Using Statistics of Sparse Representations
Manasa Priya K (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Bala Appina (IIT HYDERABAD, India); Sumohana Channappayya (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
12:50-13:10 Hartley Transform Based Correlation Filters for Face Recognition
Narendra Chandrashekara (B N M Institute of Technology &; Siddaganga Institute of Technology, India); Shashank Satyanarayana (Visvesvaraya Technological University &; BNM Institute of Technology, India)
We-AM2-3: Algorithms, Neural Nets, and Machine Learning for Signal Processing 2
Room: Hall B
12:10-12:30 Frequency Count Based Two Stage Classification for Online Handwritten Character Recognition
Subhasis Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Himakshi Choudhury (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Suresh Sundaram (IIT Guwahati, India)
12:30-12:50 Real-time Eye Gaze Direction Classification Using Convolutional Neural Network
Anjith George (IIT Kharagpur, India); Aurobinda Routray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
12:50-13:10 Customizing CNNs for Blood Vessel Segmentation From Fundus Images
Sunil Kumar Vengalil (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India); Neelam Sinha (International Institute of Information Technology &; Bangalore, India); Srinivas Kruthiventi (IISC, India); Venkatesh Babu R (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Wednesday, June 15, 12:10 - 12:50

We-AM2-4: Detection and Estimation 2
Room: Hall C
12:10-12:30 Novel Techniques for Target Detection with Waveform Identity in Multi-static Radar Using Bi-static Configuration
Jawed Qumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur &; Motorola India Bangalore, India); S Christopher (Distinguished Scientist, India); Ratnajit Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)
12:30-12:50 Cumulant Based Automatic Modulation Classification of QPSK, OQPSK , $ \frac{\pi}{4}$-QPSK and 8-PSK in MIMO Environment
Dibyajyoiti Das (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Abhinav Anand (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); Prabin Kumar Bora (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Ratnajit Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)

Wednesday, June 15, 13:10 - 14:30

Lunch

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