SPCOM 2020
SPCOM2020

Welcome to SPCOM 2020!

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Program at a Glance




July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24



TUTORIALS CONFERENCE QUANTUM WORKSHOP

8:00-8:15
Tutorial Session - Day1/Forenoon Tutorial Session - Day2/Forenoon




8:15-8:30

8:30-8:45

8:45-9:00 Inauguration Inauguration

9:00-9:15 Cisco Plenary - B D Rao Qualcomm Plenary - A. Lee Swindlehurst Cisco Plenary - P Vijay Kumar Session - 1 (Live)

9:15-9:30

9:30-9:45

9:45-10:00

10:00-10:15 Plenary - Q&A (Live) Plenary - Q&A (Live) Plenary - Q&A (Live)

10:15-10:30 Break Break Break

10:30-10:45 Contributed Talks - 1
(5 parallel sessions)
Contributed Talks - 3
(5 parallel sessions)
Contributed Talks - 5
(4 parallel sessions)

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-11:15 Session - 2 (Live)

11:15-11:30


11:30-11:45

11:45-12:00

12:00-12:15 Parallel Q&A (Live) Parallel Q&A (Live) Parallel Q&A (Live)

12:15-12:30

12:30-12:45 Sponsor Session
(Amazon)
Sponsor Session
(Qualcomm)
Sponsor Session
(Cisco)
Sponsor Session
(Texas Instruments &
Tejas Networks)
Lunch

12:45-13:00

13:00-13:15
Lunch Lunch Lunch

13:15-13:30 Session - 3 (Live)

13:30-13:45 Contributed Talks - 2
(5 parallel sessions)
Contributed Talks - 4
(4 parallel sessions)
Qualcomm Plenary - Michael Unser

13:45-14:00

14:00-14:15 Tutorial Session - Day1/Afternoon Tutorial Session - Day2/Afternoon

14:15-14:30

14:30-14:45 Plenary - Q&A (Live)

14:45-15:00 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners' Presentation Break

15:00-15:15 Parallel Q&A (Live) Parallel Q&A (Live) Session - 4 (Live)

15:15-15:30

15:30-15:45 Break Break Break

15:45-16:00 Invited Talks - 1
(4 parallel sessions)
Invited Talks - 2
(4 parallel sessions)
Invited Talks - 3
(4 parallel sessions)

16:00-16:15

16:15-16:30

16:30-16:45

16:45-17:00 Break

17:00-17:15 Panel Discussion (Live)

17:15-17:30

Parallel Q&A (Live) Parallel Q&A (Live) Parallel Q&A (Live)

17:30-17:45

17:45-18:00

Closing Ceremony

Tutorials

Tutorial Session - Day1/Forenoon         
T1. Prof. Emanuele Viterbo, Dr. Yi Hong and Dr. Raviteja Patchava, Monash University, Australia : Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) Modulation and Applications          
T2. Prof. Sreeram Kannan, University of Washington, Seattle and Dr. Hyeji Kim, Samsung AI Research Cambridge : Communication Algorithms Via Deep Learning          
          
Tutorial Session - Day1/Afternoon         
T3. Prof. Alessandro Foi, Tampere University, Finland : Signal-Dependent and Correlated Noise in Direct and Inverse Imaging: from Modelling to Parameter Estimation and Practical Filtering          
T4. Dr. Srikanth Subramanian, Nanocell Networks Private Limited : 5G cellular wireless and IEEE 802.11ax based WiFi 6; a comparison          
          
Tutorial Session - Day2/Forenoon         
T5. Prof. Jean-Francois Chamberland, Prof. Krishna Narayanan, Texas A & M University : Algorithms for Coded Random Access and Inference in Large Dimensional Spaces - Bridging Fundamental Limits and Practical Schemes          
T6. Prof. Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, RIKEN Center for AI Project, Tokyo, Japan : Deep Learning with Bayesian Principles          
          
Tutorial Session - Day2/Afternoon         
T7. Prof. Geert Leus, Prof. Elvin Isufi and Mario Coutino, Delft University of Technology Graph Signal Processing: Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning          
T8. Prof. Vinod Sharma, Indian Institute of Science, Prof. Arun Padakandla, University of Tennessee, Knoxville : Quantum Computation and Quantum Information         

Sessions

Contributed Talks - 1 (5 parallel sessions)
(July 21 (Tuesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Contributed Talks - 5 (4 parallel sessions)
(July 23 (Thursday), 10:30 to 12:00)
1. Music/Speech Processing 1. Acoustics and spatial audio  
2. Coding for data storage and communications 2. Compressive Sensing and Sparse Signal Processing  
3. Machine Learning Applications - 1 3. Wireless Communications - 2  
4. Communication Networks - 1 4. Adaptive and Array Signal Processing  
5. Signal Processing Theory and Methods   
   
Contributed Talks - 2 (5 parallel sessions)
(July 21 (Tuesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Invited Talks - 1 (4 parallel sessions)
(July 21 (Tuesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
1. Speech Pathology and Paralinguistics 1. Graph Signal Processing  
2. Information Theory 2. Learning - 1  
3. Image and Video Processing 3. COVID-19  
4. Biological Signal Processing & Molecular Communications 4. Neuromorphic Signal Processing and Applications  
5. Communication Networks - 2   
   
Contributed Talks - 3 (5 parallel sessions)
(July 22 (Wednesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Invited Talks - 2 (4 parallel sessions)
(July 22 (Wednesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
1. Machine Learning for Speech and Audio 1. Women in Engineering  
2. Optical Communications 2. Coded Systems  
3. Medical Imaging 3. Deep Learning and Information Theory  
4. MIMO 4. Autonomous Navigation  
5. Cooperative and D2D Communications   
   
Contributed Talks - 4 (4 parallel sessions)
(July 22 (Wednesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Invited Talks - 3 (4 parallel sessions)
(July 23 (Thursday), 15:45 to 17:15)
1. Speech Analysis 1. Learning - 2  
2. THz and Radio Frequency Systems 2. Networks: Theory and Practice  
3. Machine Learning Applications - 2 3. Industry Track  
4. Wireless Communications - 1 4. Deep Learning for Computer Vision

Quantum Workshop
(July 24 (Friday))
Current Trends in Quantum Information Processing

Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners Presentations
(July 23 (Thursday), 14:45 to 15:30)
Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners Presentations

Contributed Talks

Papers shortlisted for Best Paper Awards are highlighted in green colour

Session Number Session Name Session Chair Paper ID Authors Paper Title
1 Adaptive and Array Signal Processing
(July 23 (Thursday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Kunal Narayan Chaudhury (IISc) 130 Rajib Lochan Das (DA-IICT)* l1/l0 Regularized Conjugate Gradient Based Sparse Adaptive Algorithms
198 Sivasankar Mamilla (DRDO)*; Rajesh M. Hegde (IIT Kanpur) Dynamic Subarray Beamforming for Angular Superresolution of Coherent Targets
304 Sesha Sai Anudeep Karnam (DA-IICT); Kuldeep Khoria (DA-IICT); Rajib Lochan Das (DA-IICT)* Improving Steady-State Performance of the UT-ZA-PNLMS Algorithm for Sparse Systems
266 Vishnu Palakkal (IIT Madras)*; C. S. Ramalingam (IIT Chennai) An Improved LSF-based Algorithm for Sinusoidal Frequency Estimation that Achieves Maximum-Likelihood Performance
2 Music/Speech Processing
(July 21 (Tuesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Preeti Rao (IITB) 316 Divyesh Mr. Rajpura (DA-IICT); Jui Shah (DA-IICT); Maitreya Patel (DA-IICT)*; Harshit Malaviya (DA-IICT); Kirtana Phatnani (DA-IICT); Hemant Patil (DAICT) Effectiveness of Transfer Learning on Singing Voice Conversion in the Presence of Background Music
329 Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee (IIT Guwahati)*; Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad); Prithwijit Guha (IIT Guwahati) Classification of Speech vs. Speech with Background Music
148 Amruta Vidwans (IIT Bombay)*; Prateek Verma (Stanford University); Preeti Rao (IIT Bombay) Classifying Cultural Music Using Melodic Features
196 Roshni Ajayakumar (Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam); Rajeev Rajan (College of Engineering,Trivandrum)* Predominant Instrument Recognition in Polyphonic Music Using GMM-DNN Framework
362 Gowriprasad R. (IIT Madras)*; Sri Rama Murty Kodukula (IIT Hyderabad) Onset Detection of Tabla Strokes using LP Analysis
3 Acoustics and Spatial Audio
(July 23 (Thursday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Rajesh Hegde (IITK) 133 Balamurali B. T. (Singapore University of Technology and Design)*; Jer-Ming Chen (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Dorien Herremans (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Acoustic Prediction of Flow Rate: Varying Liquid Jet Stream onto a Free Surface
289 Aditya Srivastava (IIT Kanpur); Gyanajyoti Routray (IIT Kanpur)*; Rajesh M. Hegde (IIT Kanpur) Spatial HRTF Interpolation using Spectral Phase Constraints
(Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award)
392 Gyanajyoti Routray (IIT Kanpur)*; Rajesh M. Hegde (IIT Kanpur) Sparse Plane-wave Decomposition for Upscaling Ambisonic Signals
394 Ajay Dagar (IIT Kanpur)*; Rajesh M. Hegde (IIT Kanpur) Sparse Framework for Personal Sound Reproduction with Differential Phase Constraint
4 Speech Analysis
(July 22 (Wednesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
V Ramasubramanian (IIITB) 296 Shikha Baghel (IIT Guwahati)*; Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad); Prithwijit Guha (IIT Guwahati) Overlapped/Non-Overlapped Speech Transition Point Detection Using Bag-of-Audio-Words
187 Tilak Purohit (IIITB)*; V. Ramasubramanian (IIITB) Component-specific Temporal Decomposition: Application to Enhanced Speech Coding and Co-articulation Analysis
220 Avinash Kumar (NIT Sikkim); Syed Shahnawazuddin (NIT Patna)* Robust Detection of Vowel Onset and End Points
338 Renuka Mannem (IISc)*; Himajyothi Rajamahendravarapu (RGUKT, Kadapa); Aravind Illa (IISc); Prasanta Ghosh (IISc) Speech Rate Estimation Using Representations Learned from Speech with Convolutional Neural Network
5 Speech Pathology and Paralinguistics
(July 21 (Tuesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Anil Vuppala (IIITH) 339 Priyam Jain (IIITH)*; Krishna Gurugubelli (IIITH); Anil Vuppala (IIITH) Towards Emotion Independent Language Identification System
199 Suhas BN (PSU)*; Jhansi Mallela (IISc); Aravind Illa (IISc); Yamini BK (NIMHANS); Nalini Atchayaram (NIMHANS); Ravi Yadav (NIMHANS); Dipanjan Gope (IISc); Prasanta Dr Ghosh (IISc) Speech Task Based Automatic Classification of ALS and Parkinson's Disease and their Severity Using Log Mel Spectrograms
314 Mirali V. Purohit (DA-IICT)*; Maitreya Patel (DA-IICT); Harshit Malaviya (DA-IICT); Ankur Patil (DA-IICT); Mihir Parmar (DA-IICT); Nirmesh J. Shah (DA-IICT); Savan Doshi (DA-IICT); Hemant Patil (DA-IICT) Intelligibility Improvement of Dysarthric Speech Using MMSE DiscoGAN
232 Syed Shahnawazuddin (NIT Patna)*; Tarun Sai Bandarupalli (NIT Patna); R. Chakravarthy (NIT Patna) Improving Automatic Speech Recognition by Classifying Adult and Child Speakers into Separate Groups using Speech Rate Rhythmicity Parameter
6 Machine Learning for Speech and Audio
(July 22 (Wednesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Rajbabu V. (IITB) 193 Ganji Sreeram (IIT Guwahati)*; Kunal Dhawan (IIT Guwahati); Kumar Priyadarshi (IIT Guwahati); Rohit Sinha (IIT Guwahati) Joint Language Identification of Code-Switching Speech Using Attention-based E2E Network
350 Abhijith Madan (IIIITB); Ayush Khopkar (IIIITB); Shreekantha A. Nadig (IIIITB); K. M. Srinivasa Raghavan (IIIITB); Dhanya Eledath (IIIITB); V. Ramasubramanian (IIIITB)* Semi-supervised Learning for Acoustic Model Retraining: Handling Speech Data with Noisy Transcript
389 Prajyot P Naik (NIT Goa)*; Manisha Babuso Naik Gaonkar (Goa College of Engineering); Veena Thenkanidiyoor (NIT Goa); Dileep A.D (IIT Mandi) Kernel Based Matching and a Novel Training Approach for CNN-based QbE-STD
144 T. Vijaya Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore (SRIB), India); Shunmuga Sundar R. (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore (SRIB), India); Tilak Purohit (IIITB); V. Ramasubramanian (IIITB)* End-to-end Audio-scene Classification from Raw Audio: Multi Time-frequency Resolution CNN Architecture for Efficient Representation Learning
(Finalist for the Best Paper Award)
352 Shreekantha A Nadig (IIITB)*; Sumit Chakraborty (IIITB); Anuj Shah (IIITB); Chaitanay Sharma (IIITB); V. Ramasubramanian (IIITB); Sachit Rao (IIITB) Jointly Learning to Align and Transcribe Using Attention-based Alignment and Uncertainty-to-weigh Losses
(Finalist for the Best Paper Award as well as the Best Student Paper Award)
353 Shreekantha A Nadig (IIITB)*; V. Ramasubramanian (IIITB); Sachit Rao (IIITB) Multi-target Hybrid CTC-Attentional Decoder for Joint Phoneme-Grapheme Recognition
7 Biological Signal Processing & Molecular Communications
(July 21 (Tuesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Abhishek Gupta (IITK) 254 Nithin V. Sabu (IIT Kanpur)*; Abhishek Gupta (IIT Kanpur) Analysis of Diffusion Based Molecular Communication System with Multiple Transmitters
274 Chandraprakash Swamy (IIT Hyderabad); Suranjita Ganguly (IIT Hyderabad); Pradeep Kumar Yadav (IIT Hyderabad); Mohan Raghavan (IIT Bhilai); Kousik Sarathy Sridharan (IIT Hyderabad)* Evaluation of a Gamified Upper-arm Bimanual Trainer for Stroke Patients -- A Healthy Cohort Study
210 Ankit Gaur (IIT Delhi)*; Manav Bhatnagar (IIT Delhi) Diffusion Channel Characterization for A Cuboid Container: Some Insights into The Role of Dimensionality and Fluid Boundaries
8 Coding for Data Storage and Communications
(July 21 (Tuesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
J Harshan (IITD) 307 Ujwal Deep Kadiyam (IIT Guwahati)*; Smarajit Das (IIT Guwahati) Codes with Availability and Different Localities
364 Kuntal Deka (IIT Goa)*; Sanjeev Sharma (IIT BHU) Design of Puncturing for Length-Compatible Polar Codes Using Differential Evolution
219 Lalhruaizela Chhangte (IITB-Monash Research Academy); Emanuele Viterbo (Monash University); D. Manjunath (IIT Bombay); Nikhil Karamchandani (IIT Bombay)* Index Coding at the WiFi Edge: An Implementation Study for Video Delivery
(Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award)
9 Compressive Sensing and Sparse Signal Processing
(July 23 (Thursday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Chandra Murthy (IISc) 269 Praveen Kumar Pokala (IISc)*; Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (IISc) Accelerated Weighted L1 Minimization for MRI Reconstruction Under Tight Frames in Complex-Domain
201 Suraj Srivastava (IIT Kanpur)*; Mahendrada Sarath Kumar (IIT Kanpur); Amrita Mishra (IIIT-Naya Raipur); Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur) Sparse Kalman Filtering (SKF) Aided Doubly-Selective Channel Estimation in STTC MIMO-OFDM Systems
226 Samrat Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur); Mrityunjoy Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur)* Regularized Hard Thresholding Pursuit (RHTP) for Sparse Signal Recovery
240 Ashwani Koul (IIT Jammu)*; Gargeshwari V. Anand (PES University); Sanjeev Gurugopinath (PES University); Karan Nathwani (IIT Jammu) Three Dimensional Underwater Acoustic Source Localization By Sparse Signal Reconstruction Techniques
10 Cooperative and D2D Communications
(July 22 (Wednesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Vimal Bhatia (IITI) 348 Parvez Shaik (IIT Indore)*; Praveen Kumar Singya (IIT Indore); Nagendra Kumar (NIT Jamshedpur); Kamal K. Garg (IIT Indore); Vimal Bhatia (IIT Indore) On Impact of Imperfect CSI over SWIPT Device-to-Device (D2D) MIMO Relay Systems
368 Ashish Kant Mr Shukla (IIT Delhi)*; B. R. Manoj (Linköping University); Manav Bhatnagar (IIT Delhi) Virtual Full-Duplex Relaying in a Buffer-Aided Multi-Hop Cooperative Network
366 Akash Agarwal (IIT, Kanpur)*; Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur) NOMA-based Joint One-Way and Two-Way Relaying Aided Finite Blocklength Communication
418 Rupender Singh (IIT Roorkee)*; Meenakshi Rawat (IIT Rookee); Anshul Jaiswal (IIT Roorkee) Mixed FSO/RF SIMO SWIPT Decode-and-Forward Relaying Systems
11 Machine Learning Applications-1
(July 21 (Tuesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Ketan Rajawat (IITK) 139 Gowtham Senthil (IIT Tirupati)*; Nandhakumar K. (IIT Tirupati); Gorthi Rama Krishna Sai Subrahmanyam (IIT Tirupati) Handwritten Hindi Word Generation to enable Few Instance Learning of Hindi Documents
213 Mridul Mahajan (IIIT Allahabad); Tryambak Bhattacharjee (IIIT Allahabad); Arya Krishnan (IIIT Allahabad); Priya Shukla (IIIT Allahabad)*; G. C. Nandi (IIIT Allahabad) Robotic Grasp Detection by Learning Representation in a Vector Quantized Manifold
390 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore)*; Mahaboob Ali Basha Shaik (Samsung R&D Institute - Bangalore, India); Tejas Udayakumar (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore); Ajit ashok Saunshikhar (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore) Improved Feed Forward Attention Mechanism in Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks for Robust Sequence Classification
159 Harikrishnan N B (National Institute of Advanced Studies)*; Nithin Nagaraj (National Institute of Advanced Studies) Neurochaos Inspired Hybrid Machine Learning Architecture for Classification
12 Image and Video Processing
(July 21 (Tuesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Kaushik Mitra (IITM) 283 Satish Kumar Suman (DRIEMS Cuttack)*; Aniket Dhok (VNIT Nagpur); Swapnil Bhole (VNIT Nagpur) DNNStream: Deep-learning based Content Adaptive Real-time Streaming
379 Balasubramanyam Appina (IIITDM Kancheepuram)* A 'Complete Blind' No-reference Stereoscopic Image Quality Assessment Algorithm
420 Mallampalli Kapardi (IIT Hyderabad); Satya Patel (Quest Global); Raghu Sesha Iyengar (IIT Hyderabad)*; Kousik Sarathy Sridharan (IIT Hyderabad); Mohan Raghavan (IIT Hyderabad) Tool for Image Annotation Based on Gaze
404 Nayan Moni Baishya (IIT Guwahati)*; Prabin Bora (IIT Guwahati) Luminance Channel Based Camera Model Identification
13 Medical Imaging
(July 22 (Wednesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Phaneendra Yalavarthy (IISc) 233 Ammu R. (IIITB)*; Neelam Sinha (IIITB) Small Segment Emphasized Performance Evaluation Metric for Medical Images
117 Gayathri Malamal (IIT Palakkad)*; Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker (IIT Palakkad) VLSI Architectures for Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming in Ultrasound Medical Imaging
167 Kamini Upadhyay (IIT Delhi)*; Monika Agrawal (IIT Delhi); Praveen Vashist (AIIMS Delhi) Wavelet Based Fine-to-Coarse Retinal Blood Vessel Extraction using U-net Model
14 Information Theory
(July 21 (Tuesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Ankur Kulkarni (IITB) 272 Viswanathan Ramachandran (IITB)* Gaussian Broadcast Channel with State Estimation
322 Vijith Kumar K. P. (IIT Guwahati)*; Brijesh Kumar Rai (IIT Guwahati); Tony Jacob (IIT Guwahati) Towards the Exact Memory Rate Tradeoff for the (4, 5) Cache Network
381 Anuj Vora (IIT Bombay); Ankur Kulkarni (IIT Bombay)* Zero Error Strategic Communication
15 Machine Learning Applications-2
(July 22 (Wednesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Manjesh Kumar Hanawal (IITB) 263 Himanshu Joshi (IIIT-Naya Raipur); Ananya Verma (IIIT-Naya Raipur); Amrita Mishra (IIIT-Naya Raipur)* Classification of Social Signals Using Deep LSTM-based Recurrent Neural Networks
265 Niyas K. Haneefa (IIT Madras)* Dendrogram based Clustering and Separation of Individual and Simultaneously Active Incipient Discharges in Transformer Insulation
428 Debamita Ghosh (IIT Bombay)*; Arun Verma (IIT Bombay); Manjesh Kumar Hanawal (IIT Bombay) Learning and Fairness in Energy Harvesting: A Maximin Multi-Armed Bandits Approach
132 Dheeraj Kumar (IIT Roorkee)*; James C. Bezdek (The University of Melbourne) Clustering Tendency Assessment for Datasets Having Inter-cluster Density Variations
16 Communication Networks-1
(July 21 (Tuesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
K P Naveen (IITTP) 330 Sachin Kadam (IIT Bombay)*; Gaurav Kasbekar (IIT Bombay) Node Cardinality Estimation Using a Mobile Base Station in a Heterogeneous Wireless Network Deployed Over a Large Region
377 Chaitanya Amballa (TCS Limited); Naveen K P (IIT Tirupati)* Coexistence of LTE-Unlicensed and WiFi: Optimization and Game-Theoretic Frameworks
225 Sombabu Bejjipuram (IIT Bombay)*; Sharayu Moharir (IIT Bombay) Age-of-Information Aware Scheduling under Markovian Energy Arrivals
253 Kaushlendra Pandey (IIT Kanpur)*; Abhishek Gupta (IIT Kanpur) Coverage Improvement of Wireless Sensor Networks via Spatial Profile Information
17 Optical Communications
(July 22 (Wednesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Deepa Venkitesh (IITM) 290 Srishti Sharma (IIT Kanpur)*; Pradeep Kumar (IIT Kanpur) Laser and Nonlinear Phase Noise Tracking and Estimation in Long Haul 400 Gbps Single Carrier PDM-16-QAM Systems using Multi-step Kalman Filter
206 Monika Jain (LNMIIT); Nikhil Sharma (LNMIIT)*; Akash Gupta (NSUT, New Delhi); Divyang Rawal (LNMIIT); Parul Garg (N.S.I.T.) Performance Analysis of DF Relaying Assisted Underwater Visible Light Communication System
356 Kaushal Patel (IIT Bombay); Rakesh Ashok (IIT Bombay)*; Shalabh Gupta (IIT Bombay) Equalizer-Free Clock Recovery for PAM-4 Optical Interconnects
349 Rima Deka (IIITG)*; Sanya Anees (IIITG) Performance Analysis of DF Based mixed VLC-FSO-VLC System
321 Rishu Raj (IIT Delhi)*; Dr.Abhishek Dixit (IIT Delhi) Performance Evaluation of Power Allocation Schemes for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in MIMO Visible Light Communication Links
18 Communication Networks-2
(July 21 (Tuesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Pooja Vyavahare (IITTP) 285 Sagar Kavaiya (Ahmedabad University)*; Dr. Dhaval Patel (Ahmedabad University); Dr. Guan Yong Liang (NTU); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR); Yoong Choon Chang (UTAR); Joanne Mun-Yee Lim (Monash University Malaysia) On the Physical Layer Security over $alpha$-$eta$-$kappa$-$mu$ Fading for Relay based Vehicular Networks
(Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award)
323 Sunil Kumar (IIT Delhi)*; Ankit Garg (Jaypee Institute of Information Technology); Manav Bhatnagar (IIT Delhi) Physical Layer Secrecy Performance Analysis of Imperfect Feedback Based 4 x 1 MISO System
331 Srinivas Reddy Kota (IIT Bombay)*; Arunabh Saxena (IIT Bombay); Sharayu Moharir (IIT Bombay); Nikhil Karamchandani (IIT Bombay) Online Service Policies for Content Delivery
(Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award)
375 Geethu Joseph (Syracuse University)*; Chandra Murthy (IISc Bangalore); V. John Mathews (Oregon State University) Sensor Placement for a Pairwise Sensing Model: Framework and Algorithms
19 Signal Processing Theory and Methods
(July 21 (Tuesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri (IISc) 147 Shashank Vatedka (IIT Hyderabad)*; Pascal Vontobel (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Modified Bethe Permanent of a Nonnegative Matrix
(Finalist for the Best Paper Award)
157 Vivek Kumar Singh (IIT Indore)*; Ram BIlas Pachori (IIT Indore) Sliding Eigenvalue Decomposition for Non-stationary Signal Analysis
239 Vinith Kishore (Samsung R&D Institute, India - Bangalore)*; Subhadip Mukherjee (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology); Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (IISc Bangalore) PhaseSense - Signal Reconstruction from Phase-Only Measurements via Quadratic Programming
(Finalist for the Best Paper Award)
385 C. G. Parthipan (IIITDM, Kancheepuram)*; Priyanka Kokil (IIITDM, Kancheepuram) Limit-Cycle Free Realization of Digital Filters
425 Shaik Basheeruddin Shah (Shiv Nadar University)*; Vijay Kumar Chakka (Shiv Nadar University) Signal Representation Using Ramanujan Subspaces Utilizing A Prior Signal Information
20 THz and Radio Frequency Systems
(July 22 (Wednesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Sibi Raj Pillai (IITB) 134 Ananthi Govindasamy (TCE, Madurai)* Simultaneous Extreme Ultraviolet Information and Power Transfer (SEUVIPT)
327 Deepak K. Rathore (IIT Guwahati)*; Salil Kashyap (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati); Alentattil Rajesh (IIT Guwahati) On the Efficacy of Antenna Selection at the Massive Antenna Jammer
247 Pallepogu Prasanna Kumar (IIITDM Kancheepuram)*; Prerna Saxena (IIITDM Kancheepuram) High Gain Metamaterial Loaded Antipodal Tapered Slot Antenna for Millimeter Wave Applications
21 MIMO
(July 22 (Wednesday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Aditya K. Jagannatham (IITK) 355 Harsh Vardhan (IIT Kanpur); Ruchi Tripathi (IIT Kanpur); Ketan Rajawat (IIT Kanpur)* Adaptive Front-end for MIMO Radar with Dynamic Matrix Completion
183 Apoorva Chawla (IIT Kanpur)*; Rakesh Singh (IIT Kanpur); Adarsh Patel (IIT Mandi); Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur) Distributed Detection in Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Wireless Sensor Networks
203 Suraj Srivastava (IIT Kanpur)*; Amrita Mishra (IIIT-Naya Raipur); Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur); Gerd Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University) SBL-Based Hybrid Precoder/Combiner Design for Power and Spectrally Efficient Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems
301 Sauradeep Dey (IIT Kanpur)*; Ekant Sharma (IIT Kanpur); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur) Impact of User and Relay Hardware Impairments on Spectral Efficiency of HD Massive MIMO Relay
135 Maheswaran Palani (IIT Madras); Ananth A (IIT Madras); M D Selvaraj (IIITDM Kancheepuram)* Simplified Performance Analysis of Space Shift Keying Selection Combining with Reconfigurable Antennas
22 Wireless Communications -1
(July 22 (Wednesday), 13:30 to 15:00)
Sheetal Kalyani (IIT Madras) 222 Deepak Jose (NIT Calicut)*; S. M. Sameer (NIT Calicut) A Low Complexity Detector with Near-ML Performance for Generalized Differential Spatial Modulation
228 Satya Kumar Vankayala (Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore); Ashok Krishnan K. S. (Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore); Raviteja Gundeti (Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore); Konchady Gautam Shenoy (Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore)* On the Improved Memory Utilization in HARQ Pooling
286 Dileep Bapatla (IIT Delhi)*; Shankar Prakriya (IIT Delhi) Performance of Full-Duplex Signalling by Energy Buffer Equipped Energy Harvesting Nodes
320 Vetrivel Chelian Thirumavalavan (TCE, Madurai)*; P. G. S. Velmurugan (TCE, Madurai); Thiruvengadam S. J. (TCE, Madurai) BER Analysis of RIS Assisted Multicast Communications with Network Coding
23 Wireless Communications - 2
(July 23 (Thursday), 10:30 to 12:00)
Kumar Appaiah (IITB) 417 Reena Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur); Kanchan Chaurasia (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur); Abhishek Gupta (IIT Kanpur)* SINR and Rate Coverage of Broadcast Networks using Stochastic Geometry
288 Najlah CP (NIT Calicut)*; S. M. Sameer (NIT Calicut) A Projection-based NOMA Scheme for Uplink Heterogeneous Network Without CSIT and Multiuser-CSIR
114 Shyamal Dhua (IIT Bombay)*; Arjun R (IIT Bombay); Kumar Appaiah (IIT, Bombay); Vikram M Gadre (IIT Bombay) Low complexity FBMC with Filtered OFDM for 5G Wireless Systems
241 Ashok Bandi (University of Luxembourg)*; Bhavani Shankar Mysore Ramarao (University of Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg); Bjorn Ottersten (SnT, University of Luxembourg) Joint User Scheduling, and Precoding for Multicast Spectral Efficiency in Multigroup Multicast Systems

Invited Talks

Session Number Session Name Session Chair Paper ID Speaker Title
1 Women in Engineering
(July 22 (Wednesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Anubha Gupta (IIITD),
Neelam Sinha (IIITB)
1001 Hema A Murthy Is Engineering the Right Profession for Me?
1002 Jayanthi Sivaswamy Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
1003 Ritu Karidhal India's Giant Leap in Space -- Earth To Mars
1004 Dr. Laxmi T Rao What Happens When Neuroscience Meets Engineering?
1005 Swati Meherishi Women in Engineering: The Global Vision
2 Graph Signal Processing
(July 21 (Tuesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Sumohana Channappayya (IITH) 1006 Aditya Siripuram Convolution Idempotents with a Given Zero Set
1007 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri Generative Adversarial Networks for Graph Data Imputation from Signed Observations
1008 Naveen Sivadasan Computing on Genome-scale Data
1009 Gonzalo Mateos Digraph Fourier Transform via Spectral Dispersion Minimization
3 Coded Systems
(July 22 (Wednesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Parimal Parag (IISc),
Nikhil Karamchandani (IITB),
Krishna Jagannathan (IITM)
380/1010 Henry Pfister Bounds on the List Size of Successive Cancellation List Decoding
1011 Rawad Bitar Rateless Codes for Private and Adaptive Coded Computing
1012 Sreeram Kannan Coding Theory for Blockchains
1013 Arun Padakandla Fixed Block-Length Coding for Communicating and Compressing Distributed Correlated Sources
1014 Gauri Joshi Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication
1015 Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli Decoding 3D Toric codes
4 Learning - 1
(July 21 (Tuesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Parimal Parag (IISc),
Nikhil Karamchandani (IITB)
1016 Siva Theja Finite-Sample Analysis of Stochastic Approximation with Applications to Reinforcement Learning
1017 Vaneet Aggarwal Model-Free Algorithm and Regret Analysis for MDPs with Constraints
1018 Vyas Sekar Using GANs for Sharing Networked Timeseries data: Challenges, Initial Promise, and Open Questions
1019 Srinivas Shakkottai Learning to Cache and Caching to Learn: Regret Analysis of Caching Algorithms
5 Learning - 2
(July 23 (Thursday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Parimal Parag (IISc),
Nikhil Karamchandani (IITB)
367/1020 Krishna Narayanan Analog Joint Source-Channel Coding for Gaussian Sources over AWGN Channels with Deep Learning
1021 Arya Mazumdar Learning Mixtures and Trace Reconstruction
1022 Suhas Diggavi Compression for Learning
185/1023 Jonathan Scarlett Sample Complexity Lower Bounds for Compressive Sensing with Generative Models
1024 Changho Suh FR-Train: Fair and Robust Training via Information Theory
6 Networks: Theory and Practice
(July 23 (Thursday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Parimal Parag (IISc),
Nikhil Karamchandani (IITB)
1025 K. K. Ramakrishnan CleanG - Improving the Architecture and Protocols for Future Cellular Networks with NFV
1026 Ismail Guvenc and Rudra Dutta AERPAW: A Unique Research Platform for Advanced Wireless Communications and Networking
1027 Venkat Padmanabhan iBox: Internet in a Box - Towards Data-driven Network Simulation
351/1028 Alexandre Reiffers Worst-Case Drift Detection of Sensor Networks: Performances and Algorithms
1029 Christina Fragouli Gaussian 1-2-1 Networks: Capacity Results and Algorithms for mmWave Networks
7 COVID-19
(July 21 (Tuesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Debdoot Sheet (IITKGP) 1030 Piyush Srivastava COVID-19 Epidemic: Unlocking the Lockdown in India
1031 Sridhar Chimalakonda Mood of India During Covid-19 -- An Interactive Web Portal Based on Twitter Data Analysis (https://moodofindia.herokuapp.com/)
1033 Arpan Pal Using Wearable, Robots and Camera -- applying Signal Processing & AI in post-COVID Healthcare and Manufacturing industries
1035 Sriram Ganapathy Can Acoustics Research aid Covid-19 Diagnostics ?
8 Deep Learning and Information Theory
(July 22 (Wednesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Prathosh A.P.(IITD) 1036 Vineeth N. Balasubramanian Explainable Deep Learning
1037 Himanshu Asnani The Landscape of Conditional Mutual Information Estimation
1038 Sreeram Kannan Learning in Gated Neural Networks.
1039 Rishabh Iyer Combinatorial Information Measures with Applications to Machine Learning
1040 Prathosh A.P Optimality of the Latent Space in Variational Neural Generative Models
9 Neuromorphic Signal Processing and Applications
(July 21 (Tuesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Chetan Singh Thakur (IISc),
Anirban Chakraborty (IISc)
1041 Shantanu Chakrabartty Mixed-signal Neuromorphic Dynamics using Growth-transform Neurons
1042 Arindam Basu Hybrid event-frame approaches to Efficient Object Tracking using Neuromorphic Vision Sensors
1043 Saeed Afshar Event-based Space Situational Awareness
1044 Ying Xu Neuromorphic Auditory Signal Processing and Applications
1045 Ashish Rao Mangalore Object Scanning and the Dynamic Vision Sensor
10 Industry Track
(July 23 (Thursday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Sri Garimella (ML@Amazon),
Lokesh Boregowda (Samsung R&D Bangalore),
Jay Gubbi (TCS R&I Bangalore),
Ganesan Thiagarajan (MMRFICTechnology)
1046 Sarma Gunturi Wideband RF Sampling Transceivers for High Performance 5G Wireless Base Stations
1047 Raghavan Subramanian Video Analytics: Technology, Applications and Deployment Challenges
1048 Harish Arsikere Amazon Alexa: Challenges in Speech Recognition and Potential Solutions
1049 A Anil Kumar Sub-Nyquist Sensing Architectures for White-Space Detection
1050 Rajeev Jain 5G+AI: The Ingredients Fueling Tomorrow’s Technology Innovations
1051 Krishna A. G. From Human Drivers to Autonomous Vehicles -- Making Roads Safer
1052 Umakishore G. S. V. 5G RAN Virtualization
11 Autonomous Navigation
(July 22 (Wednesday), 15:45 to 17:15)
Suresh Sundaram (IISc)
Raghu Krishnapuram (IISc)
1053 P. B. Sujit Cooperative UAV-UGV Team for Coverage and Monitoring Applications
1054 Savitha Ramasamy Continual Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
1055 Subramanian Anbumani IDD - A Driving Dataset for and from India
1056 Subhashis Banerjee A Monocular SLAM based Joint 3D-2D based Method for Free Space Detection on Roads
1057 Vikas Sindhwani Flying, Driving and Walking Robots that Learn from Experience
1063 Kumar Vijay Mishra Automotive Radar Detection and Imaging with MIMO Signal Processing
12 Deep Learning for Computer Vision
(July 23 (Thursday), 15:45 to 17:15)
R. Venkatesh Babu (IISc),
Anirban Chakraborty (IISc)
1058 Arjun Jain What Does it Take to Build an Autonomous Car?
1059 Varun Jampani Content-Adaptive Convolutional Neural Networks
1060 Makarand Tapaswi Machine Understanding of Social Situations
1061 Anand Mishra Reading Text in Scene Images, Bridging it to World Knowledge, and Beyond
1062 Konda Reddy Mopuri Dataset Condensation for Efficient DNN Training

Tutorials

Tutorial ID Speaker(s) Format Title Session Chair
T1 Prof. Emanuele Viterbo, Dr. Yi Hong and Dr. Raviteja Patchava (ECSE Department, Monash University) Pre-recorded with live Q&A Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) Modulation and Applications A. Chockalingam
(IISc)
T2 Prof. Sreeram Kannan, (University of Washington, Seattle) and Dr. Hyeji Kim (Samsung AI Research Cambridge) Live Communication Algorithms Via Deep Learning
Lalitha Vadlamani
(IIIT Hyderabad)
T3 Prof. Alessandro Foi, Tampere University, Finland
Live Signal-Dependent and Correlated Noise in Direct and Inverse Imaging: from Modelling to Parameter Estimation and Practical Filtering Soma Biswas
(IISc)
T4 Dr. Srikanth Subramanian, Nanocell Networks Private Limited Live 5G cellular wireless and IEEE 802.11ax based WiFi 6; a comparison Chandra Murthy
(IISc)
T5 Prof. Jean-Francois ChamberlandProf. Krishna Narayanan, Texas A & M University
Pre-recorded with live Q&A Algorithms for Coded Random Access and Inference in Large Dimensional Spaces - Bridging Fundamental Limits and Practical Schemes
Parimal Parag
(IISc)
T6 Prof. Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, RIKEN Center for AI Project, Tokyo, Japan
Pre-recorded with live Q&A Deep Learning with Bayesian Principles
Vineeth Balasubramanian
(IIT Hyderabad)
T7 Prof. Geert Leus, Prof. Elvin Isufi and Mario Coutino
(Delft University of Technology)
Pre-recorded with live Q&A Graph Signal Processing: Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning
Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri
(IISc)
T8 Prof. Vinod Sharma, Indian Institute of Science, Prof. Arun Padakandla, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Live Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Shayan Srinivas Garani
(IISc)