SPCOM2022

DAY 3: JULY 13 (Wednesday)

Contributed Talks 1: Communications 1

Venue: MP 20, Time: 9:30 - 11:00

Session Chair: Sarvendranath, IIT Guwahati

A Novel Method for Millimetre-Wave Channel Estimation for 1-bit Quantized Receivers using Low-Rank Matrix Constraints
Swati Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru); KVS Hari (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Semi-Blind Technique for Frequency Selective Channel Estimation in Millimeter-Wave MIMO Coded FBMC System
Murali Krishna Pavuluri (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Prem Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur); Vikram M Gadre (IIT Bombay)

Optimal Training Design for Channel Estimation in MIMO Single/Multi Carrier Block Transmission Systems
Manjeer Majumder (Nokia); Amrita Mishra (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore); Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur)

Low-Complexity Blind Hybrid Beamforming for mmWave MIMO Reception
Yash Vasavada (DAIICT); Aarushi Dhami (DA-IICT, Gandhinagar); Jeffrey H. Reed (Virginia Tech); Nemin Shah (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology)

Millimeter Wave Hybrid MIMO System Channel Estimation Using Variable Step Size Zero Attracting LMS
Vidya Bhasker Shukla (IIT Indore); Rangeet Mitra (Ecole De Technologie Superieure University of Quebec, Montreal QC H3C 1K3, Canada); Vimal Bhatia (IIT Indore)

Invited Session 1: Machine Learning

Venue: ECE GJH, Time: 9:30 - 11:00

Session Chair: Aditya Gopalan, IISc Bangalore

Title: Completely Blind Quality Assessment of User Generated Video Content

Speaker: Sumohana S. Channappayya, IIT Hyderabad

Time: 9:30-10:00


Title: Inferring Road Information from Crowd-sourced Vehicle Sensor Data

Speaker: Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Time: 10:00-10:30


Title: Reverse Experience Replay: An Efficient Way to Learn with Dependent Data

Speaker: Praneeth Netrapalli, Google Research India

Time: 10:30-11:00

Contributed Talks 2: Audio Signal Processing 1

Venue: ECE 1.08, Time: 9:30 - 11:00

Session Chair: Prathosh A P, IISc Bangalore

Investigating Synchronized Optical Ballistocardiography vs Electrocardiography for Pathological and Healthy Adults
Prachee Priyadarshinee (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Balamurali B T (Singapore University of Technology & Design); Jer-Ming Chen (Singapore University of Technology & Design); Cindy Lin (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Yixian Tan (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Christopher Johann Clarke (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Colin Yeo (Changi General Hospital); Siang Chew Chai (Changi General Hospital); Vern Hsen Tan (Changi General Hospital); Enyi Tan (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

Foreground-Background Audio Separation using Spectral Peaks based Time-Frequency Masks
Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati); Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad); Prithwijit Guha (IIT Guwahati)

Improving the Performance of Zero-Resource Children's ASR System through Formant and Duration Modification based Data Augmentation
Syed Shahnawazuddin (National Institute of Technology Patna); VINIT KUMAR (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi); Avinash Kumar (NIT Sikkim); Waquar Ahmad (National Institute of Technology Calicut)

USS DIRECTED E2E SPEECH SYNTHESIS FOR INDIAN LANGUAGES
Sudhanshu Srivastava (IIT Madras); Hema A Murthy (IIT Madras)

Using Performance of ASR to Compute Optimal Location of Microphone
Karan Nathwani (Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu); Bhavya Dixit (Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu); Sunil Kumar Kopparapu (TCS Research)

Plenary Talk 1: Information Theoretic Data Privacy

Venue: Faculty Hall, Time: 11:30 - 13:00

Session Chair: Rajesh Sundaresan, IISc Bangalore

Title: Information Theoretic Data Privacy (Talk details)

Speaker: Prakash Narayan, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland College Park, MD

Contributed Talks 3: Communications 2

Venue: MP 20, Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Session Chair: Sudhan Majhi, IISc Bangalore

An Information Transmission Scheme for RIS-Aided Wireless Communication Network
Ugrasen Singh (IIT Delhi); Manav Bhatnagar (IIT Delhi)

Frequency reconfigurable module aided multi-carrier communication through RIS
Shivani Dhok (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology); Prabhat Kumar Sharma (VNIT-Nagpur)

Fluidically Reconfigurable SIW Based Self-Diplexing Antenna for Sub-6 GHz band Applications.
Goutham Reddy Mettu (NIT Tiruchirappalli); NRUSINGHA Charan PRADHAN (NIT Trichy); Karthikeyan S. S. (NIT Tiruchirappalli)

Binary Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Assisted OFDM Systems
L Yashvanth (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore); Chandra Murthy (Indian Institute of Science); Battu Deepak (Qualcomm Inc.)

Channel estimation for double IRS assisted broadband single-user SISO communication
Vishnu Karthikeya Gorty (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)

Invited Session 2: Networks 1

Venue: ECE GJH, Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Session Chair: Rahul Singh, IISc Bangalore

Title: Monte Carlo Tree Search for Simultaneous Ascending Auctions

Speaker: Marceau Coupechoux, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Time: 14:00-14:30


Title: DASH-aware Scheduling in Cellular Network

Speaker: Albert Sunny, IIT Palakkad

Time: 14:30-15:00


Title: Extinction Times of Epidemics with State-Dependent Infectiousness

Speaker: Avhishek Chatterjee, IIT Madras

Time: 15:00-15:30

Contributed Talks 4: Bio-Medical Image Processing

Venue: ECE 1.08, Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Session Chair: Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula, IISc Bangalore

Modified U-Net Based Covid-19 Lesion Segmentation Using CT Scans
Gopika Gopan K (IIITB); Pavan Sudeesh (IIITB); Neelam Sinha (IIIT Bangalore)

Fast detection of sulcal regions for classification of Alzheimer’s disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Abhinav Dhere (International Institute of Information Technology); Vikas Vazhayil (National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Science); Jayanthi Sivaswamy (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)

Long Short-Term Memory Model Based Microaneurysm Sequence Classification in Fundus Images
Renuka Acharya (IIT Bhubaneswar); Niladri B Puhan (IIT Bhubaneswar)

Computer-aided Cataract Grading Under Adversarial Environment
Turimerla Pratap (Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai); Priyanka Kokil (Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai)

Automatic Depression Detection Based on Merged Convolutional Neural Networks using Facial Features
Renuka Acharya (IIT Bhubaneswar); Soumya P Dash (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar)

Graduation Day Forum

Venue: MP 30, Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Session Chair: TBA

Appearance Based Gaze Estimation
LRD Murthy (IISc)

Byzantine Multiple Access Channel
Neha Sangwan (TIFR)

Low Latency Replication Codes For Memory Constrained Servers
Rooji Jinan (IISc)

A general scheduling problem for minimizing the Age of Information
Kumar Saurav (TIFR)

OTFS Transceiver Design and Sparse Doubly Selective CSI Estimation in Analog and Hybrid Beamforming Aided mmWave MIMO Systems
Suraj Srivastava (IIT-K)

Channel Modeling of Molecular Communication Systems with Multiple Fully Absorbing Receivers
Nithin Sabu (IIT-K)

Contributed Talks 5: Machine Learning

Venue: MP 20, Time: 16:00 - 17:30

Session Chair: Sandeep Kumar, IIT Delhi

Robustifying GNN Via Weighted Laplacian
Bharat Runwal (Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Delhi); Vivek Dahiya (Samsung Research Bangalore); Sandeep Kumar (IIT Delhi)

Increasing Transferability by Imposing Linearity and Perturbation in Intermediate Layer with Diverse Input Patterns
Meet A Shah (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Srimanta Mandal (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Shruti Bhilare (DAIICT); AVIK HATI (Dhirubhai Institute of Information and Communication Technology)

On safe sequential optimization using posterior sampling.
Pratik Kar (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology); Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum); S. Sumitra (IIST)

Generating Targeted Adversarial Attacks and Assessing their Effectiveness in Fooling Deep Neural Networks
Shivangi B Gajjar (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); AVIK HATI (Dhirubhai Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Shruti Bhilare (DAIICT); Srimanta Mandal (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology)

On Comparison of Encoders for Attention based End to End Speech Recognition in Standalone and Rescoring Mode
Raviraj Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology Madras); Subodh Kumar (Flipkart)

A unified neural MRA architecture combining wavelet CNN and wavelet pooling for Texture classification
Kishore K Tarafdar (EE, IIT Bombay); Qutubuddin Saifee (LSI India R&D Pvt. Ltd. (Broadcom)); Vikram Gadre (IIT Bombay)

Invited Session 3: 5G and Beyond Wireless Communications

Venue: ECE GJH, Time: 16:00 - 17:30

Session Chair: Ranjan Mallik, IIT Delhi

Title: RIS-aided OTFS Modulation

Speaker: A. Chockalingam, IISc Bangalore

Time: 16:00-16:30


Title: Environmental AI: From Programmable Metamaterials to Autonomous Reconfigurable Metasurfaces

Speaker: George C. Alexandropoulos, University of Athens

Time: 16:30-17:00


Title: Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for Wireless Communications

Speaker: Marco DI Renzo, CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University

Time: 17:00-17:30

Contributed Talks 6: Bio Signal Processing

Venue: ECE 1.08, Time: 16:00 - 17:30

Session Chair: Saif K. Mohammed, IIT Delhi

A two-stage classification strategy to reduce the effect of wrist orientation in surface myoelectric pattern recognition
Pratap Kumar Koppolu (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal); Krishnan CMC (NITK Surathkal)

Analysis of EEG for Parkinson's Disease Detection
Darshil Shah (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore); Gopika Gopan K (IIITB); Neelam Sinha (IIIT Bangalore)

An Efficient Framework to Automatic Extract EOG Artifacts from Single Channel EEG Recordings
Murali Y Krishna (JNTUK); Vinay Kumar Pamula (University College of Engineering Kakinada)

A Hierarchical Approach for Decoding Human Reach-and-Grasp Activities based on EEG Signals
Anish Turlapaty (IIIT Sri City); Bhagyasree Kanuparthi (IIIT Sri City)

Hilbert Vibration Decomposition of Seismocardiogram for HR and HRV Estimation
Moirangthem James Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati); L N Sharma (Indian Institute of technology Guwahati); Samarendra Dandapat (Indian Institute of technology Guwahati)

Gait Recognition under Different Covariate Conditions using Deep Learning Technique
Iman Junaid (NIT, Rourkela); Samit Ari (NIT, Rourkela)

Student paper contest

Venue: ECE Foyer, Time: 18:00 - 19:30

Poster ID Paper title Authors
1 Robustifying GNN Via Weighted Laplacian Bharat Runwal (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi); Vivek Dahiya (Samsung Research Bangalore); Sandeep Kumar (IIT Delhi)
2 Semi-Blind Technique for Frequency Selective Channel Estimation in Millimeter-Wave MIMO Coded FBMC System Murali Krishna Pavuluri (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Prem Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur); Vikram M Gadre (IIT Bombay)
3 On safe sequential optimization using posterior sampling Pratik Kar (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology); Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum); S. Sumitra (IIST)
4 On Effect of Different Sequence Distributions on ISI in an MCvD System Tamoghno Nath (IIT Kanpur); Krishna Gopal Benerjee (IIT Kanpur); Adrish Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
5 Morse Wavelet Features for Pop Noise Detection Priyanka Gupta (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Piyushkumar K. Chodingala (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Hemant Patil (DAICT, Gujrat)
6 A Feedback Capacity-Achieving Coding Scheme for the $(d,\infty)$-RLL Input-Constrained Binary Erasure Channel V Arvind Rameshwar (Indian Institute of Science); Navin Kashyap (IISc)
7 Opinion Dynamics in the Presence of Bots Ashish Shukla (IIT Bombay); Neeraja Sahasrabudhe (IISER Mohali); Sharayu Moharir (IIT Bombay)
8 Issues on Sub-Utterance Level Language Identification in a Code Switched Bilingual Scenario Jagabandhu Mishra (IIT Dharwad); Joshitha Gandra (IIT Dharwad); Vaishnavi Patil (IIT Dharwad); Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad)