SPCOM2022

DAY 4: JULY 14 (Thursday)

Contributed Talks 7: Image and Video Processing 1

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

Session Chair: Sumohana S. Channappayya, IIT Hyderabad

FAR-GAN: Color-controlled Fashion Apparel Regeneration
Gaurab Bhattacharya (TCS Research); Kuruvilla Abraham (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd); Nikhil Kilari (TCS Research); Bagyalakshmi Vasudevan (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd); Jayavardhana Gubbi (TCS Research)

Indic Visual Question Answering
Aditya C (National Institute of Technology Karnataka); Amey V Shimpi (National Institute of Technology Karnataka ); Dinesh Naik (National Institute of Technology Karnataka)

REAL TIME SMART MUSIC PLAYER USING FACIAL EXPRESSION
Harika Natha (NIT WARANGAL); Dr. T.Kishore Kumar (National Institute of Technology, Warangal)

Navigational Aid for Open-Ended Surveillance, by Fusing Estimated Depth and Scene Segmentation Maps, Using RGB Images of Indoor Scenes
Binoy Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Madras); Sukhendu Das (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras); Neha Sah (IIT-Madras)

Temporal Surgical Gesture Segmentation and Classification in Multi-gesture Robotic Surgery using Fine-tuned features and Calibrated MS-TCN
Snigdha Agarwal (IIIT Bangalore); Sai Pradeep Chakka (IIITB); Neelam Sinha (IIIT Bangalore)

Invited Session 4: Signal Processing

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

Session Chair: Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur

Title: Distributed Inference and Information Fusion in Human-Sensor Networks

Speaker: Pramod K. Varshney, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University

Time: 9:30-10:00


Title: Unimodal Function Optimization from Incomplete Samples: One Shot Methods, Exploration & Exploitation

Speaker: Urbashi Mitra, USC Viterbi

Time: 10:00-10:30


Title: Beyond Convex Relaxations for (non-convex) Super-resolution: Theory and Algorithms

Speaker: Piya Pal, University of California, San Diego

Time: 10:30-11:00

Contributed Talks 8: Communications 3

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

Session Chair: Sarvendranath, IIT Guwahati

Outage Performance of Optimal Relay and Antenna Selection Schemes with TAS/MRC and TAS/SC for Spectrum-Sharing Network under Imperfect CSI
Appalla Lakshmi Prathyusha (IIIT Bangalore); Priyanka Das (IIIT Bangalore)

Secrecy Performance with Optimal Relay and Antenna Selection in Spectrum-Sharing Networks
Priyanka Das (IIIT Bangalore); Pradyumna Hegade (IIITB)

On the Performance of Mixed RF-VLC Relaying Systems for HST Communication
RUPENDER SINGH (Qatar University); Elias Yaacoub (Qatar University)

Reinforcement Learning for Spectrum Prediction and EE Maximization in D2D Communication
Santi P. Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur); Koushik Sinha (Southern Illinois University Carbondale); Bhabani P Sinha (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata India); Reema Kumari (IIEST Shibpur)

Sum Rate and Outage Performance of Relay-Aided NOMA Over Power Line Communication
Roopesh Ramesh (PES University); Sanjeev Gurugopinath (PES University)

Plenary Talk 2: Learning to Simply Ultrasound

Venue: Faculty Hall, Time: 11:30 - 12:30

Session Chair: KVS Hari, IISc Bangalore

Title: Learning to Simply Ultrasound (Talk details)

Speaker: Alison Noble, Technikos Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, UK

Diamond Sponsor Keynote: The Essential Role of AI in the 5G Future by Kapil Bhattad, Qualcomm

Venue: Faculty Hall, Time: 12:30 - 13:00

Session Chair: KVS Hari, IISc Bangalore

Contributed Talks 9: Networks and Sensors

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

Session Chair: Chandramani Singh, IISc Bangalore

Cognitive Molecular Communication Inside a Cylindrical Diffusive Channel
Shivani Dhok (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology); Paritosh D Peshwe (IIIT, Nagpur); Prabhat Kumar Sharma (VNIT-Nagpur)

Predictive Analysis on Apodized FBG for Quasi-Distributed Temperature-Strain Sensing
HIMADRI NIRJHAR MANDAL (BIT MESRA, RANCHI)

Extended TLS: Masking Server Host Identity on the Internet Using Encrypted TLS Handshake
Vinod Mr. Khandkar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Manjesh Kumar Hanawal (IIT Bombay)

Energy-Efficient UAV Trajectory Planning in Rechargeable IoT Networks
ADITYA SINGH (IIT KANPUR); SURENDER REDHU (UIA Norway); Rajesh M Hegde (IIT Kanpur)

Opinion Dynamics in the Presence of Bots
Ashish Shukla (IIT Bombay); Neeraja Sahasrabudhe (IISER Mohali); Sharayu Moharir (IIT Bombay)

Invited Session 5: Sensing and Communications

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

Session Chair: Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri, IISc Bangalore

Title: Scaling the “mostly digital” paradigm to mmWave massive MIMO

Speaker: Upamanyu Madhow, University of California, Santa Barbara

Time: 14:00-14:30


Title: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Waveform Optimization in Integrated Sensing and Communications Systems

Speaker: Visa Koivunen, Aalto University, Finland

Time: 14:30-15:00


Title: Integrated Sensing and Communications: Signalling, Applications and Trade-offs

Speaker: Christos Masouros, University College of London

Time: 15:00-15:30

Contributed Talks 10: Optical Communications

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

Session Chair: Abhishek Gupta, IIT Kanpur

Performance Analysis of Interference Limited Hybrid FSO/RF Systems
Kirubakaran S (IIITDM Kancheepuram); M D SELVARAJ (IIITDM Kancheepuram)

Biquad filter based equalization for MA SI-POF links
Raju D Kamble (IIT Bombay); Kumar Appaiah (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

Optimal temporal filtering for COW-QKD
Gautam Kumar Shaw (IIT Madras); Shyam Sridharan (IIT Madras); Anil Prabhakar (IIT Madras)

Deep Learning for THz Channel Estimation and Beamforming Prediction via Sub-6GHz Channel
Sagnik Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur); Abhishek Gupta (IIT Kanpur)

Contributed Talks 11: Communications 4

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

Session Chair: Ranjan Mallik, IIT Delhi

Channel Estimation Techniques for CP-Aided OTFS Systems Relying on Practical Pulse Shapes
Anand Mehrotra (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur); Rahul Kumar Singh (IIT Kanpur); Suraj Srivastava (IIT Kanpur); Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur)

Performance Analysis of Uplink NOMA-Assisted Full-Duplex Amplify-and-Forward CR Network
Shailendra Singh (PD-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing); Matadeen Bansal (IIITDM)

Constellation Designs for the Spatial Modulation MIMO Systems for Improved Reliability of the Information Transfer in the Spatial Dimension
Yash Vasavada (DAIICT); Bibin Baby John (DA IICT)

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)

Capacity Analysis of Millimeter-Wave Fading Interference Channels with Beam Misalignment
Shajahan M Kutty (Goa College of Engineering)

Invited Session 6: Imaging and Signal Processing

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

Session Chair: Soma Biswas, IISc Bangalore

Title: Timing is everything: Sparse Sampling based on Time-Encoding Machines

Speaker: Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College London

Time: 16:00-16:30


Title: Explainable AI Models for ECG Data Analysis

Speaker: Anubha Gupta, IIIT Delhi

Time: 16:30-17:00


Title: Domain adaptive object detection

Speaker: Vishal M Patel, Johns Hopkins University

Time: 17:00-17:30

Contributed Talks 12: Audio and Signal Processing 2

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

Session Chair: Sriram Ganapathy, IISc Bangalore

Artificial Bandwidth Extension Using H∞ Optimization, Deep Neural Network, and Speech Production Model
Deepika Gupta (IIT Guwahati); Hanumant Shekhawat (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

Classification of Cold and Non-Cold Speech Using Vowel-Like Region Segments
Pankaj C Warule (SVNIT Surat); Siba Prasad Mishra (SVNIT Surat); Dr. Suman Deb (NIT Surat)

Significance of filterbank structure for capturing dysarthric information through cepstral coefficients
Laxmi Priya Sahu (National Institute of technology Patna); Gayadhar Pradhan (NIT Patna)

Glottal instants extraction from speech signal using Deep Feature Loss
Supritha M Shetty (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad); Suraj Durgesht (Higher Studies); Deepak T (IIIT-Dharwad)

Speaker Anonymization for Machines using Sinusoidal Model
Ayush Agarwal (IIT Dharwad); Amitabh Swain (IIT Dharwad); Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad)

Panel Discussion

Venue: MP-20, Time: 18:00 - 19:30

Title: How comprehensive and relevant is today's SPCOM Research for building products and serving societal needs?

Speakers:
Dr. Aloknath De, Executive Consulting Director and ex-CTO, Samsung India (Moderator)
Dr. Santosh Kumar, MD, Texas Instruments Bangalore
Gireesh Rajendran, CEO, Steradian Semiconductor
Anindya Saha, CTO, Saankhya Labs
Dr. Geetha Manjunath, Founder and CEO, Niramai