SPCOM2022

DAY 5: JULY 15 (Friday)

Contributed Talks 13: Sparse Signal Processing

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

Session Chair: Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur

Micro-Doppler Parameter Estimation Using Variational Mode Decomposition With Finite Rate of Innovation
Shrikant Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay); Adway Girish (IIT Bombay); Darin Jeff (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay); Garweet Sresth (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay); Sanket Bhalerao (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay); C.H. Srinivas Rao (DRDO); P Radhakrishna (DRDO); Vikram M Gadre (IIT Bombay)

On the Effective Sample Complexity for Exact Sparse Recovery from Sequential Linear Measurements
Samrat Mukhopadhyay (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)

A Multi-Stage Constant False-Alarm Rate Detector for Millimeter Wave Radars
Ganesan Thiagarajan (MMRFIC Tech. Pvt. Ltd.); Shilpa Hosur (PES University); Sanjeev Gurugopinath (PES University)

Randomized Simultaneous Hard Thresholding Pursuit Algorithm for Multiple Measurement Vectors
Ketan Atul Bapat (IIT Kharagpur); Mrityunjoy Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur)

Smart Device Localization Under α-KMS Fading Environment using Feedback Distance based Gradient Ascent
Aditya Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Patna); Ankur Pandey; Dr Sudhir Kumar (IIT Patna)

Invited Session 7: Networks 2

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

Session Chair: Krishna Jagannathan, IIT Madras

Title: Developing online learning techniques to design efficient edge caching policies

Speaker: Ness B. Shroff, The Ohio State University

Time: 9:30-10:00



Title: Mean Field Control (MFC) as an Approximation for Cooperative Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL)

Speaker: Vaneet Aggarwal, Purdue University

Time: 10:00-10:30


Title: Regret-Optimal Online Caching for Adversarial and Stochastic Arrivals

Speaker: Sharayu Moharir, IIT Bombay

Time: 10:30-11:00

Contributed Talks 14: Audio and Speech Signal Processing 3

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

Session Chair: Hemant Arjun Patil, DA-IICT Gandhinagar

AbS for ASR: A New Computational Perspective
Vikram R Lakkavalli (IIITB-Bangalore)

Binaural Spatial Transform for Multi-source Localisation determining Angular Extent of Ensemble Source Width
Arthi S (IISc, Bangalore); Thippur Sreenivas (IISc)

Significance of excitation source sequence information for Speaker Verification
Ayush Agarwal (IIT Dharwad); Jagabandhu Mishra (IIT DHarwad); Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad)

Extracting Video-Based Breath Signal For Detection of Out-of-breath Speech
Sibasis Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati); Samarendra Dandapat (Indian Institute of technology Guwahati)

Sensitivity Analysis of MaskCycleGAN based Voice Conversion for Enhancing Cleft Lip and Palate Speech Recognition
Susmita Bhattacharjee (IIT Guwahati); Rohit Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

Plenary Talk 3: A light in digital darkness - Free space optics to connect the unconnected

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

Session Chair: KJ Vinoy, IISc Bangalore

Title: A light in digital darkness: Free space optics to connect the unconnected (Talk details)

Speaker: Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST

Platinum Sponsor Keynote: What goes behind an Intelligent Camera? by Kiran Nanjunda Iyer, Samsung

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

Session Chair: KJ Vinoy, IISc Bangalore

Contributed Talks 15: Terahertz Communications and RF Systems

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

Session Chair: Priyanka Das, IIIT Bangalore

Smart Beam Steering with a Slot-Loaded Miniaturized Patch Antenna
Paramita Saha (Jadavpur University); Jagabandhu Das (SAMEER, Kolkata); PALANIANDAVAR VENKATESWARAN (Dept. of E.T.C.E., JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY)

C-Band Iris Coupled Cavity Bandpass Filter
Shashank Soi (DRDO); Sushil Singh (DRDO); Rajendra Singh (DRDO)

A Wideband Bandpass Filter using U-shaped slots on SIW with two Notches at 8 GHz and 10 GHz
Saragadam Siva Teja (National Institute of Technology Calicut); Tadikonda Jayanth (National Institute of Technology Calicut); Ramapuram Ajay Reddy (National Institute of Technology Calicut); Kanumetta Bhargava Ramanujam (National Institute of Technology Calicut); Shameer Keelaillam (National Institute of Technology calicut); Lalit Kumar (NIT Calicut)

Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Terahertz Communications
Hemnta Kumar (IIT (BHU) Varanasi); Sanjeev Sharma (IIT BHU); Kuntal Deka (IIT Guwahati); Vimal Bhatia (IIT Indore)

Contributed Talks 16: Image and Video Processing

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

Session Chair: Soma Biswas, IISc Bangalore

Employee Face Recognition Scheme Using A Common Space Mapping Approach
Arsalan Malik (BITS Pilani, Pilani); Hrishikesh G Kusneniwar (BITS Pilani, Goa); Sandeep Joshi (BITS Pilani)

BVRIQE: A Completely Blind No Reference Virtual Reality Image Quality Evaluator
Ajay kumar reddy Poreddy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kanchepuram); Balasubramanyam Appina (IIITDM Kancheepuram)

Low-level Bias discovery and Mitigation for Image Classification
Vartika Sengar (TCS Research); Vivek B S (TCS Research); Gaurab Bhattacharya (TCS Research); Jayavardhana Gubbi (TCS Research); Arpan Pal (Tata Consultancy Services); Balamuralidhar P (Tata Consultancy Services)

Integrated Hierarchical and Flat Classifiers for Food Image Classification using Epistemic Uncertainty
Vishwesh Pillai (Electronics and Communications Engg, VNIT); Pranav Mehar (Electronics and Communications Engg, VNIT); Manisha Das (Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VNIT Nagpur); Deep Gupta (VNIT Nagpur); Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona)

Patch Level Segmentation and Visualization of Capsule Network Inference for Breast Metastases Detection
"Richa Malviya Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur); Arif Ahmed Sekh (UiT The Arctic University of Norway); Debi Prosad Dogra (IIT Bhubaneswar); Pranab Kumar Dan (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur )"

Contributed Talks 17: Audio and Signal Processing 4

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

Session Chair: Sriram Ganapathy, IISc Bangalore

Significance of Distance Measures for Speaker Anonymization
Gauri P Prajapati (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Dipesh Kumar Singh (Scribetech India Pvt. Ltd.); Hemant Patil (DAICT, Gujrat)

Exploring High Spectro-Temporal Resolution for Alzheimer's Dementia Detection
Nayan Anand Vats (IIIT Hyderabad); Purva Barche (IIIT Hyderabad); Sai Ganesh Mirishkar (IIIT Hyderabad); Anil Vuppala (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)

Noisy Student Teacher Training with Self Supervised Learning for Children ASR
Shreya S. Chaturvedi (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Hardik B Sailor (DA-IICT); Hemant Patil (DAICT, Gujrat)

Instantaneous Fundamental Frequency Estimation From Speech Using Fourier Decomposition Method
Pushpendra Singh (NIT Hamirpur); Amit Singhal (NSUT); Binish Fatimah (CMRIT)

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)

Contributed Talks 18: Communications 5

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

Session Chair: Priyanka Das, IIIT Bangalore

Joint Optimization of Network Lifetime and SNR in UAV-Assisted Edge Networks
Shraddha Tripathi (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur); Om Jee Pandey (Indian Institute of Technology BHU); Rajesh M Hegde (IIT Kanpur)

Energy-Based Maximum Likelihood Detector for GSSK in MIMO-ABC Systems
Ashwini H Raghavendra (PES University); Anagha K Kowshik (PES University); Sanjeev Gurugopinath (PES University); Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University); Chintha Tellambura (University of Alberta)

Digital Beamforming with Digital Predistortion using Xilinx RF SoC ZCU216
Dusari Nageswara Rao (IIT Roorkee); Shipra Shipra (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee); Meenakshi Rawat (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)

Contributed Talks 19: Coding and Security

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

Session Chair: Lalitha Vadlamani, IIIT Hyderabad

Some Properties and Constructions of Weakly Self Dual LRCs
Deep Mukhopadhyay (National Institute of Technology Durgapur); Kalyan Hansda (Visva-Bharati University); Satya Bagchi (National Institute of Technology Durgapur)

On the Error Exponents for Common Message Broadcasting over DMCs with Feedback
ABHISHEK SARKAR (IIT, BOMBAY); Bikash Kumar Dey (IIT Bombay); Sibi Raj B Pillai (IIT Bombay)

Low-Complexity Compression with Random Access
Kamparaju Srikanth (IIT Hyderabad ); Mastan Shaik (IIT Hyderabad); Shashank Vatedka (IIT Hyderabad)

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)

Secret-Key Based Non-Coherent Signalling to Mitigate Reactive Injection Attacks
Neha Goel (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi); Vivek Chaudhary (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi); J Harshan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)

Contributed Talks 20: Audio and Speech Signal Processing

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

Session Chair: Hemant Arjun Patil, DA-IICT Gandhinagar

EHTNet: Twin-pooled CNN with Empirical Mode Decomposition and Hilbert Spectrum for Acoustic Scene Classification
Aswathy Madhu (College of Engineering, Trivandrum); Suresh K (College of Engineering Trivandrum)

Joint DOA Estimation in Spherical Harmonics Domain using Low Complexity CNN
Priyadarshini Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur); Raj Prakash Gohil (Fraunhofer IDMT); Gyanajyoti Routray (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur); Vishnuvardhan Varanasi V (Enphase); Rajesh M Hegde (IIT Kanpur)

Upscaling HOA Signals using Order Recursive Matching Pursuit in Spherical Harmonics Domain
Gyanajyoti Routray (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur); Sumit Kumar Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology, kanpur ); Rajesh M Hegde (IIT Kanpur)

Robustness of DAS Beamformer Over MVDR for Replay Attack Detection On Voice Assistants
Piyushkumar K. Chodingala (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Shreya S. Chaturvedi (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology); Ankur Patil (DA-IICT GANDHINAGAR GUJARAT); Hemant Patil (DAICT, Gujrat)

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)

DOA Estimation using Multiclass-SVM in Spherical Harmonics Domain
Priyadarshini Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur); Gyanajyoti Routray (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur); Rajesh M Hegde (IIT Kanpur)