Wavelet Signal Image Processing Lab

Wavelet Signal Image Processing Lab Mukesh Motwani (mukesh[At]image-process.com) Image Process Technology (IPT), Inc. Reno, Nevada. USA 22nd May 2004

Goals • Involve software in every aspect of engineering. Introduce software assignments and software projects for courses. • Explore the use of wavelets in all fields of science with emphasis on speech, image processing and computer vision. • Improve student understanding of concepts by introducing online courses related to wavelets.

Goals • Take intra-department projects to setup a framework for future projects. • Add features to the VIT website by asking students to take projects. • Start foundation for a Robotics & Parallel Processing Lab • Development of low cost technologies to assist the blind and the poor.

Invitation for students • Students are invited to take projects involving use of FPGA toolkit, Lego Robotics toolkit and Fingerprint sensors • Students should research the hardware and then IPT will purchase and donate the equipment to VIT. • Equipment to be made available by Feb 2005.

Invitation for students • Projects involving .NET are invited for students from Computer Engineering • SE/TE Students from Instrumentation, Mechanical, Elex, Computer Engineering are invited to start development on building a robot. Funding available up to $200 per year for a period of 3 years.

Invitation for students • Funding available up to $1000 for student building tools and technologies for child development and disabled people.

Equipment to be added • Web cameras • FPGA kit • Fingerprint Sensor • Lego Mindset Robotics toolkit.

All the equipment will donated to VIT and will be part of VIT’s infrastructure. • IPT will hold all ownership rights to any intellectual property that is developed during the course of the project. • Priority to students taking projects to use the equipment.

Prize Structure • Image Process Technology (IPT) Inc, will award $100 for each group of students taking a research project. However, if more than 5 groups are participating in a year, then 3 prizes of $300, $150, $50 will be awarded along with a complimentary prize of $20 to each group. No prize awarded for non-research based projects.

Outstanding Researcher / Teacher of the Year Award • IPT wishes to give a prize of $100 to any teacher from the ELEX department who tries new methods in teaching or publishes in IEEE conferences/ journal. • Recipient of the award to be decided by the students and HOD.

Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005 • Speech Processing • Microsoft Speech Server performance evaluation • Gender Classification of Speech using SVM or Hybrid SVM/HMM • Speech Verification • Wavelet analysis for speech • Indian Languages classification using speech • Factor Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling Analysis for Speech

Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005 • Design of DSP filters on FPGA • Implementation of DSP architecture on FPGA • Digital Circuit Design using FPGA • Minesweeper using Lego Robotics toolkit

Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005 • Computer Vision • Face Recognition • Face Detection • Fingerprint identification • Kernel PCA for Human Pose detection • Object Pose Estimation • Human Motion Detection • Motion Detection and Tracking

Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005 • Applications of Wavelets in • Communication • Finance • Finite Element Analysis • Computer Graphics • Fluid Dynamics • Power Electronics

Suggested Project Topics for 2004-2005 • Computer Graphics • 3D Game Engine evaluation • Creating a 3D Game • Surface Modeling using Subdivision • Mesh Streaming Server

Suggested Non-research Project Topics for 2004-2005 • Online VIT library management • Web based Email using .NET • Web service using .NET and Java • Advanced Data Structures Tutorial using STL • Projects involving COM and .NET • Projects involving DirectX

Achievements by students of the Lab • Accepted for publication in Sept 2004. “Survey of Image Denoising Techniques”, Mukesh Motwani, Mukesh Gadiya, Rakhi Motwani, Fred Harris, “International Signal Processing Conference” (ISPC) at GSPx, Santa Clara, USA. • 2003-2004: “Voice print for watermarking 3D models”, Milind Choudhary, Parth Nilawar. Awarded second prize for the Inter-college Project poster competition at PICT,Pune.Awarded First prize at Projec2x4. • 2002-2003 : "Image Denoising", Mukesh Gadiya, Mahesh Dumbre Awarded second prize in the Inter-college Project Exhibition Competition held at Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune • 2001-2002 :"Gender Classification", Naresh Dusane,Mangesh Bhujpal,Sahil D'Mello. Awarded Consolation prize in the Inter-college Project Exhibition Competition held at Cummins College of Engg, Pune

Wavelet Signal Image Processing Lab