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Journal Publications

2007-2008

1. G. Kannan, Mohit Garg, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, “MPOE Based Prefiltering and MRT Beamforming with Matched Filter Receiver for DS-CDMA Systems”, to appear in Springer: Wireless personal communications-2008

2. Sarath Gopi, G. Kannan, Deepthi Chander, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Path Unaware Layered Routing Protocol (PULRP) with Nonuniform Node Distribution for Underwater Sensor Networks”, to appear in Wiley: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing-2008

3. B. G. Jagyasi, B. K. Dey, S. N. Merchant, and U. B. Desai, "Weighted aggregation scheme with lifetime-accuracy tradeoff in wireless sensor network," International Journal on Information Processing, IJIP, vol. 1, no. 2, 2008

4. D.G. Khairnar, S.N. Merchant and U.B. Desai, “Radar Signal Detection In Non-Gaussian Noise Using RBF Neural Network” International Journal on Computers,Vol.03, No.01 2008, pp 32 - 39.

5. M. Jayalakshmi, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, Optimum Retrieval of Watermark from Wavelet Significant Pixels, to appear in IET Journal of Information Security

2005

  1. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Interacting Multiple Model Based Tracking of  Multiple  Point Targets using Expectation Maximization Algorithm in Infrared image sequence" Optical Engineering, vol. 44, no. 1, Jan. 2005.

  2. Mohit Garg, Umesh Nimbhorkar, U. B. Desai, S. N. Merchant, "Efficient Minimum Probability of Error Demodulation for DS-CDMA Systems", To appear in IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, March 2005.
     

International conferences

2007-2008

    1. G V V Sharma, Vijay Ganwani, U B Desai, S N Merchant, “Diversity in MIMO Relay Channels” 2008 IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference VTC-Fall- 2008,Calgary, Canada
   
    2. Yangcheng Huang, G. Kannan, Saleem Bhatti, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “Route Duration Statistics of Proactive Ad-hoc Networks Routing Protocol”, Wireless Telecommunication Symposiums WTS-2008, California, USA
   
    3. Sarath Gopi, G. Kannan, Deepthi Chander and S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “PULRP: Path Unaware Layered Routing Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks”, International Conference on Communications ICC-2008, Beijing, China-2008.
   
    4. G. Kannan, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “Access Mechanisms for Multihop Cellular Networks”, 2007 IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference VTC-Fall-2007, Baltimore, USA, pp. 279 - 283.
   
    5. G. Kannan, Mohit Garg, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “MPOE Prefiltering with Statistical Channel Model for DS-CDMA Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC-2007, June-2007, Glasgow, UK, pp. 2822- 2828.
   
    6. G. Kannan, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “Cross Layer Routing for Multihop Cellular Networks”, The 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (AINA-2007), May-2007, Niagara Falls, vol 2, pp. 165-170 
   
    7. G.S.Biradar, S.N.Merchant and U.B.Desai, "Adaptive Time Hopping PPM UWB Multiple Access Communication Schemes" in ISCIT Sydney Oct 2007
   
    8. G.S.Biradar, S.N.Merchant and U.B.Desai, "An Adaptive Frequency and Time Hopping PPM UWB for Multiple Access Communication" in ICICS Singapore Dec 2007
   
    9. N. V. Marathe, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Base Station Selection Strategy in Multihop Cellular Networks: A New Approach” International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Networking, 2008. ICSCN '08, pp 401 - 404
   
   10. N. V. Marathe, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “A new techno-business model for efficient utilization of wireless spectrum by online call forwarding leading towards fixed mobile convergence” IET International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2008, pp. 92 – 94
  
   11. Himanshu B. soni, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant Performance Evaluation of DS-CDMA Based OFDM Multiuser System for Ultra Wideband (UWB) Communication Second International Conference on Digital Telecommunications, 2007. ICDT '07 
          1-5 July 2007 pp 4 – 4
 
   12. Khairnar, Dilip Gopichand, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “Nonlinear Target Identification and Tracking Using UKF” IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, 2007. GRC 2007, 2-4 Nov. 2007 pp 761 – 761
 
    13. Mehta, P, Deepthi Chander, M Shahim,  Kalyana Tejaswi, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “Distributed Detection for Landslide Prediction using Wireless Sensor Network”, First International Global Information Infrastructure Symposium, 2007. GIIS 2007, 2-6 July 2007 pp 195 – 198
 
    14. Khairnar, D. G, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “A Neural Solution for Signal Detection In Non-Gaussian Noise” Fourth International Conference on Information Technology, 2007. ITNG '07, 2-4 April 2007 pp185 – 189
 
    15. Deepthi Chander, Bhushan G. Jagyasi, U. B. Desai, S. N. Merchant, “Layered Data Aggregation in Cell-Phone based Wireless Sensor Networks”, Accepted at 15th International Conference on Telecommunication, 2008, ICT 2008, 16-18 June 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia.
 
    16. Deepthi Chander, Bhushan Jagyasi, Uday Desai, S. N. Merchant, “MCPOE-based Cooperative Communication for Event Detection in Underwater Sensor Networks”, 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, WPMC 2007, 3-6 December, Jaipur, India.
 
    17. B. G. Jagyasi, Deepthi Chander, U. B. Desai, S. N. Merchant and Bikash K. Dey, “On robustness of Adaptive Weighted Aggregation Scheme for wireless sensor network,” 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, WPMC 2007, 3-6 December, Jaipur, India.
 
    18. Bhushan G. Jagyasi, Deepthi Chander, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, Bikash K. Dey, “MAAS: Multibit Adaptive Aggregation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks”,  Accepted at 15th International Conference on Telecommunication, 2008, ICT 2008, 16-18 June 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia.
 
    19. B. G. Jagyasi, S. N. Merchant, Deepthi Chander and U. B. Desai, “Adwas: Adaptive weighted aggregation scheme for single-hop and multi-hop wireless sensor network,” in Proc. Second international conference on communication and networking in China, ChinaCom 2007, Aug 2007, Shanghai, China
 
    20. Bhushan Jagyasi, Deepthi Chander, U.B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, Bikash K. Dey, “Blind Adaptive Distributed Detection in Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks”, (Accepted for publicationn), The 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications 2008, WPMC ’08, September 8-11 2008, Lapland, Finland.
 
    21. Vishwesh V. Kulkarni, Joao P. Hespanha, Bhushan  Jagyasi, Uday Desai, Peter  Falb, S. N. Merchant, "Passivity Results for Information Dissemination in Sensor Networks", in Proc. European Control Conference 2007,  ECC 2007, July 2-5, 2007, Kos, Greece.
 
    22. D.G. Khairnar,S. Nandkumar, S.N. Merchant and U.B. Desai, ``Nonlinear Target Identification and Tracking Using UKF", IEEE International Conference On Granular Computing (GRC-2007), Silicon Valley, USA, Nov. 2-4th 2007
 
    23. Gawande, V., Bilaye, P., Agrawal, N., Gawale, A. C., Pant, R. S., Desai, U. B., “Design and Fabrication of an Aerostat for Wireless Communication in remote areas” 7th ATIO and 17th Lighter-Than-Air Systems Technology Conference, AIAA, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 18-20 September 2007 
 
    24. T.Naresh Kumar Reddy, S.N.Merchant, U.B.Desai, "Cross layer Optimization for Video Transmission over wireless network", 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications WPMC 2007, December 03-06,Jaipur,India
 
    25. Himanshu B. soni, U.B.Desai, S.N.Merchant,  “Mitigating Multi-user Interference (MUI) in Ultra wideband (UWB) system using DS-CDMA based OFDM, 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-07), pp. 2035-2039, 3 - 7 Sept.07. 
 
    26. Himanshu B. Soni, U.B.Desai, S.N.Merchant, “Packet collision based Multiuser Interference (MUI) analysis for TH-PAM and TH-PPM Ultra Wideband (UWB) system” Proceeding of COMSWARE-08 (Invited paper)
 
    27. Chinmay Kumar Nayak, M. Jayalakshmi, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, Projection Onto Convex Sets with Watermarking for Error Concealment, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), LNCS Springer, Dec 2007.
 

2004

  1. N. N. S. S. R. K. Prasad, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Improvement in Target Detection Performance in Pulse Coded Doppler Radar based on Multicarier Modulation and with Fast Fourier Transform”,  IEE, Vol. 151, No. 1,  pp. 11-18, Feb. 2004.

  2. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Automated Model Selection Based Algorithm for Tracking Multiple Nonlinear Trajectories" Proceedings of SPIE: Electronic Imaging Science and Technology (EI2004), pages 242-250, California, USA, January 18-22, 2004.

  3. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Robust Neural Net Based Data Association and Multiple Model Based Tracking of Multiple Point Targets" Proceedings of SPIE: Electronic Imaging Science and Technology (EI2004), pages 337-348, California, USA, January 18-22, 2004.

  4. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Arbitrary Trajectories Tracking using Multiple Model Based Particle Filtering in Infrared Image Sequence" Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Technology (IEEE ITCC - 2004), pages 603-607, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 5-7, 2004

  5. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Tracking Multiple Point Targets using Genetic Interacting Multiple Model Based Algorithm" Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS - 2004), pages III - 917-20, Vol.3, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 23-26, 2004.

  6. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Small and fast moving object detection and tracking in Sports Video Sequences" Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2004), Taipei, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2004.

  7. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Tracking of Point Targets in IR Image Sequence using Multiple Model Based Particle Filtering and MRF Based Data Association" 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004) , pages 729-732, Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 23-26, 2004.

  8. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Air-borne Approaching Target Detection and Tracking in Infrared Image Sequence" Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), pages 1025-1028, Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.

  9. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Genetic IMM NN Based Tracking of Multiple Point Targets in Infrared Image Sequence" Proceedings of Second International Conference on Information Technology (ITPC), Asian Applied Computing Conference, (AACC - 2004), pages 17-25, Vol. LNCS 3285, Kathmandu, Nepal, October 29-31, 2004.

  10. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Data Association for Multiple Target Tracking: An Optimization Approach" Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP - 2004), pages 187-192, Vol. LNCS 3316, Calcutta, India, November 22-25, 2004.

  11. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S. N. Merchant, "Data Association for Multi Target - Multi Model Particle Filtering: Implicit Assignment to Weighted Assignment" Proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM - 2004), Bangalore, India, December 11-14, 2004.

2003

  1. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Tracking Multiple Point Targets using IMM-PMHT  in Infrared image sequence" GSPx & International Signal Processing Conference (ISPC - 2003), Dallas, Texas, March 31-April 3, 2003.

  2. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Tracking Multiple Maneuvering Point Targets using Multiple Filter Bank in InfraRed Image sequence" Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP - 2003), pages 409-412, Hongkong, April 6-10, 2003.

  3. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S.N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Multiple Single Pixel Dim Target Detection in InfraRed Image Sequence" Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS - 2003),  pages 380-383, Bangkok, Thailand, May 25-28, 2003.

  4. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Tracking Multiple Maneuvering Point Targets using Multiple Filter Bank in InfraRed Image sequence" Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on  Multimedia & Expo (ICME - 2003), pages 369-372, Baltimore, Maryland, July 6-9, 2003.

  5. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Interacting Multiple Model Based Tracking of
     Multiple Point Targets using Expectation Maximization Algorithm in Infrared image sequence" Proceedings  of SPIE: Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP - 2003), pages 303-314, Lugano, Switzerland, July 8-11, 2003.

  6. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "PMHT Based Multiple Point Targets Tracking Using Multiple Models in Infrared Image Sequence" Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS - 2003), pages 73-78, Miami, Florida, July 21-22, 2003.

  7. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S.N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Temporal Filter Based Target Detection andTracking Using Multiple Filter Bank" Proceedings of 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI - 2003) : Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 4, pages 275-279, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., July 27-30, 2003.

  8. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Automated Model Selection based Tracking of  Multiple Targets using Particle Filtering" Proceedings of IEEE Region 10 Technical Conference on   Convergent Technologies For The Asia-Pacific (IEEE TENCON - 2003), pages 872-876, Banglore,   India, October 14-17, 2003.

  9. Uday B. Desai, S. N. Merchant, Mukesh A. Zaveri, "Detection and Tracking of Point Targets"        Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR - 2003
    Invited Paper), pages 31-36, Calcutta, India, December 10-13, 2003.

  10. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Neural Network and Expectation Maximization    Based Tracking of Point Targets in Infrared Image Sequence" Proceedings of the 5th International   Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR - 2003), pages 427-430, Calcutta, India, December 10-13, 2003. 1
     

2002

  1. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Point Target Detection using Wavelet in InfraRed image sequence" WSEAS International Conference on ELECTRONICS, CONTROL and SIGNAL PROCESSING - 2002, Singapore, December 9-12, 2002.

 

National conferences

2007-2008

   1.  Deepthi Chander, G. Kannan, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “MCPOE-based Cooperative Communication in an Underwater Channel”, National Conference on Communication, NCC-2008, Mumbai, India

 

2004

  1. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, P.K. Nanda, "Genetic Algorithm Based Data    Association and Tracking of Multiple Point Targets" Proceedings of 10th National Conference on Communications (NCC - 2004), pages 414-418, Banglore, India, January 31 - February 1, 2004.

  2. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, P. K. Nanda, "Evolutionary IMM JPDA Based Tacking of Multiple Point Targets in Infrared Image Sequence" Proceedings of National Conference on  Recent trends in Power, Signal Processing and Control (APSC - 2004), pages 121-126, Rourkela,  India, November 16-17, 2004. 

  3. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Multiple Model based Point Targets Tracking  using Particle Filtering in InfraRed Image Sequence" Proceedings of 4th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP - 2004), pages 184-189, Kolkata, December 16-18, 2004.
     

2003

  1. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Uday B. Desai, S.N. Merchant, "Multiple Maneuvering Point-Target Tracking using Filter Bank in an IR image sequence" Proceedings of 9th National Conference on Communications (NCC - 2003), pages 448-452, Chennai, January 31 - February 2, 2003.  


 2002

  1. Mukesh A. Zaveri, Ananat Malewar, S.N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, "Wavelet Based Detection Modified Pipeline Algorithm for Multiple Point Targets Tracking in InfraRed image sequences" Proceedings of 3rd Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2002), pages 67-72, Ahmedabad, December 16-18, 2002.


   

 



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