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Journal Publications
2011-2012

  1. S.H.Karamchandani, H.D. Mustafa, U. B. Desai, S.N.Merchant, “Thermally unstable intelligent polymer textile biosensors”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Vol. 156, Issue 2, August 2011, pp. 765-772.

  2. V. M. Thumar, G.P.S Tej, T. Nadkar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Power Allocation, Bit loading and Sub-carrier Bandwidth Sizing for OFDM-based Cognitive Radio,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2011, accepted.

  3. T. Nadkar, V. M. Thumar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Symbiotic cooperative relaying in cognitive radio networks with time and frequency incentive”, Springer Telecommunication Systems Journal, Special Issue on Mobile Computing and Networking Technologies, 2011, accepted.

    4. 2010-2011

    1. Parul Shah, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘Multifocus and multispectral image fusion based on pixel significance using multiresolution decomposition’, Springer’s Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, March 2011.

    2. Parul Shah, Chandrasekher Reddy, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘Context Enhancement to Reveal a Camouflaged Target and to Assist Target Localization by Fusion of Multispectral Surveillance Videos’, Springer’s Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, 2011.

    3. T. Nadkar, V. M. Thumar, G.P.S Tej, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “Adaptive Guard Interval and Power Allocation for OFDM based Cognitive Radio,” ICTACT Journal on Communication Technology, vol. 2, issue 2, pp. 314-322, June 2011.

    2009-2010

    1. H.B.Soni, U.B.Desai, S.N.Merchant, "Low complexity RAKE receiver for TH based Multiuser UWB System with Realistic UWB Indoor Channel", International Journal of UWB communication systems(IJUWBCS), selected for publication.

    2. J. P. Pabari, Y. B. Acharya and U. B. Desai, "Investigation of Wireless Sensor Deployment Schemes for In-Situ Measurement of Water Ice near Lunar South Pole", Sensors & Transducers Journal, Vol. 111, Issue 12, pp. 86 - 105, December 2009.

    3. J. P. Pabari, Y. B. Acharya, U. B. Desai, S. N. Merchant and B. Gopalkrishnan, "Radio Frequency Modelling for Future Wireless Sensor Network on Surface of the Moon", International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences (Scieitific Research Publication) (Accepted for Publication - should appear in March 2010).

    4. Parul Shah, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘Fusion of Surveillance Images in Infrared and Visible Band Using Curvelet, Wavelet and Wavelet Packet Transform’, International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, pp. 271–292, World Scientific Publishing Company Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010.

    2008-2009

    1. H. B. Soni, U. B. Desai, S. N. Merchant, “UWB Multi User Performance of DSCDMA Based OFDM System under UWB Channel Model", International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications, 2009.

    2. G. Kannan, Yangcheng Huang, Saleem Bhatti, S. N. Merchant and U. B. Desai, “Route Discovery and Route Resilience for Multihop Cellular Networks: A Cross Layer Approach”, Wireless Personal Communication (Spinger), 2009 [Accepted].

    3. G.S. Biradar, S.N. Merchant, U.B.Desai, "Frequency and Time Hopping PPM UWB Multiple Access Communication Scheme", International Journal of Communication, Vol.4, No.1, February 2009, Page(s):14-19.

    4. B. G. Jagyasi, B. K. Dey, S. N. Merchant, and U. B. Desai, “An Efficient Multibit Aggregation Scheme for Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Network” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 649581, 11 pages.

    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. 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. 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

    6. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, ''Wavelet Based Detection and its Application to Tracking in IR Sequence”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics -Part C, Vol. 37, No.6, Nov.2007, Page(s):1269-1286.

    7. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, “A Combined PMHT and IMM Approach to Multiple Point Target Tracking in Infrared Image Sequence'', EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 19139, 14 pages.

    8. Zaveri, M.A.; Merchant, S.N.; Desai, U.B.; “Wavelet-Based Detection and Its Application to Tracking in an IR Sequence”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Issue 6, Nov. 2007, Page(s):1269 – 1286.

    2006-2007

    1. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, ''Robust Neural Net Based Data Association and Multiple Model Based Tracking of Multiple Point Targets'', IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics -Part C, Vol. 37, No.3, May 2007, Page(s): 337-351.

    2. Mukesh A. Zaveri, S. N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, ''Tracking of Multiple Point Targets using Multiple Model Based Particle Filtering in Infrared image sequence'', Optical Engineering, Vol. 45, No.5, May 2006.

    3. S. Garg and S. N. Merchant, “Interpolated Candidate Motion Vectors for Boundary Matching Error Concealment Technique in Video", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 53, No.10, Oct .2006, Page(s):1039-1043.

    4. Bilva Navathe, S. N. Merchant, "A Directional Error Concealment Technique for Intra-coded Video Frames", SPIE-Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2006

    5. D. G. Khairnar, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, “Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Pulse Radar Detection", IEE Proceedings Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Vol.1, No.1, Feb. 2007, Page(s): 8-17.

    6. 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.

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

    International Conferences

    2010-2011

    1. Parul Shah, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘Hierarchical Fusion Using Vector Quantization for Visualization of Hyperspectral Images’, 14th International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, USA, 2011.

    2. Parul Shah, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘An Efficient Adaptive Fusion Scheme for Multifocus Images in Wavelet Domain Using Statistical Properties of Neighborhood’, 14th International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, USA, 2011.

    3. Parul Shah, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘An Efficient Spatial Domain Fusion Scheme for Multifocus Images Using Statistical Properties of Neighborhood’, International Conference and Multimedia Expo (ICME), Barcelona, Spain, 2011.

    4. Parul Shah, Srikanth T. V., S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘A Novel Multifocus Image Fusion Scheme Based on Pixel Significance Using Wavelet Transform’, 10th Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP): Perception and Visual Analysis, NY, USA, 2011.

    5. Parul Shah, Maxime Drumetz, Shabbir N. Merchant, Uday B. Desai, ‘Efficient Hierarchical Fusion Using Adaptive Grouping Techniques For Visualization Of Hyperspectral Images’, IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 2011.

    6. Parul Shah, Vipul Mathur, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘Multispectral Video Fusion for Surveillance Using Object Tracking and Principal Component Analysis’, IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 2011.

    7. Chandra Sekhar Reddy, Parul Shah, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai, ‘Visualization of multispectral video with moving background based on background extraction and fusion’, IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 2011.

    8. S.H.Karamchandani, M.Panju, H.D.Mustafa, S.N.Merchant, U.B.Desai, G.D. Jindal, “Non linear and dynamic time warping classification of morphological patterns identified from Plethysmographic observations in the radial pulse”, IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 2011.

    9. S.H.Karamchandani, S.Shukla, H.D.Mustafa, S.N.Merchant, U.B.Desai, “Dual band M-shaped UWB Patch Antenna for Wireless Body Area Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 2011.

    10. S.H.Karamchandani, H.D. Mustafa, U. B. Desai, S.N.Merchant, G.D. Jindal, Application of Crisp and Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms for Identification of Hidden Patterns from Plethysmographic Observations on the Radial Pulse, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE (EMBS), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Vol. 2010, 2010, pp. 3978-3981.  

    11. H.D.Mustafa, S. Ashutosh, S.H.Karamchandani, S.N.Merchant, U.B.Desai, “Manifold Signal Receiver for Power line Communication Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 2011.

    12. H.D.Mustafa, S. Ashutosh, S.H.Karamchandani, S.N.Merchant, U.B.Desai, “Non-invasive, Reflection Coefficient Based Channel Estimation on PLC Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 2011.

    13. H.D.Mustafa, C. S Rao, S.N.Merchant, U.B.Desai, “A novel algorithm for multiple signal classification with Optimized Coulomb Energy Neural Networks for Power line communications”, IEEE- International Symposium on Power Line Communication, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , March. 2010 pp. 64-69.

    14. V. M. Thumar, T. Nadkar, G. Shenoy, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Cognitive Relaying with Time Incentive: Multiple Primary Users,” IEEE Vehicular Technogy Conference (VTC ‘11), 2011.

    15. V. M. Thumar, T. Nadkar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Utility-based Decision-making for Symbiotic Cooperative Relaying in Cognitive Radio Networks”, in European Wireless Conference (EW’11), 2011.

    16. V. M. Thumar, G. Tej, T. Nadkar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Adaptive power allocation for secondary users in Cognitive Radio Networks”, in 2nd UK-India-IDRC International Workshop on Cognitive (UKIWCWS'10), 2010.

    17. V. M. Thumar, T. Nadkar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “A Decoupled Cross-layer design for Symbiotic Cognitive Relaying with Time Incentive”, in Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC’11), 2011.

    18. T. Nadkar, V. M. Thumar, G. Shenoy, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Cognitive Relaying with Frequency Incentive,” IEEE Globecom 2011, accepted.

    19. T. Nadkar, V. M. Thumar, G. Shenoy, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Cognitive Relaying with Time Incentive: Protocol Design for Multiple Primary Users,” IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC ‘11), 2011.

    20. T. Nadkar, V. M. Thumar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “A Cross-layer Framework for Symbiotic Relaying in Cognitive Radio Networks”, in Proc. of IEEE International Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN’ 11), 2011.

    21. T. Nadkar, V. M. Thumar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Optimum bit loading for cognitive relaying”, in Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'10), 2010.

    22. G. Tej, T. Nadkar, V. M. Thumar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio: Single and Multiple Secondary Users”, in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'11), 2011.

    23. M.B.Shah, P.P.Verma, S.N.Merchant, and U.B.Desai: Stable cluster based data aggregation for Cell phone based sensor network. ICSSA-2011, G.H.Patel college of Engineering and Technology, Gujarat, India

    24. M.B.Shah, P.P.Verma, S.N.Merchant, and U.B.Desai: Human Mobility based stable data aggregation in Single hop cell phone based wireless sensor networks. IEEE AINA 2011, Biopolis Singapore

    25. M.B.Shah, P.P.Verma, S.N.Merchant, and U.B.Desai: Human walk aware Mobility resistant efficient clustering algorithm for data gathering in cell phone based senor network. IEEE WOCC-2011 Newark, USA

    26. M.B.Shah, P.S.Tamhankar, S.N.Merchant, and U.B.Desai: A Realistic Weighted Clustering Algorithm for Data Gathering In Single Hop Cell Phone based Sensor Network. IEEE Globecom Workshop UbiCoNet-2011 Houston,Texas, USA

    27. Aaqib Patel and S. N. Merchant, "Post Sensing Optimal Channel Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks", Accepeted, 17th IEEE ICON, Singapore 2011.

    2009-2010

    1. G. V. V. Sharma, Vijay Ganwani, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Performance Analysis of Maximum Likelihood Decode and Forward Cooperative Systems in Rayleigh Fading” IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), Dresden, Germany June 2009

    2. Deepthi Chander, Bhushan Jagyasi, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “DVD based Moving Event Localization in Multihop Cellular Sensor Networks” IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), Dresden, Germany June 2009

    3. D. Chander, B. Jagyasi, U. B. Desai, S. N. Merchant, “Zonal Head-based Moving Event Localization in Multihop Cellular Sensor Network", in Proc. The 12th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, WPMC 2009, Sep 2009, Sendai, Japan.

    4. Deepthi Chander, Bhushan Jagyasi, U B Desai, S. N. Merchant, “Spatio-Temporal Power Adaptive (STPA) protocol for MCpSN,” International Conference on Communications 2010 IEEE ICC 2010, 23-27 May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa (accepted for publication).

    5. T. Nadkar, V. Thumar, U.B.Desai, S.N. Merchant, “Judicious Power Loading for a Cognitive Relay Scenario”, Proc. of IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC), Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, Dec 2009.

    6. T. Nadkar, V. Thumar, U.B.Desai, S.N. Merchant, “Power allocation for OFDM- based cognitive Relay Network”, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems (ISPACS), Anazawa, Japan, Dec 2009.

    7. T. Nadkar, V. Thumar, U.B.Desai, S.N. Merchant, “Adaptive Constellation Sizing for OFDM-based Cognitive Radio Networks”, Proc. of IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), New Orleans, USA, Jan 2010.

    8. T. Nadkar, V. Thumar, U.B.Desai, S.N. Merchant, “Judicious Bit Loading for Cognitive Relaying”, IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), Sydney, Australia, Apr 2010, (accepted for publication).

    9. Parul Shah, S. N. Merchant, U. B. desai, “Fusion of Surveillance Images in Infrared and Visible Band using Curvelet, Wavelet and Wavelet Packet Transform”, will be published at IEEE International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing (IJWMIP), Vol 8, 2010.

    10. Parul Shah, Sunil K., Taskeen N., “OCR-based Chassis-Number Recognition using Artificial Neural Networks”, at IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and System (ICVES), 2009.

    11. H.D.Mustafa, V. Thumar, S.Karamchandani, “Detecting the origin of sound using the Time Delay on Arrival Method”, International Symposium on Control, Automation and Robotics, (ISCAR), Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad, Gujarat, India 2010.

    12. T. Nadkar, V. M. Thumar, U. B. Desai and S. N. Merchant, “Optimum bit loading for cognitive relaying”, in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'10), 2010.

    13. Krishnendu Saha, Parul Shah, S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai,”A Novel Multi-focus Image Fusion Algorithm Using Edge Information and K-Mean Segmentation”, at IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), 2009.

    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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