Here are the topics for the Comm Group M.Tech Seminar. We may get more topics - these will be intimated as soon as we get them - on the course web page: www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~sumantra/courses/mtech_seminar/mtech_seminar.html In cases where we have already received information from the faculty member regarding him/her having consented to guide a student, we have also mentioned this in the list below. {Each faculty member can have a maximum of 5 (DD+M.Tech) students} In case a student has an alternate topic/area of interest, and a faculty member is willing to guide him/her in that area, this is also perfectly acceptable! {Some faculty members have not been able to send their topics as yet, we urge interested students to have a look at their areas of research interests on the EE web page, and get in touch with them as soon as possible.} Students should take the approval of the faculty member concerned, and send a mail to the co-coordinators (with a Cc to the supervisor), clearly specifying the topic and the supervisor. Thank you! - SDR (Coordinator) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. S. Chaudhuri ================== 1. Signal restoration using total variation 2. Semantic analysis of video 3. Analytic continuation of signal ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. U. B. Desai ================= ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Bikash K. Dey =================== 1. Limits on rate/performance of space-time codes on wireless MIMO channels. 2. Schemes for achieving good rate/performance on wireless MIMO channels. 3. Decoding of RS codes. 4. Network coding No. of students: 1 for each topic ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sumantra Dutta Roy ================== 1. Eigenspace techniques for visual tracking and recognition 2. Visual Tracking and Hand Gesture Analysis 3. Activity Analysis for Video Surveillance 4. 3-D Object Recognition through images 5. Music Information Retrieval (jointly with Prof. Preeti Rao) 6. Bioinformatics Notes: * A prerequisite for ALL topics is EE610 (Image Processing) and EE601 (Statistical Signal Analysis) - even for topic 6. * An interest in music, statistical pattern analysis, algorithms for matching, and DSP will be helpful. * Topic 6 is on statistical and algorithmic techniques in Bioinformatics - this will not assume any prior knowledge of biochemistry in any way whatsoever. ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. V. M. Gadre ================= 1. Scalability in Video Coding ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. A. Karandikar =================== The topics will be in the general area of Wireless Communication and Communications Networks. ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. G. Kumar ============== 1. RF MEMS 2. RFID applications 3. High power microwave sources ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. D. Manjunath ================== ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. S. N. Merchant ==================== 1. 2. ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. H. Narayanan ================== ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. P. C. Pandey ================== 1. Features for speaker recognition and voice transformation ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. H. K. Pillai ================== ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Preeti Rao ================ 1. Low bite rate speech coding 2. Speech enhancement in noise 3. Music information retrieval (jointly with Sumantra Dutta Roy) ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. G. P. Saraph ================== ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. V. Sharma =============== Topics 1-3 are for the seminar, extendable to an M. Tech. project. Topics 4-7 are for the seminar and (preferably) project as well. (1-3 are offered by Prof. Vishal Sharma) 1. Study of the new DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem standards, and understanding data scheduling issues in it. (The new DOCSIS standard has data capabilities, crucial for triple play service offerings by cable operators world-wide. This seminar will involve delving into that standard, understanding some of the issues in data transport, and identifying issues for scheduling different types of traffic in it. It could lead to an M. Tech. thesis on developing new QoS-capable scheduling algorithms for cable networks. An interesting connection with wireless exists -- since the Wi-Max standard for 802.16 broadband wireless networks is derived essentially from the DOCSIS standard.) 2. Intelligent routing protocols for ad-hoc wireless networks The task here would be to study routing protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks, especially with a view to developing _stable_ (in the face of mobility, and vagaries of the wireless link) routing protocols, and (later) analyzing or simulating them to assess performance. (Extendable into a significant M. Tech. project -- that could use the ad-hoc wireless testbed developed within my research group.) 3. Enhancing an ad-hoc wireless network testbed -- issues and solutions This is for those that want to "touch" and "feel" things.hardware and firmware. It invovles taking the testbed we already have, and extending its capabilities to incorporate advanced features -- such as a way to emulate mobility and other wireless characteristics in an intelligent way. (4-7 are offered jointly with Prof. Ashwin Gumaste, KReSIT, ashwin@it.iitb.ac.in. x7911) 4. Developing a transponder on a Virtex 2Pro FPGA for Gigabit Ethernet based metro-optical networks. 5. Developing a control-plane in a GMPLS framework for metro optical networks 6. Service-oriented scheduling in a transponder and related implementation 7. Novel optical packet-node implementation based on Light-frame technology ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar ======================= ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. V. R. Sule ================ 1. Digital rights management : Cryptographic primitives and problems =================================================================