Centre of Excellence in Signal Processing (CESP) –

Problems being addressed Wireless communication
Coding for efficient delivery
Coding for distributed storage
IOT for India-specific applications (buildings, pollution monitoring/control)

VLSI/embedded systems
Hardware efficient solns for cognitive radio
On-chip channel decoder for Turbo codes (for 5 G)<br>

Technical Progress from 2013-16: Summary Resource Creation
Laboratory
Lab facility for 20 research scholars, 15 trainees

Special facilities for data acquisition and subjective studies (recording studio)

Current Human resources
10 faculty members
20 PhD and 19 MS scholars
7 external advisors
2 office staff


Collaborations
7 international + 12 national

MoUs signed
Samsung-Bangalore
IDIAP research institute, Switzerland. Outcomes

Conduct of academic activities
11 seminars and tutorials
4 workshops
1 winter school, 1 summer school
1 conference

Theses awarded
3 PhD, 7 MS

Publications
18 Journal, 50 Conference

Externally funded R&D projects: 5



National level Advisory Committee meeting held on 29th May 2014<br>

6 Technical Progress (April to September 2016) New Faculty and Research Scholars
1 Faculty, 4 PhD, 9 MS, 1 Post doc.

Academic activities
Seminar
Prof. José M. F. Moura (CMU) : Signal Processing on Graphs: The Data Science of Distributed & Unstructured Data
Date: 22nd August, 2016
Summer schools
Deep Learning for Computer Vision, 11 -16 July, 2016
Natural Language Proc., 20 June - 4 July, 2016

Participation in International Challenges
Blizzard Challenge (Speech Synthesis), September 2016

Publications: 5 Journal, 19 Conference<br>

7 Technical Progress (April to September 2016) Submission of new project proposals

Lalitha Vadlamani (1 - approved)

Jayanthi Sivaswamy (1- under review)

Prasad Krishnan (1 – approved)

Sachin Chaudhari (3 approved, 1 under review)

Vineet Gandhi (1 – approved)<br>

8 Outreach within Hyderabad Research
L V Prasad Eye Institute, Continental hospital, Care hospital, Anand Eye hospital
Indian Institute of Technology
Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
G Narayanamma Institute of Technology & Sciences

Student projects
Osmania University
VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology
Indur Institute of Engineering & Technology
Deccan College of Engineering & Technology
CMR Institute of Technology
Geethanjali College of Engineering & Technology<br>

9 Courses offered related to Signal Processing Advanced Courses
Artificial Neural Networks
Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Multi-rate Signal Processing
Statistical Signal Processing
Image Processing
Time Frequency Analysis Domain-specific Courses
Speech Signal Processing
Speech Technology
Medical Signal Processing
Genome Signal Processing<br>

10 CESP Faculty<br>

Some of our publications S. Chaudhari , M. Kosunen, S. Makinen, J. Oksanen, M. Laatta, J. Ojaniemi, V. Koivunen, J. Ryynanen, and M. Valkam. (2016) Performance Evaluation of Cyclostationary based Cooperative Sensing using Field Measurements, in IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech. , pp. 1982-1997, April.

Chakrabarty L, Joshi GD, Chakravarty A, Raman G.V., Krishnadas SR and Sivaswamy, J. (2016) Automated Detection of Glaucoma From Topographic Features of the Optic Nerve Head in Color Fundus Photographs, Journal of Glaucoma, 25(7) pp. 590-597.

Prasad RS and Yegnanarayana B. (2016) Determination of glottal open regions by exploiting changes in the vocal tract system characteristics, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 666-677.

Shrestha R and Paily R (2016) Memory-Reduced Maximum-A-Posteriori-Probability Decoding for High-Throughput Parallel-Turbo Decoders, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, vol. 35, Issue: 8, pp. 2832–2854.<br>

Some of our publications.. contd. Mounika KV, Achanta S, Lakshmi H R, Gangashetty SV, and Vuppala AK. (2016) An Investigation of Deep Neural Network Architectures for Language Recognition in Indian Languages, INTERSPEECH, San Francisco.

Vadapalli A, Gangashetty AV. (2016) An Investigation of Recurrent Neural Network Architectures using Word Embeddings for Phrase Break Prediction, INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco.

Mehta R and Sivaswamy J. (2016) A Hybrid Approach to Tissue-based Intensity Standardization of Brain MRI Images, Proc. IEEE Int’l Symposium on Biomed. Imaging (ISBI) Prague.

Krishnan P and Lalitha V. (2016) A class of index coding problems with rate 1/3, Proc. Int’l Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).<br>

13 Future work Focus on signal processing solutions for India-specific problems
Indian languages (recognition and synthesis)
Communication in sparse and congested scenarios

Set up a high performance computing facility

Create an Indian population-specific data repository

Outreach activities
Training programs (foundation and research)
Short term courses
Compressive sensing, Deep learning, Biomedical signal processing, Coding for information flow networks, Signal processing for wireless communication, Internet-of-Things (IoT)

National Level Advisory Committee Meeting: planned for Nov/Dec.<br>

14 Financial Status (April to September) 2016 Expenditure and funds position (in Lakhs)





Details of expenditure incurred during 01st April to 30th September 2016 (in Lakhs)<br>

15 Financial Status as on 30th September 2016 Expenditure and funds position<br>

16 Thank You<br>