Keynotes/Tutorials
Speaker: Prof. P. Nagabhushan, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India
Title of Talk: tba
Biography:
Dr. P. Nagabhushan, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad is Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Mysore, Mysore. He has more than three and half decades of teaching. Prior to joining IIITA as Director, he has served several administrative positions such as Chief Nodal Officer, Choice Based Credit Pattern Continuous Assessment Education System, University of Mysore; Director, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Board; Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology; Director, Center for Information Science and Technology at University of Mysore, Mysore, India. He was also distinguished Professor and Chairman at Amrita Vishwavidyapeetam, Amrita University, Coimbatore; Director, Bangalore Educational Society for Technology Advancement and Research and Principal, Bangalore Technological Institute, Bangalore. He is actively associated with various academic, statutory and professional bodies. He is the member of academic councils and Board of studies of several universities. He has been serving as an active member in Technical Advisory committee at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, School Board member of Central University of Hyderabad and Academic council member of Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Jammu & Kashmir. He is also visiting Professor and acting as subject expert in many Universities and Institutes. There are various high profile committees of AICTE, UGC, DST, PSC, NBA, ISRO, DRDO, RECs (now NITs) where Prof. Nagabhushan was an active member. Prof. Nagabhushan has worked as Investigator in several major funded projects.
He has also rendered his services in a number of foreign Institutions such as invited Professor at University of Dauphine, Paris, France; Visiting Professor, Tokyo Denki University, Japan; Exchange Professor, Saginaw Valley State University, USA; Visiting Scientist, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France; Invited Expert, Michigan State University, USA; Invited Expert for assessing programs of Computer Science and Technology,
University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Sudan; Team member of Bilateral Indo-Russia Workshop, University of Moscow, Russia. He is Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Fellow of Institution of Engineers. He is a fellow of International Academy of Physical Sciences. He was offered the prestigious Visiting Professorship award of ISTE. He is also awarded ICCR 2008 Outstanding Academician and Researcher- Award in appreciation of life time contribution to the field of Computer Science and Engineering; ICICOT 07 Outstanding Academician Award; IEEE– ICSIP– 06 Award in appreciation of life time contribution to the field of Signal and Image Processing. Recently he has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Award-RTIP2R- 2016 for Outstanding Achievement, Global Leadership and Dedicated Service to the field of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition.
On academic front, he has successfully guided 28 numbers of PhDs, and has authored more than 500 numbers of Research Papers out of which more than 100 papers are DBLP indexed. The citation index of 1944 with H-index of 21 and i10 index of 58 reflects his academic accomplishments. .
Abstract: TBA
Tutorial Speaker: Dr. Deepak Mishra, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology(IIST), Trivandrum
Title of the Tutorial: Introduction to Generative Adversarial Neural Networks and their application in Data Hiding/steganography
Biography: Having done his B.E., in Electrical Engg. (2000) BIT Durg, and M Tech in Instrumentation (2003) from Devi Ahilya University Indore, Dr. Mishra pursued his PhD at IIT Kanpur (2007) in the Electrical Engg. Department. His Thesis title was "Novel Biologically Inspired Neural Network Models". Later He joined as a postdoc researcher at the University of Louisville, KY, USA in the field of signal processing and system neuroscience. After a brief stint 2009-2010 as a senior software engineer at CMC limited Hyderabad. He opted to work as an academic faculty at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Trivandrum in 2010 and continued to work as Associate Professor in the department of Avionics. He is responsible for both research and teaching UG and PG students, moreover he was the coordinator for MTech program in Digital Signal Processing and developed a Virtual Reality center of excellence during his stay at IIST. He was also awarded Young Scientist award from System Society of India for his research work in the year 2012. His research interest includes Neural networks and Machine learning, Computer vision and Graphics, Image and Video Processing. He has published research papers both in International and National Journals of repute and presented his research work in various international and national conferences.
Abstract: This tutorial will discuss the application and basic theory of Generative Adversarial Neural Networks. How these can be used for concealing video/audio in an image, hide video data inside images. We also explore the idea of deep steganography.
Total time required: 2-3 hours (1-1.5 hours basics of GANs and its computer vision applications; 1-1.5 hours GANs application in steganography)