eLeTTronica April 2015 - Vishwakarma Institute of Information

Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust’s
Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology
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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION ENGG.
VISHWAKARMA
INSTITUTES
NEWSLETTER ISSUE 10, 2015
Dear stakeholders!
Let me congratulate all of you for having participated in the
department activities and administration in this semester. We
invited representatives of all the stakeholders viz. Parents,
Industry, Alumni and Students to express their views for improving
the quality of technical education in Electronics and
Telecommunication. We have constituted Department Advisory
Board (DAB) and Industry Advisory Board (IAB) for this purpose.
Both the advisory boards have given valuable suggestions which
will be implemented after doing feasibility studies. Meeting of all
class representatives were conducted for understanding their views
and expectations. In all the meetings, participants expressed concern over declining intake quality of
Electronics and Telecommunication program and deliberated the reasons for this trend. Many stake holders feel
that students lose their interest in Second Year when they study core courses demanding mathematical or
analytical treatment. It has become a challenge for teachers to develop curiosity among these students towards
technical learning. Teachers have less freedom and flexibility in lecture planning because of On-line and Offline examination system prescribed by our affiliating University and this prevents them from adjusting the pace
of the teaching (and therefore learning!) process. Department has accepted this challenge and is promoting
schemes like summer training, internships, project based learning etc to create interest and to bridge the gap
between theory and practical knowledge.
National Conference for Students in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (NCSEEE) is one such
platform established by our department where students are encouraged to write technical papers based on their
final year projects. We were fortunate to have had Padmavibhushan Dr Anil Kakodkar as a Chief Guest and
Keynote speaker for this conference. I am sure many students have been inspired towards research and academic
excellence after listening to his speech.
Other challenge is to find placements for students who are interested in working for core companies. By
this time you must be aware of our department's efforts to place such students in core electronic companies. I am
pleased to inform you that with the efforts of Mr Vishal Ambhore and Mr Piyush Mathurkar (supported by senior
faculty members) we could place Twenty Nine students so far. Statistics suggest that department should liaison
with at least hundred plus electronic companies. Till date we are liaisoning with Thirty Four companies and we
will have to put extra efforts to achieve our target. I appeal to all the stake holders to help us in this Endeavour.
Overall results of undergraduate programs are good and placement record indicates an upward trend.
The result of our post graduate program is 100% in this year and all the registered PhD students are showing
steady progress in their research work. Although a lot needs to be done to become the most sought after
department in our university, I express my satisfaction over the untiring efforts taken by everybody for making
us what we are today!
Dr. Prasad D. Khandekar
Head, E & TC
Credits:- Staff Incharge : Mrs. Minal S. Deshmukh, Dr. Mrs.Ketki P. Kshirsagar, Mr. Suraj S. Wakchaure.
Editors:- Megha Patil (T.E.), Tapish Meshram (S.E.), Nikita Dhokale (S.E.), Jaee Deshpande (S.E.), Juee Deshpande
(S.E.), Mohanish Nehete (S.E.)
Website:- www.viit.ac.in
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Consultancies
Pune Construction Engineering Research Foundation (PCERF) is an NGO, consisting of eminent civil
engineers, builders and architects, working towards creating awareness about latest technological
developments has sponsored the project for development of Concrete Strength Meter. Maturity
Meter developed by E&TC Department in collaboration with Construction Material development
Group, Civil Engineering Department that can estimate in-situ, real-time concrete strength, right in the
palm of your hand without the hassle and cost of casting and breaking many cubes/cylinders. The
strength of the concrete can be obtained on the mobile phone with updations at an interval of every one
hour. With the increasing demand of high buildings and Infrastructure, bridges, motorways/roads,
runways etc concrete structure plays a vital role. The concrete structures might be susceptible to brittle
fracture if their curing process is inadequate. Therefore, to prevent this problem, it is very essential to
predict the absolute strength of the concrete material non-destructively. Concrete structure properties
like maturity, time and temperature finally help in finding the strength of concrete. Under guidance of
Dr.R.B.Ghongade and Dr.P.D.Khandekar, Mrs.A.K.Ratnaparkhi alongwith a Group from final year we
are working on various modules of the project. The inputs regarding the material and testing
requirements are given by Dr.Milinda Mahajan and Mrs.S.L.Gore from Civil Department. A prototype
has already been designed by Dr.R.B.Ghongade. This interdepartmental project has helped the students
and staff realize the real world problems in civil engineering which could be easily solved through
upcoming technologies in Electronics and telecommunication engineering.
Faculty Orientation Workshop
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication and BoS
Electronics, University of Pune organized "Faculty
Orientation Workshop on Mini Project and Seminar" for
Third Year (E&TC/Electronics) with 2012 Revised Syllabus
on 17th January, 2015. The objective of this workshop was to
orient the entire faculty towards the revised syllabus and to
bring in uniformity in teaching across all the colleges under
the University of Pune. It was rightly initiated and
encouraged by Dr. G. K. Kharate, Dean Faculty of
Dr.R.B.Ghongade conducting session on MPS
Engineering, Dr. D. S. Bormane and all BoS members. Forty
Nine faculty members had registered for the workshop. It was a one day workshop coordinated by
Dr.R.B.Ghongade. He gave guidelines on points to be considered while selecting Mini Project.
Feedback from participants has been excellent. For enhancing core knowledge Department had
organised "PCB Design Workshop" using Altium Designer for third year students from 12th Feb., 2015
to 18th Feb.,2015. It was coordinated by Dr.R.B.Ghongade, Mr.V.B.Ambhore and Mr.P.K.Mathurkar.
Virtual Lab Nodal Center : IIT Bombay
MoU was signed between VIIT and IIT Bombay for Virtual Lab Nodal Centre
(VLNC), an initiative from Ministry of Human Resource Development under the
National Mission on Education through ICT. Mr.Pushpdeep Gupta (Project
Manager Virtual Labs, IIT Bombay) handed over the letter of approval for VLNC to
Dr. Mrs. B. S. Karkare. Virtual Labs would cater to need of students at the
undergraduate, post graduate and research scholars. Their objective is to provide a
complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students
can avail the various tools for learning, additional web-resources, video-lectures,
Virtual Lab Nodal
animated demonstrations and self evaluation and to share costly equipment and
Center MoU
resources, which are otherwise available to limited number of users due to constraints on time and
geographical distances. This would help in learning basic and advanced concepts through remote
experimentation. It is possible to design good experiments around some of this equipment which would
enhance the learning of a student. Internet-based experimentation further permits use of resourcesknowledge, software and data available on web. Mr.G.H.Chavhan will be acting as Nodal Coordinator.
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NCSEEE-2015
This was the fourth consecutive year that the IEEE
student branch of VIIT has been organizing 'National
Conference for Students in Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (NCSEEE2015)' in
association with 'Board of Students Welfare',
Savitribai Phule Pune University on 28thMarch 2015.
Two hundred thirty two papers were received which
were scrutinized in three rounds. Initially the papers
were overviewed and then scanned through
plagiarism software. Fifty eight papers were short
listed for review, outof which25 papers were selected
for presentation. The conference proceedings were
Unveiling of Proceedings
published with an ISBN number. The selected 25
papers were also published in the 'Integrated Journal of Engineering Research and Technology' with an
ISSN number. Along with the paper presentation, workshop on LabVIEW, MATLAB and Android
Application Development were arranged which received overwhelming response of around 100
registrations.
The occasion was graced by the renowned personality Padmavibhushan Dr. Anil Kakodkar as Chief
Guest and Dr. Sanjaykumar Dalvi, Director, Students Welfare, Savitribai Phule Pune University as the
Guest of Honour, Managing Trustee BRACT Shri.Bharat Agarwal, Principal VIIT Dr. Mrs. B. S.
Karkare. The conference proceedings with online publications were unveiled during the function.
Padmavibhushan Dr. Anil Kakodkar in his keynote speech said that, students must make optimum use
of their knowledge and research to contribute in making India a Super Power.
The conference also aimed at felicitating students with astounding talents. In the memory of late
Chinmay Zawar an award for best project was given by department. The IET Mumbai Network has
offered award in memory of Late Shri. D. N. Purandare. The award is offered to the topper of First Year
Post Graduate Electronics and Telecommunication (E&TC) student. The Best Industry partner award
was given to Mr. Tushar Jambhekar of Jambhekar Automation on this occasion.
The inauguration was followed by the presentation sessions judged by Prof. M. B. Mali, Mrs. A. V.
Bang, Mr. M. J. Khurjekar, Mr. R. S. Talware and Mr. V. V. Deshpande. Simultaneously the workshops
were conducted. 'LabVIEW' was conducted by Mr. R. S. Pol, Mr. P. G. Gawande conducted workshop
on 'MATLAB' while 'Android Application Development' was conducted by Mr.Lokesh Sharma.
Shubham Aktare sketched live portrait of Padmavibhushan Dr. Anil Kakodkar which was presented to
him as token of respect. The conference was a huge success with due credit to the student volunteers and
staff members. Co-ordinater for conference was Mrs. D. P. Pandit. Next year the conference is
scheduled on 19th March 2016.
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University Rankers
In Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) Ranking May 2014 Exam.
T.E. E&TC May 2014
T.E. Electronics May 2014
B.E. Electronics May 2014
7th Rank
10th Rank
2nd Rank
9th Rank
2nd Rank
3rd Rank
6th Rank
Pande Anurag
74.66%
Poorvi Gowardhan
74.20%
Deshmukh Saachivi
70.80%
Kanase Soniya
66.93%
Apurva Gandole
76.73%
Ruchita Vanzari
75.86%
Brinda Rajani
74.06%
Toppers
S. E. E&TC
T. E. E&TC
B. E. E&TC
B. E. Electronics
Shashank
Tannirwar
82.93%
Mitali Shah
73.73%
Anurag Pandey
76%
Saachivi
Deshmukh
75%
Student Award
Chinmay Zawar Best Project Award
This award is instituted in the name of Late Chinmay Zawar, a
bright student of E&TC department who left us for heavenly abode
on 2nd December, 2014. Chinmay had worked untiringly for his
final year project with team spirit that is to be remembered forever.
So department has decided to constitute an award a cash price of
Rs. 5000/- to appreciate the qualities of life with which he lived, to
be given for the best final year project during National Conference
for Students in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (NCSEEE)
of that academic year. For academic year 2014-15 this award was
presented to B.E. Electronics students Shubham Negi, Akshay
Dr. Anil Kakodkar awarding Best Project
Trivedi and Saurabh Shinde project titled "Solar Power and
Data acquisition".
Purandare Scholarship : The IET Mumbai Network has offered a sum of Rs.85000/- in the memory of
Late Shri. D. N. Purandare to VIIT Students. The amount to be invested in fixed deposit and the yearly interest
earned Rs. 7000/- is awarded every year. The award is offered to the topper of First Year Post Graduate
Electronics and Telecommunication (E&TC) student. The beneficiaries are : Mr. Pankaj Boladra and Mr. Pankaj
Rakshe.
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Training and Placement
No.
Name of the Student
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Wipro Technologies
Musigma
Infosys Ltd.
Cognizant
Wavelet Group
Softlink
Accenture
Cybage
iNautix Technologies
L&T Infotech
CREST Technology
Inopen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Principal Global
Tata Elxsi Ltd.
Total
Electronics
E&TC
6
3
7
9
1
1
10
6
4
2
1
1
2
1
54
0
0
3
2
2
0
0
0
3
0
1
1
0
0
12
Off Campus Placement
Name of the Student
Company Name
Domain
1.
Sasmita Navgire
S. M. Technologies
VLSI
2.
Akshay Gosavi
UL Automation Group
Power and Embedded
3.
Abhijeet Khatavkar
Jambhekar Automation
Power and Embedded
4.
Kanahya Mundada
Jambhekar Automation
Power and Embedded
5.
Aditya Rasal
Jambhekar Automation
Power and Embedded
6.
Lamkhade Sudhir
Vitronics Control
Embedded
No.
Uptil now through department's efforts 29 students were placed in various core companies. Thirty Eight students
were sent for Summer Internship in various companies like UL Automation System, Jambhekar Automations,
Vitronics Control, Sunay Enterprise, Chidambar Graphics and Control, A Square Technosolutions, KD
Automation, Aeron system, Wirecut, Electrocon System, DRDO, BHEL, L&T, BSNL Nagpur, Horizon
Electronics, Hindustan Zinc. Off campus placement and summer internship is co-ordinated by Mr. Vishal
Ambhore and Mr. Piyush Mathurkar.
Industry Advisory Board (IAB)
th
Industry Advisory Board (IAB) meeting was held on 28
February 2015. Dr. P. D. Khandekar, mentioned about the role of
IAB members in curriculum development, student development
and student employability. He presented about the department,
faculty strength, research projects, consultancy projects,
publications, student achievements and awards. All IAB
members appreciated the efforts taken by the faculty members
towards the development of the projects & maintaining strong
association. He mentioned about the Outcome Based Education
system and its evaluation process. He presented the proposed
academic structure to be implemented when VIIT becomes autonomous. Mr.Achwal suggested that industry
institute interaction should start right after S.E. Mr. Hemant Kamat & all members unanimously agreed upon
Problem/ Practical based learning. Meeting was coordinated by Dr. Y. H. Dandawate.
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Aavishkar
Aavishkar, the cultural commune of our
college, participates in various cultural
activities like Firodiya Karandak and
Purushottam Karandak. Recently, the
group participated in Firodiya Karandak
2015 with the play titled “Joota Chor”. The
play highlighted the relationship of a
physically challenged daughter and her
father who had raised her without her
mother in an extremely caring and
protective way. There comes a time in her
life where she is 12 years old and she gets an
opportunity to open up to the outside world
Play “Joota Chor”
and face it all by herself . The message that
we wanted to convey from the play is that at some point in our lives we all go through the same phase
and at that time we need a mentor in the form of a parents. They guide us, help us and teach us the various
aspects of the outside world. This play paved its way to the finals, that is, in top nine and bagged five
individual prizes in categories of acting, various art forms and music. It also received appreciation from
judges and the audience.
NSS - A Novel Step towards Humanity
This semester NSS VIIT oraganized "RESIDENTIAL CAMP" from 16th December 2014 to 22th
December 2014 for achieving noble goal. About 206 volunteer attended this camp. During the
residential camp, special activities of 'Shramadan', tree plantation, leveling of school ground, Cleaning
of school surrounding and village were carried out. For shaping up the quality of student various
activities such as debates, street play, sports activity were organized. For school going children of
village 'Computer education activity',science exibition and sport activity was conducted a Blood
donation camp and Guest lecture of Dyanesh Purandare on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was organized
on the occasion of "Shiv-Jayanti" on 18th February 2015. VIIT witnessed a grand success with a
humongous amount of 325 blood samples collection. The event took place from morning 8am to 5pm
with sincere support of the staff and the volunteer of VIIT.
Perception - An Evolution for Revolution
PERCEPTION, the annual techno-fest organized by
second and third students from degree awarding
departments was conducted in the last week of December
2014. At VIIT we recognize the importance of all round
growth of a student and encourage various curricular as
well as co curricular activities. This year's theme was GO
GREEN giving a message of warning to change our
thinking and habits before it is too late. Among various
technical competitions organized one activity by every
department was in line with the theme Go Green. This
year in all 25 activities fron various department were
slotted. Mr. Parag Mehta, Director, ATOS Origin,
Inauguration of Annual of Techno-Fest Perception
inaugurated the event. CIRCUIT DESIGN, HEART
BEAT, ROBORACE organized by E & TC dept. CONTRAPTION. ROBOWAR organized by
Mechanical dept. C-STORM by Computer dept. were crowd pulling events. Cash Prizes were awarded
to winners. Overall the Techno-Fest was an opportunity for student and organizers to gain tremendous
exposure in “interpersonal skills, team spirit, multi-tasking, time management and delegating”.
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Robocon
ROBOticCONtest (ROBOCON), is an interesting game
cum intellectual exercise for budding engineers and their
enthusiastic instructors determined to innovate and create
machines for producing desired results. Participation in
this activity is an end-to-end competitive yet fun
experience from concept design for a system of robots
programmed to perform according to the rules of the game.
International Robocon is mainly sponsored by Asia
Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) which includes
Doordarshan of India as a member which has been
organising all activities in India for last nine years with
collaboration with MIT Group of Institutions, Pune, India.
Robocon Team
The theme for ROBOCON 2015 was “ROBOMINTON”
We participated with great enthusiasm and sporty spirit. We have designed, developed and fabricated the
universal chassis required for ROBOCON theme. The other major development work was design of the base
mechanical components for Maccanum and Omni wheels. The smooth movement of machines were the primary
target for this year and we were able achieve it with the support of strong and dedicated Robocon team members
and supporting faculty from E&TC, Mechanical and workshop Departments. We stood 17th amongst 85 teams,
which includes major IIT's and NIIT's. Event was coordinated by Mr. G. H. Chavhan.
Sci-tech
SciTech'15 Science Exhibition is a part of Annual
Social Gathering Gandharv and organized as a part
of outreach program. It also provides platform for
VIIT students to put forth their project. This year
SciTech was organized on 2nd and 3rd January
2015. E&TC department presented 10 projects and
was proud to put forth 3 project based on this year
SciTech theme of “Go-Green”. Suraj Khuchare's
team from B.E. E&TC received first prize for their
project “Ultrasonic Obstacle Detection”. Under the
able guidance of our HOD Dr. P D Khandekar and
Science Exhibition
Staff Coordinator Ms. J. R. Jankar SciTech was
successfully completed with 500 students attending the exhibition from all over Pune. Solar Energy
Power Plant project funded by ISRO was also demonstrated to the students.
Victory Streak
Sopan Kadam won two competitions. He secured First
prize in “Programming Competition” at Solutions ‘15,
AIT, Pune and Second prize in “Technical Paper
Presentation” at Innovision ‘15, D. Y. Patil College
Akurdi.
Sopan Kadam and Priyanka Isave from our department
won the 1st prize in “Technical Paper Presentation” at
Sinhgad Karandak-Techtronic ‘15, Pune. They also
got 1st prize in “Technical Paper Presentation” at
Jishin’15 , Bharti College of Engineering, Pune.
Sopan Kadam
Prasad Ostwal, Swapnil Kashid
Juwairiyah Sarkhawas won the Best Paper of the session in “First SE E&TC Winner of “INC15”
International Conference on Computing, Communication, Control and Swayantra Competition PICT,
Automation” organized by Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune. Pune.
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Live Each Day Like It’s Your Last
Death is something most of us would rather not think about. It's dark, mysterious,
sad, final, lonely and cold. These may be some of the thoughts that come to mind
when death is mentioned. In my experience, I have found that there is a lot that can
be learnt about life from death. At no time has this struck me more than on one
occasion when my grand father was suffering because of asthma and he was
admitted in a local hospital. I and my mother were there in the hospital to look after
my grand father.
I saw, there was a woman in her mid-forties lying in the acute bay,
Mrs.P.D.Deshpande
unconscious in one of the wards. From her clothes and general appearance one
could see that she was relatively well-off financially. Apart from her shallow breathing there was no
sign of life in her. She had a blank stare into the air and never blinked. I noticed there was no one by her
bedside. Quickly looking through the notes by her bedside I learnt she was diabetic and had recently
started taking medication for HIV. I don't know why exactly, but somehow I felt a lot of empathy for the
woman. Perhaps it was the perception that everyone seemed to have given up on her. I saw that Doctor
put up an I.V line and gave her drugs and oxygen. I wondered – where are her family, friends and
relatives? Who brought her here? Why is there no one to be with her at this – probably the most
desperate moment in her life? How did she get HIV? What circumstances and choices had led her down
to this point where she was hanging on to life by a thread, and no one seemed to care? I thought she was
thirsty and hence I asked Doctor, Can I give her few spoons of juice? Fortunately doctor permitted me
for the same. I gave her juice and I went back to my grand father's ward.
Less than half an hour later I went back to see her. Her breathing was better and I could see her
half-open eyes follow me as I moved around her. That was encouraging. I was about to move away
when her hand gently grabbed at my wrist. She mumbled something but I could not understand her.
Moving my head closer to her I said: “What's the problem?” There was a pause. She took a few breaths,
and then whispered a shrill “Thank You.” “You're welcome,” I said and walked away.
I was so touched. This woman, in these circumstances with the odds stacked against her, thought
to say thank you. I wish I could tell you that this story had a happy ending. I wish I could tell you that she
got better and that I got to know more about her. I wish I could tell you that she got another chance. But, I
am the last person she spoke to. Two hours later, Doctor certified her dead. Before and even after her I
have seen many people die. I often wonder – if they had known that today was the last day of their life,
how would they have spent it? What would they have done with those last few precious moments?
A saying we have all heard before, but few of us have actually given it any thought. “Living each
day like it's your last”.
• Forces you to think about your priorities.
• It forces you to quit the things that waste your time and energy and to concentrate on the most
important things and people in your life.
• If you live that way you make better choices, you treasure each moment and suck the life out of
every hour. It removes the clutter and garbage that so often chokes our lives.
Living each day like it's your last is not about living in gloom and fear of death. Rather it is about
• Grabbing every opportunity in your life.
• Not procrastinating.
• Doing today what you could put off till tomorrow.
• Reaching out to your dreams today.
• Not letting another moment pass you by.
• Living life to the full.
It's living your life so that when your time comes to go, someone will care and someone will say “Their
life is different and their life is better…..because YOU were there”.
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Emerging and Influencing Field: Gesture Recognition
Gesture recognition is a very exciting topic in computer science and language
technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical
algorithms. The numbers represent the percentages of importance of varying
communication channels have with the belief that 55% of communication is our
body language, 38% is the tone of voice and 7% is the actual words we speak.
Means, gesture has wide importance and plays vital role in our day to day
communication.
Many approaches have been made using cameras and computer vision algorithms
Dr. K. P. Kshirsagar to interpret sign language. However, the identification and recognition of posture,
gait, proxemics and human behaviours is also the subject of gesture recognition techniques. Bhuyan et.
al. explained gesture recognition system applications and its growing importance in our life especially
for Human computer Interaction (HCI), Robot control, games and surveillance using different tools and
algorithms.
Gesture recognition can be seen as a way for computers to begin to understand human body language,
thus building a richer bridge between machines and humans than primitive text user interfaces. Gesture
recognition can be conducted with techniques from computer vision and image processing. Use of
gesture recognition is special gift for deaf people considering use of it to understand normal human
communication or vice versa. Let’s see how gesture is categorised.
Gesture type
• Offline gestures: Gestures processed after the user interaction with the object.
• Online gestures: Direct manipulation gestures.
Algorithms used to segment gesture
• 3D model-based algorithms
• Skeletal-based algorithms
• Appearance-based models
Gesture classification : Statistical tools used for gesture classification, Hidden Markov Model (HMM)
tool as shown its ability to recognize dynamic gestures, Finite State Machine (FSM), Learning Vector
Quantization (LVQ) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Neural network has been widely
applied in the field to extracted the hand shape for hand gesture recognition. Other soft computing tools
are effective in this field as well, such as Fuzzy C-Means clustering (FCM) and Genetic Algorithms
(GA).
Challenges : Challenges associated are accuracy, time consumed and usefulness of gesture recognition
software. Images or video may not be under consistent lighting or in the same location. Items in the
background or distinct features of the users may make recognition more difficult. The background
noise, distance from camera and camera’s resolution and quality cause variations in recognition
accuracy.
Understanding current realities and need of gesture recognition influenced me to add a bit better and
faster approach which uses contour key pixel appearance based model for segmentation. Some are
based on the deformable 2D templates of the human parts of the body, particularly hands. Deformable
templates are sets of points on the outline of hand object, used as interpolation nodes for the object’s
outline approximation. One of the simplest interpolation functions is linear, which performs an average
shape from point sets, point variability parameters and external deformators. These template-based
models are mostly used for hand-tracking, but could also be used for simple gesture classification. And
for gesture classification, Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) speech processing concept with static and
dynamic features are used for time reduction and accuracy based recognition process. If we talk in
terms of industry, then currently consumer electronics application contributes to more than 99% of the
global gesture recognition market. As per the report published, the healthcare application is expected to
emerge as a significant market for gesture recognition technologies over the next five years. The
automotive application for gesture recognition is expected to be commercialized. There are still more
opportunities to explore in this wide subject, as more and more achievements in this field will lead to
more easy and precise communication.
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TIFR
In the year 2014-2015, 26 students from Department of Electronics and Telecommunication have undertaken 10
final year projects under the VIIT-TIFR collaboration:
Sr.No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Project
Students
Praveen Mannva,
Trigger Logic Design for Extensive Shower
Anurag Bharat Pandey
Detection
64-channel Muon Counter Hardware Board
Aniket S. Deshmukh,
Design
Sumit S.Kadam, Satish P.Logade
Shradha Rajkishan Mani,
Signal Conditioning of Nano-second Pulse
Sneha Rajkishan Mani
from SiPM
Precision Microstepping for High Resolution Nidhi Sanjiv Dahiwale,
Variable Wavelength Monochromator
Aman R Agrawal
Power supply and Control Circuit for Xenon
Ashutosh Kumar,
Lamp & Optical Chopper in a Monochromator Ravi Kesharwani, Gaurav Joshi
Hardware Implementation of Lock-in
Prachee Dhapte, Shriyah Gadve
Amplifier for Noisy Signals
Software Implementation of High Frequency
Sasmit Gawali, Rafiq Shaikh
Lock-in Amplifier using LabVIEW
Aditya Joshi, Abhijit Mekhale,
Auto-filling of Nitrogen Dewar using PLC
Pratik Mehta
Implementation and Design of Solar Power
Neha Bhole, Kalyani Desai,
System and Data Logging
Saachivi Deshmukh
Shubham Negi, Saurabh Shinde,
Buck-Boost Converter for Solar Power
Akshay Trivedi
Guide (VIIT)
Guide (TIFR)
Prof. K. J. Raut
Prof. Jagdeesan
Prof. K. J. Raut
Prof. Atul Jain
Prof. S. R. Dugad,
Prof. R. Shukla
Prof. P. G. Gawande Prof. S. S. Prabhu,
Prof. P. Deshmukh
Prof. S. S. Prabhu,
Prof. R A Chavan
Prof. P. Deshmukh
Prof. R. G. Purandare Prof. S. S. Prabhu,
Prof. P. Deshmukh
Prof. S. H. Bhagwat Prof. S. S. Prabhu,
Prof. P. Deshmukh
Prof. A. A. Kulkarni
Prof. G. H. Chauhan Prof.K.V.Srinivasan
Prof. V. N. Aher
Prof. S. K. Gupta
Prof. V. N. Aher
Prof. S. K. Gupta
The projects are at different stages of completion. The outcome of these projects will be as follows:
(1) Custom made generic hardware for FPGA (SPARTAN-6) and Microcontroller (ARM-7) for implementation
of logic and data acquisition, (2) High frequency amplifier for SiPM pulse, first step towards charge integration
and digitization, (3) Automated monochromator in UV-Vis-IR range with low and high frequency Lock-ins,
(4)Smart Solar PV system.
Two projects undertaken by earlier batches have been tested thoroughly in field at Cosmic Rays
Laboratory (CRL), TIFR, Ooty and are being deployed. The first project is “32-channel High Speed Scalar” and
is being implemented for data acquisition. The second project is High voltage monitoring. This is now being
deployed for all the 400 odd Photomultiplier tubes (PMT) at CRL.
Last year two of our students were employed by TIFR. Akshay Manjare is now working as Junior
Research Fellow and Pankaj Rakshe has been selected at a very senior level of Scientific Officer “D” at CRL.
Pankaj had carried out his ME project under VIIT-TIFR collaboration. He designed, implemented and tested a
multichannel precision power supply for Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM). Gain of SiPM changes with
temperature. The power supply has built in capability of compensating for this temperature effect by varying the
bias voltage and thus keeping the gain constant. This would help in replacing PMTs with SiPMs in future in the
GRAPES-3 experiment in CRL, Ooty where the on-field temperature could vary between 0 and 40C.
Industrial Visit
A visit to BSNL GSM Exchange, Chichwad was conducted for
B.E.(E&TC) students on 10th and 13th March, 2015. Mrs.R.G.
Purandare, Mr.A.W.Ingle and Dr. K. Kshirsagar accompanied
students. Students got insight regarding the internal working
environment of a company which is telephone exchange in this
case, how it functions, as well as useful information related to the
practical aspects of the educational course which cannot be
visualized in lectures. It provided first-hand knowledge, as
students saw Real Time switching of calls. Base transceiver
Stations, antennas, channels, links and interfaces which were
Industrial Visit to BSNL GSM Exchange, Chinchwad explained in detail. In their own words they realized that such
visits give them exposure to current work practices as opposed to possibly theoretical knowledge being taught at
college.
Newsletter Issue 10, 2015
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Publications
1. Yogesh H. Dandawate, “Fusion Based Multimodal Biometric Cryptosystem”, Proceedings of
International conference on Industrial Instrumentation and control (ICIC), ISBN No. 978-1-47997165-7, May 28-30, 2015.
2. Yogesh H.Dandawate, “FPGA based Low Power Laser Range Finder”, Accepted and Presented in
International Conference on Computing, Communication, Control and Automation 2015 at PCCOE,
Pune, Feb 26-27 2015.
3. Yogesh H.Dandawate, “Particle Analysis Using Improved Adaptive Level Set Method Based Image
Segmentation" Accepted and Presented in International Conference on Computing, Communication,
Control and Automation 2015 at PCCOE, Pune Feb 26-27 2015.
4. Yogesh H.Dandawate, “Image Compression using Compressed Sensing with Random-Convolution
Principle and Adaptive Binary Optimization". Accepted and Presented in International Conference on
Telecommunication Technology & Management (ICTTM2015), 11th-12th April, 2015. Proceeding to
be Published online by Emerland Publishers.
5. Prasad D.Khandekar, Amruta Kulkarni, “Variable Quality Factor JPEG Image Compression Using
Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration and Microblaze”, Accepted in International Conference on
Computing, Communication, Control and Automation (ICCUBEA-2015) 26 -27 Feb 2015.
6. Prasad D.Khandekar, “FPGA Based Wireless Sensor Network Node: Survey”, International Journal of
VLSI and Embedded Systems-IJVES, ISSN: 2249 6556,Vol 06, Article 01526; January 2015.
7. Yogesh Dandawate, Ashwini Navghane,“Handwritten Devanagari Character Recognition using
Wavelet Based Feature Extraction Scheme”, 11th IEEE India Conference INDICON, ISBN No. 9781-4799-5362-2, held on 11th 13th December 2014, Pune, India.
8. Yogesh Dandawate, “Shirorekha Extraction in Character Segmentation for Printed Devanagari Text in
Document Image Processing”, 11th IEEE India Conference INDICON, ISBN No. 978-1-4799-5362-2,
held on 11th 13th December 2014, Pune, India.
9. Yogesh Dandawate, “Color Image Quality Assessment using Laplacian Pyramid Decomposition"
Accepted for Publication in International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics.
(Indersciennce Publishers)
10. Yogesh Dandawate, “Wave Forecasting Using Neuro Wavelet Technique” Published in The
International Journal of Ocean and Climate Systems (IJOCS) UK Volume 5, Nov 4 December
2014.ISSN 1759-3131.
11. Rajesh B.Ghongade, “Design and Simulate an Antenna for Aqueous Glucose Measurement”, 11th
IEEE India Conference INDICON, ISBN No. 978-1-4799-5362-2, held on 11th 13th December 2014,
Pune, India.
12. Rajesh B. Ghongade, “Design an Antenna for Aqueous Glucose Measurement”, International Journal
of Engineering Innovation &Research,Volume 3, Issue 4, ISSN: 2277 5668,July 2014.
13. Rajesh B. Ghongade, “R Peak Detection Using Wavelet Energy Histogram and Adaptive
Thresholding”, International Journal of Emerging Trends in Electrical and Electronics (IJETEE ISSN:
2320 - 9569) Vol. 10, Issue. 10, Oct. 2014.
14. Arti V. Bang, “Content Based Image Retrieval Using Interactive Genetic Algorithm”, 11th IEEE India
Conference INDICON, ISBN No. 978-1-4799-5362-2, held on 11th 13th December 2014, Pune, India.
15. Radhika Purandare, “QoS-Optimized Adaptive Multi-layer (OQAM) architecture of wireless network
for high quality digital video transmission”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image
Representation ELSEVIER, Volume 26, Pages 210221, January 2015.
16. Shailesh V. Kulkarni, “Effective use of Multi-Core Architecture through Multi-Threading towards
Computation Intensive Signal Processing Applications”, International Journal of Computer
Applications (0975 8887), Volume 110 No. 1, January 2015.
17. Ramkrishnan Kasyap, “Design of Asymmetric CPW fed Slot Antennas for Pattern and Polarization
Diversity”, IEEE Global Conference on Wireless Computing & Networking, IEEExplore, Pages 36 40 , DOI: 10.1109/GCWCN.2014.7030843, 4th-5th September 2015.
18. Anup Ingle, “Update on Next Generation Network Attacks", a review paper on network attacks
classified into mobile & computer based”, International Conference on Electrical , Electronics and
Computer Science Engineering (ICEECSE-2015), ISBN: 987-2-642-24819-2,Pune, 25th January
2015.
Newsletter Issue 10, 2015
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Patents
1. Dr.Aditya Abhyankar, Shailesh Kulkarni - Towards Scalable Video Coding: A Wavelet Based Error
Resilient Probabilistic Approach.
2. Dr.Aditya Abhyankar, Rajendra Talware - Design of a spatio-temporal neural network for nonmodular high content pathological screening.
3. Dr.Aditya Abhyankar, Dr. B P Patil, Dr.Kulbir Singh, Tushar Jadhav, Anuja Phadke - A system and
method for homography based hybrid mixture models for rehab engineering.
4. Dr.Aditya Abhyankar, Abhijit Chitre - Towards Characterization And Synthesis Of Indian Tonal
Musical Sounds Through Framework Of Analytical Modeling.
5. Dr.Aditya Abhyankar, Dr. Y H Dandawate, S N Dharwadkar - Conjunctival Vasculature based
Liveness detection for robust iris recognition.
Testimony from Stakeholders
Parent
Mrs. Sanjivani
Vishwasrao
VIIT has stood by its vision and mission in the way it runs the college and handles the
education and development of its students. The sincere and dedicated staff, headed by an
involved and motivated head like Prof Khandekar has ensured that I feel I made the right
choice in sending my son to this institute. The encouragement and understanding coupled
with timely guidance and mentoring is what makes a huge difference to the young students
who step in through the doors here. That is exactly what this Department offered openly to
my son. The stress on academics, discipline and skill and ability development is not just
spoken about, but also practiced here. This then makes me feel somewhat more secure that
my son is in the right place and in good hands. Getting the NBA Accreditation would be
like the cherry on the cake, making VIIT and its fantastic E&TC Department a coveted
destination for aspiring engineers.
Industry
Dear Khandekar Sir,
It was a pleasure to attend the IAB meeting and I sincerely thank you for inviting me. The institute is taking the
effort, well in advance, and I am very happy about it. I wish to contribute to this work, and this is what I can do.
Please let me know what fits in your thinking, or what additions, deletions or changes do you propose.
1. Conduct a workshop for S.E. students, say 3 hours, beginning of semester 2(the workshop will enable the
students to identify their own strengths, and weaknesses, likes, dislikes. It will also give them an overview
of the specialty disciplines in the field of electronics, and how choosing the right one can skyrocket their
carrier. Also impresses upon them the relevence of educational curriculum. It will also inspire them to focus
correctly on curricular studies and beyond).
2. Conduct a workshop for T.E. students, say 1.5 hours, beginning of semester 4.
3. Conduct a workshop for B.E. students, say 3 hours, beginning of semester 5.
4. Act as an external guide for S.E. and T.E. mini projects, beginning of semester 4, say, 3+3 projects.
5. Selected B.E. projects, 2 projects.
Please let me have your views.
I was also impressed to see your final year projects and power electronics lab.
Vinaykumar Achwal (Crest Technology)
Upcoming Events
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One week ISTE approved STTP of challenges in ASIC design from 15 -19 June 2015.
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Department Advisory Board meeting on 27 June 2015.
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Industry Advisory Board meeting on 3 July 2015.
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