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Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust’s

Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology

NEWSLETTER ISSUE 15, 2017-2018

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION ENGG.

With the change in engineering education scenario, we strive to impart training rather than only theoretic approach to support experiential learning. We are sure that, demand raised by technological growth will be satisfied and our students will be empowered to face future generation in the field of Electronics and Telecommunication. Faculty members in the department modulate teaching based on their research experience and strive continuously to become effective teacher. Adoption of ICT tool by faculty member is one of the significant step taken in this semester. This will create new dimension in learning and effective time utilization for students.

During last Semester various curricular and co-curricular activities conducted successfully in the department: 15 students and 3 faculty members underwent training on "Embedded System Design using PIC", at IIT, Bombay and continuing with prescribed online course. 33 students were deputed for internship program in nearby industries, organized various guest lectures for students, to make them aware about current trends in industry and research. Students showcased their talent in Avishkar competition. VIIT NSS Team were also involved in social cause: tree plantation camp, blood donation camp, residential camp. Students also participated in various technical events and won prizes at institute of repute.

Department has organized series of workshop for students on "IoT", "M/c Learning on Raspberry Pi3". 40Hours LabVIEW hands on training also arranged. Hands on workshops will help in boosting implementation confidence among these students.

With the efforts undertaken, we believe that department is marching towards vision and mission defined. Further, commitment of faculty members, staff and whole hearted efforts of students will make the department the choicest destination for aspiring electronics and telecommunication engineers.

Dr. S. V. Kulkarni Head, E & TC

VISHWAKARMA INSTITUTESVISHWAKARMA INSTITUTES

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

Credits:- Staff Incharge : Mrs. Minal S. Deshmukh, Mr. Suraj S. Wakchaure.Editors:- Omnik Maurya (T.E.), Keshav (T.E.), Avisha (T.E.), Vishnu Thobbi (S.E.), Mihir Mahajan (S.E.), Swarali Dhongadi (S.E.) Website:- www.viit.ac.in

I am pleased to release new edition of newsletter. This newsletter provides a panoramic view of academics, research, co-curricular and achievements of the department during Semester-I of academic year 2017-18. Excellence in electronics and communication engineering education is our mission. The electronics and communication engineering department has rich tradition of pursuing academic excellence and providing congenial environment for overall personality of student.

Accredited by NBA and NAAC - 'A'

Autonomous Institute affiliated to SPPU(ISO 9001:2008)

Dear All

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th 1) Dr. Shrikant S. Joshi, was awarded with Ph. D. on 17 November 2017 by Indian Institute of Technology

(IIT), Bombay. His research topic is, "Automatic Detection of Mispronunciation of Indian English Vowels", guided by Prof. Dr. Preeti Rao.

Faculty Upgradtion

1) Dr. Y. H. Dandawate Keynote address on " Computer Vision: Applications, Challenges and Research" in Govt. College of Engg.

thPune in Faculty Development Program on Image Processing and Pattern recognition on 27 Dec. 2107.nd

Talk on " Image Quality Assessment" in FDP on Image Processing at Sinhgad COE Pune on 22 Dec. 2017.Talk on " Reach : Tips and Trick" by Dr. Y. H. Dandawate and Dr. Londhe in workshop on research at Pimpri

thChinchwad College of Engineering and Research on 8 Dec 2017.Talk on " Image Quality Assessment Using Deep Learning" in STTP on Image processing and Deep

thLearning at MITCOE Pune on 15 Dec. 2017.2) Mr. A. V. Chitre

th Talk on “Outcome Based Education and Course, Programme Outcome Attainment at SRTTC Pune on 14

November 2017.3) Dr. S. V. Kulkarni Expert lecture for SPPU faculty, regarding for Teaching Methodology for the revised course, "Advanced

thProcessors' T.E. (E&TC) on 14 December 2017.

4) Mr. Rahul PolExpert Lecture and One day Hands on workshop on "Microcontroller Programming, Circuit Simulation and

stPCB Design" at Department of Electronics and Telecommunication at KJCOEMR, Pune on 1 March 2017.

thExpert lecturer on "Logic Families" at Department of Computer Engineering VIIT, Pune,48 on 19 August 2017.Expert Lecture and One day Hands on workshop on "Electronic Circuit Simulation and PCB Design" at

thDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunication at KJCOEMR, Pune on 16 September 2017.Expert Lecture and One day Hands on workshop on "Embedded System Design and Simulation " at

thDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunication at KJCOEMR, Pune on 15 September 2017.Expert Lecture on "Cortex Technology and Its Application" at Department of Electronics and

thTelecommunication at SKN College of Engineering Korti, Pandharpur, Solapur- 413304, on 4 August 2017.

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

DRDO, Dehu road, Pune 21 has sanctioned a project on "SUPER CAPACITOR BASED DIESEL ENGINE CRANKING SYSTEM WITH HIGH FREQUENCY MATRIX CONVERTER BASED CHARGER" .The total value of the fund is Rs. 24,80,000/-. Project is for a period of one and half years. Dr. R. S. Talware and Mr. V. M. Aranake would be working on the project. For the first time department has been granted project from a defence organisation. The project has got potential to develop a product for actual battle field application. If first initial phase is successfully completed there would be two more stages of the project after one and half years, which are in pipeline. DRDO has also many other projects based on wireless communication those would be tapped in due course.

Funded Project from DRDO

Invited Talks

Faculty InternshipMr. Kasyap Ramkrishnan was deputed for the Indian Antenna Week 2017 organized by Defense Institute of

th thAdvanced Technology during the period 5 -9 June 2017. IEEE India Antenna week is a prestigious event, which is organized in different parts of India on rotation basis every year to boost the dwindling number of Antenna/RF professionals. Experts and distinguished academicians working in various aspects of antenna: analysis, design, fabrication and testing shared their views in the conference.

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A three days hands on workshop on Internet of Things (IoT) was held

th th from 25 to 27 September 2017.74 students were introduced to IOT and Arduino which included IoT - In-depth explanation, End-to-End IoT. Architecture with detailed explanation, IoT Applications in different domain, Arduino family for IoT applications.

Introduction to I/O Devices & GPIO Pins and sensor interfacing. On day two they were introduced to “Connecting to Internet Hands on IoT” which included Introduction to WiFi (ESP8266 WiFi module), Setting UART for Communication, Interfacing & Configuring ESP8266 with Arduino, Open source cloud Thing Speak, Data exchange using IoT cloud, Designing own weather station, Introduction of SIM800 GSM modem, Internet connectivity using GSM modem, HTTP implementation for IoT application and Sending email over

rdthe web using IoT. Other IoT applications were taken on the 3 day.

A three day hands on Workshop on M a c h i n e L e a r n i n g o n

thRaspberry Pi 3 was held on 27 -

th29 September 2017.On first day instructor briefed about - Introduction to Raspberry Pi, Why Raspberry Pi? Different Models, Peripherals of Raspberry Pi, Different Operating Systems for Raspberry Pi, Getting Started with Ubuntu Linux.Python programming, Pins of Pi & Controlling GPIO pins, Introduction to raspberry camera interfacing camera, Configure and enable Camera, Capturing image and processing, Introduction to open CV. On day two students were introduced to - Viola Jones Cascade Algorithms, Adaboost for face detection face landmark estimation, Deep Convolutional Neural Network, Face recognition and challenges, A case study Tensor Flow algorithm and implementation Deep belief algorithm and implementation. On day three - Introduction to OCR, Role of OCR in Industries Cheque Truncation System development was explained. It was a successful event for the department with total 74 students participants and 8 faculty members.

VIIT-NI LabVIEW academy organized regular student work- shop on “Virtual Instrumentation using LabVIEW - 40Hours Course”. The training program was held during 25th Sept. to 29th Sept. 2017. There were 26 participants who attended this workshop. In t roduct ion to LabVIEW, Modular Programming

Repetition and Loops, Making Decisions in a VI, Arrays, Clusters and Strings, Plotting Data, File I/O, Data Acquisition and Waveforms and Case Study were the topics elaborated within the course. A student project competition was held based on the students learning from this course as the result of which students came up with new ideas and implementation of LabVIEW for various applications. All these workshops were coordinated by Mr. Rahul S. Pol.

Workshop : Internet of Things (IoT)

Workshop : Machine Learning on Raspberry Pi 3

Workshop : LabVIEW- 40 Hours Course

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Hello friends, my name is Akshay Manjare and I am a B.E. E&TC student from VIIT of 2014 batch. I joined VIIT with a mission to be a competitive engineer in the outside world.I would like to share with everyone my personal experience in VIIT. First, I would like to talk about the teaching in this college and how everything started for making me the person I am today. Here every subject was started from all basic concepts. Let’s say study of VLSI in our college. It starts with study of Digital Systems which included concepts of gates, flip flop logics and much more. By the end, we were able to design smart systems and test onto general purpose FPGA and micro-controllers with real time inputs. The plethora of knowledge is further boosted by teachers over here. They have helped us beyond general scope for better understanding of the subject and concepts. Today when

Parent

Ms. Minal Deshmukh has, with all the students from her class, including our son. The department was taking pains to communicate the good, bad, ugly picture directly to the parents. To be honest, when we were called to meet HOD Mr. S.V. Kulkarni, I was initially irritated as a father, as I was stuck up in my own busy schedule and I had to break that schedule and meet Mr. Kulkarni.

I think, the interaction with HOD was a turning point for both , to us as a parents and to our son as a student. We were really amazed and touched upon the way Mr. Kulkarni patiently listened to our son as well as his class teacher and us. After which, HOD has taken upon himself to guide our son on the right path , not only as a subject matter expert , but more as a Guru which really helped our son and us to come out positively. Also the assertiveness, mentorship which is demonstrated by Ms.Minal is phenomenal. We just remembered about our good old school and college days wherein there is commitment for student engagement and excellence, especially, in this era of cell phone what's app Facebook etc.We appreciate E &TC Department team, the way all are engaged with their students and also guiding them on the path of excellence.

Testimony form Stake HoldersAlumini

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

First of all, when any student moves from 12th Std., FE and SE it is always challenging. At first time, when called for parents meeting, surprised, as we were aware of parents meeting at school level, but at Engineering College level was unheard off. Not only the sharing done in the overall college parents meeting, but subsequently it was followed upon by further in depth communication with E & TC Department percolating to the class teacher level. When initially it hit upon us that our son has his own so called challenges due to which, initially he was unable to attend the classes regularly and probably, unable to cope up with new subjects. During this period, we were pleasantly surprised by the kind of engagement his class teacher

handling any projects, it is always easy to start from the basics applied at the college level and build the project from there on and complete till now. Secondly, I would like to talk about the labs in this college. There are labs with so many facilities available including access to IEEE, MATLAB, Xilinx, LabVIEW and so on. Today, using all these tools are quite necessary. Given my own personal experience, today I needed to submit a project in my master’s course which included to write a MATLAB code. This project was worth 10% of my credit score. With MATLAB in back of my mind in a day I was able to submit the project without any problems in a day while many students struggled even at the final hour of submission. Likewise, all software and hardware practical’s have helped me to complete my projects here.

Finally, all these things are not possible without having a good friend. No, I am not talking about my group members during my college days. I am talking about the teachers themselves. I agree not all teachers have been nice with us, few have been strict with us but that is just to keep us on the right track. Their time to time guidance during studies, after studies and now while we are working or doing Masters course is always useful. This makes them a good friend to talk to them and share your experience all time. They will surely lecture us on time management but that is fine. We have to listen to them and realize there is always many more seconds in life than sorrows. Signing off from here I would like to conclude that my college has taught me to be more than just an engineer. Thank you.

Akshay Manjre

Abhijit Kulkarni

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Internship Program

Through department's efforts 8 students were placed in various core companies in 2016-17. 33 students were sent for Winter Internship in various companies like UL Automation, Vishay Components India Pvt. Ltd., Jambhekar Automations, Aeron System Sunay Enterprise, Crystal Peripherals & Systems Pvt. Ltd. Off campus placement and internship is co-ordinated by Mr. Vishal Ambhore and Mr. Piyush Mathurkar.

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

We had our internship at Aeron Systems Pvt. Ltd. a core company with key products regarding defence and monitoring systems. We did tasks regarding socket programming, file handling, reading sensor values on BeagleBone black which is a family member of ARM. We did ADC read using BeagleBone board with help of PUTTY which helps to access BeagleBone board via a terminal in windows itself. We learnt to write, edit, compile, run all format of programs via terminal itself. We are very thankful and appreciate the help we got and exposure obtained by this internship. We got lot of experience regarding work carried out in industries. Parth M. Patre

As every year by the courtesy of E&TC department and Mr. Vishal Ambhore we: Pranav Natekar, Sohan Maske, Ms. Shweta Kulkarni and Ms. Prajakta Rokade had an internship in one of the most leading manufacturers of discrete passive components, Vishay Inter Technology Inc. The company has two main departments for resistors and capacitors. We were glad to work in both the departments. We did high voltage testing of those components, understood the manufacturing of resistors and capacitors. The types of resistors manufactured were: PR(Power Resistors), VR (Voltage Resistors) and Wire-Wound resistors. We also understood the manufacturing processes such as Sputtering, Helixing, Lacquering, Welding, etc. Pranav D. Natekar

Off Campus Program : I am Suchit S. Katre, Student of E&TC Engineering. I feel proud to be a part of VIIT. It gave me a platform to excel on my strengths and to work upon my weaknesses. Now, I'm placed in Electronica Mechatronic System (India) Pvt. Ltd. It only became possible due to the efforts made by Department Placement Cell. I would like to express my gratitude towards Dr. Dandwate, Mr. Vishal Ambhore and Mr. Mathurkar for their support in entire process of placement and all the faculty members who guided me and put their faith in me throughout these years. With this opportunity I feel very confident about my bright future with blessings of professors and parents. Suchit S. Katre, BE. E&TC, 2017 Batch.

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Principal Global Services (I)Pvt.Ltd.

Accenture Ltd.

Atos India Pvt. Ltd

Tata Elxsi Ltd

KPIT Technologies Ltd.

Tata Communications Limited

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Tapish Meshram

Rohini Fakate

Namrata Gaikwad

Mehul Gosavi

Suchit Katre

Swapnil Kashid

Ashitosh Jadhav

Shubhangi Murade

Artifitial Machines Pvt Ltd

Artifitial Machines Pvt Ltd

Symtronics Automation Pvt Ltd

Symtronics Automation Pvt Ltd

Electronica Mechatronics Systems (I) Pvt Ltd

Electronica Mechatronics Systems (I) Pvt Ltd

Gizmo Techno

Prompt Personnel Consultancy Services Pvt.Ltd.

Embedded

Embedded

Power

Power

Embedded and IOT

Embedded and IOT

Embedded and IOT

Communication

Training and Placement (2017-18)

Suchit S. Katre

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NSS - A Novel Step towards Humanity

Avishkar/Purshottam

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

The NSS committee had organised a Tree Plantation programme as a part induction activity for First Year students

stadmitted in the institute. The program was conducted from 1 th

August 2017 to 14 August 2017. On the working days of above mentioned dates a group of 60 students would visit the Jamgaon village in Mulshi Taluka of Pune District. A total of 60 students participated along with the committee members. The target of planting 2000 trees was accomplished by the combined effect of enthusiasm and hard work.

The NSS team of Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Kondhwa Bk. had organised a blood donation

thcamp and eye checkup on 29 September 2017 in association with Jankalyan Blood Bank and Acharya Anandrishiji Blood

Bank. Donor count of 303 was recorded. 160 eye check ups were done.The event was successful and it was appreciated by the NSS co-ordinator and the NSS committee. We hope NSS-VIIT continues its work for the society. The NSS-VIIT team conveyed a message to the youth to contribute for the welfare ofthe society and betterment of humanity.

The NSS residential camp for the year 2017-18 th

was stared on 13 of December 2017 at thJamgaon. This was seven days 10 residential

camp of VIIT, Pune 48.

This year the theme for camp was ‘Go Digital, Go Global’. Total of 130 volunteers registered for camp.

We all know that different people have different shades of personalities. "n" number of people with "n" number of traits have "n" number of talents, interests and hobbies. But are they really able to make the most of it?? Busy Schedules and strenuous working hours or terrible university syllabus have now replaced our wish and will of giving some time to our interests. So, to make sure that students don't end up being one of those "n" number of people, we, at Aavishkar, present an ocean of opportunities for students to dive in depths of creativity.

Achievements at Firodiya 2017 1) Special Mention Award 2) Best Music Team 3) Apurva Kulkarni - Best Singer Female and Chaturustra Kalakar 4) Sakshi Dighe - Best Actress 5) Hrishikesh Deshpande and Sushant Khursale - Duff 2nd 6) Snehal Bamane - Sand Art 3rd 7) Abhishek Nirgun and Shravani Agarkar - Shadow 3rd 8) Vinish Randive - Sculpture 2nd

Aavishkar is an altogether different world aimed at bringing hoards of talent under one roof, from singing to acting everything is nurtured with efficiency!

It is not just a cultural commune, but a family that performs together and stays together, bound by Love and passion. People interested in theatres have a wonderful chance to receive appreciation for their work through Aavishkar, as we participate in the famous competitions like, Firodiya, Purushottam, and Dajikaka Karandak and Suman Karandak.

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Victory Streak

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

2nd runner: Circuit Fixer 2 at MINDSPARK-17,COEPAnkush Chavan & Vishambhar Awagan Winner : Circuit Wizard 2017 (E&TC) at AISSMS1st runner : Circuit Wizard 2017(Electrical), AISSMS 1st runner : Circuit Fixer 2 at MINDSPARK-17,COEPWinner : Digimania at AISSMS (Ankush Chavan)

Arpit Srivastava and Anil Rajpurohit2nd runner: Search & Destroy at MINDSPARK-17 COEP

Kishan Patel, Pratik Patil and Parth Patre1st runner: Cretronix (senior) at PICT

A Group photo with all winnersVIIT Stood on Fourth Place in Overall

Championship, COEP

E-Yantra Robotic competition (eYRC-2017) at IIT BombayThe teams were evaluated by giving a mini project to solve. The aim of the task was to use python and OpenCV to analyse a video, detect the shape and perform image overlay based on the colour of the shape detected. From our college there were 4 participants ; Dale Fernandes, Advait Patwardhan, K. Tharun, Janak Dave. This years challenge was related to agriculture. The 3 tracks were Planter Bot, Harvester Bot, Transporter Bot

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Managing the Stress

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

College requires significantly more effort from students than high school. Once you enter college, you will probably find that your fellow students are more motivated, your instructors are more demanding, the work is more difficult, and you are expected to be more independent. As a result of these new demands, it is common for college students to experience greater levels of stress related to academics. Many students find that they need to develop new skills in order to balance academic demands with a healthy lifestyle.  Many students find that they can reduce their level of academic stress by improving skills such as time management, stress management, and relaxation. Stress is anything that alters your natural balance. When stress is present, your body and your mind must attend to it in order to return you to balance. Your body reacts to stress by releasing hormones that help you cope with the situation. That in turn takes energy away from the

other functions of your brain, like concentrating, or taking action. Stress is a part of everyday life. There are many instances when stress can be helpful. A fire alarm is intended to cause the stress that alerts you to avoid danger. The stress created by a deadline to finish a paper can motivate you to finish the assignment on time. But when experienced in excess, stress has the opposite effect. It can harm our emotional and physical health, and limit our ability to function at home, in school, and within our relationships. But the good news is that, since we are responsible for bringing about much of our own stress, we can also do much to manage stress by learning and practising specific stress-reduction strategies Here are a few common indicators of stress:

Difficulty in concentrating, Increased worrying, Trouble completing assignments on timeNot going to class, Tension, Short temper or increased agitation, Headaches, Tight muscles Changes in eating habits (e.g., “stress eating”), Changes in sleeping habits

Not everyone responds the same way to potentially stressful circumstances. For example, during final exams many students feel very overwhelmed and anxious, while others are able to keep their stress under control. If you are one of the many people who have difficulty managing stress during difficult times, look for some helpful tips below.

A feeling of control and a healthy balance in your schedule is a necessary part of managing stress. Learning how to manage your responsibilities, accomplish your goals and still have time for rest and relaxation requires that you practice time management skills.Try setting a specific goal for yourself that will improve your mood and help you reduce stress. Start by filling out a goal-setting worksheet.Avoid postponing: Putting off assignments or responsibilities until the last minute can create more mental and physical stress than staying on top of them.  Procrastination can affect many aspects of daily life, such as the quality of your work, the quality of your sleep, and your mood.Exercise regularly. Physical activity can help you burn off the energy generated by stress.Practice good sleep habits to ensure that you are well-rested. Sleep deprivation can cause many physical and mental problems and can increase stress.Limit the use of stimulants like caffeine, which can elevate the stress response in your body.Pace yourself throughout the day, taking regular breaks from work or other structured activities. During breaks from class, studying, or work, spend time walking outdoors, listen to music or just sit quietly, to clear and calm your mind.Realize that we all have limits. Learn to work within your limits and set realistic expectations for yourself and others.

Recognize the role your own thoughts can play in causing you distress. Challenge beliefs you may hold about yourself and your situation that may not be accurate.Find humour in your life. Laughter can be a great tension-reducer.Seek the support of friends, counselor and family when you need to “vent” about situations that bring on stressful feelings. But make sure that you don’t focus exclusively on negative experiences; try to also think of at least three things that are going well for you, and share those experiences.

You might feel lost at times because you can't visualize your future. Your dream might be succeeding in college and getting a job, or it might be to own a business. At the end of the day, what you should know is what's most important to you and prioritize it. Especially when you are chasing an ultimate goal, your dreams will help you to reduce anxiety while making choices.

Plan leisure activities to break up your schedule.

Mrs. Smita Bhagwat Assistant Professor

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Mrs. Rohini ChavanAssistant Professor

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

Many researchers are continuously working in computer vision to develop the algorithm of motion detection and tracking for crowded and dynamic scenes. Accurate, robust and reliable object detection as well as tracking is the crucial step in visual surveillance applications. The continuous development in the computer vision system is carrying out effective and accurate design of detection and tracking modules in video surveillance system for real time applications. There is a large significance of motion tracking in real time world as it enables various important applications such as to provide better security using video data in shopping malls and theatres, in medical therapy to improve the quality of life of patients, video abstraction to obtain automatic annotation of videos, traffic management to analyse traffic flow, video editing and to design futuristic video effects. In majority real time application, modules for video surveillance are optimized to respond to global system.

MOVING OBJECT DETECTION : The most challenging tasks for detection of moving objects are sudden change in an illumination of light such as days and night effect, severe occlusion among the moving objects, shadows and non-stationary background objects like fans and moving branches of the trees etc. A visual detection and tracking system is required to generalize across large variations in object appearance such as posture, shape and facial expressions. Background subtraction is the most commonly used method for moving object detection. In this method construction of background modelling is the first step. It gives a reference frame from first few frames of video sequences which represent only background objects. Many detection algorithms based on recursive and non-recursive type of approaches have been proposed by the researchers to construct the reference frame. The reference frame represents the background scene statistically. Then the motion from video scene can be detected by sequentially subtracting all the current frames from background frame. In recursive type of approach, instead of putting few frames in buffer, model is recursively updated. Later, the frame difference is check with threshold value. If the difference is greater than threshold then it represents as a foreground pixel and if it is less then it belongs to background pixel. The threshold value is set by the user in such a way that errors should be minimized. In this way thresholding gives output in terms of binary frame. At last, morphological operations can be done to remove all unwanted random noise pixels.

Optical flow method can compute the flow vectors of moving objects over time to detect foreground regions from video sequence. Even though the camera is moving still this technique can detect the moving objects. But it is computationally complex and used in real time applications for crowd analysis and dense motion with specialized hardware. Under the assumption of brightness constancy and special smoothness, Optical flow method is used to describe coherent motion of points or features between image frames. In frame differencing method, image segmentation can be done by taking the difference between two successive frames in video sequence. This is very simple method of moving object detection but the drawback of this system is that all the foreground pixels are not extracted. So it gives poor accuracy.

OBJECT TRACKING : After motion detection, the next important thing in surveillance system is generally to track the foreground objects from one frame to another in video sequence. According to survey on various tracking approaches, it can be classified as deterministic and probabilistic tracking. For the former, Mean Shift (MS) is the widely used technique because of its simplicity and effectiveness. It utilizes the parameters of data distribution for tracking multiple possible candidates. It is computationally very efficient but regular MS tracker loose the tracks due to fast changes occurred in the motion of the objects. However the quality of this algorithm performance degraded in case of severe occlusion occurred and similar kind of objects present

Moving object tracking is the process of locating the position of the target in time from video sequences. It approximates the path of multiple moving objects. All object tracking methods such as Kalman filter, Particle filter, Mean Shift tracking algorithm and Edge Detection plays an important role in computer vision system. Tracking algorithm can be classified into two major groups such as state space approach like particle filter or Kalman Filter and kernel based approach like Mean Shift Algorithm. Kalman filter algorithm belongs to state space approach class of tracking algorithm. It can solve the tracking problems based on the state space equation and the measurement equation. In future, the performance of proposed method can further improved by adding sophisticated feature extraction algorithm such as multi resolution analysis. Moreover, the target which is stationary for long time in video sequence misleads the object tracker into false detections. Future work will concentrate on this issue and try to improve the tracking performance.

Moving object detection and tracking

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Parent Teacher Meeting

Guest Lectures

Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

A guest lecture on ‘Job Opportunities and Recent Trend in Electronics’ nd

was held on 22 June 2017 for TE E&TC students. The speaker was Mr.Santosh Oswal, CEO and Founder Director of OSSIAN group .Total 113 students were present for the lecture. The program was co-ordinated by Mr.V. B. Ambhore and Mr. G. H. Chavhan.

rdA guest lecture on ‘Digital Signal Processing Application’ was held on 23 Sept. 2017 for TE E&TC students to help them understand the use of Digital Signal Processing in Industrial application The speaker was Mr.Pranay Upadhyay, WAVELET Group and Technology, Pune. Total 107 students were present for the lecture. The program was co-ordinated by Mr A. V. Chitre , Mrs. K. P. Kshirsagar and Mr. M. S. Patil.

A guest lecture on ‘Hands on Practices in Electronic Instruments’ was th

held on 28 August 2017 for TE E&TC students with objective to make students understand the importance of core electronics subjects. The speaker was Mr.Hemant Kamat, CEO of Shalaka Industries, Pune. Total 136 students were present for the lecture. The program was co-ordinated by Mrs. Sharada Desai and Mr. Piyush Mathurkar.

thParent Meet for AY 2017-18 (Semester-I) was conducted on 12 August 2017. Total 76 parents were present. The Head of Department Dr.S.V.Kulkarni briefed about - Various programs offered by the department, Institute’s Vision & Mission and Department’s Vision & mission, Proficiency of the faculty in accordance to the number of faculty members pursuing PhD and PhD completed faculty was indicated, results were discussed, value added courses provided by the Department, long term and short term goals of the Department, Various student centric activities like NSS, ROBOCON, Perception (Technical event), Vishwacon (IEEE National Conference) and Cultural Activities, taken in the college

were also briefed. He also stressed the importance of attendance, regularity and a parent’s role in the overall development of the student. After the meet, parents interacted with class teachers and batch guardians on various issues related with the individual student. The program was co-ordinated by Mrs. A. K. Ratnaparkhi.

A guest lecture on ‘Job opportunities at Tata Institute of Fundamental thResearch (TIFR)’ was held on 12 June 2017 for TE E&TC students. The

objective was to make students understand trend in jobs at research institutions like TIFR. The speaker was Mr. Shubham Negi, Junior Research Fellow TIFR, Ooty and Alumni of VIIT. Total 87 students were present for the lecture. The program was co-ordinated by Mr.V.B.Ambhore and Mr. Piyush Mathurkar.

A guest lecture on ‘Practical Applications of Microwave Devices’ was thheld on 19 Sept. 2017 for BE E&TC students. The objective was to provide

students with overview of real time applications of Microwave devices and Carrier opportunities in Microwave domain The speaker was Mr.Anirudha Kulkarni, Mumlab Technology, Navi Mumbai. Total 137 students were present for the lecture. The program was co-ordinated by Mrs.P. D. Deshpande, Mrs. N. A. Bakshi.

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1. Swapnil R. Sonawane, Mrs. Radhika G. Purandare, “Analysis for rate adapation schemes in IEEE

802.11 network ” paper accepted at International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing th thICCSP' 17 will take place in Melmaruvathur, Tamilnadu, India on 6 to 8 April 2017.

2. Sanket Khade, Dr. Yogesh Dandawate, "Hardware implementation of Obstacle detection for assisting

visually impaired people in an unfamiliar environment using Raspberry Pi" In proceeding of First

International Conference in smart trends in Information Technology and Computer Communications

(Smart Com) 2016. pp.889-895 ISBN 978-981-10-3433-6. Proceeding Published by Springer CCIS

Series.

3. Jyoti Patil, Ravindra Pawashe and Yogesh Dandawate," Classification of Low Resolution Astronomical

Images using Convolutional Neural Networks", In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Recent th th

Trends In Electronics Information Communication Technology, May 19 -20 , 2017, Bangalore, India, pp

1157-1161

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5. Mrs.Rohini Chavan, “Multiple Object Detection using GMM Technique and Tracking using Kalman

Filter”, International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887) Volume 172 – No.3, Aug 2017.

6. Dr. Y.H.Dandawate, “Edge-based singular value decomposition for full reference colour image quality

assessment”, International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics 7, no. 5 (2017): 502-521, Print

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Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

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Newsletter Issue 15, 2017

Upcoming EventsStudents Summer Internship Program June 2017.STTP on design of embedded system using "TIVA Architecture", Feb 2018.Training Program on LabVIEW, PLC and Testing of RF blocks.

Workshop of "Embedded System Design using PIC” at IIT, Bombay

Finally, there was demonstration of how to load program in a boards assembled by students. Students appreciated this initiative taken by college and faculty for giving them opportunity to work with Wadhwani lab faculty at IIT Bombay. Students will continue this activity through out semester in co-ordination with IIT faculty to complete EMBEDDED DESIGN certified course which will be helpful for them to sharpen their skills which will be definitely useful for projects. This activity was coordinated by Mr. K. J. Raut.

Workshop of "Embedded System Design using PIC” at IIT, Bombay attended by 15 students from TE E&TC along with 3 faculty members, Mr.P.G.Gawande, Mrs.D.P.Pandit, Mr.S.S.Wakchaure. Students got an opportunity to attend a workshop as a part of 'e-prayog' at Wadhwani labs,

thIIT Bombay. Workshop commenced on 18 December, 2017. On first day, main focus was on practicing SMD soldering. The faculty at Wadhwani lab trained students with various facts of soldering such as i) amount of solder ii) proper placing of components iii) flux requirement, followed by testing the soldering skills, assembling Auram (PIC) board. Tested boards via software and loaded bootloader to program a board. By live demonstration got knowledge about PCB manufacturing of each PCB development stage.

Assembling PIC kit

Visit to Center for Materials for Electronics Technology(C-MET), Pune The Center for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) is a unique concept for development of viable technologies in the area of materials mainly for electronics. C-MET is operating with 3 laboratories located at Pune (Head Quarters), Hyderabad and Thrissur with specialized research mandate at each place. We were introduced to Dr. Milind Kulkarni who at C-MET, Pune has developed a PolyPyrole and Polyaniline based ink which when coated on a fabric

Visit to C-MET Battery Technology Lab.

Assembled & tested PIC 4550 kit by students Participants with Mrs.Madhumita Date at IIT

makes it conductive in nature. With an extremely simple “dipping and drying” process highly conductive textiles can be produced. Such conductive textiles show outstanding flexibility and can provide new design opportunities for wearable electronics applications.The conductive fabric is prepared by a dip and dry process wherein the fabric of interest is coated with a Polyaniline (PANI) or PolyPyrole (PPy) ink. The ink is prepared through in situ polymerization using aniline as monomer, thus forming large chains of polyaniline which is then coated on the fabric. Under supervision of Dr. S. V. Kulkarni, this technology has been intended to be used in the monitoring and logging of ECG signals. The aim is to provide a replacement to the current electrodes used as sensors for heart signals which are classified as wet electrodes due to the use of the gel. The replacement will be the textrodes which will be prepared by C-MET and are a sound replacement for the existing wet electrodes.