Workshop on Signal and Image Processing-2010
Organised by DSP Division, SENSE,
My Four Days of Workshop at VIT
My journey to attend the four days workshop programme on the
title “ WSIP-2010”
held at the VIT university began with a
series of thrilling experiences, beginning with the journey from Chennai to
REACHING
I started my journey
from Coyambedu Bus Terminas (Chennai) to
INAGURATION
I was one among the 30 participants present in technology tower. The inaugration was scheduled to start by
WHY WAVELET?
The fisrt session was handled by Prof. S. Mahesh Anand and he gave the talks regarding the transforms. He clearly explained why we need a transform? Why other transform like Fourier, Gabor transform fails and why wavelet transform comes into the present scenario in signal and image processing. Fourier Transform gives the spectral content of the signal, but it gives no information regarding where in time those spectral components appear. Therefore, FT is not a suitable technique for non-stationary signal, hence it fails. Gabor fails due to Uncertainty Principle because we can know only frequency bands exist at what time intervals but not exactly the time instants and it gives a fixed resolution at all times. When the time localization of the spectral components is needed, a transform giving the time-frequency representation of the signal is needed. Hence the wavelet was the ultimate solution. After the talk which last for 1 hour here comes the Hands-on one –to- one MATLAB exercise and practice. It was quiet good but truly speaking, I don’t have the habit of sitting for hours in lab so to me it was like totally my head got eaten up. After the first session next comes the lunch break. I was fully loaded with the food items provided by them.
FORENSIC ANALYSIS WITH DIP
The
second session starts by
ALL ABOUT FILTERS
The third
session starts by next morning
The session was quiet interesting dealing with filter designs and implementation. The fourth session was handled by Prof. J. Valarmathi on “Statistical Signal Processing: detection, estimation and tracking”. The session gives us an impact on how to find the statistical parameters for a given random signal i.e., generating the cosine (original) signal, adding noise to the original signal, finding mean, standard deviation, covariance and correlation coefficients. She has explained about Weiner filtering and it mainly use in modelling of communication channels, coding of speech/image/video signals, restoration of corrupted speech/images/video, stock-market prediction etc. She explains about autocorrelation etc. followed by MATLAB exercises and practice. And the second day session ends.
DSP PROCESSORS
On the third day of the event, morning session
proceeds and it was handled by Prof.
R.
Suresh and Prof. (Dr.) P.Arulmozhivarman on the topic “Introduction to
TMS320C6713 DSP Processor: Architecture, Functionality, Code Composer Studio
and its Frame work”. The talk
ends for almost 1 hr and fully it was on architecture of the DSP processor, instruction sets and many others. I was
getting a bit bored. After the
session we went off for lunch and returning back
to our place, I was stunned by seeing the kit placed on the table. It was
nothing but the TMS3206713 kit. The practical session was very good and my interest regain back .It deals with
the real time application i.e., controlling the bass and treble of a music
using filters using SIMULINK, CCS along with the TEXAS processor. After running
the program we can able to hear the softer
sounds that are in the music and the more dominant sounds in the music. Well
that’s all I experience during the lab session and
many more programs we did in MATLAB. On the third day of the event
we had a photo session with all the participants and the DSP family. It
happened in the middle of the
The fourth day of the event continues with the used of Code Composer studio interfacing with the real world handle by Prof. Suresh. The session was only for half a day and continued by certificate distribution by the DEAN of School of Electronics Engineering.
<------ Me (Mona) with Prof (Dr.) Zachariah C. Alex
DSP DIVISION
DSP
laboratory was well equipped with state of the art facilities such as Texas
TMS320C6713 DSP Processors, ADSP 2186 Processors and Code Composer Studio
Programming Interface environment, Real Time Digital Image Processing facility
with CCD camera and high Sampling rate frame grabber, DM642 Multimedia DSP
Processor and MATLAB 7.6 R2008. The Professors
working there were very enthusiastic, young,
talented and innovative. The organizing members were
very cooperative and they are almost
like a family. They interacted more with
the student and staff participants and made us feel comfortable to arise enormous number of questions and free to clarify our doubts. The four days event went on
very smoothly without any difficulties
CAMPUS LIFE
Apart from
this, in the mean time I’ve visited the campus along with one of my Bhutanese friend, a third year civil engineering. We started with the
The three night stay at VIT hostel was pretty fine but I felt
something weird because the mess people over there allow us to take food only
after showing our workshop ID (freaks me out !!). May be it was due to the
rules put up by the authorities.That was
the only thing I could not admit. No offence!!!
MY FEELINGS (Who
bothers?)
Well
the four days workshop programme gives us a great
chance to know more practically. Taking part
in such event really help us out from many difficulties. Participating in such
event will really take us to our destination. Now my confidence level has reach
almost to the peak. Thanks to
Well, that was all which I’ve
experienced during my four days visit at the VIT university campus. It was a
great and a brainstorming experience for me. It enabled me to realise my weaker
areas and provide a good platform for bringing out my innovative ideas. Such
programs need to be attended whenever possible. So with this, I’m now ready to
cope with anything that needs to be done. Knowledge comes from experience and
exposure.
Cheers!!!