Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking - CEN

all: exciting, original research is taking place in the fields of information technology, engineering and medicine, among others. At CEN also we have undertaken and succesfully completed several research projects, some of which are listed below. In keeping with the research thrust at Amrita, Center is actively involved in the areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. A massive translation project is underway that aims to develope tools to translate web content from English to Indian languages. This initiative, when complete, will enable every child in India to access information in his or her own mother tongue. Research is also ongoing in the area of speech translation. Research at CEN is multidisciplinary in nature. The key research areas are:

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Robotics
High Performance Computing for Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
Computational Chemistry
Machine Learning ( with tools like Neural Network, Support Vector Machines, Graph Learning Algorithms)
Wireless Sensor Networks for Remotely Controlling Aquaponic System and Precision Farming
Wireless Communication with Software Defined Radio
Advanced Signal Processing methods like Wavelet Theory, Sparse Signal Representation, Compressive Sensing, PDE based Image Processing
Geographical Information System
Natural Language Processing (Text and Speech)
Vibration Analysis
Radio Astronomy
Research at CEN requires financial foundation which is met by undertaking projects funded by the Ministry of IT, ISRO, DRDO, NPOL, MHRD, DST, DIT, CDAC, and Coconut Development Board, Government of India. Total research grant is over 33 million INR. Completed Projects:

Project Title Sponsoring Agency
Massively Parallel Support Vector Machines for Target Classification NPOL
Analysis and Characterization of Fluid Flow using PIV & PLIF ISRO
Machine Fault Simulator for Space Vehicles ISRO
Development of Image Fusion Techniques and Measurement ADE
Development Of Methodologies for Detection of Digital Contents Plagiarism MCIT
Development of Infrastructure for Remote Sensing Applications ISRO
Video Summarization and Annotation for Content based Retrieval ADRIN
Ongoing Projects

Project Title Sponsoring Agency
Machine Translation System for English to Indian Languages MCIT
Creation of Linguistic Tools and Corpora for Indian Languages MHRD
Vibration Damper for Launch Vehicle Applications ISRO
Particulate Polymer Composites for Space Applications ISRO
Joint Development of Speech Modules DIT-CDAC
muShare: Multi-User Realtime Shared Access Platform for Remote Experimentation MHRD
openLab: Open Source Graphical Programming Environment for Scientific Computing Applications MHRD
Process Monitoring and Control for Ultra-Precision Machining of Titanium Alloys DRDO
Improving Coconut Production in Kerala using Soil data through Remote Sensing and GIS Technique Coconut Development Board – GoI
Analysis, Processing and Synthesis of Emotions in Speech DST
Wordnet DIT
Current M. Projects

Betterment of Stability and Control in UAV
Performance Evaluation for an HMM- based Keyword Spotter (KWS) in a Real Time Environment for Tamil Language
Kinect controlled arduino based impersonating robotic arm
Analysis and Compensation of Lombard Effect Speech
Voice Controlled Arduino Robotic Arm for Object Recognition
Cryptography on GPU
Sparsity based Image Inpainting using Ricci Flow
Bending Invariant Mesh Generation using GPU
Mesh Segmentation Using GPU
EEG Controlled Arduino Robotic Arm
Audio Watermarking: Sparse way
Analysis of Excitation Source and Vocal tract Information in Emotional Speech
Kronecker Compressive Sensing
Design and Implementation of OFDM based Communication System in GNU Radio Platform
FPGA based Ant Colony Optimization for MIMO Transceiver
Improvisation of Spectral Unmixing Algorithms by the Incorporation of Appropriate Preprocessing Techniques for Band Selection
Radar Imagery in Mining Surveillance
Solar Activity Effects on Ionosphere
Hyperspectral Image Segmentation for Improving Classification Accuracy
Dictionary Based Background Subtraction
High Performance Mimo Systems using Simulated Annealing
Implementation of Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithm on FPGA for MIMO Systems
3D Face Model based on Partial Differential Equations
Design and Implementation of MIMO based Communication System in GNU Radio Platform
Shape from Shading And Viscosity solutions
A Cryptographic Approach to Video Watermarking based on Compressive Sensing, Arnold Tranform, Sum of Absolute Deviation and Svd
Arduino based Wireless Sensor Network for Controlling and Monitoring Aquaponic System
Digital Gardening using Mote based Wireless Sensor Network


Software Systems Developed

DVAIT: Plagiarism Detection Service
AMriTS: Amrita Machine Translation System
Generic Framework for Linguistic Tools in Indian Language Morph Analyzer / PoS Tagger / Chunker / Dependency Parser / WordNet / Transliteration
VIPIV: Virtual Instruments for Particle Image Velocimetry
ClusNIX: Automated Toolkit for Network Clustering