National Seminar on Computer Vision & Image Processing (NaSCoVIP2020)

Date: 9th to 11th October 2020
Theme: Computer Vision and Image processing for Health Care
Website: https://ieeegujaratsection.org/nascovip-2020/

Preamble

With the explosion of Internet technology and Graphic Engines, there has been a massive growth in the research area of Computer Vision and Image Processing. While the field of Image Processing deals with the processing of digital images that are two-dimensional entities, Computer Vision adds the third dimension by computing the object’s depth. A three-day national seminar will promote research and developmental activities in India. The seminar fortifies the Computer Vision and Image Processing and the related fields by assembling experts and the researchers. The seminar’s primary goal is to promote scientific information exchange amongst experts, researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working in the country. The scientific program of the seminar will consist of presentations by leading experts worldwide in the field of Computer Vision and Image Processing. Experts will address the recent developments and trends in the fields. Participants will get enough opportunity to enhance their knowledge regarding the state-of-the-art fields through interaction with experts. It will stimulate the research potential of the candidates who wish to pursue doctoral degrees in the related fields.

Speakers:

The NaSCoVIP 2020 was a virtual event with spanning three days. Six speakers from industry and academia delivered the talks in two sessions from 4.00pm to 5.15 pm and then 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm. Following speakers were invited for delivering talks.

Ms. Mukta Joshi, Group leader Image Guided Therapy Systems R&D, Philips, Netherlands
Title of talk: Advances in medical imaging for diagnosis and treatment

Dr. Chintan Parmar, Senior Expert, Oncology Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, USA
Title of talk: AI applications for medical imaging biomarkers

Prof. Chang-Hyun Oh, Professor, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea University
Title of talk: Real-Time MR Thermometry using Deep Neural Network

Mr. Akbar Doctor, Principal Test Engineer, Fresenius Medical Care, USA
Title of talk: Test Automation-Medical Devices

Prof. Ram Bilas Panchori, Professor IIT Indore
Title of talk: Detection of human brain disorders using novel machine learning approaches

Prof. Tolga Kaya, Professor, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, USA
Title of talk: Validation Study of a Dry Hand Cleaner as a Potential Hand Sanitizer

Participants:

The participation for the IEEE members was free for the NaSCoVIP 2020 and in response to IEEE Enotice about 235 participation registered for the event. In the subsequent registration process through online platform about 110 participants confirmed their participation. It has been observed that on an average about 50 participants attended both the sessions on all three days. The consent from the speakers have been taken and sessions have been recorded. The recording link was shared with the participants. The feedback evaluation from the participants suggests that the event was success and participants enjoyed the overall workshop demanding similar events in the future.

Women with ambition

Date: 21st August 2020

Organized by: IEEE SB WIE AG A. D. PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Faculty Event Coordinator/s: Dr. Sudhir Vegad

Student Event Coordinator/s: Nil patel

No of Participants: 21

Event Type: Non-technical

Event Level: Student Branch Level

Date: 23th june 2020

Duration: 24 hr

Platform: Social media(facebook, instagram, LinkedIn)

Brief about Event:

IEEE A. D. Patel Institute of Technology student branch WIE Afinity group organized an event Women with ambition on 23th june 2020. We organized this event on International Women in Engineering Day. This event was coordinated by Nil Patel. WIE AG of IEEE ADIT SB and guided by Dr. Sudhir Vegad. Branch Counselor of our Student Branch.

​’UDGAM v4.0: Don’t Wait to Innovate’​

Organized By: ​WIE IEEE AU SB and CLIQUE​

Total number of participants: 42​ participants ( 9 teams ) ​ .​

Date of Event: ​9​th August 2020

Venue of the Event: Zoom​

Description:​               

Jury:  Anmol Anubhai, Sayanth K.S, Urvika Sonar​

‘UDGAM v4.0: Don’t Wait to Innovate’ is an entrepreneurial event, which brings​ together students who aspire to develop tenable and robust business plans. The participants will be required to form business models based on a certain set of issues (domains will be given on the spot) in a time span of 2 hours in a team of 3-5 students with at least one female member. The participants are then supposed to present their models after which, best 3 teams will be rewarded with cash prizes worth Rs.2400/-. This event is thus, fosters skills like business model planning, constructive thinking, and pitching.

There were total 9 teams who participated, out of which three teams won prizes.

It was an amazing opportunity to connect with talented people who would also be the judges for the event as judges were well-known entrepreneurs.

It was interesting to see participants coming with innovating business models.

​Webinar on “Let’s explore Language Model: Google BERT”​

​Organized By: WIE IEEE AU SB​

Total number of participants: 50​participants (approx) ​ ​.

​Date: 19​th July 2020

Venue: Google Meet​

​Speaker: Krupa Galiya​

​Topics Covered: 

• What is NLP and basics of NLP
• Introduction to BERT. Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers​ (BERT) is a technique for NLP (Natural Language Processing) pre-training developed by Google.
• History of BERT: BERT has its origins from pre-training contextual representations​ including Semi-supervised Sequence Learnin​g,​ Generative Pre-Trainin​g,​ Elmo,​ and ULMFi​ Unlike previous models, BERT is a deeply bidirectional, unsupervised language representation, pre-trained using only a plain text corpus
• How to apply the BERT model for search
• Comparison of BERT model with other models.
• Application of BERT: applying BERT models to both ranking and featured snippets​ in Search
• BERT using Tensorflow

Our Stories-Love yourself

Date: 15 July 2020

Organized by: IEEE STUDENT BRANCH, A. D. PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

No of Participants: 20

Event Type: Non-technical

Event Level: Student Branch Level

Date: 15th July 2020

Duration: 1 day.

Venue: Social Media Platforms

Student Event Coordinator/s: Coalesce’20

Brief about Event:

The Executive Committee of IEEE A.D. Patel Institute of Technology Student Branch organized this event on 15th July 2020 which aimed to promulgate a self love campaign to realize the essence of saying “The better you feel yourself,the less you feel the need to show off”.

This campaign is open for all and participants and they are expected to post their pictures or videos with #SelfLove & #IEEEADITSB on their social media accounts(Facebook, LinkedIn, or Instagram) on 15th July 2020 by 23:59 IST which has  been showcased on the social media handles of our Student Branch.

Expedition: A Virtual Hunt

Organized by: Silver Oak University IEEE WIE AG

Total Number of Participants: 1300

IEEE Members: 200

Non-IEEE Members: 1000

Date of Event: 11^th & 12^th July, 2020

Venue of Event: Virtual Platform(Website)

Description:

The aim of Silver Oak University IEEE Student Branch always has been tending to the growth and development of the students. After the successful conduction of numerous tech events, Silver Oak University IEEE WIE Affinity Group had organized a non-tech fun event named “Expedition: A Virtual Hunt” to break the boredom of partakers and to cheer them up by giving a break to mundane tasks. It was the first-ever online treasure hunt. The event was open for all and free of cost to participate. The student members of SOU IEEE WIE AG made a website for the hunt. The event had 3 rounds in all. We got over 320+ teams each containing 3 to 5 members. Each team leader was given the credentials for logging into the website for the hunt. The teams were given riddles and clues in different forms such as Clues on Instagram and YouTube posts and comments and some Tricky questions at different levels. 1^st round was held on July 11, where all the teams competed, amongst them, the top 70 teams based on Time and accuracy moved forward for 2^nd round on the 12th of July in the morning. 20 top teams out of these 70 were selected for the final round in the evening the same day! Winners were announced a day after the hunt was completed! A handsome prize money was given to the winners.

We had received numerous positive reviews from the participants for this event. In all, it was a social cause by giving these cheerful moments to the participants amidst the hard times upon us. We are grateful to the whole student branch for putting their efforts into making this virtual hunt fun!

International Women in Engineering Day Celebration

Organized by: Silver Oak University IEEE WIE AG

Total Number of Participants: 40

IEEE Members: 30

Non-IEEE Members: 10

Date of Event: 23^rd June, 2020

Venue of Event: Official Instagram page of SB (@ieee_silveroakuni)

Description:

23rd June, 2020 is celebrated as the “International Women in Engineering Day” around the globe every year. International Women in Engineering Day is an international awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry. It celebrates the outstanding achievements of women engineers throughout the world.

Silver Oak University IEEE WIE Affinity Group always aims to advocate women in leadership roles in IEEE governance and career advancement for women in the profession. Keeping the same in mind and to praise the notable contribution and overwhelming achievements of women in the engineering field, SOU IEEE WIE AG decided to celebrate this special day virtually in this crucial scenario of Covid-19. To celebrate this day, we had organized an online activity wherein students/participants were invited to showcase the artistry on “Women in Engineering” in numerous categories such as Poetry, Write-Ups, Posters/ Digital Graphics, Sketches/ Paintings and Videos. We had received a wonderful response from the participants. Students had expressed their thoughts on “Women in Engineering” in a unique way.

Webinar on The Art of Business Thinking

Organized by: WIE AFFINITY GROUP IEEE STUDENT BRANCH DA-IICT

Participants : 70

Date of Event:  6th June 2020

Venue of Event: Online

Description:

WIE Affinity Group, IEEE SB DAIICT organized a webinar on Engineering and Entrepreneurship in collaboration with  Scholify Me.

This webinar was about marketing, entrepreneurship skills and gave an idea about the ongoing trends in the market. The webinar also provided a perspective on Business Analytics and Digital Marketing and provided an insight on how to approach challenges and plan good strategies.

Speaker:

Mr Mayank Pareek- He is the Founder-CEO of, a platform which helps in finding great scholarships at minimum effort. Mr Mayank Pareek thrives on assisting and influencing people by sharing what he has learnt over the years.

Self Defense – Be Alert & Fight Back

Date: 16 June 2020

Organized by: IEEE STUDENT BRANCH, A. D. PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Student Event Coordinator/s: Shrusti Thakkar

No of Participants: 60

Event Type: Non-technical

Event Level: Student Branch Level

Date: 16th June 2020

Duration:  1.5 hr.

Venue: Microsoft teams.

Brief about Event:

The Executive Committee of IEEE A.D. Patel Institute of Technology,CVM University,Women In Engineering(WIE) Affinity Group organized this event on 16th June 2020 which aimed to promote Self Defence awareness among empowerment teenagers,youth and especially women.

This workshop has  conducted under the guidance of Mr. Jayesh Dhaiber. He is currently serving as the President, Chief Instructor and Technical Director at Shito Ryu Karate Association of India.

The Workshop includes:

• Overview & Importance of self-defence
• Warm-up
• Basic Self Defence (Kihon)
• Advanced Self Defence Techniques