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Open House-2002

The International Institute of Information Technology held its first Open House on the 9th and 10th of February – 2002. It featured some of the in-house technologies developed by the students. All academic programs offered at the institute lay great stress on hands-on exposure to research and development projects as a means of learning, even at the bachelor’s level. Project work, therefore, can be a significant part of a course, a substitute for a course, extra load a student opts for, or a part of the required training in the final year.

The prelude to the Open House was held on 2nd February when the "Talking Heads" of nearly 25 companies met in the Motorola Corporate School on campus, for a breakfast meeting. A small demonstration of 22 projects was organized and was appreciated by all of them.

The Open House showcased some of the projects engineered by the students, spanning over various domains of IT. Some projects earned part-credit in a course while some formed the output of a project-oriented course. Some were the final year projects and yet others were executed by the students for the pure joy of it.

More than 60 projects were exhibited and they covered the length and breadth of IT. They were arranged in six halls and each consisted of projects dealing with a particular field of IT:

The Open House was visited by Human Resource Management and Technical people from various reputed companies like TCS, Infosys, Signal Tree, Infotech, Motorola, Orillion, Portal Player etc. The following is the list of projects which were displayed during the Open House-


Education & Entertainment

VELUGU: Virtual Physics Laboratory:
To develop a graphics based simulation for teaching basic science.

Indian Temple Architecture (with stone technology):
Demonstrating an insight into the various architectural and structural modes and efforts that went into temple building with the stone technology during different periods of Indian history.

CRAYONS – CReativity Among Young OneS:
Crayons is an image editor that has been designed to cater to the children community. Having been acquainted with image editors that facilitate drawing squares, circles, hexagons and straight lines with a few words of text in between, it would be quite refreshing to have a more task -specific image editor that has something unique to offer….

Interactive Story Teller:
To create a teaching aid which requires only speech input from the user.

Road Fighter:
To develop a computer game similar to ‘Road Fighter’ with 3D graphics, realistic sound and play.

X-Racer – A 2D Car Race For Linux:
The aim of the project is to develop a 2d car racing game for the Linux platform.

The 3-d Tic Tac Toe:
To create a network game of tic-tac toe extended in three dimensions to be played team wise. In this game, each player is allowed to have an agent as a teammate using whom he can plan his strategy to play.

Linchess: Chess For Linux:
The aim was to develop a chess program (and chess engine) for the Linux platform, playable in the console mode.

Computer Assisted Teaching in Telugu:
The aim of the project is to provide telugu-teaching software to children, as well as adults, with a web interface.

Imagine – The Image Processing Educational Toolkit:
To develop a tool which could be used to demonstrate various image processing techniques which is simple to use and easy to understand.


Applications

Controlling Devices Over Internet:
To control the devices/appliances at home/remote place from any place through the Internet. Client- server model is used for this purpose.

TELE-NET: Internet Based Telephony System:
To build an Internet based telephony system, which can be used to send voice across the network and facilitate making telephonic calls with Internet as the medium. The system is commercially usable to provide private STD services at nominal rates.

PC to PC Communication Using Serial Port:
Transfer of data between two PCs using the serial port of the computers.

Finite Element Analysis – 1D Structures:
Commercially available software in Finite Element Analysis requires lot of overhead in terms of Pricing, Memory Usage and Personal Training. In general practice a Structural Engineer deals with 1D structures for analysis and designing. This Project aims at making the Module easy to handle and also give Accurate Results with required Visualization. The Module can easily be used as a handy “STRUCTURAL CALCULATOR”.

SEAD – Structural Elements Analysis & Design:
There are many software packages available commercially for analysis & design of Reinforced cement concrete structural elements. They are costly and not easy to operate. We made an attempt to develop a module for analysis and design of reinforced concrete structural elements of building like beam, slab & column. This can be very handy for practicing structural Engineers and Architects.

CARTNIC - An Automated Solution to Drawing Field Maps:
To develop a user – friendly cartography package for processing field survey data and plotting maps of individual fields. This package will be embedded in surveyors’ instruments to detect errors during the measurement process itself.

A Graphical ‘C’ Editor in the X11 Windowing Systems for Linux:
To provide a good deal of help for the user in programming by applying color to key words and helping him to correct the syntactical errors and also highlighting the errors made.

E – patra : An Email Client:
To develop a platform independent email client, incorporating new technology.

Information Extraction from Resumes:
Should take resumes in natural text (English) sent through e-mail and extract the required information from the resumes like the personal details, education, projects and address of the applicant. It should be able to handle attachments in Text, MS Word, Rich Text and HTML formats.

Multi Agent Simulation Of Unorganized Traffic:
Simulation of unorganized traffic like the Indian traffic using multi-agent technology. The emphases of the project is on modeling the psychologies of various drivers involved and show how the interaction of various psychologies can bring out the different traffic patterns in the absence of rigid traffic rules.


Web, Data Engineering & Databases

Auction Website:
The aim of this project is to create an auction website, where in you can buy and sell your items by bidding on them.

MSIT Exam Monitoring System:
To develop an Automated Exam Monitoring System which helps in conducting online exams, evaluating answer scripts & maintaining the academic records

Bus Information System:
To make a centralized database for bus arrival / departure.

Web Enabling Data Analysis:
The aim of this solution is to demonstrate a method of universal data access to any standard data source residing over the Web without the need to deploy a client component that exposes proprietary interfaces.

VISDOM Toolkit:
To build a data warehousing tool kit which can select materialized views and indices to improve the query processing.

The Indic Data Mining Toolkit:
The aim of the project is to package a set of association rule mining, data classification and clustering algorithms in order to assist users in data mining applications.

ClusterDNA – Mining DNA Microarrays:
To develop a tool that mines DNA Microarray data.

SQLPSQ:
The aim of the project is to develop an SQL Parser, which parses SQL Select Queries. SQL92 has been taken as the standard for SQL Grammar with some features omitted.

Enhancing Mysql with Data Cube operator:
To enhance mySQL with data warehousing capabilities.

Enterprise Resource Planning:
To Study, Design and Implement an ERP system

Neural Network based Data Mining:
To build a system that can classify and predict data using a neural network approach.

XML Document Manager:
To build an XML Document Manager that enables storing, retrieving, viewing, validating and editing of XML documents from a relational database.

Library Automation Software:
The software automates various procedures of the Library like Circulation, Patron Management, Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), Items Management, Subscriptions Handling and Automatic Report Generation.

Qualitative Search Engine:
The main aim of the project is to search for particular news based up the meaning of the keywords given as input (if Positive meaning or Negative meaning or Neutral meaning).


Indian Language Technologies

Marathi-Hindi Anusaaraka:
The Marathi-Hindi anusaaraka aid has been developed to make the marathi text accessible to Hindi speakers. Since information access is the main objective of the aid, it strives at preserving 100% information of the original text.

iMail, The ISCII mailing system:
We wanted to create a mailing system which supports Indian languages as well as the available mailing standards.

Text To Speech Systems for Indian Languages:
Goal is to develop a Text-To-Speech (TTS) system that can speak out or read out arbitrary text in Indian Languages. Such a system would be useful to read out texts over telephone or to read out information to illiterate people, or blind people, etc.

Indian Language Optical Character Recognition:
This project aims at providing software for the Indian Language character recognition.

Generating Converters Between Fonts Semi-Automatically:
To automatically generate converters that convert more than 95% of an unknown font of an Indian Language to ISCII.

English-Hindi Reading Aid:
The English-Hindi reading aid has been developed with a view to help those Hindi users who do not have sufficient proficiency in English but would like to access information available in an English text. Since information access is the main objective of the aid, it strives at preserving 100% information of the original text.

Sentence alignment for English-Hindi parallel corpora:
Given a source text and its translation, map the sentences in the source text with their corresponding translations in the translated text.

ISCII Forms Plugin for Netscape:
The aim of the project is to enable uses to interactively submit Indian Language text over the Internet. The text typed by the user in forms is composed of glyphs. These glyphs are to be converted to the standard encoding ISCII before the text is sent to the server. This is because the server does not have the knowledge of the font/language used by the client.

Detection Of Devanagari Text in Digital Images Using Connected Component Analysis:
In the front of extracting textual information from images, very little progress has been made in the context of Indian Languages. The first step in this direction is to come up with efficient text detection, which would ensure reliable output from the OCR’s. This project was to develop an efficient Detection algorithm.

Paninian Parser for Indian Languages:
To generate parse trees of a sentence in an Indian language according to Paninian framework that can be used for machine learning, machine translation etc.


Networking & Distributed Computing

General-purpose framework for Distributed Computing:
To enable a collection of computers to be used for concurrent or parallel computation and help applications harness remote computing resources.

Distributed File Server:
To increase the number of connections a server can handle using the concept of Load Sharing. Providing additional features like Data Compression, which is CPU intensive using idle computers in the LAN.

NetConcert – An MP3 Audio Streamer:
To develop a complete MP3 Streaming Solution.

No Nap:
To provide a platform for users across the world who wish to share audio files they possess.

Distributed Rendering Systems:
The main objective of the project is to construct Rendering Engines that use Distributed Computing (DCOM) model for design and low cost off-the-shelf components as hardware.

Study and Modification of Ipchains:
To study the Ipchains package and implementing simple stateful packet filtering in Linux kernel series 2.2.x.

Network monitoring tool for Linux:
To develop a tool for Linux that helps in analyzing the traffic between two networks, detect port-scanning and tracking sessions like Telnet / Ftp / Http between two systems.


Multimedia,Graphics & Computer Vision

Find-I Online Image Search Tool:
It is proposed to make an online image search tool that can search images, given keywords, similar images and dissimilar images.

Multimedia based City Information System Toolkit:
The project aims to create a city information system toolkit, which automates the process of creating a city information system of any city, given the required data, multimedia information and satellite (NRSA) and other images.

Multimedia Editor:
To develop a Multimedia Editor that supports editing of Image, Audio and Video file formats. The market being flooded with media specific editors, the main goal of this project was to attempt to include extensive functionalities dealing with various media forms into one single entity.

TrafficVision: Traffic Surveillance using Computer Vision:
The aim of this project is to develop a system which surveys traffic using computer vision techniques. The idea is to survey traffic and detect violations in traffic rules based on data collected from video cameras and to analyze the scene to the extent possible, thus making the tedious process of manually surveying traffic simpler. Improvements in technologies for machine vision-based surveillance and high level symbolic reasoning have enabled vision to emerge as a powerful surveillance tool.

Driver Fatigue Detection:
The aim of this project is to build a cost-effective non-intrusive system to detect the fatigue symptoms in a driver and alarm the feedback module that takes the necessary steps to alert the driver. This system is being designed such that it can be installed in vehicles such as a car and can be used as a safety device to prevent accidents due to fatigue.

Surgery Training Tool:
To design a graphics tool for training surgeons on skills needed for laparoscopic surgery. The emphasis of the experiments is on improving the hand – eye coordination for delicate surgical steps.

Spread Spectrum Watermarking for Images:
A robust technique to insert watermark in an image and retrieve it successfully even if the original image is not with us.

2-D Image Morphing:
To build a process of animated sequence, showing a fluid transformation of one digital image to the other. This report contains descriptions of the techniques used, their implementation etc.

Multimedia Presentation of the IIIT:
The aim of this project is to create a video presentation about our institute, the IIIT. The video should cover Academics, Facilities, Corporate Schools and Research Centers.

Image Viewer & API For NRSA Images:
To develop an API and a viewer that enables one to view and manipulate NRSA images. The API caters to the need of the developers who would like to use it in their projects.

Gnome-Paint:
Gnome-paint is a tool used to edit images with functionality similar to that of Microsoft Paint. It supports various file formats like jpg, bmp, gif, ppm, png, raw, img, xpm.

Advanced Fractal Generator:
The software is a complete and comprehensive fractal generator that draws the famous and simple fractals in many different colors, and is meant to be used by ordinary people to obtain various beautiful patterns.

Panorama:
This project aims at bringing together the various models that have been built during Graphics course and provide a user interface and finally create videos of the models that can be used for demonstration purposes.

For further details on the open house, contact openhouse@iiit.net.
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