• Sparse recovery techniques for hyperspectral imaging 

  Aggarwal, Hemant Kumar; Majumdar, Angshul (Advisor) (2016-12-23)

  Human vision is a powerful imaging system that can capture and interpret light energy coming from different sources although it is limited to visible light. There are various applications such as face recognition, medical ...
• Qi points : placing decoy routers in the internet 

  Gosain, Devashish; Agarwal, Anshika; Acharya, HB; Chakravarty, Sambuddho (2016-09-23)

  Decoy Routing, the use of routers (rather than end hosts) as proxies, is a new direction in anti-censorship research. However, existing proposals require control of hundreds of Autonomous Systems (AS) to provide Decoy ...
• Cairn : identifying network locations for large scale censorship by resource-constrained adversaries 

  Agarwal, Anshika; Gosain, Devashish; Acharya, HB; Chakravarty, Sambuddho (2016-09-23)

  Censorship of the Internet by government is a hotly contested topic. Some nations lean more toward free speech; others are much more conservative. How feasible is it for a government to censor the Internet? What mechanisms ...
• RGB-D face recognition in surveillance videos 

  Chowdhury, Anurag; Vatsa, Mayank (Advisor) (2016-09-20)

  Biometric analysis of surveillance videos carries inherent challenges in form of variations in pose, distance, illumination and expression. To address these variations, different methodologies are proposed, including ...
• Cryptanalysis of SHA2 based on perturbation technique 

  Hasan, Munawar; Sanadhya, Somitra Kumar (Advisor) (2016-09-20)
• Cairn:identifying network locations for large scale censorship by resource-constrained adversaries 

  Agarwal, Anshika; Chakravarty, Sambuddho (Advisor) (2016-09-15)

  Censorship of the Internet by government is a hotly contested topic. Some nations lean more towards free speech; others are much more conservative. How feasible is it for a government to censor the Internet? What mechanisms ...
• Video compression technique using facial landmarks on mobile devices 

  Banerjee, Ruchika; Naik, Vinayak (Advisor) (2016-09-15)

  Wide proliferation of smart mobile phones has manifolded the bandwidth demand, as video streaming applications have significantly gained popularity. At the same time, technical challenges, such as requirements of resources, ...
• Utility and privacy guarantees of differential privacy 

  Srivastava, Shubham; Bera, Debajyoti (Advisor) (2016-09-15)

  The primary aim of any survey is to facilitate analysis of sensitive data to extract useful information, without jeopardizing privacy of the participants. Privacy models like k-anonymity do not guarantee privacy against ...
• Planar modeling of indoor scenes using RGBD images 

  Tripathi, Shreya; Anand, Saket (Advisor) (2016-09-15)

  3D registration of scenes is a widely researched topic. Since the availability of low cost sensors like the Kinect RGB-D cameras, they are being extensively used for additional depth information about the scene. Most of ...
• Addressing coldstart problem in recommender systems 

  Banerjee, Shisagnee; Majumdar, Angshul (Advisor) (2016-09-15)

  In the following three chapters of my thesis, I have applied several methods to solve the coldstart problem in Recommender Systems. The coldstart problem is the situation where a user or item is new to a website and ...
• Classifying stack overflow questions based on bloom’s taxonomy 

  Dubey, Manisha; Goyal, Vikram (Advisor) (2016-09-15)

  Bloom’s Taxonomy is a framework which acts as a reference for classification of questions across different cognitive levels such as Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. It can be used ...
• Anisotropic mean shift clustering using distance metric learning 

  Cheema, Gullal Singh; Anand, Saket (Advisor) (2016-09-15)

  Mean shift is a non-parametric mode seeking procedure widely used in many computer vision problems. Mean shift clustering in particular is a well studied and established algorithm, which has many merits over the classic ...
• Extending a scaling based flow algorithm for higher order MRF-MAP inference in vision 

  Prasoon; Arora, Chetan (Advisor) (2016-09-13)

  Several tasks in computer vision and Machine Learning are modeled as MRF-MAP inference problems. The problem can often be modeled as minimizing sum of submodular functions. Since, sum of submodular functions (SoS) is also ...
• Gender classification using RGB-D videos 

  Agrawal, Navin; Singh, Richa (Advisor); Vatsa, Mayank (Advisor) (2016-09-13)

  Gender classification is used in applications as a soft feature or attribute in biometrics to help identify people. Using gender classification as an indexing technique can boost the performance of facial-biometric. If the ...
• Finding optimal locations for taxi stands on city map 

  Mittal, Yesha; Naik, Vinayak (Advisor); Gunturi, Venkata MV (Advisor) (2016-09-13)

  We present an algorithm which suggests suitable locations for taxi stands on a city map. This is done using pickup locations information gathered from GPS devices installed on taxis. We aim at finding locations where taxi ...
• Low rank group sparse representation based adaptive face recognition 

  Yadav, Shivangi; Vatsa, Mayank (Advisor) (2016-09-13)

  Face recognition is an important area of research due to its requirement in our day-to-day life, be it surveillance or authentication. Current advancements in technology and computational power have shown promising results ...
• Guillotine cuts 

  Mahajan, Sahil; Raman, Rajiv (Advisor) (2016-09-13)

  In guillotine cut problem, we are given non-intersecting convex sets in the plane and we are allowed straight line cuts. If a cut passes through an object, it kills that object. Can one always save a constant fraction or ...
• Using smartphone-based accelerometer to detect travel by metro train 

  Vij, Megha; Naik, Vinayak (Advisor); Gunturi, Venkata MV (Advisor) (2016-07-18)

  We look at the problem of using accelerometer in smartphones to detect whether the user is at a metro train station or in a metro train. Currently, we have solutions to detect simple activities, such as sitting or walking. ...
• Automated methods for identity resolution across online social networks 

  Jain, Paridhi; Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam (Advisor) (2016-04-28)

  Today, more than two hundred Online Social Networks (OSNs) exist where each OSN extends to offer distinct services to its users such as eased access to news or better business opportunities. To enjoy each distinct service, ...
• Analysis of block cipher constructions against biclique and multiset attacks 

  Ghosh, Mohona; Sanadhya, Somitra Kumar (Advisor); Chang, Donghoon (Advisor) (2016-04-18)

  Cryptographic protocols have been a cornerstone of secure communications among armed forces and diplomatic missions since time immemorial. With easy availability and low cost of computing facilities and Internet, the domain ...

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