MTech Theses: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 M. Viswanath (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 M. Viswanath (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. ...
  • A fail-fast mechanism for authenticated encryption schemes 
    Gupta, Naina; Chang, Donghoon (Advisor) (2016-01-01)
    In the modern world, almost every computing device uses some cryptographic technique or the other. Over the years several schemes have been proposed implemented and standardized. For any kind of data transfer the primary ...
  • Top-K high utility episode mining in complex event sequence 
    Rathore, Sonam; Goyal, Vikram (Advisor) (2015-12-05)
    Mining high utility episodes in complex event sequences is an emerging topic in data mining. In utility mining, users set a minimum threshold and the episodes having higher utility than the threshold are reported. ...
  • Face detection and verication in unconstrained videos: challenges, detection, and benchmark evaluation 
    Shah, Mahek; Vatsa, Mayank (Advisor); Singh, Richa (Advisor) (2015-12-05)
    With increasing security concerns, surveillance cameras are playing an important role in the society and face recognition in crowd is gaining more importance than ever. For video face recognition, researchers have primarily ...
  • TASVEER : tomography of India's internet infrastructure 
    Singh, Rahul Kumar; Chakravarty, Sambuddho (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    With approximately 250 million Internet users, India stands amongst the top 5 Internet using nations of the world. India's network space is made up of 789 Autonomous Systems (ASes), that route all the network traffic of ...
  • A Hybrid algorithm for mining high utility itemsets from transaction databases with discount notion 
    Bansal, Ruchita; Goyal, Vikram (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    High-utility itemset mining has attracted signicant attention from the research community. Identifying high-utility itemsets from a transaction database can help business owners to earn better profit by promoting the sales ...
  • Face and gender classification in crowd video 
    Verma, Priyanka; Singh, Richa (Advisor); Vatsa, Mayank (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    Research in face and gender recognition under constrained environment has achieved an acceptable level of performance. There have been advancements in face and gender recognition in unconstrained environment, however, ...
  • Computer assisted telephony system 
    Rana, Anurag; Singh, Pushpendra (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    Telephones have high reach both in developed and developing countries that have made it a preferred tool for collecting and disseminating information. Voice based information collection systems o ffers data collection ...
  • Blending active learning in a modified SPOC based classroom 
    Bansal, Shruti; Singh, Pushpendra (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    Blended Learning is an amalgamation of face-to-face and e-learning. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), a popular e-learning source of rich quality content produced by best instructors are freely available to learners ...
  • KIRKE re-engineering of web applications to mobile apps 
    Mehra, Rohit; Naik, Vinayak (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    A large number of web applications are written using server-side scripting languages. Although web browsers allow clients to run these applications, it is often cumbersome to depend on the desktops for the services ...
  • Women safety and technology: analysis of women distress helpline for efficient technological intervention 
    Gupta, Parul; Singh, Pushpendra (Advisor); Goyal, Vikram (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    181 women distress helpline provides immediate assistance to women in distress and helps them overcome emotional and bureaucratic challenges. In this work, we present the detailed understa ndings of our qualitative and ...
  • Trustworthiness in crowdsourcing 
    Kumar Abhinav; Dwarakanath, Anurag (Advisor); Singh, Pushpendra (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    Crowdsourcing is an exciting new trend where a group of geographically distributed individuals contribute willingly, sometimes for free, towards a common goal. Previous research and studies have shown how Crowdsourcing ...
  • An Exploratory study on authorship veri cation and learning assessment in online education systems 
    Singhal, Priyanka; Singh, Pushpendra (Advisor) (2015-12-03)
    Many in class and distance courses off ered these days involve the submission of assignments online. These assignments are meant to be assessed to give students timely feedback. However, ensuring that the student who ...

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