Science Academies’ Lecture Workshop on Recent Trends in Machine Learning  

 9‐11 February 2016 

 

 

Indian Academy of Sciences Indian National Science Academy The National Academy of Sciences, Bangalore New Delhi India, Allahabad

 

 

Report of the Lecture Workshop 

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Department of Computer Science PSGR Krishnammal College for Women 

College with Potential for Excellence Autonomous Institution Affiliated to Bharathiar University 

Reaccredited with ‘A’ grade by NAAC ISO9001:2008 Certified Institution 

Peelamedu, Coimbatore–641004 Phone:04224395959; Fax:04222591255

Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Recent Trends in Machine Learning, 9 – 11 February, 2016

Programme Schedule Day 1: 9-02-2016 (Tuesday) 8.30 am – 9.30 am - Registration 9.30 am – 10.15 am - Inauguration

Prayer

Welcome Address Dr. N. Yesodhadevi Secretary PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore Inaugural Address Padma Sree Prof. B. L. Deekshatulu, FASc, FNASc, FNAE Chairman, Board of Governance, College of Engineering Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad

Vote of Thanks Dr. S. Nirmala Principal PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore

10.15 am - 10.30 am - Tea Break 10.30 am – 11.45 am - Lecture – 1: Machine Learning with Decision Trees

Padma Sree Prof. B. L. Deekshatulu, FASc, FNASc, FNAE Chairman, Board of Governance, College of Engineering Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad

11.45 am – 1.00 pm - Lecture – 2: Probabilistic methods in Image Processing Dr. R. Krishnan, FNASc Former Director ADRIN / Former Dean, IIS Adjunct Faculty, Amrita University and PG Professor, Department of ECE, CIET, Coimbatore

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm - Lunch

2.00 pm – 3.15 pm - Lecture – 3: Computational Intelligence – Trends and Research Ideas

Dr. A. Chitra Professor and Head, Department of Computer Applications

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

3.15 pm – 3.30 pm - Tea Break 3.30 pm – 4.45 pm - Lecture – 4: Cognitive Modelling – Research Trends

Dr. A. Chitra Professor and Head, Department of Computer Applications

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Day 2:10-02-2016 (Wednesday) 10.00 am – 11.15 am - Lecture – 5: Image Inpainting

Dr. Bhabatosh Chanda, FNASc, FNAE Professor, Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

11.15 am – 11.45 am - Tea Break 11.45 am – 1.00 pm - Lecture – 6: Image Super Resolution

Dr. Bhabatosh Chanda, FNASc, FNAE Professor, Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm - Lunch 2.00 pm – 3.15 pm - Lecture – 7: Deep Learning

Dr. K. P. Soman Head and Professor, Center for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN), Amrita University, Coimbatore

3.15 pm – 3.30 pm - Tea Break 3.30 pm – 4.45 pm - Lecture – 8: Tensor Flow for Machine Learning - Demo Dr. K. P. Soman

Head and Professor, Center for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN), Amrita University, Coimbatore

Day 3: 11-02-2016 (Thursday) 10.00 am – 11.15 am - Lecture – 9: Machine Learning on Hadoop Framework

Dr. G. Sudha Sadasivam

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

11.15 am – 11.45 am - Tea Break 11.45 am – 1.00 pm - Lecture – 10: Machine Learning on Hadoop Framework Case studies Dr. G. Sudha Sadasivam

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm - Lunch 2.00 pm – 3.45 pm - Lecture – 11: Machine Learning using R

Dr. M. S. Vijaya Associate Professor and Head Department of Computer Science

PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore

3.45 pm – 4.00 pm - Tea Break 4.00 pm – 4.45 pm - Valediction

Prayer

Welcome Address Dr. S. Nirmala Principal PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore

Valediction Address Dr. R. Krishnan, FNASc Former Director ADRIN / Former Dean, IIS Adjunct Faculty, Amrita University and PG Professor, Department of ECE, CIET, Coimbatore

Vote of Thanks Dr. M. S. Vijaya

Associate Professor and Head Department of Computer Science PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore

National Anthem

Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Recent Trends in Machine Learning, 9-11 February, 2016

Brief Report Department of Computer science, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Peelamedu,

Coimbatore – 641 004,organised a three day Lecture Workshop on “ Recent Trends in

Machine Learning” with the financial support by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore,

Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and the National Academy of Sciences,

Allahabad, India during 9-11 Feb, 2016.

This lecture workshop was conducted to provide a vibrant forum for the participants to

acquire knowledge in machine learning approaches and to explore latest trends, tools and

methodologies, and challenges involved in machine learning research.

The three day programme commenced with inaugural session, presided by Dr. N. Yesodha

Devi , Secretary, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore and inaugurated by

Padma Sree Prof. B. L. Deekshatulu. In the inaugural address he gave a brief note on the

activities of science academies and presented the importance of machine learning and its

applications in current scenario. Dr. S. Nirmala, Principal, PSGR Krishnammal College for

Women, Coimbatore thanked the dignitaries, Science academies for their motivation and

financial support rendered, the session speakers, participants and all the stakeholders

involved in the conduct of the workshop.

Around 118 persons were participated from various colleges in and around Coimbatore. Out

of 118 participants, 19 were Faculty, 72 were Research Scholars, and 27 were PG students .

The first day technical sessions started with the first lecture on the topic “Machine

Learning with Decision Trees” by Padma Sree Prof. B. L. Deekshatulu, Chairman, Board

of Governance, College of Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,

Hyderabad. In his talk he dealt with the importance of decision trees and its influence in

making decisions by machine. He also presented the applications and issues in Decision

trees learning.

The second lecture on “Probabilistic methods in Image Processing” was presented by Dr.

R. Krishnan Former Director ADRIN / Former Dean, IIS, Adjunct Faculty, Amrita

University and PG Professor, Department of ECE, CIET, Coimbatore. He highlighted the

linear and non-linear diffusion processes in image processing to do deep structure

analysis, finding more relevant fields for multi-scale segmentation. He also explained the

concept of snakes in image processing.

On the afternoon of the first day, the third lecture was delivered by Dr. A. Chitra, PSG

College of Technology, Coimbatore. She gave a talk on “Computational Intelligence –

Trends and Research Ideas”. She presented an overview of computational intelligence,

components of AI and the approaches of machine learning and also highlighted the

research issues.

Due to academic and administrative reasons, Dr. A. Chitra who was supposed to give her

second talk could not continue. Hence the fourth lecture of the workshop was managed

by Mrs. Sathiyavikashini, Ph.D research scholar of our institution. She presented her talk

on “Machine learning in Python” and demonstration was given on machine learning

techniques using open source tool -SCIKIT learn. In this session, installation of SCIKIT

learn for windows and different machine learning techniques was demonstrated.

On the forenoon of the second day, the fifth lecture was delivered by Dr. Bhabatosh

Chanda, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He gave a talk on “Image inpainting”. He

discussed about various types of degradation, importance of inpainting, different

algorithms used in inpainting, texture synthesis techniques for reconstruction of images,

interactive inpainting, and also discussed the research related issues in inpainting.

The next lecture was also continued by him on the title “Image Super Resolution”. He

highlighted the importance of computer vision, reconstruction of 2D and 3D images,

Machine learning techniques in Computer vision, different approaches on super

resolution process, and also presented the pros and cons in super resolution related

techniques.

In the afternoon session of the second day, two lectures were delivered by Dr. K. P.

Soman, Amrita University, Coimbatore. In his first lecture, he talked on “Deep

Learning” and highlighted the new developments, milestones achieved in deep learning.

He presented the challenges and real time issues in self-driving car and the role of deep

learning in autonomous cars. In addition, he discussed the usage of deep learning in

NLP, and other applications.

Dr. Soman, in his second lecture, gave the demonstration on “TensorFlow for Deep

Learning” with sample real time applications.

In the forenoon of 11.02.2016, the eighth lecture of the workshop was delivered by Dr. G.

Sudha Sadasivam, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore on the topic “Machine

Learning on Hadoop Framework”. She discussed the importance of big data in the current

scenario and explained the usage of Hadoop -Map Reduce programming for analyzing

simple applications. She also demonstrated several real time problems using map reduce

programming.

She continued her talk on the topic “Machine Learning and Mahout – Case studies. In

this session, she demonstrated mahout and presented several case studies like

recommendation systems, genome clustering, approaches used for machine learning

techniques like Support Vector Machine, K-Means and also discussed the challenges in

Big data.

On the afternoon, the tenth lecture of the workshop was handled by Dr. M. S. Vijaya,

PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore on “Machine Learning using R”.

She explained the features of R programming, packages available in R for data analysis

and also discussed and demonstrated various machine learning techniques for

classification, prediction and clustering with simple applications.

The workshop provided insights in the concepts, tools and techniques in machine

learning. Some of the open research directions discussed in this workshop are deep

learning, image restoration / inpainting, machine learning with hadoop, Probabilistic

models in image processing, Computational intelligence, Machine learning using python

and R. This workshop triggered interest among participants to focus their research in

machine learning.

The third day ended with the valedictory session. Dr. R. Krishnan, co-convenor of the

programme delivered the valediction address. Dr. S. Nirmala, Principal, PSGR

Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore presided the valediction. The feedback

was obtained from the participants during valediction and it was positive and

encouraging. Dr. M. S. Vijaya, co-ordinator of the programme, extended her gratitude to

science academies for their financial support rendered, the invited speakers, all the

stakeholders of the workshop for their support.

 

 

 

 

Details of the participants of Science Academies’ Lecture Workshop on “Recent Trends in Machine Learning”, 9-11 February, 2016

S.No. Name of the College/Institutions Number of Participants Total no of Participants Students Scholars Faculty

1 Dr.SNS Rajalakshmi College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore. 11 2 13

2 JKK Nataraja Arts and Science, Nammakal. 1 1

3 Sri Andal Alagar College of Engineering, Kancheepuram(DT). 1 1

4 A.V.V.M. Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, Tanjavur (DT). 1 2 3

5 University of Madras, Chennai. 5 5

6 K.S.Rangasamy College of Arts and Science, Tiruchengode. 2 2

7 Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore 2 2

8 Erode Arts and Science College, Rangampalayam, Erode. 5 5

9 Gobi Arts and Science College, Gobichettipalayam. 2 2

10 Sona College of Technology, Salem. 1 1

11 Bishop Appasamy College, Coimbatore. 1 1

12 Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. 1 1

13 NGM .College, Pollachi 21 1 22

14 PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore. 8 8

15 Periyar University, PG Extension, Salem 1 1 2

16 Govt. Arts and Science, Coimbatore. 10 10

17 Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. 10 10

18 Hindusthan College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore. 1 1

19 PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore. 5 18 5 28

Grand Total 118

Glimpses of the Science Academies Lecture Workshop on

Recent Trends in Machine Learning

 

Inauguration of Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Recent Trends in Machine Learning

Inaugural address by Padma Sree Prof. B. L. Deekshatulu

Padma Sree Prof. B. L. Deekshatulu delivering lecture on “Machine Learning with Decision Trees”

 

Dr. R. Krishnan delivering lecture on “Probabilistic methods in Image Processing”

Dr. BhabatoshChanda delivering lecture on “Image Inpainting”

Dr. A. Chitra delivering lecture on “Computational Intelligence – Trends and

Research Ideas”

Dr. K. P. Soman delivering lecture on “Deep Learning”

Dr. G. SudhaSadasivam delivering lecture on “MachineLearning on Hadoop Framework”

Dr. M. S. Vijaya delivering lecture on “Machine Learning using R – Demonstration”

Valediction of Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Recent Trends in Machine Learning(Dr. S. Nirmala - Principal, Dr. R. Krishnan, Dr. M. S. Vijaya - HOD)

Valediction Address by Dr. R. Krishnan

 

Group photo with participants