Selected Students

Program Schedule

Webcast

Welcome to CASS India outreach workshop

Plenary Speakers

Dr Achuthshankar S Nair, Kerala University https://sites.google.com/site/achushome/

Dr Alex Pappachen James, IIITM-K, www.apjames.info

Dr Asharaf S, IIM-K, http://www.iimk.ac.in/faculty/asharaf.php

Dr Bejoy Thomas, SCTIMST  http://alturl.com/at3bw

Dr Elizabeth Sherly, IIITM-K, http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/sherlyelizabeth

Dr Joseph Suresh Paul, IIITM-K, http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/joseph-suresh-paul

Dr Sabu M Thampi, IIITM-K, http://www.sabumthampi.in/

Satish Babu, ICFOSS, http://icfoss.in/director.html

T. Radhakrishnan, IIITM-K, http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/radhakrishnan

Overview

The workshop is planned to give hands on experience in various image processing and  pattern recognition techniques for high school students and teachers. Students will be trained through simple image processing projects, using a set of predefined and easy to use image processing libraries. During the workshop students will be introduced to local research scientists from Industry and Academia, to share their insights and to enable them to think about a career in Circuits and Systems Society themes (CASS). Although, Indian varsity produces a large number of Engineers, the percentage of the school going students to that taking up higher education in CASS related area is very less. The number of students opting for a research career path after their university undergraduate studies in this area is even more depressing. Through this workshop, we intend to advocate and introduce the ever emerging CASS areas of multimedia and image processing, among the high school students and teachers. Further, this area is of prime importance to a society like India, where the use of multimedia technologies has been constantly increasing and has resulted in an increasing demand for CASS professionals. In addition, there is no interaction between the university research labs and high schools in India, which has impaired the quality of students and their interest shown towards learning Electronics and allied subjects.This workshop would act as a program to bridge the gap between the  schools and academic research labs.