NCACSP-2015: Valedictory

 

The Valedictory ceremony of the National Conference on Advances in Communication and Signal Processing, NCACSP-2015, organized by the Department of ECE in association with IEEE Communications Society, Bangalore Chapter, was held on August 14 th , 2015 at 3.30 PM in the Spoorthi Conference Hall, Academic Block 3.

The function began by invoking God’s Blessings with a prayer song by Jess Corda & Team. Dr Veena Devi welcomed the dignitaries and the gathering for the function. Ms Veena Desai, Convener - NCACSP 2015, briefed the gathering about the Two-Day Conference.

The Chief Guest for the function, Sri CVS Sastry gave away the Best Paper award for the four sessions of the Conference. The Best Paper award for the Afteoon Session - 1 on August 13, 2015, was won by the paper titled “Person Authentication using Iris Recognition”, authored by Ms Mranila P and Ms Reshma K J of SJEC. Best Paper for the Afteoon Session-2 on August 13, 2015, was won by the paper titled “Design of 8T SRAM for low power sensor application”, authored by Mr Colin David Karat and Dr Soorya Krishna K of SIT - Valachil.

The Best paper for Forenoon session-1 on August 14, 2015 was won by the paper titled “An efficient Image fusion Algorithm based on Directional Discrete Cosine Transform and Principal Component Analysis”, authored by Ms Pavithra S G and Ms Preetha D’Souza of SJEC. Best paper for Forenoon Session-2 on August 14, 2015, was won by the paper titled “An Efficient Steganography with Mosaic Image for secure Communication”, authored by Ms Vimitha A and Ms Shama B N of SJEC.

Participation Certificates were distributed to the participants by the President of the function Rev. Fr Joseph Lobo, Director - SJEC. The Chief Guest Sri CVS Sastry in his address pointed out that that the current generation is more capable than the older generations. He opined that the conferences like NCACSP play an important role in bridging technical gaps. He concluded by requesting the students to work beyond the syllabus. He insisted the students to publish their work in reputed jouals.

The Guest of Honor Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal-SJEC in his address pointed out the tremendous scope and opportunities in the field of Nanotechnology. Rev. Fr Joseph Lobo in his presidential address congratulated the entire Faculty and Students involved in NCACSP-2015. He asked the students to initiate ideas and take it to its logical conclusion. Rev Fr also spoke about the 4G – God, Google, GPS and Growth.

Dr Roshan Joy Martis, Convener-NCACSP-2015 proposed the vote of thanks. The function concluded with the rendering of The National Anthem.