GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

Over a decade by now, HITK is one of the leading engineering colleges in

eastern India. It has the right infrastructure and ambiance for students to
exhibit their talents. Continuous teaching learning process in HITK is
exemplary and that makes it the leader amongst equals.

OBJECTIVE OF THE FDP

The objective of this program is to equip teaching faculties with upcoming
technologies in the field of Image Processing and Data Mining. This
program will impart hands on experiences to all the participants in Open
Source Tools which are going to be the future direction of Information
Technology.

Chief Patron:
Mr. H. K. Chaudhary, Chairman, Kalyan Bharti Trust, Kolkata

Patrons:
Prof. Pranay Chaudhuri, Principal & TEQIP-II Head, HITK
Prof. D. C. Ray, Joint Director & TEQIP-II Coordinator, HITK
Mr. Probir Roy, Executive Director, Kalyan Bharti Trust
Mr. P. K. Agarwal, CEO, Kalyan Bharti Trust
Prof. B.B. Paira, Advisor, KBT
Prof. S. N. Biswas, Deputy Director, HITK

Principal Coordinator:
Prof. Tapan Chakrabarti, HOD, IT, HITK

FOCUS AREA
Setting up Cluster and Cloud in Open Source Environment; Image
Processing (Enhancement, Filtering and Segmentation) and Data
Mining (Decision Tree, Clustering, Nave Bayes Classifier and Social
Network Analysis (SNA)) Algorithms hands-on using Open Source
Tools - Octave and R; Running Octave and R on Cluster and Cloud
Environment; Integrating Octave and R with C codes, MPI and
HADOOP.

ELIGIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION

The course is open to faculty members of engineering colleges, research
institutes and universities across India.

COURSE FEE
Rs. 1000/- per participant. (Payment should be made through Demand
Draft only)
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of duly filled-in Application form: July 27, 2015.
Selected candidates will get a confirmation email: July 28, 2015.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
1. Selected candidates must send the scan copy of the demand draft drawn
in favour of "Heritage Institute of Technology TEQIP-II-Corpus A/c."
payable at Kolkata via e-mail (sudipta.bhadra@heritageit.edu) by
July 31, 2015.
2. The following details must be filled on the backside of DD, candidates
name, institutes name and mobile no.
3. Original of the same should be submitted at registration desk on the
inaugural day of the program or earlier.

One Week Faculty Development Program

On
Image Processing and Data Mining using
Open Source Tools
under
Technical Education Quality Improvement
Program (TEQIP II)

Coordinators:
Prof. Anindya Jyoti Pal, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Satarupa Bagchi Biswas, Dept of IT, HITK

Organizing Committee Members:

Prof. Hemanta De, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Rudranath Mitra, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Susobhan Baidya, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Sandipan Dutta, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Rituparna Samaddar, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Sudipta Bhadra, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Uttam Kr. Dash, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Deep Malya Mukhopadhyay, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Bappa Sarder, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Smritikona Barai, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Rajib Biswas, Dept of IT, HITK
Prof. Joydev Hazra, Dept of IT, HITK

Contact Details:
Prof. Anindya Jyoti Pal
Prof. Satarupa Bagchi Biswas
Room No: ICT 201, IT Dept., HITK, Anandapur, Kolkata,
Pin: 700107, West Bengal, India.
E-mail:
aj.pal@heritageit.edu
satarupa.biswas@heritageit.edu
Phone No:
91-33-24431256 (EXT-671,637),
+919433353673 (M), +919836699449 (M)

August 6-12, 2015

Organized By:
Department of Information Technology,
Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata- 700107 (India).

www.heritageit.edu

SPEAKERS
i)

Prof. M Nordin Zakaria

Prof. M Nordin Zakaria received his Ph. D. degree in 2007 from School of
Computer Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He joined the Computer and
Information Science Department, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia in
2004 where he served as the Head of High-Performance Computing Center from
January 2011 to December 2014. His research interests are in the fields of Social
and Human Simulation, Evolutionary Computing, Non-Conventional and HighPerformance Computing, Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization,
Engineering Applications.

PROGRAM OUTLINE:
Day1: Open Source Tools - Octave and R

Setting up Linux
Basic Linux
Installing Octave
Basic Octave Commands
Integrating Octave with C codes
Installing R
Basic R Commands
Integrating R with C codes

Day 2: Running Octave and R on Cluster

ii)

Mr. Mohammad Fazli Ahmat Jalaluddin

Mr. Mohammad Fazli Ahmat Jalaluddin received his B. Tech. in Bachelor in
Information Technology (Major in Security Technology) from MMU Malaysia
and is executive at High Performance Computer Centre, Universiti Teknologi
Petronas, Malaysia. Mr. Fazli Ahmat is having extensive hands on experience on
deployment and handling a large number of projects based on cloud and grid
computing as well as handling open source environment.

iii)

Prof. Amitava Chatterjee

Prof. Chatterjee B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 1991, 1994, and 2002, respectively. In
1997, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University,
where he is currently serving as an Associate Professor. In 2003, he received the
Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship and visited Saga
University, Saga, Japan. From November 2004 to November 2005, he was with
the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, on a Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Foreign
Researchers. In MarchMay, 2004, and in MayJune, 2009, he visited University
of Paris XII, Val de Marne, France, as an Enseignant-Invit (Invited Teacher). Dr.
Chatterjee's key research interests include fuzzy based nonlinear control,
computer vision, robotics, image processing and pattern recognition, intelligent
instrumentation, signal processing, and stochastic optimization techniques Dr.
Chatterjee has co-authored a book titled Vision Based Autonomous Robot
Navigation: Algorithms and Implementations and co-edited two books.

iv)

Prof. Partha Basuchowdhuri

Prof. Partha Basuchowdhuri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology from 2010.
His primary research interests include Social Network Analysis and Data Mining.
His recent works have been accepted for publication in foreign conference venues
like PAKDD, ASONAM, ICMLA and IEEE GrC. He received his Bachelor's
degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Bengal Engineering College
(presently known as IIEST, Shibpur). He received his Master's degrees, one in
Computer Science and the other in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, from
Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, USA. His Master's degree thesis
work at LSU was funded by NSF. After completing his Master's degree he moved
to Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland to continue his research in
social network analysis.

Setting up cluster
Setting up MPI
Basic MPI
Octave with MPI
R with MPI
Octave and R with Hadoop

Day 3: Running Octave and R on the Cloud

Introduction to cloud
Introduction to virtualization
Setting up OpenNebula
Running Octave on VMs
Running R on VMs

Day 4: Image Enhancement, Filtering and Segmentation: An

Introduction

Image Enhancement and Filtering Techniques

Spatial Domain Approach
Frequency Domain Approach
Spatial Filtering
Frequency Domain Methods
Image Segmentation Algorithms
Discontinuity Based Approach
Similarity Based Approach
Point, Line and Edge Detection
Edge Linking and Boundary detection
Thresholding
Region-based Segmentation

Faculty Development Program on Image Processing and

Data Mining using Open Source Tools under Technical
Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP II)
August 6 - 12, 2015
APPLICATION FORM
(All Fields are mandatory)

1. Name (Block Letters):

2. Designation:
3. Organization:
4. Address for Communication:

5. Email:
6. Phone:
7. Qualification:
8. Research Interest:
9. Experience:
a. Teaching:
b. Industry:
10. Food Preference (Veg/Non-veg):
I wish to apply for the Faculty Development Program on Image Processing and
Data Mining using Open Source Tools to be held during August 6 - 12, 2015 at
HITK, Kolkata.
Date:
Place:

SPONSORSHIP

Day 5: Decision Tree and Clustering

Predictive modeling, evaluation of predictive modeling (Precision,

Recall, F-measure), MAP, impurity measures (Entropy, Gini,
Classification Error)
Building a Decision Tree, Pruning
Partitional Clustering - k-means
Hierarchical Clustering - Dendrogram, MIN, MAX
Density-based Clustering DBSCAN

Day 6: Naive Bayes Classifier and Social Network Analysis

(SNA)

Naive Bayes Classifier with an example

Social Network Analysis (SNA) - Background, centrality measures,
Problems in SNA.

Signature of the Applicant

Prof./Dr./Mr./Mrs./Miss_______________________________________________
is an employee of our institute. The applicant will be permitted to attend the
Faculty Development Program on Image Processing and Data Mining using Open
Source Tools under TEQIP II at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata from
August 6 - 12, 2015 if selected.

Date:

Signature of Head of Department /Institution

Designation:
Official Seal: