MAMI 2015 1 Summary Report on the 1 st International Conference on Man And Machine Interfacing MAMI 2015 The Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar organized the first International Conference on Man And Machine Interfacing (MAMI 2015) from 17 th – 19 th December 2015, which was technically co- sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section. The three day conference served as a forum for the practicing Engineers, researchers, Academic personnel, representatives from Industries and Scientists to brain storm for the benefit of mankind on the issues technically feasible and economically viable solution. The core purpose of the conference was to cover the whole spectrum of theory and practice of man- machine interfacing, focusing on intelligent communication system, evolving hardware designing, automatic knowledge acquisition & processing employed in decision support systems, constantly evolving computational techniques, specialized user interfaces accessible also for disabled, and artificial intelligence methods applied in such areas as computer vision or biosciences. We are pleased to report that more than 112 papers were received for review at MAMI2015, 56 papers were accepted by the reviewers for presentation (which is 50%) and 46 authors presented their papers. There were 8 exciting technical sessions on the emerging field of Interface Systems of Man and Machines in three tracks, namely, Systems Science and Engineering, Human Machine Systems and Cybernetics, in which prominent researchers discussed discoveries and trends in human and machine Interfacing Systems. The Registration Desk, MAMI 2015
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Summary Report on the 1st International Conference on Man And Machine Interfacing MAMI 2015
The Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar organized the first International Conference on Man And Machine Interfacing (MAMI 2015) from 17th – 19th December 2015, which was technically co-sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section.
The three day conference served as a forum for the practicing Engineers, researchers, Academic personnel, representatives from Industries and Scientists to brain storm for the benefit of mankind on the issues technically feasible and economically viable solution. The core purpose of the conference was to cover the whole spectrum of theory and practice of man-machine interfacing, focusing on intelligent communication system, evolving hardware designing, automatic knowledge acquisition & processing employed in decision support systems, constantly evolving computational techniques, specialized user interfaces accessible also for disabled, and artificial intelligence methods applied in such areas as computer vision or biosciences.
We are pleased to report that more than 112 papers were received for review at MAMI2015, 56 papers were accepted by the reviewers for presentation (which is 50%) and 46 authors presented their papers. There were 8 exciting technical sessions on the emerging field of Interface Systems of Man and Machines in three tracks, namely, Systems Science and Engineering, Human Machine Systems and Cybernetics, in which prominent researchers discussed discoveries and trends in human and machine Interfacing Systems.
The Registration Desk, MAMI 2015
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The conference was opened on 17th December 2015. The Chief Guest of the inauguration ceremony was Mr. Brajesh Chandra, Chief Research Engineer, IIT Kanpur.
From Left to Right: Dr. Priyadarshi Kanungo, Program Chair, MAMI 2015, Prof. Kartik Chandra Patra, Director, CVRCE, Shri Brajesh Chandra, Chief Guest MAMI 2015, Shri Sanjib Kumar Rout, Chairman, CVRGI, Prof. Prithviraj Kabisatpathy, General Chair, MAMI 2015
At this year’s conference, there was one keynote address and five plenary addresses by eminent researchers and academicians of International repute.
The keynote address on “Towards a Smarter World: Opportunities and Challenges” was presented by Prof. Pramod Kumar Meher of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Prof. Pramod Kumar Meher’s Keynote Address on 17/12/2015
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The first day also saw a Plenary Session by Prof. Andrews Samraj, of Mahendra Engineering College, Salem, on “The Wearable Computing Technology: a Promising zone for Heterogeneous Inventions”.
Prof. Andrews Samraj’s Plenary Session on 17/12/2015
Also, two parallel sessions were conducted on the 1st day of the conference.
Parallel Sessions of Day 01 (17/12/2015)
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The next day’s first Plenary address was by Prof. Ganapati Panda from IIT Bhubaneswar on “Recent advances in signal processing and soft computing”.
Prof. Ganapati Panda’s Plenary Address on 18/12/2015
The next Plenary session was by Prof. Amlan Chakrabarti from A K Choudhury School of Information Technology, Kolkata on “Medical Image Processing: Analysis and Visualization”.
Prof. Amlan Chakrabarti’s Plenary Address on 18/12/2015
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There were two parallel sessions in which about 12 technical papers were presented.
Parallel Session Presentations of Day 02(18/12/2015)
There was a third Plenary talk of the day in the afternoon session by Prof. Prabhat Ranjan from TIFAC, Govt. of India on “Man Machine Interface to help persons with Severe Disability” which covered the various aspects and challenges of interfacing machines with human beings.
Prof. Prabhat Ranjan’s Plenary Address on 18/12/2015
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Two more parallel sessions were conducted in the afternoon sessions, where about 12 technical papers were presented.
Afternoon Technical Sessions of Day 02 (18/12/2015)
The final Plenary address on 19th December 2015 was by Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda, Ex-Professor and Head, NIT Rourkela, which focused on the “Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) based background Modeling for Video Object detection and tracking.”
Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda’s Plenary Address on 19/12/2015
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The third say also saw two parallel sessions in which about 12 technical papers were presented.
Parallel Session Presentations of Day 03 (19/12/2015)
Prof. Jamuna Kanta Sing, of Jadavpur University and Mentor of MAMI 2015 from IEEE Kolkata Section, was a session chair on Systems Science and Engineering Track on 18th December 2015.
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The technical session was followed by the valedictory session and certificate distribution to the authors. The Chief Guest of the valedictory ceremony was Shri Tapan Kumar Chand, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NALCO India.
From Left to Right: Prof. Prithviraj Kabisatpathy, General Chair, MAMI 2015, Prof. Ganapati Panda, IIT Bhubaneswar, Shri Sanjib Kumar Rout, Chairman, CVRGI, Shri Tapan Kumar Chand, Chief Guest, MAMI 2015, Prof. Jamuna Kanta Sing, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,, Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda, Ex-Professor and Head, NIT Rourkela
Valedictory session followed by certificate distribution to the authors on 19/12/2015
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Apart from the authors and delegates, around 30 faculty members and 4 M. Tech students participated in the conference.
Keeping in view, the successful completion of MAMI 2015, the organizing committee wishes to make this event a biennial event. The next International Conference on Man And Machine Interfacing is being tentatively scheduled to be held from 14th – 16th December 2017.
A copy of the conference souvenir and some photographs of the conference are attached herewith for your kind information.
The Conference organizers have spread the information about IEEE as a sponsoring party among participants and the rest of scientific community. For example, the IEEE logo was placed:
On the MAMI2015 Website http://cvrce.edu.in/mami_home.html(Appendix 1);
On the title page of the Conference Proceedings (Appendix 2);
On the information brochure of MAMI’2015 (Appendix 3).
