Report of the one week STTP on “Machine Learning and its Applications”

BVM Engineering College, Computer Engineering Department

29th December, 2017
Report of the one week STTP on “Machine Learning and its Applications”
(18th to 23rd December, 2017)
Preamble: Computer Engineering Department organized a one week STTP on
Machine Learning and its Applications during 18th to 23rd December, 2017.
Many experts from SVNIT, DAIICT, Ahmedabad University, DDU, Charusat
University and other neighbouring good colleges were invited to deliver expert
talks. There were totally 49 participants in the program from 16 number of
different institutes. 12 participants were from BVM while remaining 37 were
from other institutes of Gujarat state and 1 participant was from an institute in
Maharashtra state.

A group photograph of the event

Inauguration Function:

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Inauguration function was arranged in common for the four STTPs organized in
parallel by various departments of BVM. It was held at 10:00am on 18 th
December, 2017 in the BVM Auditorium. Mr. Hasit Kazi, Vice President of Tata
Consultancy Services was the chief guest of the function. Mr. Mayur J Patel,
Hon. Joint Secretary of Charutar Vidya Mandal presided over the function.
Principal, Dr. I N Patel and all conveners of the four STTPs / FDPs were also
present on the dias.

Summary of sessions conducted on each day:

18-12-2017
Session 1: 10.30-12.30 Dr. Asim Banerjee, DAIICT: Introduction to machine
learning.
The speaker discussed about the definition and various types of learning. He
explained how humans learn and motivated the audience about the theme of the
STTP.
Session 2: 1.30-3.30 Dr. Ratnik Gandhi, School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Ahmedabad University: Generative Models: Robust PCA, GANs

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The expert discussed Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as a class of

artificial intelligence algorithms used in unsupervised machine learning. They
were introduced by Ian Goodfellow in 2014. He also illustrated Robust
Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) which is a modification of the principal
component analysis that aims to recover a low-rank matrix L0 from highly
corrupted measurements M = L0 +S0.
Session 3: 3.45-5.45 Dr. Mukesh Zaveri: SVNIT: EM Algorithm
The speaker explained the expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm as an
iterative method to find maximum likelihood or maximum a-posteriori
estimates of parameters, where the model depends on unobserved variables.
19-12-2017
Session 1: 10.30-12.30, Prof. Kiran Trivedi, SSEC, Bhavnagar : Gender
Detection using CNN
He motivated the audience for pragmatic approach of learning the algorithms in
Machine Learning. He nicely illustrated the application of Convolutional Neural
Networks in gender detection application.
Session 2: 1.30-3.30, Dr. Priyank Thakkar, Nirma University: Supervised and
Unsupervised Learning
The expert discussed the fundamental concepts of supervised and unsupervised
learning schemes through examples.
Session 3: 3.45-5.45, Dr. Priyanka Sharma, Nirma University: Machine learning
for Video classification and Summarization
The speaker discussed application of machine learning in video classification
and video summarization.
20-12-2017
Session 1: 10.30-12.30 Dr. Swati Jain, Nirma University: CNN
The expert nicely explained the concept of Convolutional Neural Networks, one
of the deep learning algorithms.
Session 2: 1.30-3.30PM, Dr. Jitendra Chaudhari, CHARUSAT, Changa:
Dimensionality Reduction Techniques

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The speaker explained how dimensionality can be reduced in PCA.

Session 3: 3.45-5.45 PM, Dr. Brijesh Bhatt, Dharamsinh Desai University:
SVM
He explained Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a supervised machine learning
algorithm which can be used for both classification and regression challenges.
However, it is mostly used in classification problems.
21-12-2017:

Session 1: 10.30-12.30, Session 2: 01.30-03.30 PM, Mr Amit Doshi, Math

Works: Deep Learning
This speaker was from industry and he explained about different functionalities
available in the Matlab tool for developing machine learning based application /
solution. The second session was used for giving hands on experience to the
audience. He gave simple assignments to the participants.

Session 3: 03.30-05.30
Yash M. Vasavada: DA-IICT: Linear and Nonlinear Algorithms for estimation
and detection.
Dr. Vasavada introduced linear and non-linear algorithms of machine learning.
He told that one aspect of learning this domain is to get insights of how
amazingly our human brain works. He explained that the gradient descent
procedure could be used for solving variety of problems. He explained different
applications on which he worked himself.

22-12-2017:
Session 1: 10.00-12.15 PM, Dr. Amit Ganatra, CSPIT, Changa: Software Tools
The expert gave discussed following different software tools for working on
machine learning / artificial neural network based applications.
1. Weka : https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/downloading.html
2. Tanagra : https://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~ricco/tanagra/en/tanagra.html
3. Sipina : http://chirouble.univ-lyon2.fr/~ricco/sipina
4. Orange : https://orange.biolab.si/download/

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5. R : https://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cran/
6. Alyuda NeuroIntelligence (Only trial version for 30 days) :
http://www.alyuda.com/products/neurointelligence/download.htm
7. EasyNN plus (trial version): http://www.easynn.com

Session 2: 01.30-03.30, Dr. Narendra C. Chauhan, ADIT, New V. V. Nagar:

Neural Networks & Its Applications
The speaker covered the fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks and their
applications.

Session 3: 03.45-05.30
Dr. Amit R Thakkar, CSPIT, Changa: Recommendation System
The expert discussed recommendation system as a subclass of information
filtering system that seeks to predict the rating or preference that a user would
give to an item. He explained very rationally the need of machine learning
techniques in building such recommendation system. He shared various
example applications on which he has worked / is currently working.
23-12-2017:
Session 1: 10.30-12.30 PM, Prof. Mehul Raval, Ahmedabad University
The topic of deep learning was covered very beautifully by the learned speaker.
He also explained the use of deep learning in the fields of computer vision,
speech recognition, natural language processing, etc.
Valedictory Function:
On 23rd December, 2017 at 2:30pm, the valedictory function was arranged in
common for the Three one week STTPs organized in parallel in the institute. Mr.
Jayantibhai Patel from M/s Warm Stream was the chief guest of the function.
Principal Dr. I N Patel presided over the function.

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Feedback:
Feedback from the participants were collected on Moodle tool. The analysis is
attached herewith. Following is the gist of the analysis:
• All the participants have appreciated the planning of this event. Almost all
have appreciated the quality and pace of the program. For many of them it
was their selected area of their research and they really enjoyed it.
• We have received one remark about giving more stress on hands on
sessions.
• Accordingly to some feedback, the seating arrangement was not
comfortable.

(Dr. Narendra M Patel) (Dr. Mayur M Vegad) (Prof. Mahasweta Joshi)

Coordinators

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