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2012

ANNUAL REPORT


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CONT

ENTS

About Spider

Acknowledgement to the Director

Message from the Staff Advisor

Highlights of year 2008-09

Projects

Workshops & Talks

AchievementsThe Team

Funding


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ABOUTSPIDER Our Mission

To learn and develop new technologies.

To make information freely accessible.

To share knowledge with one and all.

Spider is the students technical group

of National Institute of Technology,Tiruchirappalli. Our primary work is in fields of

Computer Science, Electronics and Internet

Technologies.

Under the mentorship of Dr. Hemalatha

Thiyagarajan, Associate Dean (Students), we

undertake self funded projects and conduct

periodic workshops and courses for students. We

also host and maintain the most popular and

informative site on the campus intranet.


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M

ESSAGE

FROMSTAFFADV

ISOR

Spider has come a long way since 2003! Over the

past 9 years they have consistently worked towards

successful implementation of several student research

projects.

This year Spider conducted various workshops and

held talks on the latest in technology. We at spider

measure the success of the courses offered in terms

of the number of students who take up minor

research projects in the field. In this sense theworkshops and talks were a great success.

The mission statement is to share knowledge and to

use technology to the hilt. Spider members are

actively involved in getting local access to ocw@mit

courses by setting up a mirror site in our campus.

This will help the students access the latest course

contents locally.

My congratulations to the team this year for the

record number of innovative project proposals they

have presented. I wish the current and future spider

members every success in their efforts.Dr. Hemalatha Thiyagarajan


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PROJECTS

The best way to learn things is

through doing them.

We work on various projects tomake our beloved campus

technologically more advanced and

that is the way we learn.

The satisfaction of innovation

drives us to work towards

inventing.

Year 2011-12 witnessed amazing

work by our team in vastly different

areas ranging from App

Development to Image Processing

and Robotics.


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G

ESTURE

RECOGN

ITION

This interactive image processing system

involves the control of an appliance or robot based

on the corresponding hand gestures made by theuser.

A microcontroller acts as an interface between the

gesture input from the image processing system

and the appliance/robot which is being controlled.

The user has to simply make gestures in front of

the camera and the appliance or robot will act

accordingly.


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CONTROLOF

BOTUSINGOBJECTTRACKING

In OPEN CV, the object needed to betracked is first isolated using IMAGE

PROCESSING.

Then the position or the centroid of the

object is calculates.

Based on the position of the object the

bot different signals are generated.

These signals are sent via serial

communication to a bot using which the

motion of the bot is controlled.


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BUNKSCORE

APP

The app keeps track of the number of

bunks made in a subject, subjects can be

added and removed by the user dependingon his /her requirements.

When the number of bunks reach a danger

level, as set by the user, a warning is

issued.The app aims to solve one of the very basic

problems faced by the college students.

The first version of the app is available on

the Android Market


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FOODIEAPP This app is for food-lovers.

It is more like a social network for

food lovers, it enables its users to

find out where good food is available

in the nearby locations at that instant,

giving them an opportunity to enjoy

the same.

We plan to release the app in thebeginning of the next semester.


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SPIVISION

Spider's video streaming site, it hosts more

than 50 videos ranging from MIT OCW to

Google tech talks.

The aim is to provide speedy access to the

video contents for our user,.

It is aimed at minimizing the need to wait

for the video to buffer.

The user can view them instantly.

It can be accessed via

spider.nitt.edu/spivision


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COD

ELABS A platform for organizing

coding contests, it has a lot of useful

resources for anyone interested in

coding.

We plan to organize a series of

coding contests using this platform.

As of yet its under

construction and is to be launched by the

beginning of the next semester.


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SPAR

SH

The project aims to convert any screen/surface intotouch sensitive screens using webcams.

Two cameras are to be put on two corners of any

screen/surface (facing towards the diagonally

opposite corner of the screen) and by studying the

live video stream from cameras we can detect when

and where the finger has come in contact with the

screen.


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WORKSHOPS

The best way to gainknowledge is to share it.

We organise workshops on

basic as well as relativelyadvanced topics for students

within the campus.

This year we conducted threeworkshops, each spanning

around a period of two weeks.


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MATLA

B&IMAGE

PROCESSING

This course was started with an intention of

imbibing people with an interest for MATLAB

and Image Processing.

The workshop taught them how to program

and use graphics in MATLABs numerical

computing environment.Starting from the basic MATLAB functions

for image processing, this workshop covered

the in-depth information of algorithms used

for standard image processing applications.


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W

ORKSHO

PONC

We conducted a 5 day workshop on C

programming for beginners.

Topics covered in the basic workshop

included Basics of C, function, Pointers,

Data Structures, STL, etc


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RUB

YA Spider talk on Ruby was held on 4th

August 2011 between 5pm and 7 30 pm.

The talk covered the basics of the

programming language. Its use, advantages

over other languages, Ruby on Rails, etc


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AN

DROID

A Spider talk on Android was held 4th

August 2011.

The talk was aimed at inculcating an

interest in Android App development

among the students of NITT. It covered the

very basics of Application development

using android Installation, suitable IDEs,

Packages available, etc. Making of an

HelloAndroid App was demonstrated.


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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Spider members take great

pleasure in participating in

technical events, competing

for the top prizes and

spending time creating useful

applications.

Here are a few achievements

that Spider members

achieved in 2011-2012.


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SANDEEP NITAL DAVID won First

Prize in Autonomous Robotics Event atSRM University

B KOWSHICK participated in

Sangam-Pragyan Project Demonstration

Contest

Anant Agarwal received Honorable

Mention in ACM ICPC Kanpur onsite

event and is expected to intern at

Microsoft Indian Development Center,

Hyderabad

Bodhayan Prasad won First Prize in

Circuitrix, Concept car Challenge and

Third in Anveshaman (paper

presentation) held during Pragyan12Anirudh worked with wordpress as a

part of GSoC, formed the NITT GTUG,

Wrote Windows phone Apps and

published it

INDIVIDUAL

ACHIEVE

MENTS


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INDIVIDUALAC

HIEVEM

ENTS

Ram Dayal Vaishnav won the Conding

Conest conducted by ACM. He also came

First in Future Technology in the inter-

departmental event, Infotrek

Swapna won the Conding contest

conducted by ACM

Alka won First Prize in Web Designing

and Oratory in Sastra UniversityRitam Deb won First Prize in Algo

Tructures, Math Modelling at Login ll;

First Prize in Experts Choice, Hardware

Assembly at Ganakotsav11

Sriyas device to count the number of

people attending Pragyan was used at the

eventsPR Desk.


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SPIDERACHIEVE

MENTS

We cleared the prelims for Pacman,

Image Processing based Robot

Contest of IIT M.

Kowshick was shortlisted for IIT M

Manual Robotics Event

Few of the models made by Spider

members were on display as a partof Sangam, Pargyan12


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THE TEAM

We are a team of eighteen enthusiastic people

belonging to various departments.

Even as all of us have different skills sets, we all

share a common passion for technology.

With everyone at full freedom to implement their

ideas, our team enjoys a unique status in the campus.


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TheInduction

Process

Every year, few enthusiastic students are

inducted into the spider team. Second year

UG and first year PG students are allowed to

take part in the induction process. The

induction process is quite intensive and over

130 students appeared for induction process

this year for 10 openings.

The preliminary round tests the students on

aptitude, sciences and technical knowledge.

This is followed by a personal interview on

the next day. The interview basically focuseson identifying people who have passion for

technology.


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OUR

MENTOR

Our mentor and guide is Dr. Hemalatha

Thiyagarajan. It is under her guidance

that Spider has witnessed exponential

growth. The kind of freedom,

independence and support she has

allowed has been the main reasonbehind all the work that has been done

by us.

Thank you, madam!


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ME

MBERS Anirudh SComputer Science and Engineering

Sriram GanesanComputer Science and Engineering

Sanjana SinghComputer Science and Engineering

Srivas VenkateshElectronics and Communications

Engineering


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MEM

BERS

Sriya SarathyElectronics and CommunicationsEngineering

Bodhayan PrasadElectrical and Electronics

Engineering

Sudeep AgarwalMaster of Computer Applications

Ankit RajpootMaster of Computer Applications


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Preeti KumariMaster of Computer Applications

Anant AgarwalComputer Science and Engineering

Harishma DComputer Science and Engineering

Sreevatsan VComputer Science and Engineering

MEMBERS


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Varun KrishnanElectrical and Electronics

Engineering

Vivek NatarajanElectronics and Communication

Engineering

KrishnaElectronics and Communication

Engineering

Richa Tiwari

Production Engineering

MEM

BERS


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AlkaMaster of Computer Applications

Nikhil BharadwajMaster of Computer Applications

Ritam DebMaster of Computer Applications

Harshal PatilComputer Science and Engineering

MEMBERS


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Mohana SudharsanComputer Science and Engineering

Ranjith MComputer Science and Engineering

Kowshick BElectrical and Electronics

Engineering

Sandeep N DavidElectrical and Electronics

Engineering

MEM

BERS


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Ram DayalMaster of Computer Applications

Swapna SMaster of Computer Applications

PriyankaElectronics and Communication

Engineering

Harshaditya

Computer Science and Engineering

MEMBERS


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Aditi SinhaElectrical and ElectronicsEngineering M

EM

BERS


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FUNDING

We obtain our funds for research, projects

and other expenditure from the

workshops conducted. However, that

hardly suffices our needs.

We accept donations by way of cash or

equipment for our work.

Donations may be directed to:

Dr. Hemalatha Thiyagarajan

Staff Advisor, The Spider Team

IT Building

National Institute of Technology

Tiruchirappalli - 620 015

Tamil Nadu

India

Phone Number: +91 94438 37585


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