Sumam David S.

Designation: 

Professor(HAG)

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Thursday, August 29, 1991

Professional Experience: 

Total 26 years and at NITK 26 years

Contact Details

E-mail: 

sumam[at]ieee[dot]org

Telephone: 

Land line number(s)+91-824-2473502
Faculty (author) Identifiers
Academic Background

Ph.D (IIT Madras), 1992, M.Tech (Communication Systems & HFT, IIT Madras) , 1986 and B.Tech (Electronics & Communication, University of Kerala) , 1985

Areas of Interest
  • Multimedia Signal Processing
  • Signal Compression
  • Biomedical Signal Processing
  • VLSI Architectures for Signal Processing
Significant Projects
  • SPARC project, Exploring Applications of Radiomics in Brain Tumor Assessment and Treatment, jointly with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (Indian Co-PI - Dr Deepu Vijayasenan, Dr Girish Menon (KMC Manipal); International PI – Dr Mandava Pitchaiah, Dr Paul Litvak )

Supervision of Ph.D

• Already degree awarded -5
• On-going -3

Significant Publications
  1. Karthik Samtani, Jobin Thomas V, Deepu S.P, Sumam David S, Area and Power Optimised ASIC Implementation of Adaptive Beamformer for Hearing Aids, 13th IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2017), Turin, October 2017.
  2.  Mathew Sam, Anu Shaju Areeckal, Sumam David, Early Diagnosis of Osteoporosis using Active Appearance Model and Metacarpal Radiogrammetry, 13th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS 2017), Jaipur, December 2017.
  3.  Anu Shaju Areeckal, Mathew Sam, Sumam David, Computerized Radiogrammetry of Third Metacarpal using Watershed and Active Appearance Model, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT2018), Lyon, pp. 1490-1495, February 2018.
  4.  Bhat Raghavendra Ravi, Deepu S. P., Ramesh Kini M., Sumam David S., Wavelet based Noise Reduction Techniques for Real Time Speech Enhancement, International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks, SPIN2018, Noida, February 2018.
  5.  Anu Shaju Areeckal, Nikhil Jayasheelan, Jagannath Kamath,Sophie Zawadynski, Michel Kocher, Sumam David S., Early Diagnosis of Osteoporosis using Radiogrammetry and Texture Analysis from Hand and Wrist Radiographs in Indian Population, Osteoporosis International, Vol 29, No. 3 pp. 665-673, March 2018.
  6.  Karishma Shiraj Mulani, Harish Kumar, Gaurav M.K and Sumam David S., Hardware Acceleration of Optically Labeled Human Genome Sequencing using a Novel Algorithm, International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT), Bangalore, March 2018 .
  7.  Anu Shaju Areeckal, Jagannath Kamath,Sophie Zawadynski, Michel Kocher, Sumam David S., Combined radiogrammetry and texture analysis for early diagnosis of osteoporosis using Indian and Swiss data, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol 68, pp. 25-39, September 2018.
  8.  Anu Shaju Areeckal, Michel Kocher, Sumam David S., Current and Emerging Diagnostic Imaging-Based Techniques for Assessment of Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk, IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 12, Issue 1, December 2019.
  9. Avinash D Jayakar, Gautham Sambath, Anu Shaju Areeckal, Sumam David S., Cortical Volumetry using 3D reconstruction of metacarpal bone from multi-view images, IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Computational Systems (RAICS), Thiruvananthapuram, pp. 79-83, December 2018
  10. Ramesh Kini M, Sumam David S, Address Generation For DSP Kernels,International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP 2011), NIT Calicut , pp. 112-116, 10-12 February 2011 Digital Object Identifier :10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739281
  11. Aravind NV, Abhinandan K, Vineeth V. Acharya and Sumam David,Comparison of OMP and SOMP in the reconstruction of compressively sensed Hyperspectral Images,International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP 2011), NIT Calicut, pp. 188-192, 10-12 February 2011. Digital Object Identifier :10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739298
  12. Aparna P, Sumam David S., Multilevel Coset Coding of Video with Golay Codes,IEEE Symposium on Computer and Informatics (ISCI 2011), Kuala Lumpur, pp. 59-63, 20-22 March 2011.Digital Object Identifier :10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958884
  13. Ramesh Kini. M and Sumam David, ASIC Implementation of Address Generation Unit for Digital Signal Processing Kernel-Processor, ICGST International Journal on Programmable Devices, Circuits and Systems, PDCS, Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp. 1-9, December 2011.
  14. Aparna P, Sumam David S., Efficient Distributed Video Coding based on principle of syndrome coding, International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, Special Issue on Image and Data Compression Applications, Inderscience Publishers, Vol. 4, No,4, pp. 212-219, 2011.Digital Object Identifier :10.1504/IJSISE.2011.044533
  15. JargalsaikhanIveel and Sumam David, A novel adaptive support window based stereo matching algorithm for 3D reconstruction from 2D images, International Conference on Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITST2011), St. Petersburg, pp. 412-418, 23-25 August 2011. Digital Object Identifier :10.1109/ITST.2011.6060092
  16. Shrikant Kulkarni, Manoj H, Sumam David, VenugopalaMadumbu and Y Senthil Kumar, Robust Hand Gesture Recognition System Using Motion Templates, International Conference on Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITST2011), St. Petersburg, pp. 431-435, 23-25 August 2011. Digital Object Identifier :10.1109/ITST.2011.6060095
  17. Anil Kumar, P. Shashidhar Chavan, SharatchandraV.K, Sumam David, Philip Kelly and Noel E. O’Connor, 3D Estimation and Visualization of Motion in a Multicamera Network for Sports, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP2011), Dublin, pp. 15-19, 7-9 September 2011
  18. Jora M Gonda and Sumam David, Real-Time Implementation of a Novel Vector-Locked Loop for Synchronous Extraction of Harmonics in Power Systems, Journal of Electrical Engineering, University Politehnica, Romania, Vol. 12, No.1, pp. 87-94, 2012
  19. Jora M Gonda and Sumam David, Real-time implementation of an amplitude-locked loop:a validation on the dSPACE DS1006-based platform, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2012
  20. Aparna P. and Sumam David, Low Complexity Distributed Video Coding with Golay Codes, International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 466-470, August 2012.
  21. Ramesh Kini M, Sumam David S, pdf file Implementation of Comprehensive Address Generator for DSP, International Journal of Electronics, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1-18, 2012.
  22. Ramesh Kini. M and Sumam David,.Implementation of Comprehensive Address Generator for DSP, International Journal of Electronics, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1-18, 2012 DOI:10.1080/00207217.2012.713009
  23. Phalguni, Kishan Ganapathi, Venugopala Madumbu, Resmi Rajendran and Sumam David, Design and implementation of an automatic traffic sign recognition system on TI OMAP-L138, IEEE     International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT2013), Cape Town,  February 2013.
  24. Jora M. Gonda and Sumam David, pdf file Real-time implementation of an amplitude-locked loop: a validation on the dSPACE DS1006-based platform, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp 699-713, 2013.4. 
  25. Chetan Patil, Madhumitha Sridhara, Mathura M. G., Varun V. Nayak, Sumam David S., MerwynFernandes,  AnandVenugopal, and B. Unnikrishnan, Utility of image processing on MRI scan for early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease, International Engineering Symposium (IES 2013), Kumomoto University, March 2013.
  26. Chetan Patil, Yashwanth Marathe, Kiran Amoghimath, Sumam David S.,  Low Cost Black Box for Cars,  Texas Instruments India Educator's Conference (TIIEC 2013), April 2013.
  27. Vikram Shenoy H., Pankaj Bongale, Vineet Roy and Sumam David, Stereovision based 3D hand gesture recognition for pervasive computing applications, International Conference on Information, Communication and Signal Processing (ICICS 2013), Tainan, December 2013.DOI: 10.1109/ICICS.2013.6782787
  28. Vikram Shenoy H., Pankaj Bongale, Vineet Roy and Sumam David S.,  pdf file Stereovision based 3D hand gesture recognition for pervasive computing applications, International Conference on Information, Communication and Signal Processing (ICICS 2013), Tainan, December 2013.
  29. Chetan Patil, Madhumitha Sridhara , Mathura M. G., Sumam David, Merwyn Fernandes,  Anand Venugopal, B. Unnikrishnan, Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease using Image Processing   on MRI Scans, 5th IEEE Biosignals and Biorobotics conference (ISSNIP2014), Salvador, Brazil, May 2014.
  30. Ashwin K, Vijayakumar,Vinay Sundarrajan, Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Dr.Sumam David S, Music Transcription of Karnatic Music through classification of Gamaka, Midwest Music Information Retrieval Gathering, Northwestern University, Chicago, June 2014
  31. Chandrika B.K., Aparna P., Sumam David, Symmetry Based Perceptually Lossless Compression of 3D Medical Images in Spatial Domain, International Conference on Computer, Communication, and Control Technology (I4CT, 2014), Malaysia, September 2014.
  32. Ashwin K, Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Sumam David S, pdf file Audio Segmentation Using A-priori Information in the Context of Karnatic Music, International conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems 2015, (IEEE SPICES 2015), NIT Calicut, Feb 2015.
  33. Anmol J Bhattad, Sharukh S Shaikh, Sumam David S., K. P. Anoop, Venkat R Peddigari, pdf file Real time Pedestrian detection and tracking, 4th International Engineering Symposium (IES2015), Kumomoto University, March 2015.
  34. Karthik Hegde, Vadiraj Kulkarni, Harshavardhan R, Sumam David S., pdf file Adaptive Reconfigurable architecture for image denoising, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium: Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, Hyderabad, May 2015.
  35. Chandrika B.K., Aparna P., Sumam David, Irreversible wavelet compression of radiological images based on visual threshold, IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer      Engineering (WIECON-ECE 2015), Dhaka, December 2015.
  36. Saharsh Oza, Ankit Shah, Tarun Thokala, Sumam David, Pipelined implementation of high radix adaptive CORDIC as a coprocessor, IEEE Symposium on Emerging Topics in Computing and Communications (SETCAC'15), Trivandrum, December 2015.
  37. Anu Shaju Areeckal, Sumam David, Michel Kocher, Nikhil Jayasheelan, Jagannath Kamath, Fully automated radiogrammetric measurement of third metacarpal bone from hand radiograph, IEEE Signal Processing and Communication (SPCOM 2016), IISc Bangalore, June 2016.
  38. Deepu S. P., Sumam David, Ramesh Kini M., Estimation of Attack Time Constant for Dynamic Range Compressors in Hearing Aids, IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2016), Beijing, October 2016.
  39. Chandrika B.K., Aparna P., Sumam David, Perceptually Lossless Coder for Volumetric Medical Image Data, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier, Volume 46, Pages 23-32, July 2017.
  40. Abhishek Rathan Kumar, Anirudh Birur, Vivek Venkatraman, Sumam David S., Accelerating Real-time Computer Vision Applications using HW/SW Co-design, IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communications and Electronics 2017 (Comptelix 2017), Jaipur, July 2017.
  41. Karthik Samtani, Jobin Thomas V, Abhinav Varma, Sumam David S, Deepu S.P., FPGA Implementation of Adaptive Beamforming in Hearing Aids, 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Jeju Island, Korea, July 2017.
Achievements
  • 3rd Rank in Kerala state, SSLC, 1978
  • 3rd Rank in University of Kerala, BTech, 1985
  • National Talent Search Scholarship awardee, 1978
  • Technical Co-operation Training Program  Award of British Govt. for six months of Visiting Research Fellowship, UMIST Manchester UK, 1995
  • AICTE Career award for young teachers, 1998
  • ISA Technovation Karnataka  Best Faculty Award, 2008
  • Fulbright Professional Development Award - Participated in Fulbright Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar, October- November,2012
  • IEEE Region 10 Outstanding Branch Counsellor and Advisor Award, 2013
  • Senior Member IEEE, 2000;FIE,2007; FIETE 2007
 

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