BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Dhaka BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T091407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0600 TZOFFSETTO:+0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+06 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20091231T230000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0700 TZOFFSETTO:+0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1TH;BYMONTH=12 TZNAME:+06 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191212T083321Z UID:8D6BD295-320C-415E-97D2-2B5DB40EB98C DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dhaka:20191128T140000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dhaka:20191201T190000 DESCRIPTION:IEEE SPS BUET Student Branch Chapter along with IEEE SPS Bangla desh Section Chapter\, IEEE Bangladesh Section and IEEE BUET Student Branc h successfully arranged IEEE SPS Winter School 2019 on Multimodal Signal P rocessing in Bangladesh (WS19MSP) . The schedule of the school spanned fro m November 28 to December 1\, 2019 . It was collocated with 4 conferences (IEEE SPICSCON\, BECITHCON\, PEEIACON and RAAICON) and a symposium (Intern ational Symposium on Social Implications of Sustainable Technology) at FAR S Hotel and Resorts\, Dhaka\, Bangladesh.\n\n57 participants from 10 unive rsities of Bangladesh and 1 university of India attended the Winter School . Among the registered participants\, 39 were IEEE members\, among whom 26 were IEEE SPS members.\n\nThe curriculum covered at the school is tabulat ed [here](https://spswsbd.org/program-schedule/). A completion certificate was presented to the participants who successfully completed the school b ased on attendance\, class performance and quiz scores.\n\nA total of 4 qu izzes (total 75 minutes) were held testing and reviewing the lessons learn ed during the 4 days. 5 best performers of the quizzes were presented a “Best Performance Award” certificate at the end of the fourth day.\n\n On the first day of the event\, since 3:15 PM\, the participants spoke a f ew sentences each introducing themselves and their motivation behind joini ng the school. Afterwards\, at 3:45 PM\, Dr. Norliza Mohd. Noor initiated the class with an introduction to machine learning. Then\, she demonstrate d some disease classification techniques at different modalities. She ende d her session at 5:45 PM by giving an assignment regarding a public diseas e dataset.\n\nOn the second day\, the first quiz was held at 9:15 AM. In t he morning\, many participants of the winter school attended IEEE RAS Hack athon after the quiz\, where they formed groups of five and chose their to pics.\n\nAfter the keynote session and during lunch\, Professor Dr. K. V. S. Hari networked with the students. After lunch\, Professor Hari conducte d an interactive class regarding channel modeling and drone communication from 2-4 PM. The participants were responsive to the interactive evaluatio ns.\n\nThe final session was conducted by a group of teachers from Banglad esh University of Engineering & Technology\, who discussed an introduction to multimodal signals with the participants from 4:15 to 6:15 PM. During this session\, the students were divided into groups\, who debated problem s and ideas.\n\nThe third day of the school started at 8:50 AM with the se cond quiz on the topics covered on the second day. At 9:15 AM\, Dr. Debash is Sen presented a class detailing eye tracking\, visual attention modelin g and saliency detection. He discussed challenges and techniques till 11:1 5 AM.\n\nAfterwards\, the participants attended keynote sessions or brains tormed their proposals for the RAS Hackathon. Some of the submissions of t he RAS Hackathon were inspired from the classes of the school.\n\nAfter lu nch\, at 2 PM\, Dr. Shiva Mathapathi provided an introductory class regard ing IoT. He concluded his class at 4 PM with a demonstration of IoT platfo rms.\n\nThe final class of the day was conducted by industry speaker Dr. R eduan Hasan Khan. He discussed machine-to-machine communication and smart grid with details from 4:30 PM. He connected with the participants\, makin g the class interactive and energetic\, concluding the day at 6:30 PM.\n\n The fourth and final day of the school started and ended with quizzes. The school participants were also invited to a talk by Professor Ronghai Qu\, distinguished lecturer\, IAS\, scheduled before the quiz\, where some of the participants attended with volunteer assistance regarding transportati on between the two venues.\n\nThe first quiz held at 10:15 AM covered the topics from the previous day and the final quiz covered the topics of the final day. A special session on Non-linear Signal Processing in Fractal An alysis of Cardiovascular Signals was taken by Dr. Ricardo Armanteno\, who is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE EMB Society.\n\nNext\, Professor Dr. S haikh Anowarul Fattah conducted a captivating class on pattern recognition \, detailing the inner workings of signal processing in pattern recognitio n from biomedical modes. The class was divided into two sessions before an d after lunch\, ranging from 11:30AM to 1PM and 2-2:30 PM.\n\nAfterwards\, Professor Dr. Celia Shahnaz conducted the final class of the Winter Schoo l from 2:30-4:30 PM\, precisely discussing how the motivations of multimod al emotion recognition can also be applied to other future works of the pa rticipants.\n\nMost of the participants of the Winter School also attended IEEE SympSIST afterwards\, from 4:30-6:30 PM. Speakers for the symposium were Dr. Yasuhiro Soshino\, Manager\, International Medical Relief Departm ent\, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital\; Dr. Albert Ko\, Adjunct Assoc iate Professor\, Lingnan University\, Hong Kong\; Dr. Shiva Mathapathi\, A djunct Professor\, Sonoma State University & Santa Clara University\, Co-F ounder and CTO\, Dew Mobility. At the end of SympSIST\, the conclusionary and prize-giving event was arranged. The Chief Guest of the prize-giving c eremony was Dr. Md. Sazzad Hossain\, honorable member of University Grant Commission (UGC). Special guest of the event was Dr. Ruomei Li\, Chair\, W omen in Power Committee (WiP)\, IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) China. D uring this event\, speakers and participants provided feedback regarding t heir experiences during these 4 days. By the end of this session\, five be st performing participants were presented with certificates of honor and a ll participants received certificates upon successfully completing the sch ool.\n\nCo-sponsored by: IEEE Signal Processing Society\n\nSpeaker(s): Nor liza Mohd. Noor\, K V S Hari\n\nFARS Hotel & Resorts\, 212 Shahid Syed Naz rul Islam Sharani\, Dhaka\, Dhaka\, Bangladesh\, 1000 LOCATION:FARS Hotel & Resorts\, 212 Shahid Syed Nazrul Islam Sharani\, Dhak a\, Dhaka\, Bangladesh\, 1000 ORGANIZER:shouborno@ieee.org SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Winter School 2019 on Multimod al Signal Processing URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/214042 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">IEEE SPS BUET Student Branch Chapter along with IEEE SPS Bangladesh Section Chapter \, IEEE Bangladesh Section and IEEE BUET Student Branch successfully arran ged IEEE SPS Winter School 2019 on Multimodal Signal Processing in Banglad esh (WS19MSP) . The schedule of the school spanned from November 28 to Dec ember 1\, 2019 . It was collocated with 4 conferences (IEEE SPICSCON\, BEC ITHCON\, PEEIACON and RAAICON) and a symposium (International Symposium on Social Implications of Sustainable Technology) at FARS Hotel and Resorts\ , Dhaka\, Bangladesh.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">57 p articipants from 10 universities of Bangladesh and 1 university of India a ttended the Winter School. Among the registered participants\, 39 were IEE E members\, among whom 26 were IEEE SPS members.</span></p>\n<p><span styl e="font-weight: 400\;">The curriculum covered at the school is tabulated < /span><a href="https://spswsbd.org/program-schedule/"><span style="font-we ight: 400\;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400\;">. A completio n certificate was presented to the participants who successfully completed the school based on attendance\, class performance and quiz scores.</span ></p>\n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">A total of 4 quizzes (total 75 minutes) were held testing and reviewing the lessons learned during the 4 days. 5 best performers of the quizzes were presented a &ldquo\;Best Perfo rmance Award&rdquo\; certificate at the end of the fourth day.</span></p>\ n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">On the first day of the event\, since 3:15 PM\, the participants spoke a few sentences each introducing themsel ves and their motivation behind joining the school. Afterwards\, at 3:45 P M\, </span><strong>Dr. Norliza Mohd. Noor</strong><span style="font-weight : 400\;"> initiated the class with an introduction to machine learning. Th en\, she demonstrated some disease classification techniques at different modalities. She ended her session at 5:45 PM by giving an assignment regar ding a public disease dataset.&nbsp\;</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-wei ght: 400\;">On the second day\, the first quiz was held at 9:15 AM. In the morning\, many participants of the winter school attended IEEE RAS Hackat hon after the quiz\, where they formed groups of five and chose their topi cs.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">After the keynote sess ion and during lunch\, </span><strong>Professor Dr. K. V. S. Hari</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400\;"> networked with the students. After lunch \, Professor Hari conducted an interactive class regarding channel modelin g and drone communication from 2-4 PM. The participants were responsive to the interactive evaluations.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-weight: 400 \;">The final session was conducted by a group of teachers from Bangladesh University of Engineering &amp\; Technology\, who discussed an introducti on to multimodal signals with the participants from 4:15 to 6:15 PM. Durin g this session\, the students were divided into groups\, who debated probl ems and ideas.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">The third d ay of the school started at 8:50 AM with the second quiz on the topics cov ered on the second day.&nbsp\;At 9:15 AM\, </span><strong>Dr. Debashis Sen </strong><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> presented a class detailing eye tracking\, visual attention modeling and saliency detection. He discussed challenges and techniques till 11:15 AM.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font -weight: 400\;">Afterwards\, the participants attended keynote sessions or brainstormed their proposals for the RAS Hackathon. Some of the submissio ns of the RAS Hackathon were inspired from the classes of the school.</spa n></p>\n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">After lunch\, at 2 PM\, </span ><strong>Dr. Shiva Mathapathi</strong><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> pr ovided an introductory class regarding IoT. He concluded his class at 4 PM with a demonstration of IoT platforms.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-w eight: 400\;">The final class of the day was conducted by industry speaker </span><strong>Dr. Reduan Hasan Khan</strong><span style="font-weight: 40 0\;">. He discussed machine-to-machine communication and smart grid with d etails from 4:30 PM. He connected with the participants\, making the class interactive and energetic\, concluding the day at 6:30 PM.</span></p>\n<p ><span style="font-weight: 400\;">The fourth and final day of the school s tarted and ended with quizzes. The school participants were also invited t o a talk by Professor Ronghai Qu\, distinguished lecturer\, IAS\, schedule d before the quiz\, where some of the participants attended with volunteer assistance regarding transportation between the two venues.&nbsp\;</span> </p>\n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">The first quiz held at 10:15 AM covered the topics from the previous day and the final quiz covered the to pics of the final day. A special session on Non-linear Signal Processing i n Fractal Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals was taken by </span><strong>D r. Ricardo Armanteno</strong><span style="font-weight: 400\;">\, who is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE EMB Society.</span></p>\n<p><span style="fo nt-weight: 400\;">Next\,</span><strong> Professor Dr. Shaikh Anowarul Fatt ah</strong><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> conducted a captivating class on pattern recognition\, detailing the inner workings of signal processin g in pattern recognition from biomedical modes. The class was divided into two sessions before and after lunch\, ranging from 11:30AM to 1PM and 2-2 :30 PM.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Afterwards\, </spa n><strong>Professor Dr. Celia Shahnaz</strong><span style="font-weight: 40 0\;"> conducted the final class of the Winter School from 2:30-4:30 PM\, p recisely discussing how the motivations of multimodal emotion recognition can also be applied to other future works of the participants.</span></p>\ n<p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Most of the participants of the Winte r School also attended IEEE SympSIST afterwards\, from 4:30-6:30 PM. Speak ers for the symposium were </span><strong>Dr. Yasuhiro Soshino</strong><sp an style="font-weight: 400\;">\, Manager\, International Medical Relief De partment\, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital\; </span><strong>Dr. Alber t Ko</strong><span style="font-weight: 400\;">\, Adjunct Associate Profess or\, Lingnan University\, Hong Kong\; </span><strong>Dr. Shiva Mathapathi< /strong><span style="font-weight: 400\;">\, Adjunct Professor\, Sonoma Sta te University &amp\; Santa Clara University\, Co-Founder and CTO\, Dew Mob ility. At the end of SympSIST\, the conclusionary and prize-giving event w as arranged. The Chief Guest of the prize-giving ceremony was </span><stro ng>Dr. Md. Sazzad Hossain</strong><span style="font-weight: 400\;">\, hono rable member of University Grant Commission (UGC). Special guest of the ev ent was </span><strong>Dr. Ruomei Li\, Chair</strong><span style="font-wei ght: 400\;">\, Women in Power Committee (WiP)\, IEEE Power &amp\; Energy S ociety (PES) China. During this event\, speakers and participants provided feedback regarding their experiences during these 4 days. By the end of t his session\, five best performing participants were presented with certif icates of honor and all participants received certificates upon successful ly completing the school.</span></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR