N C V P R I P G 2 0 1 7 National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics 16-19 December 2017, IIT Mandi Welcome to IIT Mandi for NCVPRIPG 2017! The purpose of this document is to provide useful information for your stay in IIT Mandi. About IIT Mandi Campus IIT Mandi main campus is located in Kamand village about 15 kilometers from main town Mandi. However a transit campus is also present in Mandi town. This is situated just above the main bus stand in the erstwhile Mandav hotel, hence known as Mandav block. The transit campus hosts a few labs and a guest house. The IIT Mandi shuttle bus service operated between the Mandav block and Kamand campus regularly. The main campus is divided into the north and south campus in Kamand separated by about 5 kilometers. The IIT Mandi shuttle service operates regularly between the two campuses. Most of the labs and offices along with hostels and faculty quarters are located in the south campus. The north campus hosts several hostels, the main institute guest house and some faculty quarters along with other offices. Please consult the maps in the maps section and the Important Locations section for the location of various buildings. Important Locations North Campus South Campus 1. Institute Guest House. 1. A1 Building, the venue of the conference. 2. D1 and D2 mess. 3. B6 and B7 Hostel, the students will stay here. 4. Manirang / Studio Aprtments. 5. Garpa Guest House, just outside the campus. Reaching IIT Mandi From Bus stand to Mandav Block: The Mandav block is located just above the Mandi bus stand. This is a 10-minute walk from the bus stand, see the map attached. The path is fairly steep, so if you have luggage, it may be easier to hire an auto-rickshaw from the bus stand. The fare is about Rs.20/-. If one
happens to arrive early in the morning, one can use waiting hall and restrooms available at IIT Mandav block till the institute shuttle-bus service starts or hire a taxi to Kamand campus. From Mandav Block to Kamand Campus The institute has dedicated shuttle-bus service from Mandav block, Mandi to main campus in Kamand. The service starts from 7 O clock in the morning to 9:30 in the evening. Please take a look at the bus schedule that is given at the end of this document. In addition to the institute shuttle service, one can also avail the public transport service from the bus stand. The schedule of various public buses is also given in the abovementioned schedule. One can also hire a taxi from the bus stand to the Kamand campus. Taxis are stationed outside Mandi main bus stand 24 x 7. The cost of a one-way trip to the IIT campus is about Rs. 600/- Lodging, Dining and Other Information On reaching the Kamand campus, the participants can directly walk to the hostels allotted to them. Please see the attached map for the location of the various hostels. 1. Lodging The students have been provided accommodation in the B6/B7 hostel whereas the faculty members and guests from the industry will stay in the institute guest house in North campus. The accommodation information has been provided to the corresponding caretakers and security guards. After reporting, the guards will help you locate the rooms and the participants will be provided with the keys to their respective rooms. 2. Meals Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served in the D1 mess (Cedar mess), while drinks/snacks between sessions will be served in A1 building. If someone arrives on December 15, they can avail the mess facility from D2 mess (Maple mess) free of cost. The D1 mess is the circular building located across the playground from A1 building. Please take a look at the attached map for the location of the messes. 3. Internet Access Internet Wireless connectivity is available in most buildings of the campus. IIT Mandi has an institute-wide proxy server. There is a specific LDAP id and password for each participant which will be provided along with the kit at the time of registration. 1. Proxy server: 10.8.0.1(Academic area) 10.7.0.1(Hostel area) port 8080 2. You need to go to link below and login before you could access internet: http://gateway.iitmandi.ac.in/facstaff/login.php Login with your LDAP id and password. If you are connected to the network, your device will get a 10.X.X.X IP address. 3. Some application might be blocked and might not work on your smartphones.
General Information 1. The IIT campus has the following facilities in south campus: Riverbank canteen near Director s office (Timings 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM). Paras canteen in D1 mess (Timings 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM). Bake-Hut bakery below D2 mess (Timings 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM). AFC canteen (timings 2:00 PM to 2:00 AM) A small grocery store, in the D1 mess building (store timings 1 PM to 7PM. Sundays are closed.) A stationary shop in D1, the mess complex Medical unit near the D1 mess (+91-9816663003.) The Treat restaurant, just outside the campus (about 500 m walk.) Besides that, there are a few small dhabas and shops outside the campus in Kamand village (about 1 km walk). The items available in these shops are limited, and for buying anything major (like clothes or footwear etc.) you need to go to Mandi town. 2. In the north campus there is a Megastar shopping store, a medical unit, a functioning mess, and some sports facilities. 3. There are two banks SBI and PNB, available in south campus along with two ATMs of the respective banks. 4. The south campus has a functioning gymnasium and other sports facilities available which include cricketing ground and practice nets, football ground, basketball, volley ball and tennis courts. 5. Winter in Mandi is a bit colder than most other parts of north India and the night temperature is around 3 to 4. You are advised to carry warm clothes with you. Blankets will be provided to you in the hostels / guest houses. 6. Carry your name tags while you are on campus. You might be asked to produce the same in messes or while availing the institute shuttle bus service. Important Note: 1. The river Uhl flows next to the campus and provides a nice and beautiful view. However, participants are strongly discouraged from going to the river, as the currents can be swift and the rocks slippery. 2. You can go for walks around the campus, however it is discouraged to move outside the main campus area in the dark.
Speaker Profile Plenary Speakers Guna Seetharaman Navy Research Labs, Washington DC, USA Guna Seetharaman is the Navy Senior Scientist (ST) for Advanced Computing Concepts, and the Chief Scientist for Computation, Center for Computational Science, Navy Research Lab. He leads a team effort on: Video Analytics, High performance computing, low latency, highthroughput, on-demand scalable geo-dispersed computer-networks. He joined NRL in June 2015. He worked as Principal Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, where he led research and development in Video Exploitation, Wide Area Motion Imagery, Computing Architectures and Cyber Security. He holds three US Patents, and has filed more disclosures, in related areas. His team won the best algorithm award at IEEE CVPR- 2014 Video Change Detection challenge, featuring a semantic segmentation of dynamic scene to detect change in the midst of dynamic clutters. He served as a tenured professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and University of Louisiana at Lafayette, before joining AFRL. He and his colleagues cofounded Team CajubBot and successfully fielded two unmanned vehicles at the DARPA Grand Challenges 2004, 2005 and 2007. He also co-edited a special issue of IEEE COMPUTER dedicated to Unmanned Vehicles, and special issue of The European Journal Embedded Systems focused on intelligent autonomous vehicles. He was elected as Fellow of the IEEE, in 2014, for his contributions in high performance computer vision algorithms for airborne applications. He also served as the elected Chair of the IEEE Mohawk Valley Section, Region 1, FY 2013 and FY 2014. Nikhil Rasiwasia Amazon Nikhil Rasiwasia is a Senior Scientist, Machine Learning at Amazon. He received his PhD and MS in ECE with a specialization in machine learning & computer vision from the University of California, San Diego in 2011. He received a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. Previously, as the Head of Research for Snapdeal Multimedia Research Group, he led a team of researchers to provide end-to-end solutions to various problems at Snapdeal, using machine learning and computer vision at its core. Prior to that he co-founded Fashiate, a machine learning company, to solve problems for the fashion e-commerce industry. Fashiate was acquired by Snapdeal in Jan 2015. Prior to Fashiate, he was working as a research scientist for Yahoo Labs. He has published and presented papers in prestigious conferences and journals like CVPR, ICCV, PAMI etc. He received the best paper award at ACM Multimedia 2010 and was recognized as an 'Emerging Leader in Multimedia' by IBM T.J. Watson Research. In 2016, he was invited to be a judge and a panellist to talk about the future of computer vision, at LDV Vision Summit NYC. He is also a professional photographer and has been featured on National Geographic.
Siddhartha Chaudhuri Adobe Research Siddhartha Chaudhuri is a Senior Research Scientist in the Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research, and Institute Chair Assistant Professor (on leave) of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. His research focuses on richer tools for designing threedimensional objects, particularly by novice and casual users, and on related problems in 3D shape understanding, synthesis and reconstruction. He received his PhD from Stanford University, followed by a postdoc at Princeton and a year teaching at Cornell. Apart from academic work, he is also the original author of the commercial 3D modelling package Adobe Fuse. Help Desk For further help/queries, you may contact the help desk: Krati Gupta +91-8628859624 Arshdeep Singh +91-8968318682
Schedule
Maps Figure 1Bus Stand and Mandav Block in Mandi Town
MEGASTAR SHOPPING CENTER Figure 2: South Campus, Garpa Guest house and South Campus
B5 Hostel 12 9 11 Main Entry Point 8 1 7 14 13 10 5 2 3 4 6 LEGEND ---------------------------- 1. A1 Building 2. SBI and PNB ATM 3. Central Library 4. Manirang / Studio Apartments 5. Medical Unit 6. D1 Mess 7. Paras Canteen 8. D2 Mess 9. Bake Hut 10. AFC Canteen 11. B6 Hostel 12. B7 Hostel 13. Sports Complex 14. Gymnasium Figure 3: Important locations in South Campus
Institute Shuttle-Bus Schedule Transport Control Room (Mandi): 01905-237997 Transport Control Room (South campus): 01905-267096 Bus (SML):29 seats, Van (Micro): 12 seats & Innova (Car): 6 seats Day Vehicle Mandi to South to North to South to Remarks South North South Mandi Bus F - - 06:45 a.m. 07:00 a.m. For Academic/Staff Van V2 07:00 a.m. 07:45 a.m. - 08:00 a.m. For Academic/Staff Bus C - - 07:45 a.m. - For Academic/Staff Mon-Fri Bus B 08:00 a.m. 08:45 a.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus A & F 08:00 a.m. 08:55 a.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus D - - 08:45 a.m. - For Academic/Staff Bus F - - 09:00 a.m. - For Academic/Staff Bus F - - 09:45 a.m. - For Academic/Staff Van V2 09:00 a.m. 09:55 a.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus C 10:00 a.m. - - 09:00 a.m. For Academic/Staff Bus E - - 09:45 a.m. 10:00 a.m. For Shopping Bus A - 10:55 a.m. - - For Academic/Staff Van V1 & V2 - - 10:45 a.m. - For Academic/Staff Bus A - - 11:45 p.m. 12:00 p.m. For Academic/Staff Sat Bus F - - - 12:00 p.m. On standby Van V1&V2-11:45 a.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus E 12:00 p.m. 12:45 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff
Day Vehicle Mandi to South to North to South North South Bus C & D - 01:00 p.m. - Sat, Sun, Bus C - - 12:45 p.m. South to Mandi - - Remarks For Academic/Staff For Academic/Staff V2 & V1 - - 01:45 p.m. - For Academic/Staff Bus A 01:00 p.m. 01:50 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus E - - 01:45 p.m. 02:00 p.m. For Academic/Staff Bus A - - 02:00 p.m. - For Academic/Staff Van V1&V2-02:55 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus E 03:00 p.m. 03:45 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus B & D - - 02:45 p.m. 03:00 p.m. For Academic/Staff Mon-Fri Bus B & D - - 02:45 p.m. 04:00 p.m. For Academic/Staff Sat Bus E 03:00 p.m. - - 04:00 p.m. For Shopping Bus F - - 03:45 p.m. - For Academic/Staff Bus F - 04:55 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus B & D 05:00 p.m. - - - For Academic/Staff Mon- Sun, Mon- Sun, Mon- Sun, Bus C - 05:15 p.m. 04:45 p.m. - For Academic/Staff Bus A - 05:15 p.m. 05:30 p.m. - For Academic/Staff Bus A,B&C - - - 05:45 p.m. For Academic/Staff Bus F - - 05:45 p.m. 06:00 p.m. For Academic/Staff Bus D - - 06:00 p.m. - For Academic/Staff Van V2-05:45 p.m. 06:15 p.m. 06:30 p.m. For Academic/Staff
Day Vehicle Mandi to South to South North Bus D - 05:45 p.m. 06:15 p.m. 06:45 p.m. Bus A 06:30 p.m. 07:15 p.m. 08:00 p.m. Sat & Bus E 06:30 p.m. 07:15 p.m. 08:00 p.m. Mon-Sun Bus E - 07:15 p.m. 08:00 p.m. North to South - 06:30 p.m. 07:15 p.m. 07:45 p.m. 08:15 p.m. 07:45 p.m. 08:15 p.m. 07:45 p.m. 08:15 p.m. South to Remarks Mandi 07:30 p.m. For Academic/Staff - For Academic/Staff - For Academic/Staff - For Academic/Staff Bus C 07:30 p.m. 08:15 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus A - - - 08:30 p.m. For Academic/Staff Fri. & Sat. Bus C - - - 08:30 p.m. For Academic/Staff Mon-Thur, Sun, Bus D & F 08:30 p.m. 09:15 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Innova 08:30 p.m. 09:15 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Bus B 08:30 p.m. 09:15 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Mon-Thurs Bus E - 10:00 p.m. - - For Academic/Staff Fri. & Sat. Bus C, D & 09:30 p.m. 10:15 p.m. - - Return from Shopping F Stationing of vehicles: Bus C, D & F will be stationed near campus school overnight, VanV1 & car will be stationed in south campus and the other vehicles will be stationed in Mandi overnight.
Institute Vehicle Schedule for Garpa Guest House Day Vehicle South to Garpa Guest House Garpa Guest House to South Remarks Van V1 07:30 am 07:45 am On Call (Pl. call control room at least 5 min before the scheduled time to avail this service) Van V1 08:30 am 08:45 am On Call Van V1 09:30 am 09:45 am On Call Van V1 12:30 pm 12:45 pm On Call Van V1 02:00 pm 02:15 pm On Call Van V1 07:30 pm 07:45 pm On Call Van V1 09:15 pm 09:30 pm On Call 1st, 3rd & 5th Institute Vehicle Schedule for Campus School Day Vehicle Mandi School Remarks Mon-Fri Bus D 09:00 a.m. (C6 to - From C1) South Sat 09:05 a.m. (C1 to School) Mon-Fri Bus B - 09:10 a.m. From North 1st, 3rd & 5th Sat Mon-Fri Bus F - 01:05 p.m. (to south via North) Mon-Fri Bus C - 03:30 p.m. (to south via North) 1st, 3rd & 5th Sat Bus C - 01:30 p.m. (to south via North) Till C6 Till C6 Till C6
Guide lines for institute transport Allow girls students to board first in vehicle. First four seats (behind driver) in the Bus and first two seat (behind driver) in the van will be reserved for faculty, who are travelling for taking classes. This is not applicable in the bus/van where online booking can be done. Institute vehicles are only for IIT Mandi students, employees and their families. If any other person board in vehicle please inform to driver or Transport Control Room (Mandi) 1905-237997, (South campus) 1905-267096 If driver is running vehicle more than 40 km/hr (in case of Bus/Van) and 45 km/hr (in case of Car), please instruct to driver to follow speed limit. If there is some discrepancy (like brakes are not working, head lights are not working, tyres are not gripping on the surface of the road or any other), please instruct driver not to run the vehicle and wait for other vehicle Overcrowding is not allowed. Capacity of Bus, Van and Car are 29 persons, 12 persons and 6 persons respectively. For any real time help please contact the transport control room. For any complaint/suggestion/feedback about transport kindly use service request tool Vehicles will be stopped at following stoppage only for boarding/leaving Stoppage No. Name of Stoppage 1 Mandav (Admin block) 2 Bhiuli Bridge (Near Mandi - Joginder - Manali Crossway) 3 Bus Stop (Old Mandi) 4 Bus Stop (Near Victoria Bridge) 5 Mandi -Kamand- Joginder Crossway 6 Khaliar (Near Radha Swami Beas Satsang center) 7 Link Road to Samwal Village 8 Bijani Naala 9 Upper Bijani 10 Lower Runjh 11 Upper Runjh 12 Baala Village 13 Katindhi 14 Kamand Forest Check Post 15 Garpa Guest House Crossway 16 Director office 17 Cedar Mess 18 C1 faculty apt.
19 C3 faculty apt. 20 The Treat restaurant Kamand 21 Godafarm 22 Salgi Market 23 ST-2 apt. 24 Campus School 25 Beas Kund hostel HRTC Bus Schedule Mandi To Kamand & Kamand To Mandi Day Vehicle Mandi to Kamand Kamand to Mandi Mon-Sun HRTC Bus to Kullu 06:00 a.m. - HRTC Bus to Mandi - 08:15 a.m. HRTC Bus to Prashar 08:00 a.m - HRTC Bus to Jawaalapur 11:30 a.m. - HRTC Bus to Mandi - 01:00 p.m. HRTC Bus - 02:00 p.m. HRTC Bus to Mandi - 02:45 a.m. HRTC Bus to Kaandaloo HRTC Bus to Riyagadi HRTC Bus to Baagi HRTC Bus to Dooki 05:00 p.m. 02:20 p.m. 05:00 p.m. 05:00 p.m. Private Bus Schedule Mandi To Kamand & Kamand To Mandi Day Vehicle Mandi to Kamand Brahma Bus to - Mandi Mon-Sun Brahma Kataula Bus to Kamand to Mandi South to Salgi 07:45 a.m. - Salgi to South 07:30 a.m. 08:30 a.m. - 09:15 a.m. - Prashri Bus to Mandi - 09:10 a.m. Kundra Bus to Kullu 09:15 a.m. - Brahma Bus to - Mandi 09:30 a.m. - - 10:00 a.m. - - 09:15 a.m.
Day Vehicle Mandi to Kamand Prashri Bus to Kataula 10:15 a.m. Brahma Kataula Bus to Brahma Bus to Baagi 11:00 a.m. 12:10 p.m. Prashri Bus to Mandi - Brahma Bus to Mandi - Brahma Bus to - Mandi Brahma Bus to Tihri 03:45 p.m. Kundra Bus to - Mandi Prashri Bus to 04:15 p.m. Navlay Brahma Bus to Baagi 04:40 p.m. Kamand to Mandi - South to Salgi to Salgi South 11:00 a.m. - - 11:45 a.m. - - 12:55 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. 02:30 p.m. - 02:15 p.m. 03:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. - - - 02:45 p.m. 04:30 p.m. - - 03:45 p.m. - - 05:25 p.m. -