This is one of the UG and PG labs of the department which caters to the needs of UG as well as PG students. The practical classes of various UG (BTech./IDD) Courses such as Computer Graphics, Operating Systems, and Data Structures are held in this lab. Apart from normal UG/ PG labs this lab also supports to the B.Tech./IDD students for carrying out their work related to their Exploratory Projects, UG Projects, and M.Tech. Thesis. Associated PhD Research Scholars conduct their research in this lab in the area of Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.

Facilities

• Server-01 No. (Dell Poweredge Tower Server: Intel Xeon E3-1225V2 (3.2 GHz/8 MB Cache), 16 GB RAM DDR3 1600 MHz UDIMM (32 GB, Support), 1 TB SATA HDD 7200 RPM (4 HDD Support)+Accessories).
• Workstataions-02 No. Specifications for Workstation 1: Dell Precision T 7810 Tower Workstation: Dual Intel Xeon Processor E5-2630 V3, (8 Core , 20 MB Cache, 2.4 GHz Turbo), 32GB (4X8GB) 2133 MHz DDR4 ECC RDIMM, 1X2 TB 3.5 inch Serial ATA (7200 RPM) Hard Drive, 8x Slim line DVD+/-RW Drive, P2414 H 23.8” Wide Screen Monitor with LED back light, Nvidia Quadpro K420 1 GB Graphic Adaptor+ Accessories. Specifications for Workstation 2: Intel Xeon Silver 4114 CPU@2.2 GHz (2 processors), 64 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD, dedicated Video Memory: Nvidia 8GB GDDR5.
• Desktop PCs (Intel Core i7 and others) with internet connectivity to all-30 Nos.
• MATLAB SERVER-01 No.
• Accessories: Printers, scanners, UPS (5KVA).
• Machine Vision Equipment: Benchmark High Speed Imaging System: Vision Processor, Industrial Cameras, Imaging Computer, Imaging Library and Analysis software, Lens Kit, Zoom Lens, Copy/Camera Stand, Lighting.
• Software Available: MATLAB 2014, OriginLab, Visual Basic 2010, Statistica, Image Pro Software, C/C++ Compilers, Java, Acrobat Professional , MS Office, EndNote and other open source software packages such as OpenCV, OpenGL etc.

Network Security Research Lab is a dedicated workplace for network security researchers. This lab also caters to the needs of UG and PG students working in Network Security. It is a fully air-conditioned lab with a capacity of 30 students. The lab has 20 PC, a projector, a printer, a scanner, whiteboards, an almirah, a podium with mic, speakers, programmable Cisco switches, programmable Cisco routers, wifi routers, a number of Raspberry Pi boards, sensors, I-Securit penetration testing device, number of storage devices, etc. The Securit attack generator is used for studying defense techniques against cyber attacks. The lab relies heavily on open-source software for vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, OS fingerprinting, SSL, etc. Apart from catering to teaching needs, the network security lab is a workplace of researchers of Network Security Research Group (NSRG) led by Dr. Mayank Swarnkar.

Facilities

• Equipped with around 24 core i7 PCs with necessary software, Real-Time Packet Analyser, and LAN/WAN Trainer
• I-security device (network attack generator and simulator)
• 5 set of Lan trainers
• 9 Cisco 4200 series routers for networking experiments
• 7 Cisco 24 port lan switches with console port for networking experiments
• 9 Cisco AIR1852I series access points for networking experiments
• 1 LCD projector for demonstration and presentation.

General purpose undergraduate lab equipped with hardware, microprocessor kits and PCs with required software.

Facilities

General purpose undergraduate lab equipped with hardware, microprocessor kits and PCs with required software. Microprocessors Lab The Microprocessors Lab is primarily for practical courses on Microprocessors and Advanced Microprocessors. The lab is equipped with trainer kits of 8085, 8088, 8086 and related Hardware and Software.

Facilities

Visual Computing and Analytics Lab (VCA Lab) is a multidisciplinary research lab led by Professor Sanjay Kumar Singh performing basic & applied research in the area of Computer Vision, Data Science and related areas of Machine learning / Deep learning . In both fields, we are intrigued by visual functionalities that give rise to semantically meaningful interpretations of the visual world.

Facilities

• Several machine-learning / deep- learning and data science tools.
• High-End Digital and Video Camers.
• High End PCs with i7 Processor

Equipped with modern intelligent computing Hardware and Software.

The main focus of this lab is in the following areas: Information Extraction, Web Mining, Recommender Systems, Learning Paradigms, Intelligent Systems and sub-areas releted to these five areas. In general, our focus is mainly on the topics related to AI and Databases.

Available Infrastructure

• 3 PCs with Core i7 processor, 3.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM and 1 TB HDD.

Information Retrieval lab is equipped with 5 PCs (Intel® CoreTM i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz × 8 processor) with internet connectivity and a Server ( 2 Nos of Intel® Xeon® processor E5- 2660v3 (25M Cache, 2.60 GHz), Intel C610 series chipset, 64 GB memory 2133MT/s Registered ECC DIMMs, HDD 3 X 600GB SAS 10K RPM, with support for 12, 3.5'' Hard Drives or Chassis with up to 24, 2.5'' Hard Drives, Graphics min. 16 MB Memory, at least GBE NIC with IPv6 support in CentOS) along with necessary computing facilities. Also lab is equipped with two laptops, printers, scanner, projector, UPS (5KVA) and other related accessories.

We focus on research related to Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains such as Image Processing, Cyber-Security, Material Property Prediction, etc. Presently, we have a research team consisting of three PhD students, two IDD students, and six B.Tech students. We regularly hire bright intern students from other institutes during summer to carry out our research work. Interested candidates are requested to email the lab-in-charge at pratik.cse@iitbhu.ac.in with a detailed bio-data and research plan.

Publications from the Laboratory (since 2018)

• Pratik Chattopadhyay, Lipo Wang, Yap-Peng Tan, Scenario-Based Insider Threat Detection From Cyber Activities, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 5(3), 1-16, 2018.
• Nirbhay Kumar Tagore, Ayushman Singh, and Pratik Chattopadhyay, Person Re-identification from Appearance Cues and Deep Siamese Features, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (under revision)
• Shailesh Shrivastava, Alakh Aggarwal, Pratik Chattopadhyay, Broad Neural Network for Change Detection in Aerial Images, 1st International Conference on Emerging Technology in Modelling and Graphics, Springer Singapore, 327-339, 2019.
• Sanjay Kumar Gupta, Gaurav Mahesh Sultaniya, Pratik Chattopadhyay, An Efficient Descriptor for Gait Recognition using Spatio-Temporal Cues, International Conference on Emerging Technology in Modelling and Graphics, Springer Singapore, 85-97, 2019.
• Utsav Krishnan, Akshal Sharma, Pratik Chattopadhyay, Feature Fusion from Multiple Paintings for Generalized Artistic Style Transfer, International Conference on Advances in Engineering Science Management & Technology, SSRN 3387817, 2019.

Project 1: On Wireless Sensor Networks (2017-2020), Agency: SERB, Govt. of India ( Amount: 34,47,130 INR) Project 2: On Multimodal Reversible Watermarking (2018-2020), Agency: SERB, Govt. of India ( Amount: 14,0181 INR) Project 3: On Ganga River Monitoring (2018-2019), Agency: TATA Chingo, USA ( Amount: 10,00,000 INR)

Distributed Computing (Open Elective) Multimedia Systems and Application (Departmental Elective) Publications and other:

Natural Language Processing (NLP) aims to enable computers to process human languages. It can be used to solve independent problems like Machine Translation, but it is also an essential part any ambition system based on Artificial Intelligence. NLP Research Lab was started in 2015. Projects on a variety of NLP topics have been carried out at this lab, and there are sometimes projects on related areas, such recommendation systems. However, the main focus area of research in the lab is NLP for Low Resource Languages. In particular, we have been carrying out work on Machine Translation for languages of the Purvanchal area (Bhojpuri, Maithili and Magahi). The prototype systems from Hindi to these three languages have already been prepared, along with language resources and tools for these systems, since these system are based on the transfer-based approach due to lack of sentence aligned parallel data in sufficient quantity.

Other than this, some of the topics on which projects have been done in the lab include:

• Named Entity Recognition
• Language Identification (standard, non-standard and code-switched data)
• Question Answering
• Metaphor Detection
• Transliteration and Word Transduction
• Morphological Analysis, Generation and Disambiguation
• Embeddings and representation
• Emotion Analysis
• Opinion Summarization and Diversification
• Reference Scope Identification for Citances
• Shallow Discourse Parsing
• Information Retrieval
• Linguistic Analysis of Song Lyrics and Poems
• Music Recommendation Systems
• Computer Aided Second Language Learning

Facilities/ Equipment Available:

• 5 PC
• Sensors (active and passive)
• Communication radio (WiFi, BLE, RFID)
• Active devices

This is a low cost research lab(with proper connectivity to Param Shivay Super Computer of the Institute and High End Systems available at Centre for Computing and Information Services in the Institute) where students are exposed to OpenMP, MPI, CUDA and hybrid programming. Apart from this, researchers are engaged in the applications of High Performance Computing in various fields, Cloud/Fog Computing, Image Processing, Parallel Computing etc.

Facilities/ Equipment Available:

• PCs: 7
• All in one Printer: 1
• UPS: 7
• White Board: 1
• Software: Mostly Open-source software like Linux, CloudSim, WorkflowSim etc.