ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING AND INTELLIGENT RECOGNITION SYSTEM...

This edited volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 4th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS 2018). The symposium was held at the PES Institute of Technology (South Campus), Bangalore, India, during September 19–22, 2018. SIRS 2018 was co-located with the International Conference on Applied soft computing and Communication Networks (ACN 2018). The symposium provided a forum for the sharing, exchange, presentation, and discussion of original research results in both methodological issues and different application areas of signal processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. In response to the call for papers, 92 papers were submitted for presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. The papers were evaluated and ranked on the basis of their significance, novelty, and technical quality. A double-blind review process was conducted to ensure that the author names and affiliations were unknown to the TPC. Each paper was reviewed by the members of the Program Committee. The authors were asked to address each and every comment made by the referees for improving the quality of their papers. The technical program of SIRS 2018 consisted of 28 regular papers and 11 short papers (acceptance rate of 42.4%). This symposium would not have been possible without the efforts of many people. First of all, we are very grateful to all authors who contributed their research work and shared their knowledge with the scientific community. We would like to express our gratitude to the Program Committee and external reviewers, who worked very hard in reviewing papers and providing suggestions for their improvements. Many thanks to all the chairs for their involvement and support that added greatly to the quality of the symposium. We also wish to thank all the members of the Advisory Committee, whose work and commitment were invaluable. We thank the PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, for hosting the conference. Sincere thanks to Dr. M. R. Doreswamy, Chancellor, PES University and Dr. D. Jawahar, Pro-Chancellor, PES University for their valuable suggestions and encouragement. We would like to thank the Organizing Committee, and the many other volunteers who worked behind the scenes to ensure the success of this symposium. Dr. J Surya Prasad, Dr. Sudarshan T. S., and Dr. Shikha Tripathi deserve special mention for their unwavering support. The EDAS conference system proved very helpful during the submission, review, and editing phases.