CHENNAI: Mohammad Mohammad Shafi Bhat, who hails from Kashmir and was awarded gold medal at the first convocation of Vellore Institute of Technology on the Chennai campus on Saturday, has a thing about noise. He wants it eliminated, but not for any spiritual pursuit. His big idea is to improve the quality of images captured by any instrument – from the ordinary camera to CT scan and MRI.
Shafi is on the verge of wrapping up his research work on noise detection. He completed his MTech in Computer Science and Engineering at VIT last year with a whopping Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 9.7. Currently he is working as a design engineer in GE Healthcare.
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xplaining the research he began at VIT, he said, “We have to know what type of noise it is. Removing it from the image is easy. But identifying or detecting the type of noise is tough. My research work is on the detection and identification of the noise,” he said. There are various types of noise like salt and pepper, spike and thermal noise, he added.
Another gold medalist Jeet Banerjee from Jharkhand, who did his BTech in Computer Science this year, has joined a startup called Zoom Car. “I wanted to learn from the startups, so I joined it instead of joining an MNC. I also want to do MS in the US. So, that was one more reason for me to join a startup,” he said.
Speaking on the occasion, chief guest Justice D Murugesan expressed concern over the rising cyber crime graph in the country. “India ranks the third highest in cyber bullying,” he pointed out.
Chancellor G Viswanathan pointed out that in April last, the HRD ministry had ranked the VIT as the top private engineering institution in the country. The university has been ranked 13 among NITs and IITs, he added. Urging India to follow the school education model of South Korea and Finland, he said: “For medicine, our children go to Bangladesh, Nepal, Russia and China. I would request the Prime Minister to earmark six per cent of the GDP for education as against the current four per cent.”