Reading papers is a skill that takes practice.

You can't afford to read in full all the papers that come to you. There are three phases to reading one. The first is to see if there's anything of interest in it at all. AI papers have abstracts, which are supposed to tell you what's in them, but frequently don't; so you have to jump about, reading a bit here or there, to find out what the authors actually did. The table of contents, conclusion section, and introduction are good places to look. If all else fails, you may have to actually flip through the whole thing. Once you've figured out what in general the paper is about and what the claimed contribution is, you can decide whether or not to go on to the second phase, which is to find the part of the paper that has the good stuff. Most fifteen page papers could profitably be rewritten as one-page papers; you need to look for the page that has the exciting stuff. Often this is hidden somewhere unlikely. What the author finds interesting about his work may not be interesting to you, and vice versa. Finally, you may go back and read the whole paper through if it seems worthwhile. Read with a question in mind. ``How can I use this?'' ``Does this really do what the author claims?'' ``What if...?'' Understanding what result has been presented is not the same as understanding the paper. Most of the understanding is in figuring out the motivations, the choices the authors made (many of them implicit), whether the assumptions and

formalizations are realistic, what directions the work suggests, the problems lying just over the horizon, the patterns of difficulty that keep coming up in the author's research program, the political points the paper may be aimed at, and so forth. It's a good idea to tie your reading and programming together. If you are interested in an area and read a few papers about it, try implementing toy versions of the programs being described. This gives you a more concrete understanding. Most AI labs are sadly inbred and insular; people often mostly read and cite work done only at their own school. Other institutions have different ways of thinking about problems, and it is worth reading, taking seriously, and referencing their work, even if you think you know what's wrong with them. Often someone will hand you a book or paper and exclaim that you should read it because it's (a) the most brilliant thing ever written and/or (b) precisely applicable to your own research. Usually when you actually read it, you will find it not particularly brilliant and only vaguely applicable. This can be perplexing. ``Is there something wrong with me? Am I missing something?'' The truth, most often, is that reading the book or paper in question has, more or less by chance, made your friend think something useful about your research topic by

catalyzing a line of thought that was already forming in their head.

2002-04:
7.A Fractal Based Approach for Face Recognition Suprita Athale 17.A Fractal Based Approach for Image Segmentation Tushar Londhe 18.On Wavelets and Fractal Modulation Shalin Mehta 34. A Hybrid Approach to Speech Recognition in Multi-Speaker Environment Jigish S. Trivedi 35. Speech Enhancement Using Microphone Array for Hands-Free Speech Applications Chirag Vishwas Vichare

2003-05
39. Hybrid Approach to Digital Image Watermarking using Singular Value Decomposition and Spread Spectrum (A) Kunal Bhandar 40. Multiple Watermarking Schemes for Copyright Protection Krutarth Bhatt 65. Automatic Car License Plate Recognition P.V. Suryanarayana 66. Differential Geometry and Image Processing Aditya Tatu

2004-06
77. Hybrid Approach To Digital Image Watermarking Using Informed Coding, Informed Embedding and Spread Spectrum Nayan Kumar Dey 80. Content-Based Image Retrieval System for Multi-Object Images Using a Combination of Features Aradhana Katare

84. Gaussian Mixture Models for Spoken Language Identification Naresh Manwani 88. Study of Face Recognition Systems Hima M. Patel 98. Speech Driven Facial Animation System Archana Singh

2006-08
140. Multirate Signal Processing in Digital Communication Krishna Arya 164. Video Compression using Color transfer based on Motion Estimation Pandu Ranga M. Reddy 165. Single Frame Super Resolution -----------------------------------------------------PHOTOMETRIC STEREO Annamnaidu Sattaru 168. Object Classification in Image using Information Slicing -----------------------OBJECT CLASSIFICATION USIGN INFORMATION SLICING Hina Rajiv Shah 171. Study of Bayesian Learning of System Characterisitcs ----------------------------BAYESIAN LEARNING Abhishek Sharma

2007-09
203. Vehicle Detection and Tracking ---------------------------------------------------------VEHICLE TRACKING Ramprasad Rao K.

2008-10
218. Eye Localization in Video: A Hybrid Approach -------------------------------------RELATED TO NETWORKS Navneet Agarwal 222. Moment Based Image Segmentation --------------------------------------------------IMAGE SEGMENTATION Charu Chawla 228. A Robust and Secure Watermarking Scheme Based on Singular Values

Replacement ------WATERMARKING Akshya Kumar Gupta 229. Eye Localization in Video: A Hybrid Approach -----------------------------------EYE RECOGNITION Bena Kansara 251. Multiresolution Fusion of Satellite Images and Super-Resolution of HyperSpectral Images -----FUSION OF IMAGES Abhishek Kumar Shripat