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Prof.Soumen Bag

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Email: soumen[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number: 9430358489

Office Number: +91-326-223-5168

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About Me: I am working as an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Before this employment, I worked at IIIT Bhubaneswar and BCET Durgapur.

Research Interest: Document Image Processing, Medical Image Processing, Handwritten Forensics, Image Forgery, Financial Technology, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

IIT(ISM) Dhanbad:

Monsoon (2024-25):
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Image and Video Processing
Winter (2024-25):
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programming Lab
Monsoon (2023-24):
  • Data Structurtes
  • Data Structures Lab
Winter (2023-24):
  • Image and Video Processing
  • Digital Image Processing
Monsoon (2022-23):
  • Data Structurtes
  • Data Structures Lab
Winter (2022-23):
  • Image and Video Processing
  • Digital Image Processing
Monsoon (2021-22):
  • Data Structures

  • Data Structures Lab

Winter (2021-22):
  • Image and Video Processing
  • Image and Video Processing Lab
  • Digital Image Processing
Monsoon (2020-21):
Winter (2020-21):
  • Image and Video Processing
  • Image and Video Processign Lab
  • Computer Programming (Section E & F)
  • Computer Programming (Section C & D)
Monsoon (2019-20):
Winter (2019-20):
  • Image and Video Processing
  • Image and Video Processing Lab
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programming Lab
Monsoon (2018-19):
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Image Processing-II
  • Computer Programming Lab
  • Algorithms Lab
Winter (2018-19):
Monsoon (2017-18):
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programming Lab
  • Advanced Algorithm (on sharing basis)
Winter (2017-18):
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis Lab
  • Image and Video Processing (on sharing basis)
Monsoon (2016-17):
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms Lab
Winter (2016-17):
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis Lab
  • Image and Video Processing (on sharing basis)
Monsoon (2015-16):
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programming Lab
Winter (2015-16):
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis Lab
Winter (2014-15):
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer programming Lab

IIIT Bhubaneswar:

  • Programming in C
  • Data Structure using C
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • Document Imaging and Pattern Analysis

BCET Durgapur:

  • Introduction to Computing
  • Data Structure and Algorithm
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • Operating System
  • Computer Organization and Architecture
  • System Analysis and Design

Academics

  • PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2013.
  • MTech (Gold Medalist) in Computer Science and Engineering (Specialization in Information Technology) with 9.10 (CGPA) from NIT Durgapur in 2008.
  • BE (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering with 79.6% (TCPA) from REC (presently NIT) Durgapur in 2003.

Position

  • Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad from 13.04.2022 to till date.
  • Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad from 18.12.2014 to 12.04.2022.
  • Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT Bhubaneswar from 22.08.2012 to 06.12.2014.
  • Lecturer in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at BCET Durgapur from 01.01.2004 to 15.06.2006.

 

Awards and Honors

Academic and Professional Awards:
  • Early Career Research Award (ECR), SERB, Govt. of India, 2017.
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society International Travel Grant to attend ICIP 2010 in Hong Kong.
  • CSIR India International Travel Grant to attend ICIP 2010 in Hong Kong.
  • Microsoft India International Travel Grant to attend J-MOCR-AND 2011 in Beijing, China.
  • IIT Kharagpur Institute International Travel Grant to attend J-MOCR-AND 2011 in Beijing, China.
  • MHRD, Govt. of India scholarship from July, 2006 to May, 2008.
  • MHRD, Govt. of India scholarship from July, 2008 to July, 2012.
  • Gold medal for standing first class first in M.Tech. at NIT Durgapur, 2008.
  • National Scholarship for Higher Secondary Examination (10+2), Govt. of West Bengal, 1998.
  • Silver medal in Higher Secondary Examination (10+2) at Midnapore Collegiate School, 1998.
  • National Scholarship for Madhyamik Pariksha (Secondary Exam.), Govt. of West Bengal, 1996.
  • Certificate of ‘A’ Examination under the Authority of Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India, 1994.
 
Professional Recognitions:
  • Nominated as an Editorial Board Member for the journal “Discover Computing”, Springer, 2025 onwards.
  • Nominated as an Associate Editor for the journal “IET Image Processing”, IET (Wiley), 2021-2024.
  • Certificate of Achievement as a Mentor for IEEE India Council Industry Academia Young Professionals Sub-Committee (IAYPSC) Mentoring Program, 2023.
  • Selected as an IEEE Senior member, 2021.
  • Certificate of Achievement as a Mentor for L&T Technology Services TECHgium–Engineering Innovators for Tomorrow, 2029-2020.
  • Best Springer Student Paper Award (Two in number) in PReMI, 2017.
  • Best Student Paper Award at the Information Processing track in ICIIP, 2017.
  • Mentor of the team participated in Amdocs Could-based Innovation Lab Contest held in Pune on 20.03.2017. The team holds the Runner-up position.
  • Listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World, USA, 32nd Ed., 2015.
  • Certificate of Achievement as a coach for ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, 2015.

Publications

Books Published

Book Chapter:

  1. Soumen Bag, “A nearest opposite contour pixel based thinning strategy for character images”, Feature Detectors and Motion Detection in Video Processing, Chapter 6, pp. 123–140, N. Dey, A, Ashour, P.K. Patra (Ed.), IGI Global, USA, 2017.

Monograph:

  1. Soumen Bag, “An efficient human face recognition approach: Combination of eigenface and k-means clustering”, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8433-7830-7, 2010.

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  1. Kousik Sarkar, Soumen Bag, and Prasun Chandra Tripathi, “Noise Aware Content-noise Complementary GAN with Local and Global Discrimination for Low-dose CT Denoising”, Neurocomputing, Elsevier, vol. 582, article no. 127473, 2024.
  2. Prasun Chandra Tripathi and Soumen Bag, “An Attention-guided CNN Framework for Segmentation and Grading of Glioma using 3D MRI Scans”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1890–1904, 2023.
  3. Priyanka Roy and Soumen Bag, “Ink Analysis based Forensic Investigation of Handwritten Legal Documents”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 81, pp. 23001–23047, 2022.
  4. Prabhat Dansena, Soumen Bag, and Rajarshi Pal, “Pen Ink Discrimination in Handwritten Documents using Statidtical and Motif Texture Analysis: A classification based Approach”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 81, pp. 30881–30909, 2022.
  5. Prasun Chandra Tripathi and Soumen Bag, “A Computer-aided Grading of Glioma Tumor using Deep Residual Networks Fusion”, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Elsevier,  vol. 215, article no. 106597, 2022.
  6. Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag, “Holistic versus Segmentation-based Recognition of Handwritten Devanagari Conjunct Characters: A CNN-based Experimental Study”, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, vol. 34, pp. 5665–5681, 2022.
  7. Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag, “Adaptive Clustering-based Approach for Forgery Detection in Images Containing Similar Appearing but Authentic Objects”, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 113, part A, article no. 107893, Elsevier, 2021.
  8. Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag, “A Fast Technique to Detect Copy-move Image Forgery with Reflection and Non-affine Transformation Attacks”, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 182, article no. 115282, Elsevier, 2021.
  9. Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag, “A Novel Skew Correction Methodology for Handwritten Words in Multilingual Multi-oriented Documents”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 80, pp. 27323–27342, 2021.
  10. Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag, “Handwritten Bangla City Name Word Recognition using CNN-based Transfer Learning and FCN”, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, vol. 33, pp. 9329–9341, 2021.
  11. Prabhat Dansena, Soumen Bag, and Rajarshi Pal, “Generation of Synthetic Data for Handwritten Word Alteration Detection”, IEEE Access, IEEE CS Press, vol. 9, pp. 38979–38990, 2021.
  12. Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag, “CNN-based Multilingual Handwritten Numeral Recognition: A Fusion-free Approach”, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 165, article no. 113784, Elsevier, 2021.
  13. Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag, “Composite Attacks-based Copy-move Image Forgery Detection using AKAZE and FAST with Automatic Contrast Thresholding”, IET Image Processing, IET Digital Library, vol. 14, no. 17, pp. 4528–4542, 2020.
  14. Prasun Chandra Tripathi and Soumen Bag, “Segmentation of Brain Magnetic Resonance Images using a Novel Fuzzy Clustering based Method”, IET Image Processing, IET Digital Library, vol. 14, no. 15, pp. 3705–3717, 2020.
  15. Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag, “Utilization of Edge Operators for Localization of Copy-move Image Forgery using WLD-HOG Features with Connected Component Labeling”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 79, pp. 26061–26097, Springer, 2020.
  16. Prasun Chandra Tripathi and Soumen Bag, “CNN-DMRI: A Convolutional Neural Network for Denoising of Magnetic Resonance Images”, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 135, pp. 57–63, Elsevier, 2020.
  17. Prabhat Dansena, Rajarshi Pal, and Soumen Bag, “Quantitative Assessment of Capabilities of Color Models for Pen Ink Discrimination in Handwritten Documents”, IET Image Processing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1594–1604, IET Digital Library, 2020.
  18. Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag, “A Segmentation-based Recognition System for Handwritten Bangla and Devanagari Words using Conventional Classification and Transfer Learning”, IET Image Processing, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 959–972, IET Digital Library, 2020.
  19. Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag, “Handwritten Multilingual Word Segmentation using Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves for Indian Languages”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 78, no. 14, pp. 19361–19386, 2019.
  20. Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag, “Shape Decomposition-based Handwritten Compound Character Recognition for Bangla OCR”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier, vol. 50, pp. 123–134, 2018.
  21. Soumen Bag and Partha Bhowmick, “Adaptive-interpolative Binarization with Stroke Preservation for Restoration of Faint Characters in Degraded Documents”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier, vol. 31, pp. 266–281, 2015.
  22. Soumen Bag, Gaurav Harit, and Partha Bhowmick, “Recognition of Bangla Compound Characters using Structural Decomposition”, Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 1187–1201, 2014.
  23. Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit, “A Survey on Optical Character Recognition for Bengali and Hindi Documents”, Sadhana-Academy Proceedings in Engineering Science, IAS & Springer, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 133–168, 2013.
  24. Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit, “An Improved Contour-based Thinning Method for Character Images”, Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, vol. 32, no. 14, pp. 1836–1842, 2011.
  25. Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit, “Skeletonizing Character Images using a Modified Medial Axis-based Strategy”, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), WSPC, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1035–1054, 2011.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  1. Patho Barui, Soumen Bag, and Ayan Das, “Potato Leaf Disease Classification using PSOK Image Segmentation and CNN Model”, 2nd International Conference on Agriculture-Centric Computation (ICA), Springer-CCIS, pp. 80–91, May 21–24, 2024.
  2. Raj Kumar Saw, Ayan Das, and Soumen Bag, “A Deep Learning-based Tomato Plant Disease Classification System”, 2nd International Conference on Agriculture-Centric Computation (ICA), Springer-CCIS, pp. 243–251, May 21–24, 2024.
  3. Prasun Chandra Tripathi and Soumen Bag, “A Dilated Convolution-based Denoising Network for Magnetic Resonance Images”, 31st International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE CS Press, pp. 1–8, Jul 18–22, 2021.
  4. Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag, “Degraded Document Image Binarization using Active Contour Model”, 5th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), Springer-CCIS, vol. 1377, pp. 124–136, Allahabad, India, Dec 4–6, 2020.
  5. Priyanka Roy and Soumen Bag, "Detection of Handwritten Document by Analyzing Writers' Handwriting", 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), Springer-LNCS, pp. 596–605, Tezpur, India, Dec 17–20, 2019.
  6. Prabhat Dansena, Rahul Pramanik, Soumen Bag, and Rajarshi Pal, “Ink Analysis Using CNN-based Transfer Learning to Detect Alteration in Handwritten Words”, 4th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), vol. 1147, pp. 223–232, Springer-CCIS, Jaipur, India, Sep 27–29, 2019.
  7. Shraddha Wankhade, Anuja Dixit, and Soumen Bag, “A Fast and Rigid Copy Move Forgery Detection Technique using HDBSCAN”, 4th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), vol. 1147, pp. 15–24, Springer-CCIS, Jaipur, India, Sep 27–29, 2019.
  8. Priyanka Roy and Soumen Bag, “Forensic Performance on Handwriting to Identify Forgery Owing to Word Alteration”, 5th IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), IEEE CS Press, Hyderabad, India, Jan 22–24, 2019.
  9. Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag, “Utilization of HOG-SVD based Features with Connected Component Labeling for Multiple Copy-move Image Forgery Detection”, 5th IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), IEEE CS Press, Hyderabad, India, Jan 22–24, 2019.
  10. Prasun Chandra Tripathi and Soumen Bag, “Non-Invasively Grading of Brain Tumor through Noise Robust Textural and Intensity based Features”, 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR), Springer-AISC, vol. 999, pp. 531–539, Shibpur, India, Jan 19–20, 2019.
  11. Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag, “A Local to Global Approach for Document Image Binarization”, 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR), Springer-AISC, vol. 999, pp. 693–702, Shibpur, India, Jan 19–20, 2019.
  12. Saumyadipta Sarkar, Prasun Chandra Tripathi, and Soumen Bag, “An Improved Non-Local Means Denoising Technique for Brain MRI”, 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR), Springer-AISC, vol. 999, pp. 765–773, Shibpur, India, Jan 19–20, 2019.
  13. Rahul Pramanik, Prabhat Dansena, and Soumen Bag, "A Study on the Effect of CNN-based Transfer Learning on Handwritten Indic and Mixed Numeral Recognition", 4th Workshop on Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR 2018), Springer-CCIS, vol. 1020, pp. 41–51, Hyderabad, India, Dec 18, 2018.
  14. Arkajyoti Mitra, Prasun Chandra Tripathi, and Soumen Bag, “Identification of Astrocytoma Grade using Intensity, Texture, and Shape based Features”, 8th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS), Springer-AISC, vol. 1048, pp. 455–465, Vellore, India, Dec 17–19, 2018.
  15. Anupam Wadhwa, Mohak Maheshwari, Prabhat Dansena, and Soumen Bag, “Geometrical and Structural Features for Forensics in Handwritten Bank Cheques”, 15th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON), IEEE CS Press, pp. 1–6, Coimbator, India, Dec 16–18, 2018.
  16. Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag, “Copy-move Image Forgery Detection using Gray-tones with Texture Description”, 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing  (CVIP), Springer-CCIS, vol. 1024, pp. 75–86, Jabalpur, India, Sep 29–Oct 1, 2018.
  17. Priyanka Roy and Soumen Bag, “Identification of Fraudulent Alteration by Similar Pen Ink in Handwritten Bank Cheque”, 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), Springer-CCIS, vol. 1024, pp. 183–195, Jabalpur, India, Sep 29–Oct 1, 2018.
  18. Rahul Pramanik, Vivek Raj, and Soumen Bag, “Finding the Optimum Classifier: Classification of Segmentable Components in Offline Handwritten Devanagari Words”, 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), IEEE CS Press, pp. 1–5, Dhanbad, India, Mar 15–17, 2018.
  19. Rahul Pramanik, Soumen Bag, and Ranjit Kumar, “A Fuzzy and Contour-based Segmentation Methodology for Handwritten Hindi Words in Legal Documents”, 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), IEEE CS Press, pp. 1–6, Dhanbad, India, Mar 15–17, 2018.
  20. Mouli Laha, Prasun Chandra Tripathi, and Soumen Bag, “A Skull Stripping from Brain MRI using Adaptive Iterative Thresholding and Mathematical Morphology”, 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), IEEE CS Press, pp. 1–6, Dhanbad, India, Mar 15–17, 2018.
  21. Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag, “An Efficient Character Segmentation Approach for Handwritten Hindi Text”, 5th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), IEEE CS Press, pp. 730–734, Noida, India, Feb 22–23, 2018.
  22. Deepayan Chakraborty, Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag, “A Novel Approach Towards Segmentation of Connected Handwritten Numerals”, 4th International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), IEEE CS Press, pp. 340–344, Shimla, India, Dec 21–23, 2017 (Received Best Paper Award in Information Processing track).
  23. Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag, “Linear Curve Fitting-based Headline Estimation in Handwritten Words for Indian Scripts”, 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), Springer-LNCS, vol. 10597, pp. 116–123, Kolkata, India,        Dec 05–08, 2017 (Received Springer Beat Student Paper Award).
  24. Prabhat Dansena, Soumen Bag, and Rajarshi Pal, “Differentiating Pen Inks in Handwritten Bank Cheques using Multi-layer Perceptron”, 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), Springer-LNCS, vol. 10597, pp. 655–663, Kolkata, India,        Dec 05–08, 2017 (Received Springer Beat Student Paper Award).
  25. Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag, “Linear Regression-based Skew Correction of Handwritten Words in Indian Languages”, 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing & Workshop on Multimedia (CVIP-WM), Springer-AISC, vol. 704, pp. 129–139, Greater Noida, India, Sep 09–12, 2017.
  26. Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag, “Segmentation of Bengali Handwritten Conjunct Characters through Structural Disintegration”, 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA), Springer-CCIS, vol. 776, pp. 297–306,  Kolkata, India, Mar 24–25, 2017.
  27. Kapil K Upreti and Soumen Bag, “Segmentation of Handwritten Hindi Words using Polygonal Approximation”, 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), IEEE CS Press, pp. 150–155, Shenzhen, China, Oct 23–26, 2016.
  28. Shalmoly Mondal and Soumen Bag, “Face Recognition using PCA and Minimum Distance Classifier”, 5th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA), Springer-AISC, vol. 515, pp. 397–405, Bhubaneswar, India, Sep 16–17, 2016.
  29. Soumen Bag and Ankit Krishna, “Character Segmentation of Hindi Unconstrained Handwritten Words”, 7th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA), Springer-LNCS, vol. 9448, pp. 247–260, Kolkata, India, Nov 24–27, 2015.
  30. Soumen Bag and Glory Chawpatnaik, “A Modified Parallel Thinning Method for Handwritten Oriya Character Images”, 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA), Springer-AISC, vol. 404, pp. 181–189, Durgapur, India,    Nov 16–18, 2015.
  31. Soumyadeep Ghosh and Soumen Bag, “A Modified Thinning Strategy to Handle Junction Point Distortion for Bangla Characters”, 3rd IEEE TechSym, IEEE CS Press, pp. 52–56, Kharagpur, India, Feb 28–Mar 2, 2014.
  32. Soumyadeep Ghosh and Soumen Bag, “An Improvement on Thinning to Handle Characters with Noisy Contour”, 3rd National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), IEEE CS Press, pp. 1–4, Jodhpur, India, Dec 19–21, 2013.
  33. Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick, and Gaurav Harit, “Detection of Structural Concavities in Character Images–A Writer-independent Approach”, 1st Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence (PerMIn), Springer-LNCS, vol. 7143, pp. 260–268, Kolkata, India,   Jan 12–13, 2012.
  34. Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick, Gaurav Harit, and Arindam Biswas, “Character Segmentation of Handwritten Bengali Text by Vertex Characterization of Isothetic Covers”, 2nd National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), IEEE CS Press, pp. 21–24, Hubli, India, Dec 15–17, 2011.
  35. Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick, Priyaranjan Behera, and Gaurav Harit, “Robust Binarization of Degraded Documents using Adaptive-cum-interpolative Thresholding in a Multi-scale Framework”, 1st International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), IEEE CS Press, Shimla, India, Nov 3–5, 2011.
  36. Soumen Bag and Goutam Sanyal, “An Efficient Face Recognition Approach using PCA and Minimum Distance Classifier”, 1st International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), IEEE CS Press, Shimla, India, Nov 3–5, 2011.
  37. Soumen Bag, Gaurav Harit, and Partha Bhowmick, “Topological Features for Recognizing Printed and Handwritten Bangla Characters”, Joint Workshop on Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (J-MOCR-AND) at 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), ACM Digital Library, Article no. 10, Beijing, China, Sep 17, 2011.
  38. Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick, and Gaurav Harit, “Recognition of Bengali Handwritten Characters using Skeletal Convexity and Dynamic Programming”, 2nd International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT), IEEE CS Press, pp. 265–268, Kolkata, India, Feb 18–20, 2011.  
  39. Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit, “A Novel Topographic Feature Extraction Method for Indian Character Images”, 1st International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT), Springer–CCIS, vol. 131, part–I, pp. 358–367, Bangalore, India, Jan 2–4, 2011. 
  40. Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit, “A Medial Axis based Thinning Strategy and Structural Feature Extraction of Character Images”, 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE CS Press, pp. 2173–2176, Hong Kong, Sep 26–29, 2010. 
  41. Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit, “A Medial Axis based Thinning Strategy for Character Images”, 1st National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), pp. 67–72, Jaipur, India, Jan 15–17, 2010.
  42. Soumen Bag, Soumen Barik, Prithwiraj Sen, and Gautam Sanyal, “A statistical nonparametric approach of face recognition: Combination of eigenface & modified K-means clustering”, 4th International Conference on Information Processing, I. K. International Publishing House, pp. 198–204, Bangalore, India, Aug 8–10, 2008. 

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

 

Sl No.

Project Title

Funding Agency

Role

Budget

Status

1.

Design and Development of a Deep Learning Assisted Smart Phone based Application Towards the Automated Cheque Clearing Process in Banking System

 

IBITF-IIT Bhilai, DST, Govt. of India

PI

Rs. 27.95 lakhs

Accepted

2.

Design and Implementation of Multiple Strategies to Identify Handwritten Forgery Activities in Legal Documents

 

SERB, Govt. of India

PI

Rs. 14.25 lakhs

Completed

3.

To Strengthen the Research Facilities in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

 

FIST, Govt. of India

Co-PI

Rs. 52 lakhs

Completed

Membership of Scientific Societies

  • IEEE Computer Society; Senior Member #90875816.
  • IEEE Young Professionals.
  • Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI); Life time Member #L0100.
  • International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT); Member #80342360.
  • International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE); Member #289.
  • International Association of Engineers (IAENG); Member #114680.
  • International Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers (UACEE); Member #A7800633

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

  • Time Table In-charge of the CSE department from Jan 2024 omwards.
  • DPGC Convener of CSE department from May 2022 to Jan 2024.
  • Library Advisory Committee (LAC) Member from Oct 2018 to May 2025.
  • DPGC Member from May 2019 to May 2024.
  • Organization Committee Member of III and Basant 2021, 2022 & 2023.
  • Faculty-in-charge of the Computer Lab-I (Hardware Lab) in CSE department from June 2020 to Jan 2024.
  • Act as an External Examiner for the selection of project staff in an externally funded project at NIT Durgapur, January 2023.

Guidance

Institute Ph.D Scholars (Full Time):

Degree Awarded:

  • Dr. Rahul Pramanik | Joined Feb 2015 | Thesis Title: Devising Efficient Preprocessing and Recognition Strategies for Offline Bangla OCR systems 

  • Dr. Deepika Gupta | Joined July 2015 | Thesis Title: Efficient Preprocessing and Recognition Strategies for Script Independent Indian OCR Systems | (Currently she is an Assistant Professor at IIIT Vadodara-International Campus, Diu)

  • Dr. Prasun Chandra Tripathi | Joined Mar 2017 | Thesis Title: Devising Improved Strategies for Brain Tumor Segmentation and Grading | (Currently he is an Assistant Professor at IITRAM, Ahmedabad)

  • Dr. Anuja Dixit | Joined Mar 2017 | Thesis Title: Devising Improved Passive Forensic Techniques to Detect Copy-Move Forgery in Digital Images

  • Dr. Prabhat Dansena | Joined Sept 2015 | Thesis Title: Developing Ink Discrimination based Methods for Handwritten Document Forensics | Jointly with Dr. Rajarshi Pal, IDRBT Hyderabad | (Currently he is an Assistant Professor at C V Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar)

On-going:

  • Kousik Sarkar | Joined August 2020 | Thesis Title: Developing Automatic Lung Nodules Detection Algorithms with Cancer Diagnosis

  • Sajal Kumar Pramanik | Joined August 2021 | Thesis Title: Devising Improved Strategies for Glaucoma Diagnosis and Classification 

  • Shiv Sagar | Joined November 2024 | Broad Area of Research: Image Processing

 

Institute Ph.D Scholars (Part Time):

On-going:

  • Souvik Sonar | Joined July 2024 | Broad Area of Research: NLP & Image Processing | (Jointly with Prof. Ayan Das, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)

  • Shailesh Kumar | Joined December 2024 | Broad Area of Research: Image Processing

  • Subhashis Das | Joined August 2021 | Broad Area of Research: Image Processing

 

Project Through Ph.D Scholar:

Degree Awarded:

  • Priyanka Roy | Joined Oct 2017 | Thesis Title: Formulating Different Strategies to Identify Fraudulation in Handwritten Documents | (Currently she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Engineering at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar)

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