Balasubramanian Raman

Dr. Balasubramanian Raman

Professor and Head,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
iHUB Divyasampark Chair Professor,
Joint Faculty, Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence,
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 247667, India.


Research Areas: Machine Learning, Image and Video Processing, Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, Activity Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Privacy-Preserving Computing, Data Security.


Mail Idbala[at]cs.iitr.ac.in
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My Erdӧs Number: 3      My Ramanujan Number: 6      My Google Scholar h-index: 49

Current Research

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Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing

Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing

   Privacy-Preservation

Medical Imaging

Medical Imaging

Medical Imaging

Data Deduplication over Cloud

Data Deduplication over Cloud

   Data Deduplication

Emotion AI (Affective Computing)

Emotion AI (Affective Computing)

   Emotion AI (Affective Computing)

Geometric Deep Learning

Geometric Deep Learning

  Geometric Deep Learning

Hyperspectral Imaging

Hyperspectral Imaging

  Hyperspectral Imaging

Remote Sensing & GIS

Remote Sensing & GIS

    Remote Sensing & GIS

Deep Spatial Computing

Deep Spatial Computing

  Deep Spatial Computing

Earthquake Prediction

Earthquake Prediction

  Earthquake Prediction

Past Research

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VLSI based Image Processing

VLSI based Image Processing

   VLSI based IP

Video Summarization

Video Summarization

   Video Summarization

Action/Activity Recognition

Activity Recognition

   Activity Recognition

Dynamic Texture Recognition

Dynamic Texture Recognition

   Texture Recognition

3D Image Reconstruction

3D Image Reconstruction

   3D Image Reconstruction

Robot Trajectory Planning

Biped Robot Trajectory Planning

   Robot Trajectory Planning

Reliability and Life Testing, Bayesian Inference

Reliability and Life Testing, Bayesian Inference

  Reliability and Life Testing, Bayesian Inference


Research Team

Pradeep

Dr. Pradeep Singh

SERB-National Post-Doctoral Fellow
pradeep.cs@sric.iitr.ac.in

Geometric Deep Learning
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Saravanan

Prof. Saravanan

SERB-TARE Fellow
saravanm7@srmist.edu.in

Cloud Computing
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Nitin Tyagi

Nitin Tyagi

Ph.D. Student
nitin_t@cs.iitr.ac.in

Hyperspectral Imaging
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Hemkant

Hemkant Nehete

Ph.D. Student (PMRF)
nehete_h@ece.iitr.ac.in

Object Detection
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Deepak

Deepak Kumar

Ph.D. Student
d_kumar@cs.iitr.ac.in

Affective Computing
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Amit

Amit Monga

Ph.D. Student
amit_m@ece.iitr.ac.in

Image Processing
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Anushka

Anushka Joshi

Ph.D. Student (PMRF)
anushka_j@cs.iitr.ac.in

Earthquake Prediction
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Srishti

Srishti Yadav

Ph.D. Student
(TCS Research Fellow)
srishti_y@mfs.iitr.ac.in

Privacy Preservation
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Sandeep

Sandeep Sharma

Ph.D. Student
sandeep_s@cs.iitr.ac.in

Deep Spatial Computing
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Nirmala

Nirmala Bhatt

Ph.D. Student
nirmala_b@mfs.iitr.ac.in

Image Processing using ML
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Vishnu

Vishnu Pratap Singh Parihar

Ph.D. Student
vishnu_psp@mfs.iitr.ac.in

Image Processing using ML
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Shubhi

Shubhi Srivastava

Ph.D. Student
s_srivastava@cs.iitr.ac.in

Computer Vision using ML
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Nakul

Nakul Giri

Ph.D. Student
nakul_g@ece.iitr.ac.in

Object Detection

Abhishek

Abhishek Pratap Singh

Ph.D. Student
abhishek_s@cs.iitr.ac.in

Image Processing using DL
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Raj

Rajkumar

Ph.D. Student
raj_k@cs.iitr.ac.in

Deep Learning

Sanjeev

Sanjeev Saharan

Ph.D. Student
sanjeev_s@cs.iitr.ac.in

Computer Vision

Sweta

Shweta Sharma

Ph.D. Student
shweta_s@cs.iitr.ac.in

Computer Vision

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Alumni

Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

Fellow Name Research Area Tenure Present Position
Dr. Asha Rani Under CSIR Project entitled 'Digital Watermarking for Rightful Ownership and Copyright Protection' Jun 2011 - Mar 2014 -
Dr. Asha Rani Under DST WOS-A Project entitled 'Multimodal Biometric based person Authentication and Identification System' Oct 2014- Oct 2017 -
Dr. Priyanka Singh Under DeitY Project in 'Multimedia Security' Jan 2016- Jan 2017 Lecturer of Cyber Security, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Debanjan Sadhya Under Institute Post Doctoral Fellow in 'Privacy Preserving Data Deduplication in Cloud' July 2017 - Feb 2019 Assistant Professor at IIITM Gwalior
Dr. Nidhi Saxena Under Institute Post Doctoral Fellow in 'Privacy Preserving Data Deduplication in Cloud' Feb 2019 - Aug 2020 Assistant Professor at Madhav Insitute of Technology and Science (MITS), Gwalior
Dr. Shubham Saini Under Project from SmartAlpha Pvt. Limited entitled 'AI-Driven Trading Platform' March 2023 - June 2023 Assistant professor at University of Delhi
Prof. Saravanan Young Scientist Fellow - sponsored by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology 1 Sep 2023 - 31 Oct 2023 Professor at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai
Dr. Pradeep Singh Under the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Post Doctoral Fellow in "Geometric Deep Learning" Oct 2022 - March 2024 SERB-National Post-Doctoral Fellow at IIT Roorkee

PhD Research Scholars

Scholar Name PhD Thesis Topic Research Tenure Present Position
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Reconstruction and Motion estimation of 3D objects: Error Analysis and Simulation Studies Jul 2004 - Mar 2008 Professor at IIT Roorkee
Dr. Gaurav Bhatnagar Emphasized Digital Watermarking on Singular Value Decomposition in Frequency Domain Jul 2006 - Sep 2009 Professor at IIT Jodhpur
Dr. Nidhi Taneja Security Solutions for Still Visual Data Jan 2007 - May 2010 Professor and Head at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University For Women, Delhi
Dr. Manoj Kumar Reconstruction of 3-D Objects using Shape From Shading Algorithms Jul 2006 - Dec 2010 Assistant Professor at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University, Lucknow
Dr. Sanjay Rawat Digital Watermarking for Copyright Protection and Authentication Jan 2008 - June 2011 Assistant Professor at THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Tehri Garhwal
Dr. Anil Balaji Gonde Local and Global Descriptors using Wavelet based features for Image Retrieval Jul 2007-Aug 2011 Associate Professor at SGGSIE&T, Nanded
Dr. Subrahmanyam Murala Design and Integration of feature descriptors for Content Based Image Retrieval Aug 2009-Apr 2012 Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Sanoj Kumar Robust Estimation of Optical Flow and Disparity map from Image Sequence Jul 2008 - Dec 2012 Assistant Professor at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun
Dr. Mohit Srivastava Quantitative Approaches for Object Based Image Analysis of Satellite Data Jan 2009 - July 2013 Professor, Chandigarh Engineering College, CGC Landran, Mohali
Dr. Himanshu Agarwal Multipurpose Invisible and Visible Digital Image Watermarking Schemes July 2009 - July 2014 Associate Professor at Jaypee Institute of Technology, Noida
Dr. Prabhu Natarajan Study of Some Information Extraction Techniques for Hyperspectral Imaging Jul 2010- Oct 2014 -
Dr. Manisha Verma New Feature Descriptors for Image Retrieval, Object Tracking and Shot Detection Jul 2012- Dec 2015 Assistant Professor at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Dr. Tasneem Ahmed Development of Land Surface Monitoring Algorithms for Satellite Images Jan 2012 - Jan 2016 Associate Professor at Integral University Lucknow
Dr. Pushpendra Kumar Some Efficient Algorithms for Optical Flow Estimation Jul 2011 - Jul 2016 Assistant Professor at NIT Bhopal
Dr. Bhavik Patel Face Image Analysis for Soft Biometric Classification Jul 2013 - Dec 2016 Senior Technical Writer at MathWorks
Dr. Arun Singh Pundir Multi-Color-Model Video Analysis for Fire and Smoke Detection Dec 2014 - Mar 2018 Assistant Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiyala
Dr. Rahul Nijhawan Machine Learning Models for Snow, Glacier Terrain and Hazard Mapping Dec 2014 - May 2018 Assistant Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiyala
Dr. Anjali Gautam Brain Lesion Delineation and Classification Jul 2015 - Jan 2019 Assistant Professor at IIIT Allahabad
Dr. Amitesh Singh Rajput Privacy-Preserving Approach for Cloud based Multimedia Computing Dec 2015 - Aug 2019 Assistant Professor at Rajiv Gandhi National Cyber Law Center, National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal
Dr. Javed Imran Human Activity Recognition Using Deep Learning Techniques Jul 2016 - Jul 2020 Assistant Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
Dr. Vivekraj Autonomous video skimming: Taxonomy, Frameworks and Quantitative Evaluation Dec 2014 - Oct 2020 Assistant Professor at IIIT Dharwad
Dr. Ankur Gupta Design Automation of Decision Support Systems for Cardiocvascular Disease Prediction Jul 2015 - Dec 2020 Assistant Professor at Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT)
Dr. Vishesh Tanwar Privacy-Preserving Algorithms For Multimedia Processing Over Cloud Dec 2015 - Dec 2020 Post Doctoral Fellow at CReWMaN Research Lab, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA
Dr. Himanshu Buckchash Unsupervised Human Activity Recognition and Generation Dec 2015 - Jul 2021 Post Doctoral Fellow at UiT Tromso, Norway
Late Dr. Rahul Kumar Delineation and Classification of Brain Tumor using MRI Sequences Mar 2017 - Sep 2021 Assistant Professor at RGIPT, Amethi (May 2022 - July 2023)
Dr. Rahul Kumar Design and Analysis of Image and Video Dehazing VLSI Architectures Dec 2016 - Sep 2021 -
Dr. Gyanendra VLSI Architecture for Efficient Computation of Fast Fourier and Wavelet Transforms Dec 2016 - Sep 2021 Application Engineer at Qualcomm, Hyderabad
Dr. Ridhi Arora Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Lesion and Skin Lesion using Delineation and Classification Approaches Mar 2017 - Dec 2021 Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr. Puneet Kumar Multimodal Emotion Analysis using Deep Learning Techniques July 2018 - Aug 2022 Postdoc at University of Oulu, Finland and Affiliated Scientist at Meditation Research Program, Massachusetts Hospital & Harvard University, USA
Dr. Gaurav Bhardwaj Biped Robot Trajectory Planning July 2017 - Dec 2022 Managing Director & CEO, PaiByTwo Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. N Kishore Babu Deep Learning-Driven Approaches to Medical Image Computing and Secure Processing Dec 2018 - Mar 2024 Faculty in IIIT Ranchi
Dr. Anshul Pundhir Utility Enhancement and Bias Mitigation in Skin Lesion Analysis Using Deep Learning Dec 2019 - July 2024 Domain Expert (STEM) at Turing

Project JRFs

JRF Name Sponsoring Agency Tenure
Dr. Asha Rani ISRO Project June 2007 to December 2007
Dr. Gaurav Gupta ISRO Project October 2007 to August 2010
Dr. Deepak Murugan ISRO Project April 2013 to February 2015
Mr. Ankit Sharma Samsung Project January 2019 to July 2019
Mr. Amit Kumar Singh ISRO Project April 2023 to October 2023
Ms. Pooja Dhayal ISRO Project Feb 2024 to Aug 2024

Interns

Intern Name Institute Research Area Tenure
Koutilya Sanjana Mupparaju Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA Machine Learning for Dynamical Systems June-August 2024
Siddhant Chourasia IIT Bombay Medical Imaging June-July 2023
V Nithya IIT Kharagpur Earthquake Damage Detection June-July 2023
Aditya Roshan IIT Kharagpur Earthquake Damage Detection March 2023 onwards
Yogeshwari Bisht IIT Kharagpur Earthquake Damage Detection March 2023 onwards
Abhishek IIT Madras Biped Robot Trajectory Planning Feb-July 2022
Anjali Raj IIT Kharagpur Visual Dialog Generation July-Nov 2021
Vishesh Kaushik IIT Kanpur Emotion AI (Published a paper in INTERSPEECH'21) June-Sep 2020
Rushali Chakraborty IIT Kharagpur Medical Imaging July-Sep 2020
Siddharth Solanki IIT Goa Sign Language Recognition (Won IIT-R SPARK Best Project Presentation Award) June-July 2020
Sourav Sahoo IIT Madras Emotional Speech Synthesis (Published a paper in ACPR'19) May-July 2019
Prateek Kumar Rai IIT Patna Mammogram Classification & Segmentation (Published a paper in Springer MBEC Journal) May-July 2019
Ayush Sharma NIT Hamirpur Medical Imaging May-July 2019

Conference Title Presenter
Convocation IITR 2024 Kishore is receiving his degree and Prof. Bala's first ever presentation as Head to 119 candidates (including those in absentia) who have duly qualified to receive B.Tech degree in CSE -
FG'24 Neuro-Emotional Mapping of Human Emotions via EEG Signals Deepak Kumar
IJCNN'24 Integrating Physiological Signals with Dynamical Attention Networks for Personality Trait Analysis Deepak Kumar
IJCNN'24 Unveiling Robustness of Spiking Neural Networks Against Data Poisoning Attacks Srishti Yadav
IJCNN'24 Towards Ethical Dermatology: Mitigating Bias in Skin Condition Classification Anshul Pundhir
History of CVIP CVIP Conference Evolution 2016-2023 CVIP
ICONIP 2023 Classification of Hard and Soft Wheat Species using Hyperspectral Imaging & ML Models Nitin Tyagi
Convocation 2022 at IIT Roorkee Gyanendra receiving his degree Dr. Gyanendra (PhD, ECE)
Convocation 2022 at IIT Roorkee Rahul Kumar receiving his degree Dr. Rahul Kumar (Ph.D., CSE)
Convocation 2022 at IIT Roorkee Rahul Kumar receiving his degree Dr. Rahul Kumar (Ph.D., ECE)
Convocation 2022 at IIT Roorkee Gaurav Bhardwaj receiving his degree Dr. Gaurav Bhardwaj (Ph.D., CSE)
MIPRw'22 An efficient multi-functional deep learning model for medical image classification Kishore Babu Nampalle
MIPRw'22 Automatic Evaluation of Machine Generated Feedback for Text and Image Data Puneet Kumar
ICPR'22 Towards Improved Skin Lesion Classification using Metadata Supervision Anshul Pundhir
INTERSPEECH'21 Towards the Explainability of Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition Puneet Kumar
ICIP'21 Hybrid Fusion Based Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Insufficient Labelled Data Puneet Kumar
EUSIPCO'21 A Deep Neural CNN Model with CRF for Breast Mass Segmentation in Mammograms Ridhi Arora
ICVGIP'21 Towards Interpretable Facial Emotion Recognition Puneet Kumar
CVIP'21 Region Extraction Based Approach For Cigarette Usage Classification Using Deep Learning Anshul Pundhir
ICIP'20 Human Motion Generation by Stochastic Conditioning of Deep Recurrent Networks on Pose Manifolds Himanshu Buckchash
ICTAI'20 DuTriNet for Self-Supervised Action Recognition by Modeling Temporal Correlations Himanshu Buckchash