Popular / News Articles / Media Coverage

1. Following two works became Most Influential ArXIV papers in Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition.

   • Face Identification by SIFT-based Complete Graph Topology

   • Feature Level Fusion of Face and Fingerprint Biometrics

2. Our work on Non-invasive Anaemia Detection getting highlighted in Indian Hindi Daily "Dainik Jagran" in September 2023.

3. Our Book "Design and Implementation of Healthcare Biometrics" is getting featured in "Know Autism Early" Page.

4. Our Work "Feature Level Fusion of Face and Fingerprint Biometrics" is getting featured in Sherlock Institute of Forensic Science Page.

5. Our Book "Advances in Biometrics for Secure Human Authentication and Recognition" is getting featured on the technology page "Difference Between".

6. "COVID-19 Detection on Chest X-Ray and CT Scan Images Using Multi-image Augmented Deep Learning Model" getting featured in "Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, USA"; "Washington State Department of Health, USA"; "Department of Global Health, University of Washington, USA", WHO COVID-19 Research Database.   

7. "COVID-19 Detection on Chest X-Ray and CT Scan Images of Coronavirus Suspected Individuals Using CNN and Image Processing based Data Augmentation", Medium.com, May 2020.

8. The book "Developing Next-Generation Countermeasures for Homeland Security Threat Prevention" getting featured in Malaysia's leading news paper Malaymail (Part-1), Malaymail (Part-2).

9. "The 'New' Type of Identity Theft: Are You Secure?", NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight in the New Jersey based news media Information Today, Inc.!

10. "The 'New' Type of Identity Theft: Are You Secure?", My Interview covered by IGI Global Newsroom, May 2017.

11. D. R. Kisku, "Design of Certain Robust Unimodal and Multimodal Biometric Systems for Human Identification", SIGMULTIMEDIA, ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 13 - 14, December 2014, ACM.

PhD/Masters Thesis Review:

• PhD Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, March 2019.

• PhD Thesis, Tezpur University, Assam, April 2022.

• M.Tech.(Mechatronics), IIEST, Shibpur, India, August 2021.

• M.Tech.(CSE), NIT Jamshedpur, May 2022.

Professional Body Memberships:

• Fellow, Royal Society for Public Health, U.K.

• Fellow, The Institution of Engineers (India).

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Member, IEEE Computer Soceity

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Editorials:

• Guest Editor, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

• Guest Editor, Frontiers in Big Data 

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences

• Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Biometrics as-a-Service: The Path Ahead?" of IET Biometrics, 2018. (Other Guest Editors: Guodong Guo, Sambit Bakshi, Raul Sanchez-Reillo and Massimo Tistarelli)

• Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Personalized and Context-sensitive Interfaces in the Wild (PCSIW)", Pattern Recognition Letters, 2016. (Other Guest Editors: Massimo Tistarelli, Maja Pantic, Jeff Cohn, Tae-Kyun Kim, Louis-Philippe Morency)

• Guest Editor, ICACNI 2013: Special Issue on "Emerging Trends and Advances in Biometrics" for the International Journal of Biometrics, Inderscience.

• Editorial Board Member, Health Informatics: An International Journal (HIIJ)

• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Bioinformatics and Bioscience (IJBB)

• Editorial Board Member, Modern Intelligent Times, Innovation Forever

• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Research Innovations in Image and Speech Processing (IJRIISP).

• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computer-Aided Technologies (IJCAX), AIRCCSE

• Editorial Board Member, Computer Science & Engineering: An International Journal, AIRCCSE

• Editorial Board Member, Information Engineering and Applied Computing, WHIOCE Publication

• Advisory Board Member, World Research Journal of Computer Architecture, BioInfo Publication.

• Associate Editor, Journal of Pattern Intelligence.

• Associate Editor, Journal of Convergence.

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Advances in Applied Science. 

Reviewer for Journals:

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• Scientific Reports, Nature
• Security and Communication Networks, Hindawi
• IEEE Access
• Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier
• Applied Intelligence, Springer
• Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier
• Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, De Gruyter
• Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi
• Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, Elsevier
• Information Fusion, Elsevier
• International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), IGI Global
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE
• IET Image Processing
• Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi
• Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, Springer
• Telecommunication Systems Journal, Springer
• Computers and Electrical Engineers, Elsevier
• Sensors, MDPI
• Pattern Analysis and Applications, Springer
• International Journal of Computers and Applications, Taylor & Francis
• Neurocomputing, Elsevier
• International Journal of Biometrics, Inderscience
• Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier
• Frontiers of Computer Science, Springer
• International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems

Conference/Workshop/Special-Session Organised:

1. Convener, One Day Seminar on "Ambient and Assistive Technology" Organized by IEI Durgapur Local Centre Under the Aegis of CPDB in Association with Dept. of CSE, DIATM Durgapur held on July 24, 2024. 

2. Co-Editor, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Automation and Applications (ICAA2022), Wuhan, Hubei, China, June 21-23, 2024.

3. Chaired a Session Online on "Object Detection and Algorithms" at the 16th International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP'24), Haikou, China, May 24-26, 2024.

4. Convener, All India Seminar on Machine Learning and Soft Computing Applications in Engineering and Science (MLSC-ES), IEI Durgapur Local Centre, India, April 6-7, 2024.

5. Chaired a Session on "Artificial Intelligence in Real World Applications" at the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC' 22), Xi'an, China, August 7-11, 2022.

6. Editor, Workshop on Intelligent Systems (WIN'22) to be held in conjunction with TOOTILL-100 International Conference on Computing Sciences (ICCS'22), April 22-24, 2022.  

7. Publication Chair, International Conference on Computer Graphics, Image and Signal Processing (CGISP' 22), Guangzhou, China, February 25-27, 2022.

8. Co-Editor, Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Automation and Applications (ICAA2022), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, July 22-24, 2022.

9. Chairman-Organizer, International Symposium on Face Identity Management with Different Face Modalities to be held in conjunction with CCAIRO 2017.

10. Convener, TEQIP-II Sponsored One-day Symposium on "Machine Learning and Applications", NIT Durgapur, March 22, 2017

11. Session Chair, Human-Machine Intelligent Interfaces was held in conjunction with IEEE TENCON 2016.

12. Session Chair, Biometrics Security Artifacts for Identity Management 2016 was held in conjunction with ICACNI 2016. 

13. Track Chair, Bio-Intelligence and Health Technologies track of the IEEE International Conference EmergiTech 2016.

14. Workshop Coordinator, Two Weeks ISTE STTP on Introduction to Design of Algorithms, NIT Durgapur, May 25-30, 2015.

15. Convener, One-Day Workshop on Algorithm Analysis and Design for Data Representation (ADR) 2014

16. Co-Convener, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Sciences (ETES’14), Asansol, India.

17. Publication Chair, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Sciences (ETES) 2014.

18. Session Chair, Human Affects in Intelligent Interfaces 2015 was held in conjunction with 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications, and Informatics (ICACCI 2015). 

19. Session Chair, Biometric Security and Sensory Signal Processing 2013 was held in conjunction with ICACNI 2013.

20. Session Chair, Secure Biometric Systems 2012

21. Session Chair, Advances in Multibiometrics Systems (AMS 2011) was held in conjunction with The Eighth International Conference on Information, Communications, and Signal Processing (ICICS 2011).

22. Session Chair, Real-Time Biometrics Systems (RT-BioS 2010) was held in conjunction with 2nd International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2010).

23. Session Chair, Biometrics Technologies, and Systems (BTS 2010) was held in conjunction with the International Conference on Security Technology (SecTech 2010).

Talks and Conference Presentations:

1. Delivered a Lecture on "Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Its Practical Usage" at DVC, DSTPS Andal, WB, October 25, 2024. 

2. Delivered a Lecture Online as a Guest Speaker on the Topic "The Future of Image Captioning: An Aid to Visually Impaired People" at a Webiner conducted by the University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, August 02, 2024. 

3. Delivered a Keynote Talk on "Image Captioning: From Theory to Applications" at the International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICEMTEC'24), July 11-12, 2024.

4. Delivered a Talk Online as an Invited Speaker on the topic "Faster and Precise Image Captioning" at the 16th International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP'24), Haikou, China, May 24-26, 2024.

5. Delivered a Lecture as a Speaker on the topic "CNN and Its Applications in Machine Vision" in the 5 Days Seminar on "Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Its Future" held at the Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering, West Bengal on November 01, 2023. 

6. Delivered an expert talk online on the topic "Learning and Classification with CNN" in One-Day Hands-on Workshop in the area of "Applications of Machine Learning" held at The Neotia University, West Bengal on March 25, 2023.

7. Delivered an expert talk online on the topic "Introduction to Biometrics: Face and Palmprint" in the FDP on "AI and Machine Learning for Biometric Recognition" held at NIT Warangal during August 16-25, 2022.  

8. Presented a paper titled "Non-invasive Haemoglobin Prediction using Nail Color Features: An Approach of Dimensionality Reduction" at the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC' 22), Xi'an, China, August 7-11, 2022. 

9. Delivered a talk online as an Invited Speaker on the topic "Non-invasive Haemoglobin Prediction using Nail Colour Features" at the Asia Symposium on Image Processing (ASIP'22), Guangzhou, China, July 8-10, 2022.

10. Delivered an expert talk on the topic "Restricted Boltzmann Machine for Recommender System" at the Faculty Development Programme on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approach towards Computer Vision hosted and organized by Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, March 28 - April 02, 2022.

11. Delivered an expert talk on the topic "Regression Models, Penalty and Optimization" at the Faculty Development Programme on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning hosted and organized online by Dr. B. C. Roy Polytechnic College, Durgapur, February 15 - 19, 2022.

12. Delivered an expert talk at TEQIP-III Sponsored One Day Webminer on "Image Enhancements in Machine Vision Applications" organized by Chaibasa Engineering College, Jharkhand on August 28, 2020.

13. Delivered a series of expert talks as a Sole Resource Person at TEQIP-III Sponsored Three Days Webminar on "Machine Learning Techniques for Biometrics" organized by Chaibasa Engineering College, Jharkhand on May 5-7, 2020.  

14. Delivered a series of lectures at TEQIP-III Sponsored One Day Workshop on "Introduction to Machine Learning" organized by Chaibasa Engineering College, Jharkhand on 24th September 2019.

15. Delivered an Invited Lecture on "Face Recognition: Applications, Challenges and Current Research Trends" at ISEA Sponsored One Week Short Term Course on Biometrics, NIT Durgapur, August 7-11, 2017. (&?)

16. Delivered a talk on "Current Research Interests" at One Day Technical Workshop of Young Faculty Research Fellows of the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme, IISc Bangalore, July 28, 2017. 

17. Presented a paper titled "BCP-BCS: Best-Fit Cascaded Matching Paradigm with Cohort Selection using Bezier Curve for Individual Recognition" at ACCV 2016, Taipei International Convention Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, November 24, 2016.

18. Presented a paper titled "A Novel Approach to Attend Faces in the Crowd through Relative Visual Saliency" at IEEE TENCON 2016, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, November 25, 2016.

19. Delivered a post-doctoral joining talk on "Design of Certain Robust Unimodal and Multimodal Biometric Systems for Human Identification" at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2012. (4 hours 30 Minutes Talk !)

20. Presented a paper titled "Multispectral Palm Image Fusion for Biometric Authentication using Ant Colony Optimization" at IAPR/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand based Biometrics (ETCHB 2010) in conjunction with the ICPR 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.

21. Presented a paper titled "Multisensor Biometrics Evidence Fusion for Person Authentication using Wavelet Decomposition and Monotonic-Decreasing Graph" at 7th IEEE International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2009), ISI Kolkata, India, 2009.

22. Presented a poster titled "Face Recognition by Searching the Maximized Posteriori Attributes on Salient Landmarks for Fusion via Graph Relaxation Cycles" at IEEE/IAPR 6th International Summer School on Biometrics, Alghero, Italy, 2009.

23. Presented a paper titled "A Novel Approach to Offline Signature Verification using Gaussian Empirical Rule" at 6th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2007), Swindon, United Kingdom, 2007.

External Assignments:

• Member, Board of Studies (BoS), CSE (AI & ML), Asansol Engineering College, India.

• Member, Board of Studies (BoS), CSE, Asansol Engineering College, India.

• Member, Board of Studies (BoS), CSBS, Asansol Engineering College, India. 

• Served as an Expert Member of the Interview Board for Recruitment of Faculty at Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering, May 2024.

• Serve as a Distinguished Expert of AICTE in Scrutiny / Re-Scrutiny Committee Meetings.  

• Served as a Judge for the Students Technical Fest TECHNOVA held at Asansol Engineering College on 7th March 2024. 

• Expert Member, Selection Committee for Recruitment of Assistant Professors in CSE Allied Departments, Asansol Engineering College, March 2024. 

• Served as a Judge for the Techfest "Innotech 2023" held at Asansol Institute of Engineering and Management - Polytechnic, Asansol, West Bengal on 28th April 2023.

• Member, Board of Studies (BoS), Haldia Institute of Technology, India.

• Member of Academic Audit Committee of Asansol Engineering College, India. Audit conducted in February 2023.

• Principal Member, Biometrics Sectional Committee LITD 32 under Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) since April 2020. National Mirror Committee to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 37. (Link)

• Member, Academic Advisory Committee/Council, Asansol Institute of Engineering & Management - Polytechnic, India, February 2020 - present.

• Moderator, UG Part-II & III Question Papers, Computer Science, Sidho Kanho Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India, January 2019. 

• Reviewer for a Research Proposal to Kerala State Council for Science, Technology, and Environment (KSCSTE), Govt. of Kerala, 2018.

• Reviewer, Research Proposal to SERC, DST, 2010.

• Expert Member, Screening Committee Meeting for Modified Assured Career Progression (MACPS) for Group ‘A’ Officer at NITTTR Kolkata, September 2018.

• Expert Member, Selection Committee Meeting for the post of Senior Administrative Officer at NITTTR Kolkata, September 2018.

• Paper Setter, Integral University, Lucknow, U.P., India, 2017.

• Principal Member, 'Information Systems Security and Biometrics' Sectional Committee, LITD 17 under Bureau of Indian Standards, Since September 2016.

• Expert Member, Selection Committee Meeting for Selection of Faculty Members at NITTTR Kolkata, June 2015.

• Expert Member, Selection Committee Meeting for Recruitment in various posts at NITTTR Kolkata, May 2015.

• Expert Member, Selection Committee Meeting for Recruitment in various posts at NITTTR Kolkata, March 2015.

• Expert Member, Screening Committee Meeting for Recruitment in various posts at NITTTR Kolkata, February 2015.

• University Station Supervisor, West Bengal University of Technology, 2005, 2009.

• Expert Member, Selection Committee for Recruitment of Faculty for Burdwan University Affiliated Colleges, 2012.

• Paper Setter, Burdwan University Affiliated Degree Engineering Colleges, 2003.

Workshop/Conference/Meeting Attended:

• Participated as a Principal Member in the 11th TC Meeting of LITD 32 Biometrics Sectional Committee hosted online by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on November 21, 2024. 

• Attended as an external DSC member at Open Defense Viva Examination as part of Doctoral Scrutiny Council Meeting under the Faculty of Engineering, BPUT, Odisha, Bhubaneswar, November 2024.

• Attended as a Distinguished Expert of AICTE in the Scrutiny / Re-Scrutiny Committee Meeting held Online on 26th & 27th March, 2024.  

• Participated as a Principal Member of LITD 32 Committee in the 10th meeting (Online) of LITD 32 Sectional Committee, in Joint session with LITD 32:WG1, LITD 32:WG2, LITD 32:WG3, LITD 32:WG4, LITD 32:WG5, LITD 32:WG6, March 15, 2024

• Participated as a Principal Member of LITD 32 Committee in the ISO Annual Meeting (Online) during September 18-22, 2023.

• Participated as a Principal Member in the 8th Meeting of LITD 32 Biometrics Sectional Committee hosted online by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on April 21, 2023. 

• Participated as a Principal Member in the 7th Meeting of LITD 32 Biometrics Sectional Committee hosted online by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on January 04, 2023. 

• Participated as a Principal Member in the Stakeholder Discussion of the Electronics and IT Sector for Standards National Action Plan (SNAP) 2022-27 hosted online by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on 26th August 2022. 

• Participated as a Principal Member in the 6th LITD 32 Biometrics Sectional Committee meeting hosted online by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on January 03, 2022.

• Participated as a Principal Member in the 5th LITD 32 Biometrics Sectional Committee meeting hosted online by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on February 04, 2021. 

• Participated as an Expert in the Virtual ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 37 Working Groups (WG2, WG3, WG4, WG6) Meetings hosted by International Organization for Standardization, July 6-17, 2020.

• Attended as an external DSC member at 1st Doctoral Scrutiny Council Meeting under the Faculty of Engineering, BPUT, Odisha, Bhubaneswar, October 2019.

• Participated in a Short Term Course on Wavelets and their Application in Signal and Image Processing at IIT Bhu, Varanasi, December 21-25, 2017.

• Participated in a Workshop for Presentations of Research Works of Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Research Scholars at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, November 16-18, 2017.

• Participated in an Annual Research Meet and Award Ceremony 2017 at Radha Regent, Chennai, India, November 11, 2017.

• Participated in One Day Technical Workshop of Young Faculty Research Fellows of the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme at IISc., Bangalore, July 28, 2017.

• Participated in a Meeting of LITD 17 on Privacy Information Management System, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India, June 21, 2017.

• Participated and presented a paper at ACCV 2016, Taipei International Convention Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, November 20-24, 2016.

• Participated and presented a paper at IEEE TENCON 2016, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, November 22-25, 2016.

• Participated and chaired two sessions including a special session at ICACNI 2016, NIT Rourkela, September 22-24, 2016.

• Participated in One Week ISTE STTP Coordinators Workshop on "Introduction To Design of Algorithms", NMEICT Programme, IIT Kharagpur, India, March 16 - 20, 2015.

• Participated in Two Days Microsoft Ed_Vantage Faculty Summit Programme, Hyderabad, India, September 26-27, 2013.

• Participated in One Week Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on "Applications of Soft Computing in Engineering", Asansol Engineering College, India, July 01-06, 2013.

• Participated in One Day Workshop on "National Mission on Education Through ICT (NMEICT)", NIT Durgapur, India, June 2013.

• Participated in 27th National Convention on Latest Advancements in Computer Engineering at Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur, India to Receive IEI Young Engineers Award, February 4, 2013.

• Participated and presented a paper at IAPR/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand based Biometrics (ETCHB 2010) in conjunction with the ICPR 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.

• Participated and presented a paper at 7th IEEE International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2009), Kolkata, India, 2009.

• Participated in 5 Days IEEE/IAPR 6th International Summer School on Biometrics, Alghero, Italy, 2009.

• Participated and presented a paper at 6th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2007), Swindon, United Kingdom, 2007.

• Participated in 5 Days IEEE/IAPR 3rd International Summer School on Biometrics, Alghero, Italy, 2006.

• One Day Workshop on "Recent Advances in Biometric Systems", IIT Kanpur, India, December 2005.

• Workshop on "Unified Modelling Language and Rational Rose", Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, India, 2004.