National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

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EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Intelligent Computing and Computer Vision
Areas of Interest
  • Computer Vision, Image Processing
  • Computer Graphics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biometrics
  • Video Surveillance
  • Machine Learning

Pankaj Kumar Sa Professor & Associate Dean (Alumni, Industry and International Relations)

Computer Science and Engineering

PankajKSa@nitrkl.ac.in

0661 - 246 2362

Biosketch

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PATENTS / COPYRIGHTS

128

PUBLICATIONS

4

SPONSORED PROJECTS

24

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

4

CONTINUING EDUCATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Pankaj Kumar Sa

Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

Room Number: CS-132

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2010

Ph.D.
CSE
NIT Rourkela

Teaching Experience
  • Professor,  NIT Rourkela,   29 Mar 2023 - Present
  • Associate Professor,  NIT Rourkela,   02 Feb 2018 - 28 Mar 2023
  • Assistant Professor,  NIT Rourkela,   01 Jul 2011 - 01 Feb 2018
  • Assistant Professor (Tenure Track),  NIT Rourkela,   30 Jun 2006 - 30 Jun 2011

Establishment of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Centre: Animal Bioinformatics - BIC at National Institute of Technology Rourkela DBT
  • Co-Investigator
  • 60
  • Running   Sponsored
Person re-identification using feature correspondence in Multi-camera network surveillance infrastructure SERB
  • Principal Investigator
  • 24
  • Completed   Sponsored
Set down study of projectiles in flight through imaging DRDO
  • Co-Investigator
  • 24
  • Completed   Sponsored
Development of Local Features and feature Reduction Schemes for Iris Biometrics DeitY
  • Co-Investigator
  • 24
  • Completed   Sponsored

P. K. Sa, A. Mahapatra, and B. Majhi,"System and Methods for Generating Synopsis of Multi-View Videos",IN 447735, Granted to NIT Rourkela, 2023       << Patent >>

P. K. Sa, R. Raman, and B. Majhi,"Position And Time Localization of Occlusion Between Two Objects Using A Static Camera",IN 436214, Granted to NIT Rourkela, 2023       << Patent >>

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GOOGLE SCHOLAR H-INDEX 63
GOOGLE SCHOLAR I10-INDEX 21
SCOPUS H-INDEX
Total Publications: 128
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A. Mahapatra, P. K. Sa, B. Majhi, and S. Padhy,"MVS: A multi-view video synopsis framework", Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol.42, pp.31-44, Elsevier, March 2016, 10.1016/j.image.2016.01.002       Article

S. Choudhury, P. K. Sa, S. Bakshi, and B. Majhi,"An evaluation of background subtraction for object detection vis-a-vis mitigating challenging scenarios", IEEE Access, vol.4, pp.6133 - 6150, IEEE, September 2016, 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2608847       Article

A. Nanda, S. K. Choudhury, and P. K. Sa,"Multishot person reidentification through inlier orientation and consensus clusters", Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol.26, no.6, SPIE, November 2017, 10.1117/1.JEI.26.6.063017       Article

Ram. P. Padhy, F. Xia, S. K. Choudhury, P. K. Sa, and S. Bakshi,"Monocular Vision Aided Autonomous UAV Navigation in Indoor Corridor Environments", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol.4, no.1, pp.96-108, IEEE, January 2019, 10.1109/TSUSC.2018.2810952       Article

Ram. P. Padhy, X. Chang, S. K. Choudhury, P. K. Sa, and S. Bakshi,"Multi-stage cascaded deconvolution for depth map and surface normal prediction from single image", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.127, pp.165-173, Elsevier 2019, 10.1016/j.patrec.2018.07.012       Article

Natural Language Processing Computer Science and Engineering (Short-term Course)
  • Co-Coordinator
  • 03 Jun 2024 - 07 Jun 2024
  • Brochure
Short Term Course on Biometric Security: Theory and Applications Computer Science and Engineering (Short-term Course)
  • Co-Coordinator
  • 12 Mar 2018 - 17 Mar 2018
  • Brochure
TEQIP Sponsored Training Programme on Aesthetics of Scientific Documentation Computer Science and Engineering (Short-term Course)
Workshop on Advances in Biometric Security Computer Science and Engineering (Workshop)

  • CS102 : Data Structures and Algorithm {Theory}
  • CS102 : Data Structures and Algorithms {Theory}
  • CS2001 : Digital System Design {Theory}
  • CS3304 : Computer Graphics {Theory}
  • CS335 : Computer Graphics {Theory}
  • CS335 : Computer Graphics and Multimedia {Theory}
  • CS341 : Microprocessors and Microcontrollers {Theory}
  • CS343 : Digital Logic Design {Theory}
  • CS434 : Image Processing {Theory}
  • CS439 : Computer Vision {Theory}
  • CS6108 : Linear Algebra and Random Processes {Theory}
  • CS613 : Combinatorial Optimization {Theory}
  • CS617 : Graph Theory and Network Algorithms {Theory}
  • CS6212 : Graph Theory {Theory}
  • CS6217 : Biometric Security {Theory}
  • CS636 : Image Processing {Theory}
  • CS639 : Soft Computing {Theory}
  • CS662 : Linear Algebra and Random Processes {Theory}
  • EC300 : Microprocessor {Theory}
  • CS1000 : Basic Programming {Practical}
  • CS171 : Computing Laboratory - I {Practical}
  • CS172 : Computing Laboratory - II {Practical}
  • CS172 : Computing Laboratory – II {Practical}
  • CS2073 : Digital System Design Laboratory {Practical}
  • CS367 : Product Development Laboratory – I {Practical}
  • CS368 : Product Development Laboratory – II {Practical}
  • CS373 : Microprocessor Laboratory {Practical}
  • CS375 : Computer Graphics Laboratory {Practical}
  • CS673 : Image Processing Laboratory {Practical}
  • CS771 : Programming Laboratory using Python and R {Practical}
  • EC371 : Microprocessors Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [20]
BIOMETRIC SECURITY
Sambit Bakshi
Enrolled: Jul 2011
Graduated :  Aug 2015
Supervisor
Towards Mitigating Visual Ambiguity in Person Re-Identification
Aparajita Nanda
Enrolled: Jul 2012
Graduated :  Dec 2017
Supervisor
Pedestrian Detection in Surveillance Videos using Background Modeling and Feature Engineering
Suman Kumar Choudhury
Enrolled: Jul 2013
Graduated :  Dec 2017
Supervisor
Development of Learning-based Techniques for Single-Image Super-Resolution
Deepasikha Mishra
Enrolled: Sep 2012
Graduated :  Dec 2020
Co-Supervisor
Road and Vegetation Extraction from Aerial Images through Semantic Segmentation
Tanmay Kumar Behera
Enrolled: Jan 2018
Graduated :  Feb 2023
Co-Supervisor
Development of Multirate Filter-based Region Features for Iris Identification
Soubhagya Sankar Barpanda
Enrolled: Jul 2012
Graduated :  Jul 2016
Co-Supervisor
Analysis of Hematopoietic cells for Leukemia Detection and Classification
Sonali Mishra
Enrolled: Jul 2014
Graduated :  Jun 2020
Co-Supervisor
Framework and Algorithms for Multi-View Video Synopsis
Ansuman Mahapatra
Enrolled: Jan 2012
Graduated :  Mar 2018
Supervisor
Novel Periocular Recognition under Non-Cooperative Scenarios
Gautam Kumar
Enrolled: Jul 2016
Graduated :  Mar 2022
Co-Supervisor
Monocular Vision Aided Autonomous UAV Navigation in Indoor Environments
Ram Prasad Padhy
Enrolled: Jan 2015
Graduated :  May 2020
Supervisor
Sequence Labeling Tasks for Odia Language
Tusarkanta Dalai
Enrolled: Jul 2018
Graduated :  May 2024
Co-Supervisor
Pedestrian Walk Direction Estimation for Smart Surveillance
Rahul Raman
Enrolled: Jan 2014
Graduated :  Sep 2019
Supervisor
Development of Attention based Large-Scale Person Re-Identification Systems
Nayan Kumar Subhashis Behera
Enrolled: Aug 2017
Thesis Submitted
Supervisor
Emotion Modeling
Avinash Samantra
Enrolled: Jul 2019
Continuing
Supervisor
Computer Vision
Santosh Kumar Panda
Enrolled: Sep 2020
Continuing
Supervisor
Digital Image Processing
Romeo Kumar Sahu
Enrolled: Jan 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Bioinformatics
Nikita Banerjee
Enrolled: Jan 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Biomedical image analysis
Camellia Ray
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
Air Quality Index Forecasting
Baikuntha Sahu
Enrolled: Jul 2024
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
On the Performance Improvement of Iris Biometric System
Hunny Mehrotra
Enrolled:
Graduated :  2013
Co-Supervisors
Executive Ph.D. Students [4]
Emotion Modeling, Machine Learning
Samit Kumar Pradhan
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Image Processing
Shila Samantaray
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Sanatan Das
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Computer Vision
Manoj Kumar Bishwal
Enrolled: Aug 2022
Continuing
Supervisor
M.Tech by Research Students [6]
VIDEO SERVEILLANCE
Shree Prakash
Graduated :  Dec 2014
Co-Supervisor
Image Processing, Biometrics
Beeren Sahu
Graduated :  Jun 2015
Supervisor
IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION
Rahul Raman
Graduated :  May 2014
Supervisor
Level 3 Feature based Fingerprint Identification
Satyabrata Swain
Graduated :  Nov 2015
Co-Supervisor
Weakly-supervised Anomaly Detection and Classification in Untrimmed Surveillance Videos
Snehashis Majhi
Thesis Submitted
Co-Supervisor
An Approach for Object Tracking in Video Sequences
Kalyan Kumar Hati
Graduated :  2013
Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • Gold Leaf Award in PrimeAsia Conference, Hyderabad, India, December - 2012.,   2012
  • Innovative student project award - 2007 of The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE),   2007
Memberships / Fellowships
  • CSI,   2007
  • IEEE,   2007