National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

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BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sobhan Kanti Dhara is an assistant professor in the Department of ECE, NIT Rourkela. He completed his M.Tech from the department of ECE, NIT Rourkela, with Gold medal for best M.Tech and Ph.D. from the department of E&ECE, IIT Kharagpur. He was a visiting researcher at Concordia University, Canada, in 2018. Dr. Dhara is a recipient of the IEEE Richard E. Merwin Award cum Scholarship in 2019-20, Shastri Research Student Fellowship (Doctoral) in 2017-18, Institute Highest DGPA in 2015, Academic Excellence award in 2014. He has been selected to attend prestigious platforms like Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Germany, CVPR Doctoral Consortium in USA, etc. Earlier, he was a member of the Institute Senate at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela from 2014-15. His research interests include Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis, Deep Learning, All-weather Scene Surveillance, Underwater Image Restoration, etc. Recently, he has been appointed as Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (CSSP), Springer.

EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Signal Processing
Areas of Interest
  • Signal/Image Processing/ Computer Vision
  • Image/Video Restoration
  • Scene Understanding for Autonomous Systems
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Deep Learning

Sobhan Kanti Dhara Assistant Professor Grade-II

Electronics and Communication Engineering

dharask@nitrkl.ac.in

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Sobhan Kanti Dhara

Assistant Professor Grade-II

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Room Number: EC-322

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2021

Ph.D.
Computer Vision
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

2015

M.Tech
Signal and Image Processing
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Teaching Experience
  • NA,  NA,   21 Apr 2023 - Present

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GOOGLE SCHOLAR H-INDEX 4
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Total Publications: 13
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A. Verma, A. Kar, K. Ghosh, S. K. Dhara, D. Sen, and P. K. Biswas,"Artificially Generated Visual Scanpath Improves Multi-label Thoracic Disease Classification in Chest X-Ray Images", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE, July 2024, View Details       Article

A. Kar, S. K. Dhara, D. Sen, and P. K. Biswas,"Self-Supervision via Controlled Transformation and Unpaired Self-Conditioning for Low-Light Image Enhancement", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol.73, pp.1-13, IEEE, February 2024, View Details       Article

S. K. Dhara and D. Sen,"Exposedness-based noise-suppressing low-light image enhancement", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.32, no.6, pp.3438--3451, IEEE 2022, 10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3113559       Article

S. K. Dhara, M. Roy, D. Sen, and P. K. Biswas,"Color cast dependent image dehazing via adaptive airlight refinement and non-linear color balancing", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.31, no.5, pp.2076--2081, IEEE 2021, View Details       Article

A. Kar, S. K. Dhara, D. Sen, and P. K. Biswas,"Zero-shot single image restoration through controlled perturbation of koschmieder's model", in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol.34, pp.2575-7075, IEEE, Conference Location: Nashville, TN, USA, June 2021, View Details       Inproceedings

  • CS2011 : Introduction to AI and ML {Theory}
  • EC2601 : Signals and Systems {Theory}
  • EC3602 : Digital Image Processing {Theory}
  • EC3606 : Introduction to Machine Intelligence {Theory}
  • EC2700 : Basic Electronics Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC2705 : System Modelling and Design Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC3705 : Digital Signal Processing Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC4701 : Soft Computing Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [2]
Biomedical Signal Processing
Yudha Raja Singam D
Enrolled: Jul 2023
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
Computer Vision
Arka Bairagi
Enrolled: Jul 2024
Continuing
Supervisor
Executive Ph.D. Students [1]
Image processing using deep learning
Rachit Khandelwal
Enrolled: Aug 2023
Continuing
Co-Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP), Springer,   2023
  • One of twenty presenters, at Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Germany,   2021
  • Selected to CVPR Doctoral Consortium, USA,   2021
  • Young Researcher, Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Germany,   2021
  • Conference Registration Waiver Grant, CVPR, USA,   2021
  • IEEE Richard E. Merwin Award cum Scholarship, USA,   2020
  • Young Researcher, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Virtual, 2020, Germany,   2020
  • Honorable Mention Best Paper Award PSIVT 2019, Sydney, Australia,   2019
  • Institute Young Distinguished Alumnus Award, IEM, Kolkata, India,   2019
  • Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF)-Doctoral Award, Indo-Canada,   2017
  • Best Conference Travel Grant for ICIP-2018, Travel Grant for PSVIT-2019 and TENCON-2017,   2017
  • Institute Gold Medalist for Best M.Tech (2013-15), NIT Rourkela, India,   2016
  • Institute Silver Medalist for Specialization Topper (2013-15), NIT Rourkela, India,   2016
  • Institute Highest DGPA (9.92/10) (2015 Batch), NIT Rourkela, India,   2015
  • Academic Excellence award for 2013-14, NIT Rourkela, India,   2014
  • Ranked 67th in State, 1st in Subdivision with 99.91 percentile in 10+2, West Bengal, India,   2006
Memberships / Fellowships
  • IEEE,   2024