Prof. Abhijit Das,
PhD, SMIEEE, LMIUPRAI, Member APPCAIR
Assistant professor
Room H112,
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India.
Contact no: +914066303744 (O)
He is currently working as an assistant professor at BITS Pilani Hyderabad. Previously, he has worked as an assistant professor at Thapar University, as a visiting scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, as a researcher at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute, as a Post-Doc Researcher at Inria Sophia Antipolis– Méditerranée, France and as a Research Administrator at the Faculty of Software Engineering & IT at University Technology of Sydney (UTS), Australia. Before his PhD, he worked as an Associate Software Engineer at IBM India Pvt Ltd. and as a Lecturer at distinguished universities. He has completed his PhD from the School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Australia. He is an accomplished machine learning and computer vision researcher with more than 15 years of research and teaching experience. He is presently pursuing an investigation on learning representations and human analysis employing facial and corporeal-based visual features.
During his research career, he has filed patents, published several scientific articles in conferences (CVPR, WACV), journals (IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCSVT) and a book chapter and received several awards from the IEEE, and other scientific organisations. During his career, he has received research funding from several government and private agencies such as ISRO, the Indian Army, and DST. Dr Das is involved in organising scientific events such as international conferences, workshops, competitions and special sessions at conferences, and has served as a guest editor for special issues, area chair for (WACV 25, Fg 24, 25)t, technical program committee member (AAAI) for several reputed international conferences and reviewer of top-ranking journals. He is also the winner of the IBM research-sponsored ECCV 2018 BEFA competition.
News:
Delivering a keynote talk titled "Tense of Learning Representation for Multimodal and Crossmodal Modelling" at the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 24) workshop on "Multi- and Cross-Modal Information for Enhanced Pattern Recognition (MCMI 2024)"
Serving as the competition chairs for IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2026)
Serving as the area chair for WACV 2025
Will serve as the area chair for FG 2025
Organizing the Workshop on Fairness in Biometric Systems in ICPR 2024.
Organising a special session titled “Recent advances in detecting manipulation attacks on biometric systems" with IJCB 2024
Organising a special session titled “3D Biometrics with Monocular Vision" with IJCB 2023
Will serve as the area chair for FG 2024.
Organizing the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Automated Human Health-care and Monitorings in FG 23.
Organizing the Workshop on Fairness in Biometric Systems in ICPR 2022.
Organizing a special issue for Springer EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing on "Manipulation Detection in Digital Images and Videos"
Organizing Competition on Signature verification in the Wild (SVW 2021) funded by TIH project ISI Kolkata
Organizing a Special Session at FG 2021 "Applications in Healthcare and Health Monitoring"
Organizing ICDAR 2021 Competition on Script Identification in the Wild (SIW 2021).
Organizing the "11th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU)", Focus Theme: "Multi-Source Aspects Of Behavioural Understanding " in conjunction with WACV 2021.
Organizing a "Group evaluation of sclera segmentation " as post SSBC2020 event.
Conducting a webanir series on "Surviving the Deep Learning Apocalypse!" from July to Aug 2020. endorsed by Computer Society of India.
Organizing the 7th Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition 2020, in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2020.
Organizing ICFHR2020 Competition on Short answer ASsessment and Thai student SIGnature and Name COMponents Recognition and Verification” SASIGCOM
Organizing a special session on Human Health Monitoring Based on Computer Vision along with the FG 2020.
Winner of the IBM Research sponsored Bias Estimation in Face Analytics (BEFA) Challenge, ECCV 2018
Received the best poster award at IEEE FG 2019 for the paper titled "Robust Remote Heart Rate Estimation from Face Utilizing Spatial-temporal Attention".
Organizing a special issue for Elsevier Journal of IVC on "Novel Insights on Ocular Biometrics".