Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Researcher Award-2004 (Engg. Section), IIT Bombay-India.

• Infineon India Best PhD Thesis Award -2005.

• Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Award 2006-07 (Information Technology), Government of Gujarat-India.

• Program Committee Member ICCV-2005, Reviewer IEEE trans. Image Processing, IEEE trans. Geoscience and remote sensing, Optical Engineering.

• Visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, July-November, 2010.

• Adjunct faculty, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, July-November, 2011.

Expert, Faculty Selection Committee, IIT Jammu 2019, 2020.

• Expert Committee Member, NBA New-Delhi.

• Best Paper Award at NCVPRIPG-2013 for "Image Denoising Using Redundant Finer Directional Wavelet Transform" co-authored with Shrishail Gajbhar.

• Program Co-Chair for the 3rd ACCV Workshop on E-Heritage, 2014 (NTU, Singapore).

• Honored with a plaque of appreciation on achieving excellence in teaching and research at DA-IICT on the occasion of Teacher's Day 5th September 2015.

• Awarded NVIDIA Hardware Grant Geforce GTX Titan X GPU for research, April 2016.

• Visiting faculty IIIT, Vadodara , January-April, 2017.

• International Exposure

  • • Guest Researcher, University of Trento, Italy April-June, 2004 (Under India Trento Project for Advanced Research - ITPAR).

    • Invited Speaker - University of Hong-Kong, Hong-Kong Jan-Feb, 2005.

    • Visiting Scientist, LSIIT Lab, Strasbourg, France May-Nov, 2007 (Under Space Fusion Project Funded by French Research Agency - ANR).

    • Guest Researcher (Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU, Erlangen, Germany) May-July, 2017, https://www5.cs.fau.de/browse/1/