Project Title: “Affective recognition from human facial videos for fighting DeepFakes and validation by correlation with human physiological signals”
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar 33,99,939
Duration: 3 years (January 2024 - January 2027)
Project Title: “Development of an IoT based forensic infrastructure for extraction, analysis and detection of cybercrime evidence from digital images and surveillance videos in an IoT framework”
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar 21,22,450
Co-PI: Dr. Indrajit Banerjee
Duration: 3 years (October 2023 - October 2026)
Project Title: “Malware Executable Detection and Classification through Visualization and Machine Learning”
Funding Agency: IIT Kharagpur AI4CPS I Hub Foundation
PI: Prof. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty 7363200.00
Co-PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar
Duration: 2 years (December 2023 - December 2025)
Project Title: “Digital Image Forensics in the Context of a Connected India: Algorithms and Implementation”
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Dr. Ruchira Naskar 25,12,100
Duration: 3 years (September 2019 - September 2023)
Project Title: “Image manipulation detection in social networks based on forensic investigation of re-compression artefacts”
Funding Agency: Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme-III (TEQIP-III) , IIEST Shibpur
PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar 80,000
Duration: 1 year (January 2020 - January 2021)
Project Title: “Development of a Digital Forensic System for Blind Source Camera Identification of Contentious Images using Machine Learning”
Funding Agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar 5,49,000
Duration: 3 years (August 2017 - August 2020)
Project Title: “Detection of Cyber Forgery in Multimedia Data through Blind Digital Forensics”
Funding Agency: Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar 19,76,200
Duration: 3 years (November 2016 - November 2019)
Project Title: “Digitization of steel microstructure images, modelling of plain carbon steel microstructure evolution during heat treatment using cellular automata and phase field modeling methods, and development of a software tool for providing guidance in designing heat treatment process using machine learning based classification techniques”
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar 18,54,600
Co-PI: Dr. Snehanshu Pal
Duration: 3 years (August 2016 - August 2019)
Project Title: “Image Source Device Identification and Authentication based on Machine Learning Techniques”
Funding Agency: Media Asia Lab, Dept. of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY), Govt. of India
PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar
Duration: 5 years (July 2015 - June 2020)
Project Title: “Development of Software for Cyber Crime Detection”
Funding Agency: Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme-II (TEQIP-II), NIT Rourkela
PI: Dr. Ruchira Naskar 5,00,000
Duration: 1 year (November 2014 - October 2015)