Research

Research Interests:

• OCR for Indian Scripts

• Document Image Processing

• Medical Image Processing

• Handwritten Forgery

• Image Forensic

Publications:

Detailed List:

Journals:

[j13] Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag. "CNN-based multilingual handwritten numeral recognition: A fusion-free approach. " Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, (2020). (IF:5.452) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09230-9.

[j12] Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag. "Utilization of Edge Operators for Localization of Copy-move Image Forgery using WLD-HOG Features with Connected Component Labeling. " Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, (2020). (IF:2.101) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09230-9.

[j11] Prasun Chandra Tripathi and Soumen Bag. "CNN-DMRI: A Convolutional Neural Network for Denoising of Magnetic Resonance Imagese." Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, 135 (2020): 57-63. (IF:3.255) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2020.03.036.

[j10] Prabhat Dansena, Rajarshi Pal and Soumen Bag. "Quantitative Assessment of Capabilities of Colour Models for Pen Ink Discrimination in Handwritten Documents." IET Image Processing, IET Digital Library, 14(4) (2020): 1594-1604. (IF:1.995) DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2018.6616.

[j9] Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag. "A Segmentation-based Recognition System for Handwritten Bangla and Devanagari Words using Conventional Classification and Transfer Learning." IET Image Processing, IET Digital Library, 14(5) (2020): 959-972. (IF:1.995) DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2019.0208.

[j8] Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag. "Handwritten Multilingual Word Segmentation using Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves for Indian Languages. " Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, 78 (2019): 19361-19386. (IF:2.313) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-7286-0.

[j7] Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag. "Shape Decomposition-based Handwritten Compound Character Recognition for Bangla OCR." Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier, 50 (2018): 123-134. (IF:2.479) DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2017.11.016.

[j6] Soumen Bag and Partha Bhowmick. "Adaptive–interpolative Binarization with Stroke Preservation for Restoration of Faint Characters in Degraded Documents." Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation , Elsevier, 31 (2015): 266-281. (IF:2.479) DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2015.07.003.

[j5] Soumen Bag, Gaurav Harit and Partha Bhowmick. "Recognition of Bangla Compound Characters using Structural Decomposition." Pattern Recognition , Elsevier, 47(3) (2014): 1187-1201. (IF:7.196) DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2013.08.026.

[j4] Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit. "A Survey on Optical Character Recognition for Bangla and Devanagari Scripts." Sadhana , Springer, 38(1) (2013): 133–168. (IF:0.849) DOI: 10.1007/s12046-013-0121-9.

[j3] Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit. "Topographic Feature Extraction for Bengali and Hindi Character Images." Signal and Image Processing: An International Journal (SIPIJ) , AIRCC, 2(2) (2011): 181-196. DOI: 10.5121/sipij.2011.2215.

[j2] Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit. "An Improved Contour-based Thinning Method for Character Images." Pattern Recognition Letters , Elsevier, 32(14) (2011): 1836-1842. (IF:3.255) DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.07.001.

[j1] Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit. "Skeletonizing Character Images using a Modified Medial Axis-based Strategy." International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence , World Scientific, 25(7) (2011): 1035-1054. (IF:1.375) DOI: 10.1142/S0218001411009020.

Conferences:

[c39] Priyanka Roy and Soumen Bag. "Detection of Handwritten Document by Analyzing Writers' Handwriting." International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI-2019), pp. 596-605. Springer LNCS Series, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34869-4_65.

[c38] Prabhat Dansena, Rahul Pramanik, Soumen Bag, and Rajarshi Pal. "Ink Analysis Using CNN-based Transfer Learning to Detect Alteration in Handwritten Words." International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP-2019), pp. 223-232. Springer AISC Series, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4018-9_21.

[c37] Shraddha Wankhade, Anuja Dixit, and Soumen Bag. "A Fast and Rigid Copy Move Forgery Detection Technique using HDBSCAN." International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP-2019), pp. 15-24. Springer AISC Series, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4015-8_2.

[c36] Priyanka Roy and Soumen Bag. "Forensic Performance on Handwriting to Identify Forgery Owing to Word Alteration." IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA 2019), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ISBA.2019.8778490.

[c35] Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag. "Utilization of HOG-SVD based Features with Connected Component Labeling for Multiple Copy-move Image Forgery Detection." IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA 2019), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ISBA.2019.8778494.

[c34] Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag. "A Local to Global Approach for Document Image Binarization." International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR 2019), pp. 693-702. Springer AISC Series, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9042-5_60.

[c33] Saumyadipta Sarkar, Prasun Tripathi, and Soumen Bag. "An Improved Non-Local Means Denoising Technique for Brain MRI." International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR 2019), pp. 765-773. Springer AISC Series, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9042-5_66.

[c32] Prasun Tripathi and Soumen Bag. "Non-Invasively Grading of Brain Tumor Through Noise Robust Textural and Intensity based Features." International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition (CIPR 2019), pp. 531-539. Springer AISC Series, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9042-5_45.

[c31] Rahul Pramanik, Prabhat Dansena, and Soumen Bag. "A Study on the Effect of CNN-based Transfer Learning on Handwritten Indic and Mixed Numeral Recognition." Workshop on Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR 2018), pp. 41-51. Springer CCIS Series, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9361-7_4.

[c30] Anupam Wadhwa, Mohak Maheshwari, Prabhat Dansena, and Soumen Bag. "Geometrical and Structural Features for Forensics in Handwritten Bank Cheques." IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON 2018), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/INDICON45594.2018.8987116.

[c29] Arkajyoti Mitra, Prasun Tripathi, and Soumen Bag. "Identification of Astrocytoma Grade using Intensity, Texture, and Shape based Features." International Conference Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2018), pp. 455-465. Springer AISC Series, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-0035-0_36.

[c28] Anuja Dixit and Soumen Bag. "Copy-move Image Forgery Detection using Gray-tones with Texture Description." International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP-2018), pp. 75-86. Springer CCIS Series, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9291-8_7.

[c27] Priyanka Roy and Soumen Bag. "Identification of Fraudulent Alteration by Similar Pen Ink in Handwritten Bank Cheque." International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP-2018), pp. 183-195. Springer CCIS Series, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9291-8_16.

[c26] Rahul Pramanik, Vivek Raj, and Soumen Bag. "Finding the Optimum Classifier: Classification of Segmentable Components in Offline Handwritten Devanagari Words." International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT-2018), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/RAIT.2018.8389032.

[c25] Rahul Pramanik, Soumen Bag, and Ranjeet Kumar. "A Fuzzy and Contour-based Segmentation Methodology for Handwritten Hindi Words in Legal Documents." International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT-2018), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/RAIT.2018.8389031.

[c24] Mouli Laha, Prasun Chandra Tripathi, and Soumen Bag. "A Skull Stripping from Brain MRI using Adaptive Iterative Thresholding and Mathematical Morphology." International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT-2018), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/RAIT.2018.8389028.

[c23] Deepika Gupta and Soumen Bag. "An Efficient Character Segmentation Approach for Handwritten Hindi Text." International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN 2018), IEEE, 2018.

[c22] Deepayan Chakraborty, Rahul Pramanik, and Soumen Bag. "A Novel Approach Towards Segmentation of Connected Handwritten Numerals." International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP-2017), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ICIIP.2017.8313737. (Received Best Paper Award (Track)).

[c21] Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag. "Linear Curve Fitting-Based Headline Estimation in Handwritten Words for Indian Scripts." International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'17), pp. 116-123. Springer LNCS Series, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69900-4_15. (Received Springer Student Award).

[c20] Prabhat Dansena, Soumen Bag, and Rajarshi Pal. "Differentiating Pen Inks in Handwritten Bank Cheques Using Multi-layer Perceptron." International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'17), pp. 655-663. Springer LNCS Series, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69900-4_83. (Received Springer Student Award).

[c19] Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag. "Linear Regression-based Skew Correction of Handwritten Words in Indian Languages." International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP-2017), pp. 129-139. Springer AISC Series, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-7898-9_11.

[c18] Rahul Pramanik and Soumen Bag. "Segmentation of Bengali Handwritten Conjunct Characters Through Structural Disintegration." International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA 2017), pp. 297-306. Springer CCIS Series, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6430-2_23.

[c17] Shalmoly Mondal and Soumen Bag. "Face Recognition Using PCA and Minimum Distance Classifier." International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA-2016), pp. 397-405. Springer AISC Series, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3153-3_39.

[c16] Kapil K. Upreti and Soumen Bag. "Segmentation of Unconstrained Handwritten Hindi Words Using Polygonal Approximation." International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-2016), pp. 150-155. IEEE, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2016.0039.

[c15] Soumen Bag and Glory Chawpatnaik. "A Modified Parallel Thinning Method for Handwritten Oriya Character Images." International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA-2015), pp. 181-189. Springer AISC Series, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2695-6_16.

[c14] Soumen Bag and Ankit Krishna. "Character Segmentation of Hindi Unconstrained Handwritten Words." International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA-2015), pp. 247-260. Springer LNCS Series, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26145-4_18.

[c13] Soumen Bag and Ankit Krishna. "A Structural Approach for Segmentation of Unconstrained Handwritten Hindi Words." International Conference of Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT-2014), pp. 187-192. IEEE, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/EAIT.2014.31.

[c12] Soumyadeep Ghosh and Soumen Bag. "A Modified Thinning Strategy to Handle Junction Point Distortion for Bangla Characters." IEEE TechSym, pp. 52-56. IEEE, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TechSym.2014.6807913.

[c11] Soumyadeep Ghosh and Soumen Bag. "An Improvement on Thinning to Handle Characters with Noisy Contour." National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG-2013), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/NCVPRIPG.2013.6776178.

[c10] Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick and Gaurav Harit. "Detection of Structural Concavities in Character Images—A Writer-independent Approach." Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence (PerMIn-2012), pp. 260-268. Springer LNCS Series, 2012. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27387-2_33.

[c09] Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick, Gaurav Harit and Arindam Biswas. "Character Segmentation of Handwritten Bangla Text by Vertex Characterization of Isothetic Covers." National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG-2011), pp. 21-24. IEEE, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/NCVPRIPG.2011.12.

[c08] Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick, Priyaranjan Behera and Gaurav Harit. "Robust Binarization of Degraded Documents using Adaptive-cum-interpolative Thresholding in a Multi-scale Framework." International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP-2011), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/ICIIP.2011.6108912.

[c07] Soumen Bag and Goutam Sanyal. "An Efficient Face Recognition Approach using PCA and Minimum Distance Classifier." International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP-2011), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/ICIIP.2011.6108906.

[c06] Soumen Bag, Gaurav Harit and Partha Bhowmick. "Topological Features for Recognizing Printed and Handwritten Bangla Characters." Joint Workshop on Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, Article No. 10. ACM, 2011. DOI: 10.1145/2034617.2034629.

[c05] Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick and Gaurav Harit. "Recognition of Bengali Handwritten Characters using Skeletal Convexity and Dynamic Programming." International Conference of Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT-2011), pp. 265-268. IEEE, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/EAIT.2011.44.

[c04] Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit. "A Novel Topographic Feature Extraction Method for Indian Character Images." International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT) , pp. 358-367. Springer CCIS Series, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17857-3_36.

[c03] Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit. "A Medial Axis Based Thinning Strategy and Structural Feature Extraction of Character Images." International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2010), pp. 2173-2176. IEEE, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5654311.

[c02] Soumen Bag and Gaurav Harit. "A Medial Axis Based Thinning Strategy for Character Images." National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG-2010), pp. 67-72. 2010.

[c01] Soumen Bag, Soumen Barik, Prithwiraj Sen, and Goutam Sanyal. "A Statistical Nonparametric Approach of Face Recognition: Combination of Eigenface & Modified k-Means Clustering." International Conference on Information Processing, pp. 198-204. 2008.

Book Chapter:

[b1] Soumen Bag. "A Nearest Opposite Contour Pixel Based Thinning Strategy for Character Images." Feature Detectors and Motion Detection in Video Processing, IGI Global, 2016.

Monograph:

[m1] Soumen Bag. "An efficient human face recognition approach: Combination of eigenface and kmeans clustering methods", Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8433-7830-7, 2010.

Review Work:

1. Pattern Recognition.

2. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.

3. Neural Networks.

4. Pattern Recognition Letters.

5. Artificial Intelligence Review.

6. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing.

7. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition.

8. Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications.

9. National Academy Science Letters.

10. Sadhana-Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences.

11. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery Advanced Techniques and Case Management.

12. International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Science (MIND), 2020.

13. National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), 2019.

14. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), 2018.

15. Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), 2018.

16. International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), 2018.

17. International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), 2018.

18. National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), 2017.

19. IEEE Indian Council International Conference (INDICON), 2017.

20. International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT), 2017.

21. International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), 2016.

22. International Conference on Advances in Computing and Management (ICACM), 2016.

23. National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), 2015.

24. International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA), 2015.

25. International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), 2015.

26. International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2015.

27. International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science (SCDS), 2015.

28. International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA), 2015.

29. International Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet (VisionNet), 2014.

30. International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI), 2014.

31. National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), 2013.

32. International Conference on pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), 2013.

33. International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE), 2013.

34. International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), 2013.

35. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2012.

36. National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (NCCCS), 2012.

37. International Workshop on VLSI, 2011.

Technical Program Committee Member in Conferences:

• 1. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), Hyderabad, Dec 18-22, 2018.

  2. International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology (ICICCT), New Delhi, India, May 12, 2018.

  3. International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), Dhanbad, India, Mar 15–17, 2018.

  4. International Conference on Advances in Computer Applications (ICACA), Uttakhand, India, Feb 26–27, 2018

  5. IEEE Indian Council International Conference (INDICON), Roorkee, India, Dec 15–17, 2017.

  6. International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT), Dehradun, India, Oct 30–31, 2017.

  7. International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Karnataka, India, Sep 13–16, 2017.

  8. International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT), Dhanbad, India, Mar 3–5, 2016.

  9. International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Jaipur, India, Sep 21–24, 2016.

  10. International Conference on Advances in Computing and Management (ICACM), Pune, India, Jan 15–17, 2016.

  11. National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), Patna, India, Dec 16–19, 2015.

  12. International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), Waknaghat, Shimla, India, Dec 10–13, 2015.

  13. International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA), Kolkata, India, Nov 24–27, 2015.

  14. International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Kochi, India, Aug 10–13, 2015.

  15. International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI), Bhubaneswar, India, Jun 23–25, 2015.

  16. International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA), Uttar Pradesh, India, May 15–16, 2015.

  17. International Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet (VisionNet), Delhi, India, Sep 24–27, 2014.

  18. International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging and Sensing (BIS), Delhi, India, Sep 24–27, 2014.

  19. International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI), Kolkata, India, Jun 24–26, 2014.

  20. National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), Jodhpur, India, Dec 19–21, 2013.

  21. International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), Waknaghat, Shimla, India, Dec 9–11, 2013.

  22. International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT), Bangalore, India, Feb 18–20, 2013.

  23. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PCC), New Delhi, Jun 2–3, 2012.

  24. International Conference on Advances in Computer, Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ICACEEE), Mumbai, India, Mar 24–25, 2012.

  25. International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering (ICACSEE), New Delhi, India, Feb 2–3, 2012.