Journals
[J1] Ralekar, C., Choudhary, S., Gandhi, T.K., and Chaudhury, S. "Development of Character Recognition Model Inspired by Visual Explanations," in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1362-1372, March 2024, doi: 10.1109/TAI.2023.3289167.
[J2] Gilad-Gutnick, S., Hu, F., Dalrymple, K., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Ralekar, C., Verma, D., Tiwari, K., Swami, P., Ganesh, S., Mathur, U. and Sinha, P., "Face-specific identification impairments following sight-providing treatment may be alleviated by an initial period of low visual acuity", Scientific Reports, 14, Article number: 17374 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67949-z
[J3] Bi, S., Chawariya, A., Ganesh, S., Gupta, P., Huang, Y., Jazayeri, K., Kumar, R., Ralekar, C., Singh, C., Tiwary, A. and Vogelsang, L., 2022. "Scholastic status of congenitally blind children following sight surgery" International Journal of Special Education, 37(2), pp.160-168, 2022.
[J4] Khanna, M. T., Ralekar, C., Goel, A., Chaudhury, S., and Lall, B.. "Memorability-based image compression", IET Image Processing 13, no. 9 (2019): 1490-1501, 2019
[J5] Gilad-Gutnick, S., Kurian, G., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Tiwari, Ralekar, C., Gandhi, T. Ganesh, S. Mathur, U., Sinha, P. "Facial expression recognition following treatment for early blindness: motion’s privilege", Current Biology (In Press)
Under review/ to be submitted
*Ralekar C., *Vogelsang, M., *Vogelsang, L., Kumar, A., Gupta, P., Ganesh, S., Sinha, P., The status of visual nystagmus following late treatment
for congenital blindness, Ophthalmology (Under Review)
Ralekar, C., Gandhi, T. K., Chaudhury, S., Sinha, P. “Perceptual Organization Assists Recognition” (to be submitted)
*Bezugam, S. S., *Majumdar, S., *Ralekar, C., and Gandhi, T. K., . ”Video Summarization Inspired by Neural and Cognitive Processing.” in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (Under Review)
Bezugam, S. S., Majumdar, S., Ralekar, C., and Gandhi, T. K., . ”Efficient video summarization framework using EEG and eye-tracking signals.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11249.
Gupta, P., Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Khemani, N., Jain, M., Lall, N., Verma, D., Ralekar, C., Ganesh, S., Sinha, P., "Detecting non-dependence of sensory signals: Status of skill after prolonged visual deprivation", Cognition (Under Review)
Conference Papers
Ben-Ami, S., Shukla, V., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Ralekar, C., Ganesh, S., Sinha, P. “Form Perception as a Bridge to Real-World Functional Proficiency.” In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), vol. 46, pp. 6094-6102, (Netherlands) 2024
Rubio-Fernandez, P., Long, M., Shukla, V., Bhatia, V., Mahapatra, A., Ralekar, C., Ben-Ami, S., Sinha, P. “Multimodal communication in newly sighted children: An investigation of the relation between visual experience and pragmatic development.” In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), vol. 46, pp. 2560-2567, (Netherlands) 2024
Ralekar, C., Gandhi, T. K., and Chaudhury, S. "Collaborative human machine attention module for character recognition", In 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 9874-9880. IEEE, (Italy), 2021
Ralekar, C., Shubham Choudhary, Tapan Kumar Gandhi, and Santanu Chaudhury. "Intelligent identification of ornamental devanagari characters inspired by visual fixations", In 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Workshops (ICDARW), vol. 5, pp. 14-19. IEEE, (Sydney) 2019.
Ralekar, C., Saha, P., Gandhi, T. K., and Chaudhury, S. ”Effect of Devanagari font type in reading comprehension: An eye-tracking study.” In Intelligent Human Computer Interaction: 10th International Conference, IHCI 2018, Allahabad, India, December 7–9, 2018, Proceedings 10, pp. 136-147. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ralekar, C., Gandhi, T. K., and Chaudhury, S. "Unlocking the mechanism of Devanagari letter identification using eye tracking.” In Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence: 7th International Conference, PReMI 2017, Kolkata, India, December 5-8, 2017, Proceedings 7, pp. 219-226. Springer International Publishing, 2017. (Received Springer Student Award)
Diwakar, A., Kaur, T., Ralekar, C., and Gandhi, T. K. "Deep Learning Identifies Brain Cognitive Load Via EEG Signals.” In 2020 IEEE 17th India Council International Conference (INDICON), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2020.
Haritosh, A., Ralekar, C., Kaur, T., and Gandhi, T. K. "Human Visual Learning Inspired Effective Training Methods.” In 2019 IEEE 16th India Council International Conference (INDICON), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2019.
Roy, S. K., Ralekar, C., and Gandhi, T. K. "Emotion classification from EEG signals.” In 2016 3rd International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom), pp. 2543-2546. IEEE, 2016.•
Ralekar, C., Dhondse, S., and Mushrif, M. M. . “Image reconstruction by modified exemplar-based inpainting.” In 2015 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP), pp. 1005-1010. IEEE, 2015.
Shirbhate, R., Panse, T., Ralekar, C. “Design of parallel FFT architecture using Cooley Tukey algorithm.” In 2015 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP), pp. 0574-0578. IEEE, 2015.
*Shvartsman, C., *Ralekar, C., Sinha, P., "Myelin Plasticity in the Visual System Following Extended Visual Deprivation", Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Montreal, Canada, March 28, 2025.
Gupta, P., Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Jain, M., Lall, N., Verma, D., Ralekar, C., Ganesh, S. and Sinha, P., "Sensory correlation detection by children treated for congenital visual deprivation". Journal of Vision, 24(10), pp.478-478, 2024.
Ben-Ami, S., Mukamel, R., Ralekar, C., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Kim, H., Verma, D., Yadav, M., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Ganesh, S. and Gandhi, A., "Development of gross and fine visuo-motor ability: Insights from late-sighted children". Journal of Vision, 24(10), pp.1118-1118, 2024
Verma, D., Ben-Ami, S., Dipani, A., Lall, N., Ganesh, S., Ralekar, C., Gilad-Gutnick, S. and Sinha, P., 2024. "Visual experience and sensitivity to motion sequences, from human movement patterns to animated shapes" Journal of Vision, 24(10), pp.1359-1359, 2024.
Ralekar, C., Gupta, S., Gandhi, T. K., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Verma, D., Gupta, P., Ganesh, S., Mathur, U. and Sinha, P. “Development of Electrophysiological Correlates of Face/non-face Distinction in Children with Late Sight Onset.” Journal of Vision 23, no. 9 (2023): 5655-5655.
Ralekar, C., Gandhi, T. K., and Chaudhury, S., “Human Visual Fixations Guided Character Recognition”, in International Workshop on Science of Intelligence 2020, IIT Jodhpur, 2020 (Best Poster Award)
Ben-Ami, S., Ralekar, C., Verma, D., Tiwari, K., Yadav, M., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Ganesh, S., Troje, N. and Sinha, P. “Development of biological motion perception: Insights from late-sighted children.” Journal of Vision, no. 9 (2023): 5449-5449.
Verma, D., Yadav, M., Gupta, P., Ralekar, C., Ben-Ami, S., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Riskin, S. et al. “Social Attribution Behavior in Newly Sighted Children.” Journal of Vision 23, no. 9 (2023): 5264-5264.
Gilad-Gutnick, S., Shah, P., Gupta, P., Yadav, M., Ralekar, C., Verma, D., Mathur, U., Ganesh, S. and Sinha, P. “Youth is not wasted on the young: Late-in-life sight restoration in congenitally blind children leads to the emergence of some visual constructional skills but not others.” Journal of Vision 23, no. 9 (2023): 5659-5659
Ben-Ami, S., Mukamel, R., Ralekar, C., Yadav, M., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Ganesh, S., Gandhi, A., Sinha, P., “Visual Experience and the Development of Visually-Guided Object Grasping.” Israeli Vision Science Society Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 21 September, 2023.
Ben-Ami, S, Ralekar, C., Verma, D., Tiwari, K., Yadav, M., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Ganesh, S., Troje, NF., Sinha, P., “Development of biological motion perception: Insights from late-sighted children.” Israeli Conference on Cognition Research, Akko, Israel, February 14-16, 2023
Verma, D., Yadav, M., Gupta, P., Ralekar, C., Jazayeri, K., Riskin, S., Phillips, F., Ganesh, S., Sinha, P. (2023), “Social attribution in newly sighted children.” Annual Conference of Cognitive Science-9, IIT-Delhi, New Delhi, India, 8-10th December 2022;
Ben-Ami, S., Mukamel, R., Ralekar, C., Yadav, M., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Ganesh, S., Gandhi, A., Sinha, P., “Impact of Early Visual Deprivation on the Development of Visually-guided Object Prehension.” Seminar on Multisensory Integration in Action, Hacienda, Israel, 12-15 December, 2022.
Ben-Ami, S., Ralekar, C., Verma, D., Tiwari, K., Yadav, M., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Ganesh, S., Troje, NF., Sinha, P., “Visual Perception of Biological Motion.” Seminar on Multisensory Integration in Action, Hacienda, Israel, 12-15 December, 2022