33. Vivek Tomar, Nitin Kumar, “Single-sample face and ear recognition using virtual sample generation with 2D local patches", The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, (2024) (SCI, I. F. – 2.5)
32. Onkar Singh, Ajay Jaiswal, Nitin Kumar, Naveen Kumar, “Random permutation-based linear regression for cancelable biometrics", Expert Systems, Wiley, (2024) (SCI, I. F. – 3)
31. Vivek Tomar, Nitin Kumar, Ayush Raj Srivastava, “Single Sample Face Recognition using Deep Learning: A Survey", Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, vol. 56 (Suppl 1), pp. 1063–1111 (2023) (SCI, I. F. – 12)
30. Prabhjot Kaur, Nitin Kumar, “SIFTBCS: Scale Invariant Feature Transform based Fuzzy Vault Scheme in Biometric Cryptosystem”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (2023) (SCI, I.F. 3.6)
29. Vivek Kumar Singh, Nitin Kumar, Parmanand, “Region-based Feature Combination for Robust Salient Object Detection”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (SCI, I.F. 3.6)
28. Prabhjot Kaur, Nitin Kumar, “BRIEFBCS: Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features based fuzzy vault scheme in Biometric CryptoSystem”, Cluster Computing (SCI, I.F. 4.4)
27. Prabhjot Kaur, Nitin Kumar, Maheep Singh. SURFBCS: Speed Up Robust Features based Fuzzy Vault Scheme in Biometric Cryptosystem, The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, Accepted (SCI, I.F. 2.557)
26. Prabhjot Kaur, Nitin Kumar, Maheep Singh. Biometric Cryptosystems: a comprehensive survey, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-13817-9 (SCI, I.F. 2.57)
25. Neha Goyal, Nitin Kumar, Kapil. Leaf Bagging: A novel meta heuristic optimization-based framework for leaf identification, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 81, pp. 32243 – 32264, 2022, ISSN No: 1380-7501, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12825-z (SCI-E, IF 2.577)
24. Neha Goyal, Kapil, Nitin Kumar. Clustering based Hierarchical Framework for Multi-class Classification of Leaf Images, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2022 (SCI-E, IF - 3.654)
23. Vivek Kumar Singh, Nitin Kumar. CoBRa: Convex Hull based Random Walks for Salient Object Detection, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Accepted, 2022 (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
22. Nitin Kumar, Manisha. CBRW: A Novel Approach for Cancelable Biometric Template Generation based on 1-D Random Walk, Applied Intelligence, Springer, Accepted, 2021 (SCI, IF - 5.086)
21. Manisha, Nitin Kumar. CBRC : A Novel Approach for Cancelable Biometric Template Generation using Random Permutation and Chinese Remainder Theorem, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Published Online, (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
20. Neha Goyal, Nitin Kumar, Kapil, Lower Dimensional Intrinsic Structural Representation of Leaf images and Plant Recognition, Signal Image and Video Processing, Springer, Published Online (SCI-E, IF – 2.157)
19. Shiv Naresh Shivhare; Nitin Kumar, Tumor Bagging: A Framework for Brain Tumor Segmentation using Meta-Heuristic Optimization Algorithms, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 80, pp. 29969 – 26995, 2021, ISSN No: 1380-7501, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-10969-y (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
18. Vivek Kumar Singh, Nitin Kumar. SOFT: Salient Object detection based on Feature combination using Teaching-learning-based optimization, Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, 2021, ISSN No: 1863-1711, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-021-01917-2 (SCI-E, IF – 2.157)
17. Vivek Kumar Singh, Nitin Kumar. CHELM: Convex Hull based Extreme Learning Machine for Salient Object Detection, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 80, pp. 13535 – 13558, 2021, ISSN No: 1380-7501, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-10374-x (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
16. Neha Goyal, Nitin Kumar, Kapil, On Solving leaf classification using linear regression, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 80, pp. 4533 – 4551, 2021, ISSN No: 1380-7501, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09899-y (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
15. Vivek Kumar Singh, Nitin Kumar, Navjot Singh. A Hybrid Approach using Color Spatial Variance and Novel Object Prior for Salient Object Detection, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 79, pp. 30045 – 30067, 2020, ISSN No: 1380-7501, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09467-4 (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
14. Anita, Anupam Yadav, Nitin Kumar, Artificial Electric Field Algorithm for Engineering Optimization Problems, Accepted, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, vol. 149, pp. 113308( 2020, ISSN No: 0957-4174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113308 (23 pages), (SCI-E, IF – 6.954)
13. Vivek Kumar Singh, Nitin Kumar, Suresh Madhavan. Saliency Boosting: A Novel Framework to Refine Salient Object Detection, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, vol. 53, pp. 3731 – 3772, 2020, ISSN No: 1573-7462, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09777-6, (SCI-E, IF – 8.139)
12. Manisha, Nitin Kumar*, Cancelable Biometrics: A Comprehensive Survey, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, vol. 53, pp. 3403 – 3446, 2020, ISSN No: 1573-7462, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09767-8, (SCI - IF 8.139)
11. Nitin Kumar*, Manisha. RP-LPP : A Random Permutation based Locality Preserving Projection for Cancelable Biometric Recognition, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 79, pp. 2363–2381, Springer, 2019, ISSN No: 1380-7501, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08228-2 (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
10. Vivek Kumar Singh, Nitin Kumar. Saliency Bagging: A Novel Framework for Robust Salient Object Detection. The Visual Computer, Springer, vol. 36, pp. 1423 – 1441, 2020, ISSN No: 1432-2315, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-019-01750-2 (SCI-E, IF - 2.601)
9. Shiv Naresh Shivhare, Nitin Kumar, Navjot Singh. A Hybrid of Active Contour Model and Convex Hull for Automated Brain Tumor Segmentation in Multimodal MRI. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 78, no. 24, pp. 34207-34229, 2019, ISSN No: 1380-7501, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08048-4, (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
8. Suresh Madhavan, Nitin Kumar*, Incremental Methods in Face Recognition: A Survey, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, vol. 54, pp. 253 – 303, 2021, ISSN No: 1573-7462, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09734-3 (SCI - IF 8.139)
7. Neha Goyal; Kapil Gupta; Nitin Kumar, Multiclass Twin Support Vector Machine for Plant Species identification, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 78, no. 19, pp. 27785-27808, 2019, ISSN No: 1380-7501, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-7588-2, (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
6. Nitin Kumar*, Vaani Garg. Single Sample Face Recognition in the Last Decade: A Survey, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 33, No.13, 1956009 (38 pages), 2019, ISSN: 0218-0014, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218001419560093 (SCI-E, IF - 1.373)
5. Surendra Singh, Sachin Tripathi, Nitin Kumar, An Enhanced Security-aware Dynamic Packet Scheduling Scheme for Wireless Networks using Intelligent Time Slice based Krill Herd Algorithm, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Taylor and Francis, vol. 32, no. 16, pp. 2135-2156, 2018, ISSN No: 1569-3937, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09205071.2018.1497549, (SCI-E, IF - 1.335)
4. Nitin Kumar*, Surendra Singh, Abhimanyu Kumar, Random Permutation Principal Component Analysis for Cancelable Biometric Recognition, Applied Intelligence, Springer, Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 2824 – 2836, 2017. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-017-1117-7, ISSN No: 0924-669X (SCI, IF – 5.086)
3. Nitin Kumar*, Thresholding in Salient Object Detection: A Survey. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Vol. 77, No. 15, pp. 19139-19170, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-5329-y, ISSN No: 1380-7501. (SCI-E, IF - 2.757)
2. Nitin Kumar*, R. K. Agrawal and Ajay Jaiswal. Incremental and Decremental Non-parametric Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition. Computing and Informatics, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1231-1248, 2016, ISSN No: 1335-9150. (SCI-E, IF - 0.319)
1. Nitin Kumar*, R. K. Agrawal. Block LDA via QR-Decomposition for Face Recognition with Single Image per Person. International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 173-181, 2015, ISSN No. 1327-2314, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/KES-150319 (Scopus)
31. Prabhjot Kaur, Nitin Kumar and Maheep Singh. A Variant to Binary Robust Independent Elementary Feature based Biometric Cryptosystem using Ear & Iris biometric, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Systems and Computer Networks (ISCON-2023) at University, Mathura during March 3-4, 2023.
30. Prabhjot Kaur and Nitin Kumar. Biometric based key handling using variation to Scale Invariant Feature Transform amid COVID 19 Pandemic, Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE-2022) at Dhaneshwar Rath Institute of Engineering and Management Studies (Affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha) during December 23-24, 2022, Springer.
29. Prabhjot Kaur, Nitin Kumar and Maheep Singh. Biometric Based Key Handling using Speeded Up Robust Features, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems (ICACECS-2022) at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineeing and Technology during August 11-12, 2022, Springer.
28. Ayush Raj Srivastava, Nitin Kumar, Performance Evaluation of Single Sample Ear recognition Methods, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Control and Computer Vision (ICRCCV 2022) at NIT Uttarakhand during Feb. 19 – 20, 2022, Springer.
27. Ayush Raj Srivastava and Nitin Kumar, An Improved Fourier Transformation Method for Single Sample Ear Recognition, (Accepted) In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Control and Computer Vision (ICRCCV 2022), NIT Uttarakhand, India Feb. 19-Feb.20, 2022
26. Vivek Kumar Singh and Nitin Kumar, Challenges and Opportunities for Salient Object Detection in COVID-19 Era: A Study, (Accepted) In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Control and Computer Vision (ICRCCV 2022), NIT Uttarakhand, India Feb. 19-Feb.20, 2022 (Best Paper Award)
25. Neha Goyal, Kapil Gupta, Nitin Kumar, A Hierarchical Approach for Multi-class Classification of Leaf Images, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power And Communication Technologies 2020 (GUCON), 2-4 October 2020, pp. 268 – 273, DOI: 10.1109/GUCON48875. 2020.9231240
24. Anita Sajwan, Anupam Yadav and Nitin Kumar, Development of Discrete Artificial Electric Field Algorithm for Quadratic Assignment Problems, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Harmony Search, Soft Computing and Applications, Jul. 16-17,2020, pp. 411 – 421, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8603-3_36, ISBN: 978-981-15-8602-6
23. Manisha and Nitin Kumar, On Generating Cancelable Biometric Templates using Visual Secret Sharing, In Proceedings of the Computing Conference 2020 to be held at London, United Kingdom, July 16-17, 2020, pp. 532 – 544, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52243-8_38, ISBN: 978-3-030-52242-1
22. Shiv Naresh Shivhare and Nitin Kumar, Brain tumor segmentation using random walks from MRI images, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC) Universite des Mascareignes (UdM), Mauritius. 25-27 June, 2020, pp. 29-41, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4299-6_3, ISBN: 978-981-33-4298-9
21. Manisha, Nitin Kumar, On Generating Cancelable Biometric Template using Reverse of Boolean XOR, Accepted for Publication in the proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Control and Computing (ICONC3) held at Mody University of Science and Technology during Feb. 21-22, 2020,pp. 1-4, DOI: 10.1109/ICONC345789.2020.9117459 (Best Paper Award)
20. Vivek Kumar Singh and Nitin Kumar, A Novel Fusion Framework for Salient Object Detection based on Support Vector Regression, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolving Technologies for Computing, Communication and Smart World (ETCCS-2020), CDAC, Noida, India Jan. 31-Feb.01, 2020, pp. 437 – 450, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7804-5_33, ISBN: 978-981-15-7803-8 (Best Paper Award)
19. Anita Sajwan, Anupam Yadav and Nitin Kumar, Application of artificial electric field algorithm for economic load dispatch problem, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, SoCPaR 2019, Vardhman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India, Dec. 13-15,2019, pp. 71 – 79, ISBN: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49345-5_8, ISBN: 978-3-030-49344-8
18. Vivek Kumar Singh and Nitin Kumar, U-FIN: Unsupervised Feature Integration Approach for Salient Object Detection, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Communication & Computational Technology (ICACCT-2019), Kurukshetra, India Dec. 6-7, 2019, pp. 1173 – 1188, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5341-7_89, ISBN: 978-981-15-5340-0
17. Nitin Kumar and Suresh Madhavan, Incremental Weighted Linear Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Communication & Computational Technology (ICACCT-2019), Kurukshetra, India Dec. 6-7, 2019, pp. 677 – 687, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5341-7_51, ISBN: 978-981-15-5340-0 (Best Paper Award)
16. Nitin Kumar and Suresh Madhavan, Performance Evaluation of Incremental PCA and its Variants in Face Recognition, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Communication & Computational Technology (ICACCT-2019), Kurukshetra, India Dec. 6-7, 2019, pp. 397 – 407, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5341-7_32, ISBN: 978-981-15-5340-0
15. Anita Sajwan, Anupam Yadav and Nitin Kumar, Artificial Electric Field Algorithm for Solving Real Parameter CEC 2017 Benchmark Problems, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Soft Computing and Problem Solving (SoCPros) 2019, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK, Sep. 02-04, 2019, pp. 161 – 169, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3290-0_13, ISBN: 978-981-15-3289-4
14. Nitin Kumar, A Novel Three Phase Approach for Single Sample Ear Recognition, In: Boonyopakorn P., Meesad P., Sodsee S., Unger H. (eds) Recent Advances in Information and Communication Technology 2019 (IC2IT 2019), Bangkok, Thailand, July 04-05, pp. 79-88, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 936. Springer, Cham
13. Shiv Naresh Shivhare and Nitin Kumar, Brain Tumor Detection using Manifold Ranking in flair MRI, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology (ICETIT-2019), New Delhi, India, June 21-22, 2019, pp. 292 – 305, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30577-2_25, ISBN: 978-3-030-30576-5
12. Neha Goyal, Kapil Gupta and Nitin Kumar. Plant Species Identification using Leaf Image Retrieval: A Study. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power And Communication Technologies 2018 (GUCON), 28-29 September 2018, Galgotia University, Noida, India, pp. 405-411, DOI: 10.1109/GUCON.2018.8675114.
11. Anuj Kumar, H S Bhadauria and Nitin Kumar. Fuzzy Clustering with Level Set Segmentation for Detection of Dental Restoration area. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communication Engineering (ICACCE 2018), 22-23 June 2018, Paris, France, pp. 322-326, DOI: 10.1109/ICACCE.2018.8441739
10. Nitin Kumar, Ajay Jaiswal. Effect of Varying Training Images on Performance of Face Recognition: A Study, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing Applications (ICACA-2018), Feb. 26 - 27, 2018, Srinagar Garhwal, India. ISBN No.: 97881-935941-3-1. (Abstract)
9. Anuj Kumar, H. S. Bhadauria, Nitin Kumar. Segmentation of Periapical Dental X-Ray Images by applying Morphological Operations, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing Applications (ICACA-2018), Feb. 26 - 27, 2018, Srinagar Garhwal, India. ISBN No.: 97881-935941-3-1. (Abstract)
8. Shalini Gupta, Abhimanyu Kumar and Nitin Kumar. Design of ECC based Authenticated Group Key Agreement Protocol Using Self-Certified Public Keys. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT’18), Dhanbad, India, 2018, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/RAIT.2018.8388999
7. Nitin Kumar, Maheep Singh, Surendra Singh, Abhimanyu Kumar. A Study of Training Free Salient Object Detection in the Presence of Noise. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA'2017), Kuching, Malayasia, pp.362-367, 2017. Publisher: IEEE Signal Processing Society, Malayasia Chapter, ISBN No.: 978-1-5090-5559-3.
6. Nitin Kumar, Maheep Singh, M. C. Govil, E. S. Pilli and Ajay Jaiswal. Salient Object Detection in Noisy Images. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Ed. Khoury R., Drummond C., Canadian AI 2016, 109-114, 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9673, Publisher: Springer Verlag, ISBN No.: 978-3-319-34110-1.
5. Nitin Kumar, R. K. Agrawal and Ajay Jaiswal, "A Comparative Study of Linear Discriminant and Linear Regression Based Methods for Expression Invariant Face Recognition", In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Ed. Thampi, Sabu M., Springer International Publishing, 264, 23 - 32, 2014. Publisher: Springer International Publishing, ISBN No.: 978-3-319-04959-5
4. Ajay Jaiswal, Nitin Kumar and R. K. Agrawal, "Statistical Framework for Facial Pose Classification", In Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Ed. Batyrshin I., González Mendoza M. MICAI 2012, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 87-96, 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7629, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-642-37806-5
3. Nitin Kumar, Ajay Jaiswal and R. K. Agrawal, "Performance Evaluation of Subspace Methods to Tackle Small Sample Size Problem in Face Recognition", In Proceedings of The First International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) ‘12, ACM, USA, 938-944, 2012. Publisher: ACM, ISBN No. 978-1-4503-1196-0
2. Ajay Jaiswal, Nitin Kumar and R. K. Agrawal, "A Hybrid of Principal Component Analysis and Partial Least Squares for Face Recognition Across Pose", In Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2012, Argentina, 67-73, 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7441, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-642-33274-6
1. Ajay Jaiswal, R. K. Agrawal and Nitin Kumar. "Performance evaluation of linear subspace methods for face recognition under illumination variation", In Proceedings of The Fourth International C* Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering (C3S2E) ’11, ACM, USA, 103-110, 2011. Publisher: ACM, ISBN No.: 978-1-4503-0626-3
1. Nitin Kumar, Computing Tools, Chapter contributed in Internet of Things: Concepts and Applications (An Indian Adaptation) published by Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., May 2021.