MY CURRICULUM VITAE


IIT-Roorkee

OFFICE ADDRESS:

Balasubramanian Raman

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee, 247 667, INDIA

Telephone      : +91- 01332-285852 (O)
                         : +91- 01332-285853 (R)
Email              : balarfma@iitr.ernet.in

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras , Chennai, India in July, 2001. Worked under the supervision of Dr. K.Swaminathan and Dr. Sukhendu Das.

Thesis Title: Some mathematical methods and simulation studies for the reconstruction of 3-D object primitives from arbitrary perspective views

Master of Science in Mathematics from Madras Christian College (Madras University), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 1996.

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Agurchand Manmull Jain College (Madras University), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 1994.

EXPERTISE:

             Computer vision
             Computer Graphics
             Satellite Image Analysis
             Human-Machine Interaction
             Scientific Visualization
              Imaging Geometry
              Reconstruction Problems

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

Invariance of cross ratio under perspective projections, Pure Appl. Math. Sci, 51, 33-41 (2000) (with Rajan M.P.).

Error Analysis in reconstruction of a line in 3-D space from two arbitrary perspective views, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 78(2), 191-212, (2001) (with Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan).

Quantization error in stereo imaging systems, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 79(6), 671-691, (2002) (with Sukhendu Das, S.Udayabaskaran and K. Swaminathan). [Online article] .

Reconstruction of quadratic curves in 3-D from two or more perspective views, Mathematical Problems in Engineering , 8(3), 207-219, (2002) (with Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan). [PDF] [Online article]

Simulation studies for the performance analysis of the reconstruction of a line in 3-D from two arbitrary perspective views using two plane intersection method. International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 80(5), 559-571, (2003) (with Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan). [PDF][Online article] .
A classical approach for thinning of binary images using divergence of the potential field, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 82 (6), 673-684, (2005) (with Yatharth Saraf, R. Balasubramanian and K. Swaminathan).
Computing Hierarchical Curve-Skeletons of 3D Objects, The Visual Computer, 21(11), 945-955, (2005) (with with N. Cornea, D. Silver and X. Yuan).
Computing Hierarchical Curve-Skeletons of 3D Objects, VIZLAB Technical Report TR-277, CAIP center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engg., Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, November 2004 (with N. Cornea, D. Silver and X. Yuan).
Effects of unequal focal lengths of cameras in two arbitrary perspective views, Communicated to Journal on Systems Analysis Modelling Simulation (2004) (with Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan).
Computing the Spatial relationship between two 3D objects, Communicated to International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (2005) (with K. Swaminathan).
Computation of the Curve-Skeletons from Binary Images, Communicated to International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (2006) (with Y. Saraf).
Error estimation in reconstruction of quadratic curves in 3-D space, Communicated to International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (2006) (with N. Sukavanam and Sanjeev Kumar).
Fuzzy Bipartite Graphs, Communicated to Journal of Applied Sciences (2006) (with A. Nagoorgani and V. T. Chandrasekaran).
Propagative Fingerprint Matching in O(n) Time, Communicated to IEEE-Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, (2006) (with Prakash C, Nalin Pradeep S, Mayur D Jain)

Analytical formulations for reconstruction of a line in 3-D space from two arbitrary perspective views, International Satellite conference on Image Analysis in Materials and Life Sciences, 17-22, Nov 7-10, 1999, held at IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India. (with Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan).

Cross ratio is invariant under perspective projections, International Satellite conference on Image Analysis in Materials and Life Sciences, 34-40, Nov 7-10, 1999, held at IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India.

Reconstruction of a 3-D object (depth) map using Shape from Shading with perspective projections, International Conference on mathematical modeling on non-linear systems, 1, 119-133, Dec 8-10, 1999, held at I. I. T., Kharagpur, India. (with Rajan M.P., Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan).

Reconstruction of 3-D Quadratic Curves From Arbitrary Perspective Views, International Conference on Communications, Computers and Devices, 2, 477-480, Dec 14-16, 2000, held at I. I. T., Kharagpur, India. (with Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan).

Simulation studies for the performance analysis of the reconstruction of a line using stereoscopic projections , Indian conference on computer vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 338-344, Dec 20-22, 2000, held at I. I. Sc., Bangalore, India. (with Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan).

Effects of unequal focal lengths of cameras in two perspective views, International Conference on Recenet Advances in Mathematical Sciences, 193-200, Dec 20-22, 2000, held at I. I. T., Kharagpur, India. (with Sukhendu Das and K. Swaminathan).

Simulation studies for the reconstruction of a straight line in 3D from two arbitrary perspective views using epipolar line method, Proceedings of the SPIE Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems, SPIE Syposium, 4667, 418-428, January 20-25, 2002, San Jose, California, USA. (with K.Swaminathan and Sukhendu Das). [PDF]

Computing the Curve-Skeletons of Images, Proceedings of the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI-2004), XII, 310-315, July 18-21, 2004, Orlando, Florida, USA. (with Y. Saraf and K. Swaminathan)
Error analysis in the reconstruction of a 3D parabola from two arbitrary perspective views, Proceedings of the SPIE Vision Geometry XIII, IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging - 2005, 5675, 41-50, January 16-20, 2005, San Jose, California, USA. (with Ashutosh Shukla, Abhinav Saxena, Bhavesh Neekra and K. Swaminathan).
Nearest neighbor vector based Palmprint verification, Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging & Image Processing, VIIP-2005, 536-539, Sep. 7-9, 2005, Benidorm, SPAIN. (with Mayur D. Jain, Nalin Pradeep).
Reconstruction of Quadratic Curves in 3-D from Two or more Arbitrary Perspective Views: Simulation Studies, Proceedings of the SPIE Vision Geometry XIV, IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging - 2006, Vol. 6066, pp. 6066M1-6066M11 (180-190), Jan 15-19, 2006, San Jose, California, USA (with Sanjeev Kumar and N. Sukavanam).
Local and Global Tree Graph Structures for Fingerprint Verification, Proceedings of “the Third IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications”, pp. 287-293, Feb 15-17, 2006, Innsbruck, AUSTRIA.(with Mayur D. Jain, Nalin Pradeep and Rama Bhargava).
Wavelet Analysis of Microstructural Morphologies in Nanostructured TiO2 thin film, accepted for publication in “Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology (APCOT 2006)”, June 25-28, 2006, SINGAPORE. (with P. Rajeev and R. Jayaganthan).
Palmprint Recognition: Two level Structure Matching, Proceedings of “IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE-IJCNN 2006)” part of “IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE-WCCI 2006)”, pp. 1643-1648, July 16-21, 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA. (with Mayur D Jain, Nalin Pradeep S, Prakash C).
Binary tree based linear time fingerprint matching, accepted for publication in “IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE-ICIP 2006)”, October 8 – 11, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Conference Impact Factor: 0.51, Acceptance Rate 40.76%). (with Mayur D Jain, Nalin Pradeep S, Prakash C).
Analysis of Difference in Orientations and Focal Lengths of Two Arbitrary Perspective Viewing Cameras, accepted for publication in SPIE “Vison Geometry XV, IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging - 2007”, 28th January – 1st February 2007, San Jose, California, USA (with Aishwarya Ramachandran, K. Swaminathan and Sukhendu Das)

VISITS ABROAD:

Participated in School on Mathematical Problems in Image Processing The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, ITALY during September, 2000

Participated in Summer School on Mathematical Control Theory The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, ITALY during September, 2001

Worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Missouri Columbia , Missouri -65211, USA from 1st October 2001 to June 2002

Worked as a Post Doctoral Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The state University of New Jersey , NJ -08855, USA from 1st July 2002 to 28th April 2003
Presented a paper Error analysis in the reconstruction of a 3D parabola from two arbitrary perspective views in Vision Geometry XIII, IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging - 2005, held in San Jose, California, USA, from 16^th January 2005 to 21^st January 2005.
Delivered an invited talk entitled “Applications of Image Processing in health care” in the Indo-German Workshop on Clean Room Technology, part of 5th World Congress on Bio-Mechanics, held in Munich, GERMANY, from 29th July 2006 to 4th August 2006.
USA, B1/B2 (Visiting/Business) visa holder for 10 years (December 2004 to December 2014).
Visited MALAYSIA (January 2005) and AUSTRIA (August 2006).

RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Teaching Experience: working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics,

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee , Uttaranchal 247 667, INDIA from 03/09/2004.

Ø Courses taught in IIT Roorkee so far

1. Mathematics II (MA 201)

2. Computer Applications for Architecture and Planning (AR/URP 617)

3. Computer Programming and Numerical Analysis (MA 739)

4. Data Structures (MA 568)

5. Unix Network Programming (CA 602)

6. Mathematics I (MA 101)

7. Computer Applications (MA 550)

8. Image Processing (MA/CA 625)

9. Data Base Management System (MA 635)

10. Artificial Intelligence (CA 701)

Ø Previously had taught two courses in BITS-Pilani namely Linear Algebra & Complex Variables and Computer Graphics in Jan-May 2004.

Ø Worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras. Handled tutorials for B. Tech., M. Tech. and M. Sc students and taught subjects include Calculus, Co-ordinate Geometry, Numerical Analysis, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.

Ø Completed Intensive Teaching Workshop (One Semester) for learning the nuances in the techniques of teaching and improving the teaching skills at BITS-Pilani, 2003-04.

Ø Involved myself as an instructor in the two weeks QIP Programme “Mathematical Modelling of Real Life Problems” conducted by the Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee from 04/07/05 to 15/07/05 for Computer Simulation Course.

Ø Involved myself as an instructor in a one week QIP Programme “Robotics, Vision and Control” conducted by the Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee from 10/07/06 to 14/07/06 for Computer Vision and Image Processing Course.

Research Experience:

02/2006-till date Assistant Professor,

Department of Mathematics,

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttaranchal

247 667, INDIA

09/2004-02/2006 Lecturer,

Department of Mathematics,

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttaranchal

247 667, INDIA

09/2003-09/2004 Lecturer,

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, IPCU Group, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan 333 031, INDIA

05/2003-09/2003 Senior Research Associate,

Cryon Graphics (P) Ltd, Chennai, INDIA

Collaborative work in Graphics with Dr.K.Swaminathan, Dept. of Mathematics, IIT Madras

2002-2003 Post Doctoral Associate,

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A

2001-2002 Post Doctoral Fellow,

Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department,

University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A.

Guest Scientist

International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

Trieste, ITALY

1998- 2001 Senior Research Fellow,

Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras.