Dr. Soumendu Chakraborty

1.Title: Scalable Convolution Neural Network CNN fused with hand crafted descriptors for detection of COVID-19 infection based on Lung Congestion using X-Ray images
Funding Agency: DST (Indo-Serbia)
As: PI
Project ID: DST/INT/Serbia/P-03 /2022
Status: Ongoing

2.Title: Fairness in machine learning for accurate forest fire inference
Funding Agency: UPCST
As: PI
Project ID: 908
Status: Ongoing

3. Title: Synthesis of Big Data using Federated Learning for analyzing Climate and Pollution Parameters in Edge Networks for Urban Areas

Funding Agency: UPCSTA

As:  Co-PI

• Pulkit Dwivedi, Soumendu Chakraborty, FrTrGAN: Single image dehazing using the frequency component of transmission maps in the generative adversarial network,Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier, 2025, 104336, ISSN: 1090-235X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2025.104336.

• Pulkit Dwivedi, Soumendu Chakraborty, TrMLGAN: Transmission MultiLoss Generative Adversarial Network framework for image dehazing, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier 2024,104324,ISSN 1047-3203,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2024.104324.

• Pulkit Dwivedi, Soumendu Chakraborty, “A comprehensive qualitative and quantitative survey on image dehazing based on deep neural networks”, Neurocomputing, Vol-610, 128582, Elsevier, ISSN: 0925-2312, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.128582, 2024.
• Pulkit Dwivedi, Sandeep Padhi, Soumendu Chakraborty, Suresh Raikwar, “Severity wise COVID-19 X-ray image augmentation and classification using structure similarity”. Multimed Tools Appl (2023). (Impact Factor: 3.6), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-16555-8
• Pulkit Dwivedi, Soumendu Chakraborty, “Single image dehazing using extended local dark channel prior”, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 136, 2023, 104747, Elsevier, ISSN 0262-8856, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2023.104747. (Impact Factor: 4.7)
• Suresh Chandra Raikwar, Shashikala Tapaswi and Soumendu Chakraborty. “Bounding function for fast computation of transmission in single image dehazing.” Multimedia Tools and Applications, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11752-9, 2021. (Impact Factor: 2.75) ISSN/ISBN: (accepted)
• Jayendra Kantipudi, Shiv Ram Dubey and Soumendu Chakraborty. “Color Channel Perturbation Attacks for Fooling Convolutional Neural Networks and A Defense Against Such Attacks.” IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 10.1109/TAI.2020.3046167, Dec 2020. ISSN/ISBN: 2691-4581 (accepted).
• Shiv Ram Dubey and Soumendu Chakraborty. “Average Biased ReLU Based CNN Descriptor for Improved Face Retrieval.” Multimedia Tools and Applications, Dec 2020. (Impact Factor: 2.31) ISSN/ISBN: 1573-7721 (accepted).
• Shiv Ram Dubey, Soumendu Chakraborty, Swalpa Kumar Roy, Snehasis Mukherjee, Satish Kumar Singh and Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri. “diffGrad: An Optimization Method for Convolutional Neural Networks.”IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, (2019). (Impact Factor: 11.68) ISSN/ISBN:2162-2388
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Satish Kumar Singh, and Pavan Chakraborty. “Local Gradient Hexa Pattern: A Descriptor for Face Recognition and Retrieval.”IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol-28, no-1, pp. 171-180, (2018). (Impact Factor: 4.04) ISSN/ISBN: 1051-8215
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Satish Kumar Singh, and Kush Kumar. ” Facial Biometric System for Recognition using Extended LGHP Algorithm on Raspberry Pi.” IEEE Sensors Journal, (2020). (Impact Factor: 3.076) ISSN/ISBN: 1558-1748 (accepted)
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Satish Kumar Singh, and Pavan Chakraborty. “Centre symmetric quadruple pattern: A novel descriptor for facial image recognition and retrieval.”Pattern Recognition Letters, vol-115, pp.50-58, DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2017.10.015, (2018). (Elsevier) (Impact Factor: 2.81) ISSN/ISBN: 0167-8655
• Shiv Ram Dubey, Swalpa Kumar Roy, Soumendu Chakraborty, Snehasis Mukherjee, and Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri. “Local Bit-plane Decoded Convolutional Neural Network Features for Biomedical Image Retrieval.”Neural Computing and Applications, 10.1007/s00521-019-04279-6, (2019). (Springer) (Impact Factor: 4.66) ISSN/ISBN: 1433-3058
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Satish Kumar Singh, and Pavan Chakraborty. “Local quadruple pattern: A novel descriptor for facial image recognition and retrieval.”Computers & Electrical Engineering, vol-62, pp. 92-104, (2017). (Elsevier) (Impact Factor: 2.18) ISSN/ISBN: 0045-7906
• Soumendu Chakraborty, and Anand Singh Jalal. ” A Novel Local Binary Pattern Based Blind Feature Image Steganography.” Multimedia Tools and Applications, (2020). (Impact Factor: 2.10) ISSN/ISBN: 1573-7721 (accepted)
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Satish Kumar Singh, and Pavan Chakraborty. “Cascaded Asymmetric Local Pattern: A Novel Descriptor for Unconstrained Facial Image Recognition and Retrieval.”Multimedia Tools and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-019-7707-0, (2019). (Springer) (Impact Factor: 2.10) ISSN/ISBN: 1573-7721
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Satish Kumar Singh, and Pavan Chakraborty. “R-Theta Local Neighborhood Pattern for Unconstrained Facial Image Recognition and Retrieval.”Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol-78, no-11, pp. 14799-14822, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-018-6846-z, (2019). (Springer) (Impact Factor: 2.10) ISSN/ISBN: 1573-7721
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Satish Kumar Singh, and Pavan Chakraborty. “Local directional gradient pattern: a local descriptor for face recognition.”Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol-76, no-1, pp. 1201-1216, (2017). (Springer) (Impact Factor: 2.10) ISSN/ISBN: 1573-7721
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Anand Singh Jalal, and Charul Bhatnagar. “LSB based non blind predictive edge adaptive image steganography.”Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol-76, no-6, pp. 7973–7987, (2017).(Springer) (Impact Factor: 2.10) ISSN/ISBN: 1573-7721
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Anand Singh Jalal, and Charul Bhatnagar. “Secret image sharing using grayscale payload decomposition and irreversible image steganography.” Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol-18, no-4, pp. 180-192, (2013). (Elsevier) (Impact Factor: 1.53) ISSN/ISBN: 2214-2126
• Soumendu Chakraborty and Anand Singh Jalal. “High capacity secret image sharing using multilayer image steganography with primary cover predictive error.”International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, vol-9, no-3, pp. 337-355. (Inderscience) ISSN/ISBN: 1741-8070
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Anand Singh Jalal, and Charul Bhatnagar. “An efficient bit plane X-OR algorithm for irreversible image steganography.”International Journal of Trust Management in Computing and Communications, vol-1, no-2, pp. 140-155, (2013). (Inderscience) ISSN/ISBN: 2048-8386

• Dnyaneshwar Bhadane, Soumendu Chakraborty, “Colorization of Thermal Facial Images into Visible Facial Image Using RGB-GAN.” In CVIP 2023, Part III, CCIS 2011, Book: Computer Vision and Image Processing, Chapter No: 10, Chapter DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-58535-7_10, 2023.
• Koushik Gunda, Soumendu Chakraborty, Dubravko Culibrk, “Fusion of Handcrafted Features and Deep Features to Detect COVID-19.” In CVIP 2023, Part III, CCIS 2011, Book: Computer Vision and Image Processing, Chapter No: 11, Chapter DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-58535-7_11, 2023.
• Soumendu Chakraborty, Satish Kumar Singh, Pavan Chkraborty, “Performance Enhancement of Local Vector Pattern with Generalized Distance Local Binary Pattern for Face Recognition.” In Proc. of the IEEE UP Section Conference on Electrical, Computer and Electronics (UPCON), December 2015. Doi: 10.1109/UPCON.2015.7456681
• Sandeep Rathor, SP Tripathi, Soumendu Chakraborty, Anand Singh Jalal, “A payload distribution method for high capacity image steganography.” Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT), 2013 4th International Conference on. IEEE, 2013.

Department of Information Technology,
Indian Institute of Information Technology,
Lucknow, India.
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Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/soumenduchakraborty