Dr. A. K. Sao

Dr. A. K. Sao
Phone : 01905-237918
EMail : anil[at]iitmandi[dot]ac[dot]in
Address : School of Computing and Electrical Engineering
IIT Mandi, PWD Rest House 2nd floor,
near Bus Stand, Mandi - 175001
India

Research interests

  • Multimodal biometrics
  • Face recognition
  • Image processing
  • Video processing
  • Computer vision and Pattern recognition

Education

  • B.E (Electronics) from NIT, Raipur, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla Univ.-Raipur, Chattisgarah
  • M.S in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras-Chennai, TN
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras-Chennai, TN
    Thesis title: Representation of edge-like information in images with application for face recognition

Professional Experience

  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras-Chennai, TN
    Project Associate: Oct. 2003 - July 2004
  • International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad, AP
    Senior Research Assistant: Aug. 2009 - Jun 2010

Publication in Journals

  • Anil Kumar Sao and B. Yegnanarayana. Edge extraction using zero-frequency resonator.Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer London,1863-1703, WWW [note: 10.1007/s11760-011-0233-9].
  • A. K. Sao and B. Yegnanarayana, "On the use of Phase of the Fourier transform for face recognition under variations in illumination ", to be published Signal, Image and Video Processing.
  • A. K. Sao, B. Yegnanarayana and B. V. K. Vijay Kumar , "Significance of image representation for face recognition", Signal, Image and Video Processing , vol. 1, pp. 225-237, 2007.
  • A. K. Sao and B. Yegnanarayana, "Face verification using template matching", IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 636-641, 2007.

Publications in conferences

  • Anil Kumar Sao and B. Yegnanarayana. Laplacian of smoothed image as representation for face recognition. IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS). doi: 10.1109/WIFS.2011.6123140, pp. 1-6, 29 2011-dec. 2 , 2011.
  • Anil Kumar Sao. Combining analytic phase and Fourier phase for face recognition. International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), doi: 10.1109/ICIIP.2011.6108963, pp. 1-4, 3-5 Nov.2011
  • A. K. Sao and B. Yegnanarayana, "Analytic phase-based representation for face recognition", in Proc. International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2009) , pp. 453-456, 2009, ISI Kolkata, India.
  • A. K. Sao and B. Yegnanarayana, "Template matching approach for pose problem in face verification", in Proc. International Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation Classification and Security (MRCS), vol. 4105, pp. 191-198, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • B. Yegnanarayana, C. Chandra Sekhar, S. Palanivel, V. Suresh, A. K. Sao and Dhananjaya N., "Issues in the Development of an Audio-Video based Person Authentication System ", in New Advances in Multimedia Security, Biometrics, Watermarking and Cultural Aspects, pp. 53-76, 2006, Logos. Verlag Berlin
  • A. K. Sao, B. Yegnanarayana, M. Savvides and B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar ,"Determination of Pose angle for face using Dynamic Space Warping (DSW) ," in Proc. IEEE Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, pp. 661-664, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
  • K. Venkataramani and A. K. Sao and B. Yegnanarayana and B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, " Face authentication using one-dimensional processing," in Proc. SPIE, Biometric Technology for Human Identification, vol. 5404, pp. 76-86, 2004, Florida, USA.
  • A. K. Sao and B. Yegnanarayana, "Face Verification Using Correlation Filters and autoassociative Neural Networks," in Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Sensors and Information Processing, pp. 364-367, 2004, Chennai, India.

Professional activities

  • Reviewer of IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security.
  • Reviewer of Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing.
  • Reviewer of Journal of Zhejiang University Science.
  • Reviewer of several national and international conferences in the areas of image processing and pattern recognition.

Conferences/workshops attended

  • International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2009), Kolkata.
  • INAE Workshop on Image and Speech Processing, Dec. 12, 2008, Hyderabad.
  • INAE Workshop on Image and Speech Processing, Feb. 26-28, 2006, Chennai.
  • International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Jan. 4-7, 2006, Chennai.
  • International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Jan. 4-7, 2005, Chennai.
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