Gaurav Bhatnagar Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

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Gaurav Bhatnagar Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Oﬃcial address: Room 327, CSE Building, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, NH65, Nagaur Road, Karwar, Jodhpur, India. Postal Code: 342037 Tel: +91 291 280 1457 Url: home.iitj.ac.in/~goravb; sites.google.com/site/goravdma/

Professional Experience

2019–till date Associate Professor • Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. • Department: Department of Mathematics. 2013–2019 Assistant Professor • Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. • Department: Department of Mathematics. 2009–2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate • Institute: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, ON, Canada. • Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Wu • Duties: Responsible for carrying out innovative and insightful research in the area of wavelet analysis and fractional transform theory with their application in numerous computer science areas. • Url: http://www1.uwindsor.ca/engineering/cvss/13/cvss-alumnii 2006–2009 Teaching Assistant • Institute: Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. • Duties: Responsible for conducting tutorials and labs for graduate and under-graduate students for Calculus, Co-ordinate Geometry, Numerical Analysis, Image Processing, Data Base Management Systems and Computer Applications. 2008–2009 CSIR-Senior Research Fellow Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. 2006–2008 CSIR-Junior Research Fellow Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Administrative Experience

2020–till date Coordinator, Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) Scheme • Duties: To coordinate all the activities related to PMRF scheme and implement the scheme at IIT Jodhpur. 2019–till date Chairman, PG Admissions Committee • Duties: To address all the work pertaining to all examinations related to admissions to the various PG degree programs of the Institute. These examinations will include: GATE and JAM.

1 2018–till date National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), Nodal Oﬃcer, IIT Jodhpur

2018–till date Head, Department of Mathematics 2016–2018 Convenor, Post-Graduate Academic Program Committee (PAPC), Department of Mathematics • Duties: The PAPC will function for smooth functioning of Masters and Doctoral pro- gramme of the Department. 2015–2019 Chairman, Admissions Committee • Duties: To address all the work pertaining to all examinations related to admissions to the various degree programs of the Institute. These examinations will include: JEE, GATE, and JAM.

Education 2006–2010 PhD (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science) • Institute: Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. • Thesis Title: Emphasized Digital Watermarking on Singular Value Decomposition in Fre- quency Domain. • Advisor: Dr. R. Balasubramanian 2003–2005 MSc (Applied Mathematics) • Institute: Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. • Project Title: Similarity Solutions of Partial Diﬀerential Equations. • Dissertation Title: Direct Methods of Calculus of Variations for Solving Partial Diﬀerential Equations. • Advisor: Prof. Y.K. Gupta • Marks: CGPA 7.95/10.0 (on 10 point scale) 2001–2003 BSc (Basic Science) • Institute: Chaudhary Charan Singh University Meerut, India. • Marks: 72%

Research Interest Applied Wavelet Analysis Mathematics Fractional Transform Theory Computer Image and Video processing Science and Multimedia Security: Digital Watermarking and Encryption Engineering Biometrics Information Fusion Image Quality Assessment

Publications

I have published a total of 8 book chapters, 50 journal papers and a total of 29 refereed conference papers. I have an erdos number 6 and my total citation counts is over 2000 for all the publications published since 2008. The details of my publications are as follows.

Book Chapters (Under Review: 01, Accepted: 04, Published: 04) 2019 [B8] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “Perceptual Hashing Based Novel Security Framework for Medical Images,” in Intelligent Data Security Solutions for e-Health Applications, A.K. Singh and M. Elhoseny (Eds.), Elsevier, 2019. (Accepted)

2 [B7] G. Bhatnagar, Z. Liu and Q.M.J. Wu, “Multimodal Medical Image Fusion in NSCT Domain,” in Big Data in Multimodal Medical Imaging, A.E. Baz and J. Suri (Eds.), CRC Press, 2019. (Accepted) [B6] S. Kumar and G. Bhatnagar, “SIE: An application to secure Stereo Images using En- cryption,” in Handbook of Multimedia Information Security: Techniques and Applications, Springer, 2019. (Accepted) [B5] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A novel watermarking technique for multimedia security,” in Handbook of Multimedia Information Security: Techniques and Applications, Springer, 2019. (Accepted) 2015 [B4] G. Bhatnagar, “Multimodal Medical Image Fusion based on SUSAN Feature in Framelet Domain,” in Image Fusion: Principles, Technology and Applications, C.T. Davis (Ed.), Nova Publishers, pp. 121-152, 2015. [B3] A. Saha, Q.M.J. Wu and G. Bhatnagar, “Saliency based Framework for Thermal and Visual Image Fusion,” in Image Fusion: Principles, Technology and Applications, C.T. Davis (Ed.), Nova Publishers, pp. 17-44, 2015. 2012 [B2] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Distributed Multiresolution Transform Based Framework for Watermarking,” in Information Technology for Intellectual Property Protection: Interdisciplinary Advancements, H. Sasaki (Ed.), IGI Global, pp. 1-29, 2012. 2009 [B1] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “Robust Encryption based Watermarking in Fractional Wavelet Domain,” in Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications, vol. 231, M. Grgic, K. Delac, M. Ghanbari (Ed.), Springer Verlag, pp. 375-416, 2009.

Journals (Under Review: 02, In Revision: 00, Accepted: 03, Published: 47) Accepted [J50] S. Maiti, A. Kumar, S. Jain and G. Bhatnagar, A novel image inpainting framework using regression, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2020. (In Press) [J49] A. Anand, A.K. Singh, Z. Lv, G. Bhatnagar, Compression-then-Encryption based Se- cure Watermarking Technique for Smart Healthcare System, IEEE MultiMedia, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MMUL.2020.2993269 [J48] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A Novel Biometric Inspired Robust Security Framework for Medical Images,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2019.2935710

2020 [J47] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A Robust Blind Watermarking Framework Based on Dn Structure,” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, vol. 11, 2019, pp. 1869–1887.

2019 [J46] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A Simpliﬁed Watermarking Algorithm Based on Lifting Wavelet Transform,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 78, 2019, pp. 20765–20786. [J45] S. Goyal, S. Bhavsar, S. Patel, C. Chattopadhyay, G. Bhatnagar, “SUGAMAN: De- scribing Floor Plans for Visually Impaired by Annotation Learning and Proximity based Sentence Model,” IET Image Processing, vol. 13, 2019, pp. 2623–2635. [J44] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “Fractal Dimension based Framework for Night Vision Fusion,” IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 6, 2019, pp. 220-227.

2018 [J43] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A new robust watermarking system in Integer DCT domain,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 53, 2018, pp. 86-101.

3 [J42] Z. Liu, E. Blasch, G. Bhatnagar, V. John, W. Wu and R.S. Blum, “Fusing synergistic information from multi-sensor images: An overview from implementation to performance assessment,” Information Fusion, vol. 42, 2018, pp. 127-145.

2017 [J41] G. Bhatnagar and Z. Liu, “Multi-sensor fusion based on local activity measure,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 17, no. 22, 2017, pp. 7487 - 7496. [J40] G. Bhatnagar, “Robust covert communication using high capacity watermarking,” Mul- timedia Tools and Applications, vol. 76, no. 3, 2017, pp. 3783–3807.

2016 [J39] G Bhatnagar and P Chakrawarty, “Image thresholding based on local activity feature matrix, Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 127, 2016, pp. 9037- 9045.

2015 [J38] G. Bhatnagar and Z. Liu, “A novel image fusion framework for night-vision navigation and surveillance,” Signal, Image and Video Processing, vol. 9, no. 1, 2015, pp. 165-175. [J37] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “A new robust and eﬃcient multiple watermarking scheme,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 74, no. 19, 2015, pp. 8421-8444. [J36] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and Z. Liu, “A New Contrast based Multimodal Medical Image Fusion Framework,” Neurocomputing, vol. 157, 2015, pp. 143-152. [J35] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “A novel chaos-based secure transmission of biometric data,” Neurocomputing, vol. 147, 2015, pp. 444-455.

2014 [J34] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J., “Biometric Inspired Multimedia Encryption based on Dual Parameter Fractional Fourier Transform,” IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 44, no. 9, 2014, pp. 1234-1247. [J33] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and P.K. Atrey, “Robust logo watermarking using biometrics inspired key generation,” Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 41, no. 10, 2014, pp. 4563- 4578. [J32] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “Enhancing the Transmission Security of Biometric Data using Chaotic Encryption,” Multimedia Systems, vol. 20, 2014, pp. 203-214. [J31] G. Bhatnagar, A. Saha, Q.M.J. Wu and P.K. Atrey, “Analysis and Extension of Mul- tiresolution form of Singular Value Decomposition,” Information Sciences, vol. 277, 2014, pp. 247-262.

2013 [J31] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and P.K. Atrey, “Secure Randomized Image Watermarking based on Singular Value Decomposition,” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Comput- ing, Communications, and Applications, vol. 10, no. 1, 2013, pp. 4:1-1:21. [J30] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “Enhancing the Transmission Security of Biometric Data using Chaotic Encryption,” Multimedia Systems, vol. 20, 2014, pp. 203-214. [J29] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and Z. Liu, “Directive Contrast based Multimodal Medical Image Fusion in NSCT domain,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 15, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1014-1024. [J28] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “A new logo Watermarking based on Redundant Frac- tional Wavelet Transform,” Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 58, no. 1-2, 2013, pp. 204-218. [J27] N. Taneja, G. Bhatnagar, B. Raman and I. Gupta, “Joint Watermarking and Encryp- tion for Still Visual Data,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 67, no. 3, 2013, pp. 593-606. [J26] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “A new Aspect in Robust Digital Water- marking,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 66, no. 2, 2013, pp. 179-200. [J25] A. Saha, G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “Mutual Spectral Residual Approach for Multifocus Image Fusion,” Digital Signal Processing, vol. 23, no. 4, 2013, pp. 1121-1135.

4 [J24] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and Z. Liu, “Human Visual System Inspired Multi-modal Medical Image Fusion Framework,” Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 40, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1708-1720. [J23] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “Biometrics Inspired Watermarking based on Fractional Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform,” Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 29, no. 1, 2013, pp. 182-195. [J22] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Discrete Fractional Wavelet Transform and its Application to Multiple Encryption,” Information Sciences, vol. 223, 2013, pp. 297-316.

2012 [J21] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “A new Fractional Random Wavelet Trans- form for Fingerprint Security,” IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics- Part A, Systems and Humans, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 262-275, 2012. [J20] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “Security Solution for Fingerprint Data During Commu- nication and Transmission,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measure- ment, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 876-887, 2012. [J19] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Fractional Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform and its Application to Biometric Security during Communication and Transmis- sion,” Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 254-267, 2012. [J18] G. Bhatnagar, B. Raman and Q.M.J. Wu, “Robust Watermarking using Fractional Wavelet Packet Domain,” IET Image Processing, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 386-397, 2012. [J17] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “Selective Image Encryption based on Pixels of Interest and Singular Value Decomposition,” Digital Signal Processing, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 648-663, 2012. [J16] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Image and Video Encryption based on Dual Space Filling Curves,” The Computer Journal, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 667-685, 2012. [J15] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “A new Robust Adjustable Logo Water- marking Scheme,” Computer & Security, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 40-58, 2012. [J14] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Robust Gray-scale Logo Watermarking in Wavelet Domain,” Computers & Electrical Engineering, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 1164-1176, 2012. [J13] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “An Image Fusion Framework based on Human Vi- sual System in Framelet Domain,” International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 12500021-30, 2012. [J12] S. Kumar, G. Bhatnagar, B. Raman and N. Sukavanam, “Security of Stereo Images during Communication and Transmission,” Advanced Science Letters, vol. 6, pp. 173-179, 2012. [J11] G. Bhatnagar, “A new Facet in Robust Digital Watermarking Framework,” Interna- tional Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 275-285, 2012. [J10] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “Wavelet Packet Transform based Robust Video Water- marking Technique,” Sadhana: Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 371-388, 2012. [J9] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “A Novel Chaotic Encryption Framework for Securing Palmprint Data,” Procedia Computer Science, vol. 10, pp. 442-449, 2012.

2011 [J8] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “A Robust Security Framework for 3D Im- ages,” Journal of Visualization, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 85-93, 2011. [J7] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, A new Robust Reference Logo Watermarking Scheme, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 621-640, 2011.

5 2010 [J6] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Biometric Template Security based on Watermarking,” Procedia Computer Science, vol. 2, pp. 227-235, 2010. [J5] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “Distributed Multiresolution Discrete Fourier Transform and its Application to Watermarking,” International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 225-241, 2010.

2009 [J4] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “A new Reference Watermarking Scheme based on DWT- SVD,” Computer Standards and Interfaces, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1002-1013, 2009. [J3] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “Robust reference-watermarking scheme using Wavelet Packet Transform and Bidiagonal-Singular Value Decomposition,” International Journal of Image and Graphics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 449-447, 2009. [J2] G. Bhatnagar, S. Kumar, B. Raman and N. Sukavanam, “Stereo Image Coding via Digital Watermarking,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 18, 033012, 2009. [J1] G. Bhatnagar, R. Jayaganthan and B. Raman, “Wavelet Analysis of Surface Morpholo- gies of Magnetron Sputtered Al-Cu thin ﬁlms,” International Journal of Wavelets, Multires- olution and Information Processing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 59-74, 2009.

Conferences (Under Review: 00, Accepted: 00, Published: 29) 2020 [C29] S. Chandel and G. Bhatnagar, “A Novel Graph Theoretic Image Segmentation Tech- nique,” In: Nain N., Vipparthi S., Raman B. (eds) Proc. International Conference on Com- puter Vision and Image Processing, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1147, 2020, Springer, Singapore. [C28] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A Robust Watermarking Scheme for Copyright Pro- tection,” In: Chaudhuri B., Nakagawa M., Khanna P., Kumar S. (eds) Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1024, 2020, Springer, Singapore.

2019 [C27] S. Goyal, V. Mistry, C. Chattopadhyay and G. Bhatnagar, “BRIDGE: Building Plan Repository for Image Description Generation, and Evaluation,” Proc. International Confer- ence on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Sydney, Australia, 2019, pp. 1071- 1076. [C26] M. Jain, A. Sanyal, S. Goyal, C. Chattopadhyay and G. Bhatnagar, “A Framework for the Conversion of Textual BigData into 2D Architectural Floor Plan,” Proc. IEEE Fifth International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM), Singapore, Singapore, 2019, pp. 404-410.

2018 [C25] S. Goyal, C. Chattopadhyay and G. Bhatnagar “ASYSST: A Framework for Synopsis Synthesis Empowering Visually Impaired,” Proc. Workshop on Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interface, ACM Multimedia (MM 2018), Seoul, Korea, October 22-26, 2018, pp. 17–24. [C24] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar “A Reference Based Secure and Robust Zero- watermarking Scheme” Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Vision & Image Processing, IIITDM Jabalpur, India, September 29-October 01, 2018. [C23] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A Robust Watermarking Scheme for Copyright Pro- tection” Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Vision & Image Processing, IIITDM Jabalpur, India, September 29-October 01, 2018.

6 [C22] S. Goyal, C. Chattopadhyay and G. Bhatnagar, “Plan2Text: A Framework for De- scribing Building Floor Plan Images From First Person Perspective” Proc. IEEE Colloquium on Signal Processing and its Applications, Batu Feringghi, Penang, Malaysia, March 9-10, 2018, pp. 35–40. [C21] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A robust watermarking scheme based on image normal- ization,” Proc. IEEE Colloquium on Signal Processing and its Applications, Batu Feringghi, Penang, Malaysia, March 9-10, 2018, pp. 140–144. [C20] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “A secure image encryption algorithm based on polar decomposition,” Proc. IEEE Colloquium on Signal Processing and its Applications, Batu Feringghi, Penang, Malaysia, March 9-10, 2018, 135–139.

2017 [C19] S. Goyal, C. Chattopadhyay and G. Bhatnagar, “Automatic Textual Description Syn- thesis from Building Floor Plan Images,” IAPR Summer School on Document Analysis: Document Informatics, Jaipur, India, January 23-28, 2017. [C18] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A robust image hashing based on discrete wavelet transform,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Signal & Image Processing Applications, Kuching, Malaysia, September 12-14, 2017, pp. 440-444.

2016 [C17] S.P. Singh and G. Bhatnagar, “A novel chaos based robust watermarking framework,” Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Vision & Image Processing, IIT Roorkee, India, February 26-28, 2016. pp. 439–447. [C16] S. Goyal and G. Bhatnagar, “Image thresholding based on fuzzy logic,” Proc. Int. Conf. on Recent Trends in Engineering and Material Science (ICEMS-2016), Jaipur, India, May 28-29, 2016.

2012 [C15] A. Saha, G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “SVD Filter based Multiscale Approach for Image Quality Assessment,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia & Expo Workshop, Mel- bourne, Australia, July 9-13, 2012, pp. 43-48.

2011 [C14] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “Human Visual System based Framework for Con- cealed Weapon Detection,” Proc. Canadian Conf. Computer and Robot Vision, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, May 25-27, 2011, pp. 250-256. [C13] G. Bhatnagar and Q.M.J. Wu, “A New Robust Reference Watermarking Framework in Gyrator Domain,” Proc. IEEE Canadian Conf. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 8-11, 2011, pp. 648-651. [C12] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Navigation and Surveillance using Night Vision and Image Fusion,” Proc. IEEE Sym. Industrial Electronics & Applications, Langkawi Island, Malaysia, September 25-28, 2011, pp. 342-347. [C11] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “A Novel Image Encryption Framework based on Markov Map and Singular Value Decomposition,” Proc. Int. Conf. Image Analysis and Recognition, vol. 2, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 22-24, 2011, pp. 286-296.

2010 [C10] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Real Time Human Visual System Based Framework for Image Fusion,” Proc. Int. Conf. Image and Signal Processing, Trois-Rivires, Qubec, Canada, June 30 - July 2, 2010, pp. 71-78. [C9] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “Performance Evaluation of Multiresolution Methods in Disparity Estimation” Proc. Int. Conf. Image and Signal Processing, Trois- Rivires, Qubec, Canada, June 30 - July 2, 2010, pp. 496-504. [C8] G. Bhatnagar, Q.M.J. Wu and B. Raman, “SVD-based robust watermarking using fractional cosine transform,” Proc. SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing: Mobile Multi- media/Image Processing, Security, and Applications, vol. 7708, Orlando, Florida, United States, April 5-9, 2010, pp. 77080O-77080O-11.

7 [C7] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “A New SVD Based Watermarking Framework in Frac- tional Fourier Domain,” Proc. Int. Conf. Contemporary Computing, vol. 1, Noida, India, August 9-11, 2010, pp. 107-118.

2009 [C6] G. Bhatnagar, S. Arrabolu, R. Balasubramanian and K. Swaminathan, “Multipur- pose Watermarking Scheme using Essentially Non-Oscillatory Point-Value Decomposition,” IS&T/SPIE Int. Sym. Electronic Imaging: Proc. Wavelet Applications in Industrial Pro- cessing VI, vol. 7248, San Jose, California, USA, Jan 18-22, 2009, pp. 7248N1-N10. [C5] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “Robust Watermarking using Distributed MR-DCT and SVD,” Proc. Int. Conf. Advances in Pattern Recognition, Kolkata, India, Feb 4-6, 2009, pp. 21-24. [C4] S. Rawat, G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “A Robust Watermarking Scheme using Best Tree Wavelet Packet Transform,” Proc. IEEE Int. Advance Computing Conf., Patiala, India, March 6-7, 2009, pp. 883-887. [C3] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “Robust Watermarking in Multiresolution Walsh- Hadamard Transform, Proc. IEEE Int. Advance Computing Conf., Patiala, India, March 6-7, 2009, pp. 894-899.

2008 [C2] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “A new robust logo-watermarking scheme based on Image Fusion,” Proc. Int. Conf. Cognition and Recognition, Mysore, India, April 10-12, 2008, pp. 367-375. (Best Paper Award) [C1] G. Bhatnagar and B. Raman, “Robust Watermarking Scheme based on Multiresolution Fractional Fourier Transform,” Proc. Indian Conf. on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Bhubaneswar, India, Dec 16-19, 2008, pp. 1-8.

Awards, Achievements and Memberships

Awards & • Young Scientist Award conferred by International Academy of Physical Sciences (IAPS), Achievements 2015. • CSIR travel award (Rs. 35,000) to attend Wavelet Applications in Industrial Processing VI, IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging - 2009, San Jose, California, USA, January 2009. • Best paper award for a research paper in “International Conference of Cognition and Recognition (ICCR-08)”, April 10-12, 2008, Mysore, INDIA, 2008. • Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2010 and 2012. • I have total citation counts of 1260 for all the publications published since 2008 and having the h-index 20. ¤

Membership • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) • European Mathematical Society (EMS) • American Mathematical Society (AMS) • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) • Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) • International Association of Engineers (IAENG) • International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) • International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT)

Professional Activities

Journal • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Press

8 Referee Service • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Press • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensic and Security, IEEE Press • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Press • IET Image Processing • Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier • Signal Processing, Elsevier • Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier • Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier • Computer and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier • Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer • Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Springer • Neural Computing and Applications, Springer • Journal of Electronic Imaging, SPIE • Optical Engineering, SPIE • ETRI Journal, ETRI Press Conference • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’18), San Diego, USA, Referee Service July 2018. • International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP-2018), Jabalpur, India, September 2018 • International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN’18), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, February 2018. • International Workshop on Pattern Recognition (IWPR’18), Jinan, China, May 2018. • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’17), Hongkong, July 2017. • International Workshop on Pattern Recognition (IWPR’17), Singapore, May 2017. • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’16), Seattle, USA, July 2016. • International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN’16), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, February 2016. • International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP’16), IIT Roor- kee, India, February 2016. • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’15), Torino, Italy, July 2015. • International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN’15), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, February 2015. • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’14), Chengdu, China, July 2014. • XVI Annual Conference of International Academy of Physical Sciences (CONIAPS’14), Jabalpur, India, March 2014. • International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN’14), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, February 2014. • IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics & Applications, Langkawi Island, Malaysia, September 25-28, 2011. • International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, London Metropolitan University, UK, August 4-6, 2009. • International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, July 29-31, 2009. • International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008.

Others Proctoring in IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 2011 • Institute: University of Windsor, ON, Canada.

9 • Team: CVSSWindsor • Team Members: Dibyendu Mukherjee and Ashirbani Saha

Language Eﬃciency

Read Write Speak English Fluent Fluent Fluent Hindi Fluent Fluent Fluent (Mother Tongue)

Software Exposure

Computing Windows & Linux Platforms Programming C, C++, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica & Scilab Languages Tools Open CV, Visualization Toolkit (VTK), MeshLab, Advanced Visualization System (AVS) Software MS OFFICE, TEX, LATEX, LyX, SmartDraw Packages

References

References are available upon request.