Faculty details

Prof.Dheeraj Bharti

Designation: Assistant Professor.

Department: Electronics Engineering

Email: dheerajbharti[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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About Me: I have been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at IIT ISM Dhanbad since June 2026. I finished my postdoctoral work under Dr. Thiago Santos at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) in Campinas, São Paulo, on a FAPESP-funded project in autonomous agricultural robotics, focusing on multimodal sensor fusion and proximal sensing for a SLAM-based architecture for geo-referenced reconstruction of fruit orchards. I completed my PhD(2025) from IIT Kanpur from the department of Electrical Engineering, and my thesis includes works such as Bayesian uncertainty calculation and reduction in deep-learning-based architectures and aviation based applications of CNN architectures.

Research Interest: Computer Vision, SLAM Robotics, Real-time Transformer-based Algorithms, 3-D Pose Reconstruction, SfM, Machine Learning, Statistical Signal Processing

Teaching

  • NECC203 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers (Course) 
  • NECC102 Introduction to Electronics Engineering Laboratory
  • NECC205 Microprocessor and Microcontroller Laboratory

 

Academics

Ph.D. + M.Tech.                         Department of Electrical Engineering                                                        IIT Kanpur                                                     

B.Tech.                                        Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering            MANIT Bhopal                                        

Position

  • Associate Guest Editor: MDPI Horticulture Journal for Smart Orchards: Sensing and Yield Prediction 
  • Associate Guest Editor: Frontiers Journal for Agricultural and Food Economics

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Awards and Honors

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  • Bharti, D. and Venkatesh, K.S., 2025, Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty Reduction for Vision-Based Landing System for Fixed-Wing Aircraft: VLS-FWA. IEEE Access (Volume: 13), 79623 – 79633, “10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3567010”
  • Bharti, D.; Faria, L.N.d.; Koenigkan, L.V.; Gebler, L.; Santos, A.d.R.; Santos, T.T. Geo-Referenced Factor-Graph SLAM for Orchard-Scale 3D Apple Reconstruction and Yield Estimation. MDPI Agriculture 2026, 16, 764. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16070764
  • F. Riveira, Bharti, D., Dynamics of Agriculture 4.0 Technology Adoption in the Agri-Food System: Insights from an Exploratory Study in Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil. MDPI Foods 2026, 15(11), 1892 https://doi.org/10.3390/foods15111892

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

Datasets: 

  • T. Teixeira Santos, L. Koenigkan, D. Bharti, L. Gebler and Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, “SEEmear: High-Resolution Georeferenced Proximal RGB-D Data for Niagara Grapes in the Field”. Zenodo, Dec. 17, 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17969390
  • T. Santos, L. Koenigkan, D. Bharti, L. Gebler, “SEEmear: High-Resolution georeferenced 3D Mapping Methodology for Proximal Monitoring of Permanent Crops”, in 2025 XV Congresso Brasileiro de Agroinformática , December 2025, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398799173_SEEmear_High-Resolution_georeferenced_3D_Mapping_Methodology_for_Proximal_Monitoring_of_Permanent_Crops

Conference Papers:

  • D. Bharti, M. Kothari, and K. Venkatesh, “Neural network-based landing assist using remote sensing data,” in 2022 16th International Conference on Signal-Image
    Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), pp. 116–120, IEEE, October 2022, “10.1109/SITIS57111.2022.00025”
  • D. Bharti, N. Vedwal, A. Agarwal, B. Singh, and K. Venkatesh, “Real-time yolov7 based smart light control system,” in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Green Energy (ICAIGE), pp. 1–6, IEEE, October 2023 “10.1109/ICAIGE58321.2023.10346314”.
  • D. Bharti, C. Prachand, and K. Venkatesh, “Vls-fwa: Real-time end-to-end neural network pipeline of vision-based landing system for fixed-wing aircraft,” in 2024 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS), pp. 1–7, IEEE, July 2024, “10.1109/ICPRS62101.2024.10677823”.
  • D. Bharti, B. Puneeth, and K. Venkatesh, “Ambiguous boundary uncertainty reduction in single stage detector models,” in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI), pp. 1–8, IEEE, October 2024 “10.1109/CVMI61877.2024.10782711”.
  • G. Bano, D. Bharti, P. Saha, K. Gaurav, and K. Venkatesh, “Ptz camera teams for effective, close in multi object detection and tracking,” in 2024 9th International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing (ICIVC), pp. 324–329, IEEE, July 2024 “10.1109/ICIVC61627.2024.10837320”
  • G. Bano, M. Varun, D. Bharti, K. Gaurav, and K. Vankatesh, “Real time human activity analysis in wide environments using multiple ptz camera feeds,” in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI), pp. 1–6, IEEE, October 2024 “10.1109/CVMI61877.2024.10781698”. 
  • Silveira, F.; Bharti, D.; Santos, T.; Barbedo, J. Strategies to Overcome Barriers to the Implementation of Agriculture 4.0 Technologies in the Brazilian Agri-food System, in Proceedings of the 6th International Electronic Conference on Foods, 28–30 October 2025, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/25417

Patents

  • Bharti. D, and K S Venkatesh, A Robust Dehazing Algorithm In CIELAB Color Space (Patent No. 409437) includes Dark Channel Prior and mask R-CNN deep neural network to separate foreground and background for transmission map refinement for aviation use-case
  • Bharti. D, K S Venkatesh, and C. Prachand, System For Facilitating Autonomous Landings Of Fixed-Wing Aircraft During Single-Pilot Operations And Method Thereof (Application No: 202411037540) includes a novel framework to detect and extract geometric features from a visible runway to predict the slant distance remaining to land, lateral and vertical deviation from glide slope and height above ground. STATUS: Secrecy Direction with DRDO

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Member IEEE, USA

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