Faculty details

Prof.Sudhakar Kumawat

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Mathematics & Computing

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

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About Me: Dr. Sudhakar Kumawat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computing at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar in 2020, focusing on computer vision and deep learning. Following his doctorate, he served as a Specially-Appointed Researcher at the Institute for Datability Science, Osaka University, where he continued his research in computer vision. His work has been widely recognized, with over 1100 citations and an h-index of 10. Dr. Kumawat has contributed to various conferences and journals, including the IEEE TPAMI, CVPR, ECCV, and MICCAI. His research interests encompass computer vision, deep learning, and artificial intelligence.

Research Interest: Computer Vision, Deep Learning

Teaching

Computer Organization and Architecture (Theory & Lab) [2024-25, Monsoon]
Data Structures (Theory & Lab) [2024-25, Winter]

Academics

PhD in Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, 2020
Integrated Dual Degree in Computer Science & Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, 2014

 

Position

Assistant Professor, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India, May 2024-Present:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Osaka University, Japan, Nov 2019- Apr 2024: 

Awards and Honors

Received TCS Research Fellowship (Jan 2015 - Dec 2018, 4 years)
Received travel grant from Google India to attend CVPR 2019
Awarded travel grant from Microsoft India to attend CVPR 2019 (politely declined)
Received travel grant from TCS India to attend ICASSP 2019
Awarded best paper runner up award at NCVPRIPG 2019

Publications

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

Sudhakar Kumawat, Tadashi Okawara, Michitaka Yoshida, Hajime Nagahara, and Yasushi Yagi, “Action Recognition From a Single Coded Image,” in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3196350. [Impact Factor: 20.8]
Sudhakar Kumawat, Manisha Verma, Yuta Nakashima, and Shanmuganathan Raman, “Depthwise Spatio-Temporal STFT Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition,” in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3076522. [Impact Factor: 20.8]

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

Caio Azevedo, Sanchayan Santra, Sudhakar Kumawat, Hajime Nagahara, and Ken’ichi Morooka, “Deep Volume Reconstruction from Multi-focus Microscopic Images”, in the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Marrakesh, Morocco, Oct. 6-10, 2024. [CORE A]
Sudhakar Kumawat and Hajime Nagahara, “LoHoSC: Low Order High Order Style Consistency for Syn-to-Real Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation”, in the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Kolkata, India, Dec. 1-5, 2024. [CORE B]
Yi Liu, Sudhakar Kumawat, and Hajime Nagahara, “Deep Hardware Modality Fusion for Image Segmentation”, in the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Kolkata, India, Dec. 1-5, 2024. [CORE B]
Sudhakar Kumawat and Hajime Nagahara, “Privacy-Preserving Action Recognition via Motion Difference Quantization”, in the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 23-27, 2022. [CORE A]
Sudhakar Kumawat∗, Gagan Kanojia∗, and Shanmuganathan Raman, “ShuffleBlock: Shuffle to Regularize Convolutional Neural Networks”, in the 28th National Conference on Communications (NCC), Mumbai, IN, May 24-27, 2022.
Sudhakar Kumawat and Shanmuganathan Raman, “Depthwise-STFT based separable Convolutional Neural Networks”, in the 45th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, 2020. [CORE B] [Long Oral]
Davinder Singh∗, Naman Jain∗, Pranjali Jain∗, Pratik Kayal∗, Sudhakar Kumawat, and Nipun Batra, “PlantDoc: A Dataset for Visual Plant Disease Detection”, in the 7th ACM IKDD CoDS and 25th COMAD (ACM CoDS COMAD), Hyderabad, IN, Jan. 5-7, 2020.
Gagan Kanojia, Sudhakar Kumawat, and Shanmuganathan Raman, “Exploring Temporal Differences in 3D Convolutional Neural Networks”, in the Seventh National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), Hubballi, Karnataka, IN, Dec. 22-24, 2019. [Best Paper Runner-Up Award]
Sudhakar Kumawat and Shanmuganathan Raman, “Local Phase U-Net for Fundus Image Segmentation”, in the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, May 12-17, 2019. [CORE B]
Sudhakar Kumawat and Shanmuganathan Raman, “LP-3DCNN: Unveiling Local Phase in 3D Convolutional Neural Networks”, in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, USA, June 16-20, 2019. [CORE A]

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists | Title: Domain Adaptation Frameworks for Road Scene Segmentation in Unseen Environments | Sponsoring Agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Duration: Apr 2022 - Mar 2024 (2 years) | Role: Principal Investigator 
ANRF Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant | Title: Developing Generalizable AI Models for Drone Imagery in Complex and Varied Indian Landscapes |
Sponsoring Agency: Anusandhan National Research Foundation | Duration: 2025 - 2028 (3 years) | Role: Principal Investigator
TEXMiN Call for Innovation 2024 | Title: AI-Powered Vision Systems for Low-light and Low-visibility Underground Mining Environments |
Sponsoring Agency: TEXMiN, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad | Duration: Mar 2025 - Sep 2026 (1.5 years) | Role: Principal Investigator 

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