Professional Activities & Recognitions

Awards

  1. Technical University of Munich Research Ambassador Award, 2019
  2. Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Kharagpur, 2017
  3. G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research, 2011.
  4. NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Application Oriented Innovation, 2011.
  5. J.C. Bose National Fellowship, 2008
  6. Prof. H.H. Mathur Excellence in Research Award from IIT Bombay, 2008.
  7. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, 2004.
  8. Swarnajayanti Fellowship, 2003.
  9. Hari Om Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, 2001.
  10. Prof. S.V.C. Aiya Memorial Award for Telecom Education, 2003 from IETE Pune Section.
  11. 7th Prof. SVC Aiya Memorial Award for excellence in research from IETE, 2001.
  12. Best paper Award, National Systems Conf., Roorkee, 1992.

Fellowships

  1. Indian National Science Academy (FNA)
  2. IEEE.
  3. Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE).
  4. Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc).
  5. National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), India.
  6. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (1997).
  7. Fellow, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India.

Visiting Professorships

  1. Telecommunications Institute, University of Erlangen, Germany (May-June, 1996).
  2. Inst of Fundamental Electronics, University of Paris Sud, Orsay, France (May 2002, May-June 2003).
  3. Technical University of Munich, Germany (May-June, 2008).
  4. National University of Singapore, (May-June, 2014).
  5. Hongkong Baptist University, (a week each in 2018 and 2019)

Editorial Services

  1. Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) during 2006-2008.
  2. Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) during 2004-.
  3. Associate Editor of IET Transactions on Computer Vision during 2007-2011.
  4. Member of Editorial Board of Proc. of Academy of Sciences (Sadhana) during 2005-2007.
  5. Member of Editorial Board of Int. J. of Biomedical Imaging, during 2005-2008.
  6. Guest Editor, Special Issue of IETE J or Research on Visual Media Processing, May-June 2002.
  7. Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction, May 2003.
  8. Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue of Image & Vision Computing, Dec 2004.

Conference Chairmanships

  1. General Chair, 8th National Conference on Communication, Bombay, Jan. 2002.
  2. General Chair, IEEE Workshop on Computer Architecture in Machine Perception (CAMP), New Orleans, USA, May. 2003.
  3. Program Co-Chair, Indian Conference on Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, SAC, Ahmedabad, Dec 2002.
  4. Program Co-Chair, ICCV 2005, Beijing, China, Oct. 2005.