Mr. Sumeet Saurav

Senior Scientist

Work Email: sumeet@ceeri.res.in
Personal Email: sumeetssaurav@gmail.com
Mobile: 7357179089
EPBX Office: 2243
EPBX Residential:
BSNL Office: 242359
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Areas of Research Interest:

  • Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Vision Algorithms
  • Digital VLSI Architecture Design
  • FPGA based Embedded System Design and Prototyping
  • Deep Learning Architecture For Computer Vision Applications

 

Professional Career:

  • Scientist (Feb, 2016 – Present) @ Cognitive Computing Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India.
  • CSIR Senior Research Fellow (SRF) (Oct, 2015-Feb, 2016) @ IC Design Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India.
  • CSIR Quick Hire Fellow (QHF) (Sep, 2012-Sep, 2015) @ IC Design Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India.

 

Academic Details:

Ph.D. (Pursuing in the Field of Computer Vision and VLSI Architectures).
Supervisors: Dr. Sanjay Singh, Scientist, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India and Dr. Ravi Saini, Senior Scientist, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India.
University: Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR) at CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India.

M. Tech. (2014)
In Advanced Semiconductor Electronics (ASE).
Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR) at CSIR-CEERI.
First Position in the Institute.

B.E (2012)
In Electronics and Communication Engineering.
University Rank Holder (Gold Medal).

 

Honors / Scholarships:

  • CSIR Quick Hire Fellow (2012-2015).
  • University Merit Scholarship (2008-2012).
  • Gold Medal for First Position in University in B.E.
  • Certificate for Appreciation from Hindustan Times Newspaper for achieving first position in 12th C.B.S.E examination in school.

 

Research/Consultancy Projects:

National Programme on Perception Engineering – Phase II for Design of an Embedded System for Low Cost Haptic Rendering of Emotion Expressions to the Blind.

  • R&D Project Funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India.
  • Participating Institutes are CSIR-CEERI India, IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay.
  • Project Budget for CSIR-CEERI is Rs. 109.15 Lakhs.
  • Project Duration is Four Years (December 2013 – December 2017).
  • My Role: Member.

Evaluation of Behavioural Video Analytics System.

  • Consultancy Project Funded by United White Metals Limited, Akurli Road, Kandivali, Mumbai – 400101, India.
  • Participating Institutes are CSIR-CEERI India and Comm-IT Software Ltd. Israel.
  • Project Budget for CSIR-CEERI is Rs. 196.12 Lakhs.
  • Project Durations is Two Years: (April 2017 – April 2019).
  • My Role: Member.

Driving Assistance Systems & Services: 360 Degree Surround Synthesis Systems.

  • Collaborative R&D Project Funded by M/s. Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd.
  • Participating Institutes are CSIR-CEERI India and Samsung India.
  • Project Budget for CSIR-CEERI is Rs. 20.55 Lakhs.
  • Project Duration is One Year (July 2017 – July 2018).
  • My Role: Member.

Under CEERI-IIT Indore Joint R&D Programme: Hardware Realization of Extreme Learning Machine and Quantum Inspired Fuzzy based Neural Network.

  • R&D Project Funded by CSIR-CEERI India and IIT Indore.
  • Participating Institutes are CSIR-CEERI India and IIT Indore.
  • Project Budget for CSIR-CEERI is Rs. 6.00 Lakhs.
  • Project Duration is One Year (March 2017 – February 2018).
  • My Role: Member.

 

Conference/Workshop Participation:

  • Advanced Optimization Techniques, MNIT, Jaiput, India, October 6-15, 2017.
  • Xilinx Tools Training by CoreEL Industry, Thapar University, Patiala, India, January 16-24, 2017.
  • International Conference ICVGIP and Associated Workshop WACV, IIT Guwahati, India, December 19-22, 2016.
  • 46th Skoch Summit, Delhi, December 15, 2016.
  • International Conference IHCI, CSIR-CEERI Pilani and BITS Pilani, December 12-13, 2016.
  • India International Science Festival (IISF), CSIR-NPL, Delhi, December 07-11, 2016.
  • International Conference ICACCI-2015, Aluva, Kochi, August 10-13, 2015.
  • Synopsys Workshop, New Delhi, April 30, 2015.
  • Xilinx Workshop, New Delhi, February 27, 2015.
  • IEEE VDAT 2014, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, July 16-18, 2014.

 

Publications:

 

  • S. Saurav, R. Saini, and S. Singh, “A dual-stream fused neural network for fall detection in multi-camera and 360∘ videos,” Neural Computing and Applications, 2021 (SCI Impact Factor – 5.606).
  • S. Saurav, R. Saini and S. Singh, “Facial Expression Recognition Using Dynamic Local Ternary Patterns With Kernel Extreme Learning Machine Classifier,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 120844-120868, 2021 (SCI Impact Factor – 3.367).
  • S. Jain, A. Rustagi, S. Saurav, R. Saini, and S. Singh, “Three-dimensional CNN-inspired deep learning architecture for Yoga pose recognition in the real-world environment,” Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 6427-6441, 2021 (SCI Impact Factor – 5.606).
  • S. Saurav, R. Saini, and S. Singh, “EmNet: a deep integrated convolutional neural network for facial emotion recognition in the wild,” Applied Intelligence, vol. 51, pp. 5543–5570, 2021 (SCI Impact Factor – 5.086).
  • S. Saurav, P. Gidde, R. Saini, and S. Singh, “Dual integrated convolutional neural network for real-time facial expression recognition in the wild,” The Visual Computer, 2021 (SCI Impact Factor – 2.601).
  • Sanjay Singh, Sumeet Saurav, Ravi Saini, Atanendu S. Mandal and Santanu Chaudhury, FPGA-based Smart Camera System for Real-time Automated Video Surveillance, Springer CCIS Proceedings: 21st International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2017), IIT Roorkee, India, pp. 1-12, June 29, 2017 – July 02, 2017.
  • Sanjay Singh, Ravi Saini, Sumeet Saurav, Anil K Saini, Real-time Object Tracking with Active PTZ Camera using Hardware Acceleration Approach International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP), MECS Press, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 55-62, 2017.
  • Sanjay Singh, Ravi Saini, Sumeet Saurav, Pramod Tanwar, Kota S Raju, Anil K Saini, Santanu Chaudhury, Idaku Ishii, High Frame Rate Real-time Scene Change Detection System Springer LNCS Proceedings: Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP)-Workshop on Computer Vision Applications (WCVA), IIT Guwahati, India, pp. 1-12, December 19, 2016.
  • Sanjay Singh, Sumeet Saurav, Chandra Shekhar, Anil Vohra, Prototyping an Automated Video Surveillance System using FPGAs, International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP), MECS Press, Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 37-46, 2016.
  • Sanjay Singh, Sumeet Saurav, Chandra Shekhar, Anil Vohra, Moving Object Detection Scheme for Automated Video Surveillance Systems, International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP), MECS Press, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 49-58, 2016.
  • Sumeet Saurav, Sanjay Singh, Ravi Saini, Anil K Sani, Hardware Accelerator for Facial Expression Classification using Linear SVM, Springer Proceedings: Second International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS’15), Trivandrum, India, pp. 39-50, December 16-19, 2015.
  • Himanshu Sharma, Sumeet Saurav, Sanjay Singh, Anil K Saini, Ravi Saini, Analyzing Impact of Image Scaling Algorithms on Viola-Jones Face Detection Framework, IEEE Proceedings: 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2015), Kochi, India, pp. 1715-1718, August 10-13, 2015.
  • Shradha Gupta, Sumeet Saurav, Sanjay Singh, Anil K Saini, Ravi Saini, VLSI Architecture of Exponential Block for Non-Linear SVM Classification, IEEE Proceedings: 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2015), Kochi, India, pp. 528-532, August 10-13, 2015.
  • Sumeet Saurav, Shradha Gupta, Anil K Saini, Sanjay Singh, Ravi Saini, VLSI Architecture of Pairwise Linear SVM for Facial Expression Recognition, IEEE Proceedings: 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2015), Kochi, India, pp. 521-527, August 10-13, 2015.
  • Neha Sharma, Sumeet Saurav, Sanjay Singh, Ravi Saini, Anil K Saini, A Comparative Analysis of Various Image Enhancement Techniques for Facial Images, IEEE Proceedings: 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2015), Kochi, India, pp. 2279-2284, August 10-13, 2015.
  • Sumeet Saurav, Nidhi Sharma, Ravi Saini, Sanjay Singh, Anil K Saini, Analyzing Hardware Constraints of Gabor Filtering Operation for Facial Expression Recognition System, IEEE Proceedings: 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2015), Kochi, India, pp. 1639-1645, August 10-13, 2015.
  • Sanjay Singh, Sumeet Saurav, Ravi Saini, Anil K Saini, Chandra Shekhar, Anil Vohra, Comprehensive Review and Comparative Analysis of Hardware Architectures for Sobel Edge Detector, ISRN Electronics, Hindawi, USA, Vol. 2014, Article ID 857912, pp. 1-9, 2014.
  • Sanjay Singh, Sumeet Saurav, Ravi Saini, Anil K Saini, Chandra Shekhar, Anil Vohra, Automatic Real-time Extraction of Focused Regions in a Live Video Stream using Edge Width Information, IEEE Proceedings: 18th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2014), PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, pp. 1-2, July 16-18, 2014.
  • Sanjay Singh, Ravi Saini, Sumeet Saurav, Anil K Saini, Chandra Shekhar, Anil Vohra, FPGA-based Real-time Object Tracker using Modified Particle Filtering and SAD Computation, IEEE Proceedings: 18th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2014), PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, pp. 1-2, July 16-18, 2014.
  • Pranav Gour, Sujay Narumanchi, Sumeet Saurav, Sanjay Singh, Hardware Accelerator for Real-time Image Resizing, IEEE Proceedings: 18th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2014), PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, pp. 1-6, July 16-18, 2014.