Academic Profile :

Education:
1990-1994: Bachelor of Computer Science & Engineering (WBJEE Rank: 22) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032. Final Year Project Title: Classification in printed character recognition.
1995-1997: Master of Computer Science & Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032. Dissertation Title: An efficient algorithm for recognition of mathematical expressions in document images.
2005: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Thesis Title: Recognition of Printed and Handwritten Mathematical Expressions.

Employments:
July 2015 - till date: Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
June 2009 - June 2015: Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
December 2006 - May 2009: Assistant Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
June 1999 - November 2006: Lecturer Equiv., Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
September 1997 - June 1999: Project scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
March 1997 - August 1997: Software engineer, Cognizent Technology Solutions, India.
July 1994 - August 1995: Graduate Engineer, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai, India.
 

Publications :

Patents (in last 10 years):

1. Ishan Sahu, Snehasis Banerjee, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Arpan Pal, Utpal Garain: Systems and Methods for obtaining Mother Wavelets for facilitating Machine Learning Tasks; US Patent 2019/0205778 A1 ; July 04, 2019; USA (Granted)

2. Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Ramu Vempada Reddy, Utpal Garain: Method and system for automatic selection of one or more image processing algorithm; 9275307; March 1, 2016; USA (Granted)

3. Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Arpan Pal, Aniruddha Sinha, Utpal Garain: System and method for detection and segmentation of touching characters for OCR; 9922263; March 20, 2013; USA (Granted)

4. Swagata Biswas, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Arpan Pal, Snehasis Banerjee, Utpal Garain: Method and system for recommending features for developing an iot application; 10277682; April 30, 2019; USA (Granted)

5. Swagata Biswas, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Arpan Pal, Snehasis Banerjee, Utpal Garain: Method and system for recommending features for developing an iot application; 20180146047; May 24, 2018; India (Granted)

6. R. Banerjee, S. Dey, A. Dutta Choudhury, S. Banerjee, S. Datta, S. Biswas, A. Sinha, A. Mukherjee, A. Pal, U. Garain, K. Muthana Mandana: Methods and System for Identifying Coronary Artery Disease Patients using Photoplethysmogram Signal; 201621020016; June 10, 2016; India (Filed)

7. Ishan Sahu, Snehasis. Banerjee, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Arpan Pal, Utpal Garain: Systems and Methods for obtaining Mother Wavelets for facilitating Machine Learning Tasks; 201721047125; Dec. 27, 2017; India (Filed)

8. Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain, Anabik Pal, S. Somasundaram, Supriya Sarkar: Tube Inspection System; WO2019219956A1; 21-Nov-2019; International EPO (Filed)

Research Papers (in last 10 years):

Utpal Garain, Biswajit Halder: “Even big data is not enough: need for a novel reference modelling for forensic document authentication”, Int. J. Document Anal. Recognit, 23(1): 1-11 (2020)

Abhisek Chakrabarty, Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain: “NeuMorph: Neural Morphological Tagging for Low-Resource Languages – An Experimental Study for Indic Languages”, ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process., 19(1): 16:1-16:19 (2020)

Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain: “Attacking VQA Systems via Adversarial Background Noise”, IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell. 4(4): 490-499 (2020)

Omid Mohamad Nezami, Akshay Chaturvedi, Mark Dras, Utpal Garain: “Pick-Object-Attack: Type-Specific Adversarial Attack for Object Detection”, CoRR abs/2006.03184 (2020)

Snehasis Banerjee, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Utpal Garain: “A Wide Learning Approach for Interpretable Feature Recommendation for 1-D Sensor Data in IoT Analytics”, Int. J. Autom. Comput. 16(6): 800-811 (2019)

Abhisek Chakrabarty, Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain: “CNN-based Context Sensitive Lemmatization”, COMAD/CODS 2019: 334-337 [received studenr paper award].

Mahshad Mahdavi, Richard Zanibbi, Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Utpal Garain: “ICDAR 2019 CROHME + TFD: Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions and Typeset Formula Detection”, ICDAR 2019: 1533-1538

Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain: “Mimic and Fool: A Task Agnostic Adversarial Attack”, CoRR abs/1906.04606 (2019)

Akshay Chaturvedi, Abijith KP, Utpal Garain: “Invariance-based Adversarial Attack on Neural Machine Translation Systems”, CoRR abs/1908.01165 (2019)

Anabik Pal, Utpal Garain, Aditi Chandra, Raghunath Chatterjee, Swapan Senapati: “Psoriasis skin biopsy image segmentation using Deep Convolutional Neural Network”, Comput. Methods Programs Biomed., 159: 59-69 (2018)

Snehasis Banerjee, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Arpan Pal, Utpal Garain: “Automation of feature engineering for IoT analytics”, SIGBED Rev. 15(2): 24-30 (2018)

Akshay Chaturvedi, Onkar Arun Pandit, Utpal Garain: “CNN for Text-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering”, ACL (2) 2018: 272-277

Anabik Pal, Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain, Aditi Chandra, Raghunath Chatterjee, Swapan Senapati: “Severity Assessment of Psoriatic Plaques Using Deep CNN Based Ordinal Classification”, OR 2.0/CARE/CLIP/ISIC@MICCAI 2018: 252-259

Anabik Pal, Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain, Aditi Chandra, Raghunath Chatterjee, Swapan Senapati: “CapsDeMM: Capsule Network for Detection of Munro’s Microabscess in Skin Biopsy Images”, MICCAI (2) 2018: 389-397

Anabik Pal, Sounak Ray, Utpal Garain: “Skin disease identification from dermoscopy images using deep convolutional neural network”, CoRR abs/1807.09163 (2018)

Anabik Pal, Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain, Aditi Chandra, Raghunath Chatterjee, Swapan Senapati: “CapsDeMM: Capsule network for Detection of Munro’s Microabscess in skin biopsy images”, CoRR abs/1808.06428 (2018)

Anandarup Roy, Anabik Pal, Utpal Garain: “JCLMM: A finite mixture model for clustering of circular-linear data and its application to psoriatic plaque segmentation”, Pattern Recognit., 66: 160-173 (2017)

Arjun Das, Debasis Ganguly, Utpal Garain: “Named Entity Recognition with Word Embeddings and Wikipedia Categories for a Low-Resource Language”, ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process., 16(3): 18:1-18:19 (2017)

Abhisek Chakrabarty, Onkar Arun Pandit, Utpal Garain: “Context Sensitive Lemmatization Using Two Successive Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Networks”, ACL (1) 2017: 1481-1491

Abhisek Chakrabarty, Utpal Garain: “ISI at the SIGMORPHON 2017 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection”, CoNLL Shared Task (1) 2017: 66-70

Arjun Das, Utpal Garain, Ravindra Kumar, Apurbalal Senapati: “Hiencor: On mining of a hi-en general purpose parallel corpus from the web”, IALP 2017: 235-238

Utpal Garain, Onkar Arun Pandit, Olivier Augereau, Ayano Okoso, Koichi Kise: “Identification of Reader Specific Difficult Words by Analyzing Eye Gaze and Document Content”, ICDAR 2017: 1346-1351

Utpal Garain, “A Stochastic Approach for Finding Optimal Context in Contextual Pattern Analysis Task,” in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 31(2):21-28, 2016.

Harold Mouchère, Richard Zanibbi, Utpal Garain, Christian Viard-Gaudin: “Advancing the state of the art for handwritten math recognition: the CROHME competitions, 2011-2014”, Int. J. Document Anal. Recognit. 19(2): 173-189 (2016)

Abhisek Chakrabarty, Utpal Garain: “BenLem (A Bengali Lemmatizer) and Its Role in WSD”, ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. 15(3): 12:1-12:18 (2016)

Swarnava Dey, Swagata Biswas, Arpan Pal, Arijit Mukherjee, Utpal Garain, Kayapanda M. Mandana:  “CAD Patient Classification Using MIMIC-II”, eHealth 360° 2016: 370-375

Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Richard Zanibbi, Utpal Garain: “ICFHR2016 CROHME: Competition on Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions”, ICFHR 2016: 607-612

Anabik Pal, Akshay Chaturvedi, Utpal Garain, Aditi Chandra, Raghunath Chatterjee: “Severity grading of psoriatic plaques using deep CNN based multi-task learning”, ICPR 2016: 1478-1483

Snehasis Banerjee, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Swagata Biswas, Rohan Banerjee, Anirban Dutta Choudhury, Arpan Pal, Utpal Garain: “Towards Wide Learning: Experiments in Healthcare”, CoRR abs/1612.05730 (2016)

Dwaipayan Roy, Debjyoti Paul, Mandar Mitra, and Utpal Garain, “Using Word embeddings for Automatic Query Expansion,” in ACM SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, Italy, 2016.

Abhisek Chakrabarty, Akshay Chaturvedi and Utpal Garain, “A Neural Lemmatizer for Bengali,” in 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portoroz (Slovenia), May 2016.

A. Roy, B. Halder, U. Garain, and D. Doermann, “Machine Assisted Authentication of Paper Currency: an Experiment on Indian Banknotes,” in Int. Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Springer, 18(3):271-285, 2015.

S. Maiti, U. Garain, A. Dhar and S. De, “A novel method for performance evaluation of text chunking,” in Language Resources and Evaluation, 49(1): 215-226, Springer, March, 2015.

A. Pal, A. Roy, K. Sen, R. Chatterjee, U. Garain, and S. Senapati, “Mixture Model based Color Clustering for Psoriatic Plaque Segmentation,” in 3rd IAPR Asian Conf on Pattern Recognition (ACPR), November, 2015.

A. Pal, U. Garain, R. Chatterjee, and S. Senapati, ” Psoriatic Plaque Segmentation in Skin Images,” in 5th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), December, 2015.

B. Halder, U. Garain, R. Darbar, and A. Mondal, “Inverse of Low Resolution Line Halftone Images for Document Inspection,” in Computational Forensics, Post-proceedings of 5th and 6th IAPR Int. Workshop on Computational Forensics, Springer LNCS 8915 pp.95-103, 2015.

A. Senapati and U. Garain, “A Computational Approach for Corpus Based Analysis of Reduplicated Words in Bengali,” in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Ed. Gelbukh, Springer LNCS 8403, pp. 456-466, Cairo, Egypt, 2015.

U. Garain, L. Mioulet, B. B. Chaudhuri, C. Chatelain, and T. Paquet, “Unconstrained Bengali Handwriting Recognition with Recurrent Models,” in Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR): 1056-1060, France, August, 2015.

L. Mioulet, U. Garain, C. Chatelain, T. Paquet, and P. Barlas, “Language Identification from Handwritten Documents,” in Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR): 676-680, France, August, 2015.

D. Sinha, U. Garain, and S. Bandyopadhyay, “Event Extraction from Cancer Genetics Literature,” in Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR), Kolkata, India, Jan., 2015.

A. Mukherjee, U. Garain, and A. Biswas, “Experimenting with Automatic Text-to-Diagram Conversion. A Novel Teaching Aid for the Blind People” in Educational Technology & Society , 17(3): 40-53, 2014.

B. Halder, R. Darbar, and U. Garain, and A. Mondal, “Analysis of fluorescent paper pulps for detecting counterfeit Indian paper money,” in Information Systems Security: Proc. of 10th International Conference (ICISS), Eds. Prakash, Atul, Shyamasundar, Rudrapatna, Springer LNCS 8880, pp. 411-424, 2014.

A. Mukherjee, U. Garain, and A. Biswas, “Evaluation of Diagrams Produced by Text-to-Graphics Conversion Systems,” Graphics Recognition: Current trends and Challenges, Eds. Bart Lamiroy and Jean-Marc Ogier, Springer LNCS 8746, pp. 252-265, 2014.

A. Senapati and U. Garain, “A Maximum Entropy Based Honorificity Identification for Bengali Pronominal Anaphora Resolution,” in 15th CICLing 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal, A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Part I, Springer LNCS 8403, pp. 319-329, 2014.

A. Senapati and U. Garain, “One-expression classification in Bengali and its role in Bengali-English machine translation,” in Proc. Int. Conf. on Asian Language Processing (IALP), pp. 162-165, Kuching, Malaysia, Oct., 2014.

A. Das, U. Garain, and A. Senapati, “Automatic detection of subject/object drops in Bengali,” NLP Tool Contest in Proc. Int. Conf. on Asian Language Processing (IALP), pp. 91-94, Kuching, Malaysia, Oct., 2014.

H. Mouchere, C. Viard-Gaudin, R. Zanibbi, and U. Garain, “ICFHR 2014 Competition on Recognition of On-Line Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (CROHME 2014),”in Proc. 14th Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), pp. 791-796, Crete, Greece, Sept., 2014.

A. Das and U. Garain, “Moses for Indic Languages,” in Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Goa, India, Dec., 2014.

A. Senapati, A. Das, and U. Garain, “Pro-drop Resolution in Bengali,” Student Paper Contest in Proc. 11th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Goa, India, Dec., 2014.

U. Garain, J. Paik, T. Pal, P. Majumder, D. Doermann, and D. Oard , “Overview of the FIRE2011 RISOT Task”, in Post-proceedings of FIRE 2010 and 2011, Multi-lingual Information Access in South Asian Langauges, P. Majumder, M. Mitra, P. Bhattacharya, L.V. Subramaniam, D. Contractor and P. Rosso (Eds.), Springer LNCS , vol. 7536, pp.197-204, 2013.

U. Garain, D. Doermann, and D. Oard , “Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR’d Bengali”, in Post-proceedings of FIRE 2010 and 2011, Multi-lingual Information Access in South Asian Langauges, P. Majumder, M. Mitra, P. Bhattacharya, L.V. Subramaniam, D. Contractor and P. Rosso (Eds.), Springer LNCS, vol. 7536, pp.205-213, 2013.

A. Mukherjee, U. Garain, and A. Biswas, “Diagram Drawing Using Braille Text: A Low Cost Learning Aid for Blind People”, in Global Trends in Intelligent Computing Research and Development, Chapter 14, pp. 384-406 , Eds. B.K. Tripathy and D.P. Acharjya, Publisher: IGI Global, USA, 2013.

U. Garain and S. De , “Dependency Parsing in Bangla”, in Technical Challenges and Design Issues in Bangla Language Processing, Chapter 8, pp.155-168, Eds: M. A. Karim, M. Kaykobad, and M. Murshed, Publisher: IGI Global, USA, 2013.

A. Senapati and U. Garain , “GuiTAR-based Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Bengali,” in ACL , pp.126-130, 2013.

Ankush Roy and Utpal Garain , “A Probabilistic Model for Reconstruction of Torn Forensic Documents “, in 12th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp.494-498, 2013.

T. Chattopadhyay, V. R. Reddy and Utpal Garain , “Automatic Selection of Binarization Techniques for Robust OCR”, in 12th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp.1202-1206, 2013.

H. Mouchere, C. Viard-Gaudin, R. Zanibbi, U. Garain, D. H. Kim, and J. H. Kim , “ICDAR 2013 CROHME: Third International Competition on Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions,” in 12th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp.1460-1464, 2013.

A. Roy and U. Garain, “A Probabilistic framework for Logo Detection and Localization in Natural Scene Images,” in 21st Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp.2051-2054, Tsukuba, Japan, 2012.

U. Garain, A. Das, D. Doermann, and D. Oard , “Leveraging Statistical Transliteration for Dictionary-Based English-Bengali CLIR of OCR’d Text” in 24th Int. Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp.339-348, Mumbai, India, 2012.

A. Senapati and U. Garain, “Anaphora Resolution in Bangla using global discourse knowledge,” in Int. Conf. on Asian Language Processing (IALP), pp.49-52, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2012.

T. Chattopadhyay and U. Garain, “Realization of an Embeddable Light Weight Video OCR,” in 12th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), pp.230-234, Kochi, India, 2012.

H. Mouchere, C. Viard-Gaudin, D. H. Kim, J. H. Kim and U. Garain, “ICFHR 2012 Competition on Recognition of On-Line Mathematical Expressions (CROHME 2012)” in Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers on Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), pp.811-816, 2012.

A. Das, A. Shee and U. Garain, “Evaluation of Two Bengali Dependency Parsers,” in Proc. COLING Workshop on Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL), pp.133-141, Mumbai, India, 2012.

A. Das, A. Shee and U. Garain, “ISI-Kolkata at MTPIL-2012,” in Proc. COLING Workshop on Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL), pp.185-189, Mumbai, India, 2012.

B. Halder, R. Darbar and U. Garain, “Investigating the role of fluorescent paper pulp for detecting counterfeit Banknotes,” in 5th Int. Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF), pp.13-23, Tsukuba, Japan, 2012.

A. Senapati, S. Patra and U. Garain, “Identification of Anaphoric tAr and se in Bangla,” in Proc. 34th All India Conference of Linguists (AICL), pp.121-124, Shillong, 2012.

K. Sain, A. Dasgupta and U. Garain, “EMERS: a tree matching based performance Evaluation of Mathematical Expression Recognition Systems,” in Int. J. of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Vol. 14(1):75-85, 2011.

A. Mukherjee and U. Garain, “Intelligent Tutoring of School Level Geometry Using Automatic Text to Diagram Conversion Utility,” in IEEE Proc. of 2nd Int. Conf. on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT), pp.45-48, 2011.

S. De, A. Dhar, S. Biswas, and U. Garain, “On Development and Evaluation of a Chunker in Bangla,” in IEEE Proc. of 2nd Int. Conf. on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT), pp.321-324, 2011.

S. Chowdhury, U. Garain, and T. Chattopadhyay, “A Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST)-based Language Model for Online Indic Script Handwriting Recognition” in Proc. of 11th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp.599-602, 2011.

H. Mouchere, C. Viard-Gaudin, D.H. Kim, J.H. Kim and U. Garain, “CROHME2011: Competition on Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions”, in Proc. of 11th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp.1497-1500, 2011.

U. Garain, J. Paik, T. Pal, P. Majumder, D. Doermann and D. Oard, “Overview of the FIRE2011 RISOT Task,” in Proc. 3rd Workshop of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), pp.160-163, 2011.

U. Garain, D. Doermann and D. Oard, “Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR’d Bengali,” in Proc. 3rd Workshop of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), pp.182-187, 2011.