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Bikash Shaw

Project Linked Personnel

Handwriting Recognition Laboratory
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203 B.T. Road,
Kolkata 700 108, INDIA
Phone: +91 33 2575 2857.
Email: bikash_t@isical.ac.in, mrbikashshaw@yahoo.co.in, mrbikashshaw@gmail.com

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Academic Status

 I am currently working for my PhD in Engineering at Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition Unit in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, under the supervision of Prof. Swapan Kr. Parui.
Thesis Title : Some Studies on Off-Line Handwritten Word Recognition for Devanagari Script

Current Research Activities

 a) Off-Line Handwritten Word Recognition For Devanagari Script.
b) Off-Line Handwritten Character Recognition using Statistical & non-Statistical Classifiers.
c) Development of ISIFormReader , A Form Processing System.
d) On-Line Handwriting Recognition System for Indian Languages.

Awards
  1. Received a certificate of Special Mention as one of the authors for the paper Analysis of Writer Idiosyncracies Towards Improved Perfomance of ISIForm Reader in the First International Conference of Emerging Applications of IT (EAIT-2006) held at Kolkata during February 10-11, 2006

  2. Received Amiya K. Pujari IT Award for the paper entitled An HMM Based Recognition Scheme for Handwritten Oriya Numerals done in collaboration with T. K. Bhowmick, S. K. Parui, U.Bhattacharya as the Best Paper presented in the 9th International Conference on Information Technology(ICIT) held at Bhubaneswar, during 18-21 December, 2006.

Job Status

 Working as a Project Linked Personnel in the Project entitlted "Development of Online Handwriting Recognition System for Indian Languages (OHWR)--Bangla" at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, under the supervision of Prof. Swapan Kr. Parui.

Publications
  1. U. Bhattacharya & B. Shaw, ISIFormReader: A Semi Automatic Form Processing System , proceedingsof OCR&DS Workshop 2005 held at IIIT Allahabad, India.

  2. U. Bhattacharya, B. Shaw & S. K. Parui, ISIFormReader: A Robust Form Processing System, proceedings of the 20th Indian Engineering Congress, 15-18 December, 2005, Kolkata, India.

  3. U. Bhattacharya, B. Shaw & S. K. Parui, Analysis of Writer Idiosyncracies Towards improved performace of ISIFormReader, Proceedings of CSI-EAIT-2006, D. P. Mukherjee & D. Jana (Eds), Reed Elsevier India Pvt. Ltd., February 10-11, pp 333-336, Kolkata, India.

  4. S. K. Parui, U. Bhattacharya, B. Shaw, D. Poddar, A Novel Hidden Markov Models for Recognition of Bangla Characters, proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing-WCVGIP 2006, January 12-13, 2006, pp 174-179, Hyderabad, India.

  5. S. K. Parui, U. Bhattacharya, A. K. Datta, B. Shaw, A Database of Handwritten Bangla Vowel Modifiers and a Scheme for their Detection and Recognition, proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computer Vision Graphics and ImageProcessing-WCVGIP 2006, January 12-13, 2006, pp 204-209, Hyderabad, India.

  6. U. Bhattacharya, S. K. Parui, B. Shaw, K. Bhattacharya, Neural Combination of ANN and HMM for Handwritten Devnagari Numeral Recognition, proceedings of the 10th IWFHR, October 23-26, 2006, pp. 613-618, La Baule, France.

  7. T. K. Bhowmik, S. K. Parui, U. Bhattacharya, B. Shaw, An HMM based Recognition Scheme for Handwritten Oriya Numerals, proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Technology(ICIT 2006), S. P. Mohanty & A. Sahoo (Eds), IEEE Computer Society Press, December 18-21, 2006, pp. 105-110, Bhubaneswar, India.

  8. U. Bhattacharya, B. Shaw, S. K. Parui, Analysis of Error Sources Towards improved Form Processing proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Technology(ICIT 2006), S. P. Mohanty & A. Sahoo (Eds), IEEE Computer Society Press, December 18-21, 2006, pp. 137-138, Bhubaneswar, India.

  9. S. K. Parui, U. Bhattacharya, B. Shaw, K. Guin, A Hidden Markov Models for Recognition of Online Handwritten Bangla Numerals, proceedings of the 41st National Annual Convention (CSI 2006) of Computer Society of India, D. P. Mukherjee & D. Jana (Eds), Tata Mc Graw Hill Pub. Comp. Ltd. November 23-25, 2006, pp 27-31, Science City, Kolkata India.

  10. U. Bhattacharya, S. K. Parui, B. Shaw, A Hybrid Scheme for Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Basic Characters based on HMM and MLP classifiers, proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition(ICAPR2007), P. Pal (Ed.), World Scientific Pub. Co. Pvt.Ltd. January, 2-4, 2007, pp 101-106, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

  11. Swapan Kumar Parui and Bikash Shaw, Offline Handwritten Devanagari Word Recognition: An HMM based approach, proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition & Machine Intelligence(PReMI'07), Ashish Ghosh, Rajat K. De, Sankar K. Pal (Eds.), LNCS 4815, Springer-Verlag , December, 18-22, 2007, pp 528-535, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

  12. Bikash Shaw and Swapan Kumar Parui, A Two Stage Recognition Scheme for Offine Handwritten Devanagari Words, to appear as a book chapter in the book to be published by, World Scientific Pub. Co. Pvt.Ltd., Ashish Ghosh, Rajat K. De, Sankar K. Pal (Eds.), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

  13. Bikash Shaw, Swapan Kumar Parui and Malayappan Shridhar, Offline Handwritten Devanagari Word Recognition: A Segmentation based Approach ,to appear in proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'08), December, 8-11, 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA.

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