Education

• Ph. D in Science (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics / Jadavpur University) – 2007. Ph.D thesis titled "A Bio-mimicking Approach to Real-time Edge Detection and its Application in Medical Images"
• Post MSc Diploma in Biophysical Science (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)  – 1999.
• M.Sc in Physics (University of Calcutta) – 1997.
• B. Sc in Physics  (University of Calcutta) –  1993.

Research Interests

• Computer Vision, Image Processing, Visual Perception, Psychophysical and Cognitive models, Medical Image Processing

Journals Papers

1. K. Ghosh & S. K. Pal, "Some insights into brightness perception of images in the light of a new computational model of figure-ground segregation, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics A (in press).

2. K. Ghosh and K. Bhaumik, "Complexity in human perception of brightness: a historical review on the evolution of the philosophy of visual perception", Online Journal of Biological Sciences, 10(1), p. 17, 2010.

3. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, "A possible mechanism of stochastic resonance in the light of an extra classical receptive field model of retinal ganglion cells", Biological Cybernetics, 100, p. 351, 2009.

4. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, "A theory of 'fuzzy' edge detection in the light of human visual system", Journal of Intelligent Systems,17, p. 229, 2008.

5. K. Ghosh, K. Bhaumik and S. Sarkar, "Retinomorphic image processing", Progress in Brain Research, 168, p.175, 2008.

6. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, Understanding Image Structure from a New Multi-scale Representation of Higher Order Derivative Filters, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 25, pp. 1228-1238, 2007.

7. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, Proposing New Methods in Low-level Vision from the Mach Band Illusion in Retrospect, Pattern Recognition, vol. 39, pp. 726-730, 2006.

8. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, A Possible Explanation of the Low-level Brightness-contrast Illusions in the Light of an Extended Classical Receptive Field Model of Retinal Ganglion Cells, Biological Cybernetics, vol. 94, pp. 89-96, 2006.

9. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, A Possible Mechanism of Zero-crossing Detection Using the Concept of Extended Classical Receptive Field Model of Retinal Ganglion Cells, Biological Cybernetics, 93, pp. 1-5, 2005.

10. S. Karmakar, K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and S. K. Sen, Design of a Lowpass Filter by Multi-scale Even Order Gaussian Derivatives, Signal Processing, vol. 86, pp. 3923-3933, 2006.

11. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar, K. Bhaumik, Edge Enhancement in Ultrasound Images Using Biology Inspired Non-classical Centre-surround Mechanism, Journal of Pure and Applied Ultrasonics, 26, pp. 110-120, 2004.       

Book Chapters

1. K. Ghosh and S. K. Pal, "Attention in Early Vision: Some Psychophysical Insights", in Attention in Cognitive Systems, L. Paletta and E. Rome (eds.), LNAI, Springer, Berlin, Vol. 4840, 2008.

2. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, The Theory of Edge Detection and Low-level Vision in Retrospect, Vision Systems: Segmentation and Pattern Recognition, Advanced Robotic Systems International, Austria, 2007, ISBN 978-3-902613-05-9, pp. 353-380

Conference Papers

1. S. Karmakar, K. Ghosh and S. Sarkar, "A generalized design of Mexican hat and other even order Hermitian wavelets in Gaussian scale space", in Proc. Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, Communications and Networking (ICSCN 2008), Chennai, India, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1924-1, p.154, 2008.

2. S. Sarkar, S. Karmakar, K. Ghosh and S. K. Sen, "An alternative Gaussian window approach for FIR filter design", in Proc. Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, Communications and Networking (ICSCN08), Chennai, India, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1924-1, p.159, 2008.

3. K. Ghosh and S. K. Pal, "Figure-ground segregation: Cues from early vision", in Proc. 3rd Indian Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI07), Pune, India, ISBN 978-0-9727412-2-4, p. 2238, 2007.

4. S. Sarkar, K. Ghosh and K. Bhaumik, "Stochastic resonance in the perceptual interpretation of zero crossing maps: A low level center surround model of vision", in Proc. 3rd Indian Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI07), Pune, India, ISBN 978-0-9727412-2-4, p. 2123, 2007.

5. S. Sarkar, K. Ghosh and K. Bhaumik, "A bio-inspired interpolation kernel for medical image processing implemented on DSP processor", in Proc. 15th Int. Conf. on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM07), Guwahati, India, p. 159, 2007.

6. S. Mukherjee, A. Chakravorty, K. Ghosh, A. Adhikary, M. Roy and S. Mazumdar, "Corroborating the subjective classification of ultrasound images of normal and fatty human livers by the radiologist through texture analysis and SOM", in Proc.15th Int. Conf. on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM07), Guwahati, India, p. 197, 2007,

7. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, Mimicking a Possible Mechanism of Stochastic Resonance in Low-level Vision, Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2007), October 1-3, 2007, Dresden, Germany.

8. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, A Possible Interplay of Bottom-up and Top-down Approach: Evidences from Early Vision, Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision (WAPCV 2007) as a part of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), Jan 6-12, 2007, Hyderabad, India, pp. 165-178

9. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, Early Vision and Image Processing: Evidences Favouring a Dynamic Receptive Field Model, Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4338, pp. 216-227, Springer, Berlin, Proceedings of ICVGIP 2006, December 13-16, 2006, Madurai, India

10. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, A New Multi-scale Gaussian Interpolator that Models the Blind Spot in Human Eye, IEEE Proceedings, International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan, 22-23 April, 2006, ISBN 1-4244-0457-6, pp. 204-209

11. S. Sarkar, K. Ghosh and K. Bhaumik, Digital Image Processing in the Light of Some Newer Aspects of Low-level Visual Processing, IEEE Proceedings, International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan, 22-23 April, 2006, ISBN 1-4244-0457-6, pp. 210-215

12. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, New Vision Tools from the Comparative Study of an "Old" Psychophysical Model and a "Modern" Computational Model, Biologically inspired approaches to advanced information technology: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3853, pp. 236-251, Springer, Berlin, Proceedings of BioADIT 2006, January 26-27, 2006,Osaka, Japan

13. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, Image Enhancement by High-order Gaussian Derivative Filters Simulating Non-classical Receptive Fields in the Human Visual System, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3776, pp. 453-458, 2005, Springer, Berlin, Proceedings of PReMI 2005, December 20-22, 2005, Kolkata, India

14. K.Ghosh, S.Sarkar, K.Bhaumik. A New Mechanism of "Fuzzy" Edge Detection by Multi-scale Gaussian Filters in the light of Human Visual System, Proceedings of the Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ISBN 0-9727412-1-6, Pune, India, Dec. 20-22, 2005, pp. 3234-3251

15. S. Sarkar, K.Ghosh, K.Bhaumik. Edge-detection and Image Enhancement by a New Model for Neural Engineering, Proceedings of the Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ISBN 0-9727412-1-6, Pune, India, Dec. 20-22, 2005, pp. 3375-3385

16. Sandip Sarkar, Kuntal Ghosh, Kamales Bhaumik, A Retinomorphic Sensor Network for Image Preprocessing, IEEE Proceedings, the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, ISBN 0-7803-9589-1, Bangalore, India, Dec. 14-17, 2005, pp. 134-139

17. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar and K. Bhaumik, A New Silicon Retina Model and its Advantages, IEEE Proceedings, 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, ISBN 0-7803-8741-4, Shanghai, China, 1st September-4th September, 2005, pp. 3632-3635

18. S. Sarkar, K. Ghosh and K. Bhaumik, A Weighted Sum of Multi-scale Gaussians Generates New Near Ideal Interpolation Functions, IEEE Proceedings, 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, ISBN 0-7803-8741-4, Shanghai, China, 1st September-4th September, 2005, pp. 6387-6390

19. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar, K. Bhaumik. Low-level Brightness-contrast Illusions and Non-classical Receptive Field of Mammalian Retina, IEEE Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, ISBN 0-7803-8841-0, Chennai, India, Jan. 4-7, 2005, pp. 529-534

20. S. Sarkar, K. Ghosh, K. Bhaumik. Extended Surround based Neuromorphically Implementable Model of HumanVisual System, IEEE Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, ISBN 0-7803-8841-0, Chennai, India, Jan. 4-7, 2005, pp. 458-462

21. K. Ghosh, S. Sarkar, K. Bhaumik. A Bio-inspired Model for Multi-scale Representation of Even Order Gaussian Derivatives, IEEE Proceedings, 1st International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processings, ISBN 0-7803-8894-1, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 14-17, 2004, pp. 497-502

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