Dr. Umapada Pal

IAPR Fellow

Professor and Former Head
Computer Vision And Pattern Recognition Unit
Indian Statistical Institute

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision

1. Kaushik Roy, "On the Development of an Optical Character Recognition System for Indian Postal Automation", Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, 2008.
2. Partha Pratim Roy, "Multi-oriented and Multi-scaled Text Character Analysis and Recognition in Graphical Documents and Their Applications to Document Image Retrieval", Ph.D. obtained from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2010. (Jointly Supervised with J. Llados of Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).
3. Anjan Dutta, "Inexact Subgraph Matching Applied to Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents", Ph.D. Obtained from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2014. (Jointly Supervised with J. Llados of Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).
4. Sukalpa Chanda, "A Computational Forensic Approach to the Analysis of Questioned Document Fragments", Ph.D. Obtained from the Gjøvik University College, Norway, 2015. (Jointly Supervised with Katrin Franke of Gjøvik University College, Norway).
5. Nabin Sharma, "Recognition and Indexing of Video Documents", Ph.D. Obtained from the Griffith University, Australia, 2015. (Jointly Supervised with Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia).
6. Tanmoy Mondal, "From Time Series Signal Matching to Word Spotting in Multilingual Historical Document Image", Ph.D. Obtained from the Universite Francois Rabelais de Tours, France, 2015. (Jointly Supervised with Jean-Yves Ramel and Nicolas Ragot of Universite Francois Rabelais de Tours, France)
7. Hemmaphan Suwanwiwat, "Automatic Off-line Short Answer Assessment System", Ph.D. Obtained from the Griffith University, Australia, May, 2016. (Jointly Supervised with Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia)
8. Nilamadhaba Tripathy, "Multi-oriented Indian Character Recognition" Ph.D. Thesis submitted in Jadavpur University in March, 2016).
9. Ranju Mondal,"Signature and Date-Based Document Image Retrieval", Ph.D. Thesis submitted in the Griffith University, Australia, in March 2016. (Jointly Supervised with Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia).
10. Rituraj Kunwar,"Incremental/Online Learning and its Application on Handwritten Character Recognition" Ph.D. Thesis submitted in the Griffith University, Australia, in April 2016. (Jointly Supervised with Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia).
11. Arundhati Tarafdar, "Word spotting from Graphical documents".
12. Abhijit Das, "Multimodal Biometric Recognition Using Iris and Sclera".
13. Sangheeta Roy, "Video Document Analysis"