Simant Dube

 

Ramanujan Fellow

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur

Kanpur 208016

INDIA

 

Tel: +91 (512) 259 7619 (O), +91 (512) 259 7638 (Dept)

Fax: +91 (512) 259 0725 / 7586 (Dept)

Email: Use the instructions on the Faculty page; Or, alternatively, simant (dot) dube (at) gmail (dot) com

 

Research Interests

 

Image and Video Processing, Vision, Pattern Recognition, Fractal Geometry.

 

Brief Bio

 

Research Problems of Interest

 

  • Robust local image descriptors
  • Stereo Vision and Structure from Motion
  • Face recognition and fingerprint recognition
  • Analysis of DNA Microarray data
  • Algorithms for very large image databases
  • Optical character recognition and script identification
  • Image and video compression
  • Cellular Automata for image processing
  • Fractal geometry based image descriptors
  • Fractal geometry and its relationship with computational intractability and undecidability
  • Any research project in computer science and mathematics which stirs my enthusiasm!

 

Other Interests

 

Goals at IIT Kanpur

  • Work on some cool, fun projects!
  • Work on problems of relevance to 21st century and to India
  • Teach some fun, exciting courses (It is one of the best ways for me to learn a lot of things.)

 

Teaching

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision, CS676, Semester 1, 2009-10. Topics: Image Features, Edge and Corner Detection, Wavelets, Image Compression, Video Compression, Motion Analysis, Introduction to 3-D Vision, Image Classification, Object Recognition, Very Large Image Databases