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Mission of Information Processing and Machine Learning Research Group

The focus of the research of Information Processing and Machine Learning Group is on the integration of data, knowledge, and tools necessary for efficient knowledge discovery in the decision-making process associated with information extraction and computational intelligence. The group's research addresses the design and development of signal processing and machine learning techniques and the interpretation of signals and systems to improve monitoring, diagnosis and prognosis. The group explores new methodologies for multimodal, multi-scale and multi-channel acquisition, processingand interpretation of information.


Message to Prospective Group Members

Hi!

If you are interested in working with me for one year or more, in the field of Signal Processing and/or Machine Learning, please do send me an email listing your interests and the research degree you intend to pursue at IIT Kharagpur.

Have a look at our Software Download Centre. These packages are developed by IPML members.

If you are appearing for the research interview at the Department of Electrical Engineering, please do visit the Department of Electrical Engineering to know about the interview procedure.

If you like to meet me in my office at N-243 in Electrical Engineering Department, please drop an e-mail for appointment prior to your visit.

Wishing you all the best.

Anirban Mukherjee


Contact us

Dr. Anirban Mukherjee
Coordinator, IPML

Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur,
Kharagpur - 721 302, West Bengal, India.

Email: anirban [AT] ee [DOT] iitkgp [DOT] ac [DOT] in
Telephone: +91-3222-283050

Dr. Anirban Mukherjee is exploring the development of signal processing algorithms for healthcare applications. He is the co-ordinator of IPML group.

E-mail: anirban [AT] ee [DOT] iitkgp [DOT] ac [DOT] in


Visitors
Mr. Sagnik Dutta IIEST, Shibpur 16 May, 2017 - 30 Jun, 2017
Prof. Lalan Kumar IIT Delhi, India 09 Sep, 2016 - 09 Sep, 2016
Mr. Rahul Chakraborty Jadavpur University, India 20 May, 2014 - 11 Jul, 2014
Mr. Muzaffer Ahmed All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India 30 Apr, 2014 - 06 May, 2014

Previous Members
Previous Research Students

Jessy Rimaya Khonglah

Jessy Rimaya Khonglah was a Ph.D. student. She completed her post-graduate studies from NIT Jalandhar. She worked on Graph Signal Processing.

E-mail: jessy [DOT] khonglah [AT] gmail [DOT] com


Publications

Jessy Rimaya Khonglah and Anirban Mukherjee; Kernel-Based Multilayer Graph Signal Recovery via Median Truncation of Gradient Descent, IEEE Trans. Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 9, pp. 268-279, 2023.

Supratim Manna, Jessy Rimaya Khonglah, Anirban Mukherjee, and Goutam Saha; Robust Kernelized Graph-based Learning, Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, 2021.

Venkatesh Vakamullu

Venkatesh Vakamullu was a doctoral student. He is currently with Calligo Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

E-mail: venkatesh [DOT] vakamullu [AT] gmail [DOT] com


Publications

V Vakamullu, S Trivedy, M Mishra, A Mukherjee; Real-Time Heart Murmur Classification using Attention Based Deep Learning Approach, 2022 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 16-19 May, 2022, Ottawa, Canada.

V Vakamullu, S Trivedy, M Mishra, A Mukherjee; Convolutional Neural Network Based Heart Sounds Recognition on Edge Computing Platform, 2022 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 16-19 May, 2022, Ottawa, Canada.

MD. Afaque Azam

MD. Afaque Azam was a doctoral student.

E-mail: afaqueazam [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Fellowship

MD. A. Azam received the fellowship from the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research Scholar Program 2018-22.

Publications

MD Afaque Azam, Amit Kumar Dutta and Anirban Mukherjee; Performance analysis and precoder design for IRS-assisted MIMO system with non-linear power amplifiers, Physical Communication, Elsevier, vol. 55, 101928, 2022.

MD Afaque Azam, Amit Kumar Dutta and Anirban Mukherjee; Downlink Precoding for Hybrid Fully Connected Linear Subarrays in mmWave With Rainfall Scattering and Hardware Impairments, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 5143-5155, 2022.

MD Afaque Azam, Amit Kumar Dutta and Anirban Mukherjee; Performance Analysis of Dipole Antenna-based Planar Arrays With Mutual Coupling and Antenna Position Error in mmWave Hybrid System, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 10209-10221, 2021.

MD Afaque Azam, Amit Kumar Dutta and Anirban Mukherjee; Uplink Channel Estimation with Hardware Imperfections, Antenna Position Error and Channel Correlation for Nested and Linear Array Antennas, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 15412-15426, 2020.

Maitreya Maity

Dr. Maitreya Maity worked integrated malaria dianosis on edge devices. He is a Young Faculty Fellow at the IIIT Hyderabad.

E-mail: maitreya [DOT] maity [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Publications

Maitreya Maity, Ayush Jaiswal, Kripasindhu Gantait, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee and Anirban Mukherjee; Quantification of Malaria Parasitaemia using Trainable Semantic Segmentation and Capsnet, Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, vol. 138, pp. 88-94, 2020.

Madhusudhan Mishra

Dr. Madhusudhan Mishra worked on heart-lung sound signal-based diagnostics.

Dr. Madhusudhan Mishra is in the faculty of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering in the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), India.

E-mail: ecmadhusudhan [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Publications

Madhusudhan Mishra, Sawon Pratiher, Hrishikesh Menon and Anirban Mukherjee; Identification of S1 and S2 Heart Sounds using Spectral and Convex Hull Features, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 4311-4320, 2020.

Madhusudhan Mishra, Hrishikesh Menon, and Anirban Mukherjee; Characterization of S1 and S2 Heart Sounds Using Stacked Autoencoder and Convolutional Neural Network, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 3211-3220, 2019.

Madhusudhan Mishra, Sanmitra Banerjee, Dennis Thomas, Sagnik Dutta, and Anirban Mukherjee; Detection of Third Heart Sound using Variational Mode Decomposition, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1713-1721, 2018.

Priya Ranjan Muduli

Dr. Priya Ranjan Muduli worked on Sparse Signal Processing.

Dr. Priya Ranjan Muduli is in the faculty of the Department of Electronics Engineering in the Indian Institute of Technology BHU, India.

E-mail: priyaranjanmuduli [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Publications

Priya Ranjan Muduli and Anirban Mukherjee; A Moreau Envelope-based Nonlinear Filtering Approach to Denoising Physiological Signals, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 1041-1050, 2020.

Priya Ranjan Muduli and Anirban Mukherjee; A Robust Estimator-Based Nonlinear Filtering Approach to Piecewise Biosignal Reconstruction, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 362-370, 2020.

Priya Ranjan Muduli, Atindra Kanti Mandal, and Anirban Mukherjee; An Anti-Noise-Folding Algorithm for the Recovery of Biomedical Signals from Noisy Measurements, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 2909-2916, 2017.

Priya Ranjan Muduli and Anirban Mukherjee; A Subspace Projection-based Joint Sparse Recovery Method for Structured Biomedical Signals, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 234-242, 2017.

Arpan Guha Mazumder


Arpan Guha Mazumder worked on analysis of proteomic signal for diagnosis and prognosis of Diabetic Retinopathy.

E-mail: arpan007atgc [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Fellowship

Arpan received the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship 2014-15.

Publications

A. Guha Mazumder, S. Banerjee, F. Zevictovich, S. Ghosh, Anirban Mukherjee, and J. Chatterjee; Fourier-transform-infrared-spectroscopy based metabolomic spectral biomarker selection towards optimal diagnostic differentiation of diabetes with and without retinopathy, Spectroscopy Letters, DOI: 10.1080/00387010.2018.1471510, 2018.

A. Guha Mazumder, S. Chatterjee, S. Chatterjee S, J. J. Gonzalez, S. Bag, S. Ghosh, Anirban Mukherjee, and J. Chatterjee; Spectropathology-corroborated multimodal quantitative imaging biomarkers for neuroretinal degeneration in diabetic retinopathy, Clinical Ophthalmology, vol. 11, pp. 2073-2089, 2017.

Arpan Guha Mazumder, Sambuddha Ghosh, Swarnendu Bag, Sumanta Bera, Srutarshi Ghosh, Anirban Mukherjee and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee; 1H-NMR based Serum Metabolomic Signatures Imperative in Retinalneurodegeneration and Development of Diabetic Retinopathy, International Journal of Medical Research and Review, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 976-981, 2016.

Surajit Panja

Dr. Surajit Panja worked on modeling of the dynamics Metabolic Networks (MN). He used S-system model to study the performance and robustness of these networks.

Dr. Surajit Panja is in the faculty of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering in the Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India.

E-mail: surajit[DOT]panja [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Publications

Surajit Panja, Sourav Patra and Anirban Mukherjee; Tweaking Metabolic Networks: A Design Method, INAE Letters, Springer, pp. 1-6, DOI 10.1007/s41403-016-0005-5, 2016. (MATLAB toolbox available in SDC.)

Surajit Panja, Sourav Patra, Anirban Mukherjee, Madhumita Basu, Sanghamitra Sengupta and Pranab K. Dutta; A Closed-loop Control Scheme for Steering Steady States of Glycolysis and Glycogenolysis Pathway, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 858-868, 2013.

Surajit Panja, Sourav Patra, Anirban Mukherjee, Madhumita Basu, Sanghamitra Sengupta and Pranab K. Dutta; Robustness of TCA Cycle at Steady-State: An LMI-based Analysis and Synthesis Framework, IEEE Trans. on Nanobioscience, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 128-134, 2013.

Surajit Panja, Sourav Patra, Anirban Mukherjee, Madhumita Basu, Sanghamitra Sengupta and Pranab K. Dutta; An Optimization-based Design Framework for Steering Steady-States and Improving Robustness of Glycolysis-Glycogenolysis Pathway, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 554-561, 2013.

Supratim Gupta

Dr. Supratim Gupta developed Image-based Driver Alertness System.

Dr. Supratim Gupta is in the faculty of Electrical Engineering in National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.

E-mail: guptasu[AT] nitrkl [DOT] ac [DOT] in

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Publications

Supratim Gupta, Aurobinda Routray and Anirban Mukherjee; A New Method for Edge Extraction in Images using Local Form Factors, Intl. Journal of Computer Applications, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 15-22, 2011.

Santanu Ghorai

Dr. Santanu Ghorai developed a Non-parallel Plane Proximal (Kernel) Classifier (NPPC). He also developed a regression methodology, Vector-Valued Regularized Kernel Function Approximation (VVRKFA). The NPPC and VVRKFA Toolbox (MATLAB) are available in the Software Download Centre. He has an expertise in handling high-throughput -omics data in the Machine Learning framework.

Dr. Santanu Ghorai is in the faculty of the Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering in Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata.

E-mail: santanughorai74 [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Publications

Santanu Ghorai, Anirban Mukherjee and Pranab K Dutta; Advances in Proximal Kernel Classifiers, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2012, ISBN 978-3-659-27836-5.

Santanu Ghorai, Anirban Mukherjee, M. Gangadharan and Pranab K. Dutta; Automatic Defect Detection on Hot Rolled Flat Steel Products, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 612-621, 2013.

Santanu Ghorai, Anirban Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Sengupta and Pranab K. Dutta; Cancer Classification from Gene Expression Data by NPPC Ensemble, IEEE/ACM Trans. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 659-671, 2011.

Santanu Ghorai, Anirban Mukherjee and Pranab K. Dutta; Discriminant Analysis for Fast Multiclass Data Classification through Regularized Kernel Function Approximation, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1020-1029, 2010. (MATLAB toolbox available in SDC).

Santanu Ghorai, Shaikh Jahangir Hossain, Anirban Mukherjee, and Pranab K. Dutta; Newton's Method for Nonparallel Plane Proximal Classifier with Unity Norm Hyperplanes, Signal Processing, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 93-104, 2010. (MATLAB toolbox available in SDC).

Santanu Ghorai, Anirban Mukherjee and Pranab K. Dutta; Nonparallel Plane Proximal Classifier, Signal Processing, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 510-522, 2009.

Previous Graduate Students

Supratim Manna

Supratim Manna is an MS student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He completed his undergraduate study in Electrical Engineering from IIEST Shibpur. He worked on Graph-based Learning. He joined in PhD programme of KTH Sweden in the area of AI and Machine Learning.

E-mail: supratimmanna121 [AT] gmail [DOT] com


Publications

Supratim Manna, Jessy Rimaya Khonglah, Anirban Mukherjee, and Goutam Saha; Robust Kernelized Graph-based Learning, Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, vol. 110, 2021.

Sudipto Trivedy

Sudipto Trivedy was an MS student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He completed his undergraduate study in Electrical Engineering from IIEST Shibpur. He worked on Respiratory signal processing in a point-of-care applications. He has joined the AI division of the Tata Steel.

E-mail: sudipto.trivedy [AT] gmail [DOT] com


Publications

Sudipto Trivedy, Manish Goyal, Prasanta R. Mohapatra, and Anirban Mukherjee; Design and Development of Smartphone-enabled Spirometer with a Disease Classification System Using Convolutional Neural Network, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 7125-7135, 2020.

Akhilesh Kumar

Akhilesh Kumar was an M. Tech student graduated in 2019. He worked on Tracking of Vehicles and Estimation of Speed of Vehicle using Radar Signals.

He is working in DRDO Hyderabad, India.

E-mail: akhilesh2k3@gmail.com


Publications

Akhilesh Kumar, Anirban Mukherjee and Mahendra Mandava; Estimation of Speed and Tracking of Vehicles using Radar Duet, 2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2019), 20 - 23 May, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.

Atindra Kanti Mandal

Atindra Kanti Mandal was an M. Tech student in 2017. He worked on respiratory signal acquisition and processing in the Point of Care settings.

He is currently continuing his PhD studies in IIT Bombay.

E-mail: atindra1 [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Publications

Priya Ranjan Muduli, Atindra Kanti Mandal, and Anirban Mukherjee; An Anti-Noise-Folding Algorithm for the Recovery of Biomedical Signals from Noisy Measurements, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 2909-2916, 2017.

Sachin Tom John

Sachin Tom John was an M. Tech student graduated in 2016. He worked on fetal ECG acquisition and its applicability in the Point-Of-Care (POC) settings.

He is working in the Indian Air Force.

E-mail: sachintomjohn [AT] rediffmail [DOT] com


Publications

Sachin Tom John, P. R. Muduli, Anirban Mukherjee; An Analog-Front-End for Non-Invasive Fetal Electrocardiography Monitoring, 2016 IEEE Techsym, Sep. 30 - Oct. 02, 2016, IIT Kharagpur, India.

Accolade
The Wearable FECG Monitor, designed by Sachin Tom John, has been judged runners-up in the Internet-of-Things/Wearables devices category in ARM Competition.

In the Embedded World 2016 Conference, ARM conducted a competition of products developed using ARM-based SoCs. Among the winners is the Wearable FECG Monitor designed by Sachin Tom John. It has been judged runners-up in the Internet-of-Things/Wearables devices category.

Ramakanth Reddy

Ramakanth Reddy was a Dual-degree M. Tech student graduated in 2015. He worked on Respiratory Signal Storage via Compressed Sensing.

E-mail: ramakanth.1729 [AT] gmail [DOT] com


Publications

Aniruddha Maiti, Ramakanth Reddy and Anirban Mukherjee; Structural Prediction of Dynamic Bayesian Network with Partial Prior Information, IEEE Trans. on NanoBioscience, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 95-103, 2015.

Aniruddha Maiti

Aniruddha Maiti was a CSIR-sponsored MS student in 2014. He worked on mining of motifs in Transcription Interaction Networks (TIN) and Protein-Protein Intercation Networks (PPIN). He developed Model Shift-based Monte Carlo-based Expectation Maximization (MSMCEM) algorithm. This is available in the Software Download Centre.

E-mail: aniruddha.maiti87 [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Publications

Aniruddha Maiti, Ramakanth Reddy and Anirban Mukherjee; Structural Prediction of Dynamic Bayesian Network with Partial Prior Information, IEEE Trans. on NanoBioscience, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 95-103, 2015.

Aniruddha Maiti and Anirban Mukherjee; On the Monte-Carlo Expectation Maximization for Finding Motifs in DNA Sequences, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 677-686, 2015. (MATLAB toolbox available in SDC.)

Shivashanker Reddy

Shivashanker Reddy was an M. Tech student graduated in 2007. He worked on segmentation of microscopic images under varying degree of staining.

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Publications

Tathagata Ray, D. Shivashanker Reddy, Anirban Mukherjee, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, Ranjan Rashmi Paul and Pranab K. Dutta; Detection of Constituent Layers of Histological Oral Sub-mucous Fibrosis Images using the Hybrid Segmentation Algorithm, Oral Oncology, 44, no. 12, pp. 1167-1171, 2008. Download.

Previous Under-Graduate Students

Hrishikesh Menon

Hrishikesh Menon was a dual degree M. Tech student. He was working in the area of deep learning applications of Iris biometrics.

E-mail: hrishikeshmenon96 [AT] gmail [DOT] com


Publications

Madhusudhan Mishra, Hrishikesh Menon, and Anirban Mukherjee; Characterization of S1 and S2 Heart Sounds Using Stacked Autoencoder and Convolutional Neural Network, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 3211-3220, 2019.

Sanmitra Banerjee

Sanmitra Banerjee was an undergraduate student. He worked in the area of signal processing for cardio-pulmonary sound.

E-mail: sanmitra [DOT] roni [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Publications

Madhusudhan Mishra, Sanmitra Banerjee, Dennis Thomas, Sagnik Dutta, and Anirban Mukherjee; Detection of Third Heart Sound using Variational Mode Decomposition, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1713-1721, 2018.

Rakesh Reddy Gunukula

Rakesh Reddy Gunukula was a B. Tech student. He was working on deep learning-based sparse signal recovery for fetal ecg signal in the Point-Of-Care (POC) settings.

E-mail: rakeshreddy [DOT] gunukula [AT] gmail [DOT] com


Publications

P. R. Muduli, Rakesh Gunukula Reddy and Anirban Mukherjee; A Deep Learning Approach to Fetal-ECG Signal Reconstruction, 22nd National Conference on Communications, 4-6 March, 2016, IIT Guwahati, India.