Research & Scholarship
Research Interests
I am passionate about solving real-world problems through Applied Machine Learning and Computer Vision. My primary interests lie in developing a robust framework for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), exploring novel applications of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for historical scripts, and building efficient AI systems for mobile and IoT devices.
PhD Thesis
Title: In Progress !!!
IN PROGRESS !!!
Master's Thesis
Title: Real-time, Human Activity/Action and Anomaly Recognition
This research focuses on creating a highly efficient deep learning model that can detect and recognise human actions and anomalies simultaneously. The primary challenge is to achieve high accuracy while maintaining a small model footprint suitable for deployment on microcontrollers. The proposed methodology involves using knowledge distillation and quantization-aware training to compress a larger model.
Conference
A Self-Supervised Dual-Stream Spatio-Temporal Framework for Video Anomaly Detection
N/A2026 International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Networking Systems (ICC-CNS)
My Contribution: I developed a self-supervised dual-stream video anomaly detection framework that combines RGB appearance features and optical flow motion representations using lightweight ResNet-18 backbones and a transformer-based temporal encoder. By integrating temporal prediction with contrastive learning, the proposed framework effectively captures long-range spatio-temporal dependencies, achieving competitive performance on benchmark surveillance datasets while maintaining computational efficiency for real-world applications.
View Publication →A Mobile-Centric Decentralized Authentication Framework with On-Chain Revocation and Real-Time Verification
N/A2026 1st International Conference on AI, Data Science, Cyber Security and Smart Manufacturing for Sustainable Development (ICADCS)
My Contribution: I designed a blockchain-based decentralized authentication framework that leverages Ethereum smart contracts, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), and QR-code-based credential verification to eliminate reliance on centralized identity providers. The proposed system enables secure credential issuance, real-time verification, and on-chain revocation while ensuring tamper resistance, user privacy, and efficient authentication through a mobile-centric Android implementation.
View Publication →Infrared-Based Human Action Recognition Under Low-Light and Occlusion Conditions
Scopus Indexed2026 International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Engineering, Secured Systems and Cybersecurity (ICISESSC)
My Contribution: I proposed a novel multimodal human action recognition framework that integrates infrared heatmap sequences with skeleton-based motion representations using an ActiVit Transformer and HPI-GCN-RP network. By designing a learnable late-fusion strategy, the model achieved robust recognition performance under low-light, occlusion, and cross-view conditions, outperforming individual modality baselines and demonstrating strong generalization on the NTU RGB+D 60 benchmark dataset.
View Publication →Multimodal Visible - Infrared Fusion for Robust Human Action Recognition
Scopus Indexed2026 IEEE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI)
My Contribution: I developed a novel multimodal fusion technique that combines visible and infrared data to enhance the robustness of human action recognition in challenging environments, achieving state-of-the-art results on benchmark datasets.
View Publication →Optical Character Recognition of Sanskrit using Tesseract
Scopus Indexed2025 12th International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (ICRITO)
My Contribution: My primary contribution was to develop and fine-tuned Sanskrit Tesseract language model, from data collection to model training, resulting in a significant enhancement in OCR accuracy for Sanskrit texts.
View Publication →Optical Character Recognition of Bhrami Script using Tesseract
Scopus Indexed2024 Asian Conference on Intelligent Technologies (ACOIT)
My Contribution: My primary contribution was the development and training of the custom Tesseract language model, which involved data collection, image pre-processing, and model fine-tuning, leading to a significant improvement in character recognition accuracy.
View Publication →An IoT-based Heavy Vehicle Parking and Accident Avoidence System for Smart Cities using CNN
Scopus Indexed2023 International Conference on Communication, Security and Artificial Intelligence (ICCSAI)
My Contribution: I designed and implemented the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for vehicle detection and classification, and integrated the model with the IoT hardware for real-time processing.
View Publication →Key Achievements
Smart India Hackathon 2022 Grand Finals
Achieved Top 2 placement for problem statement SK794.
Yamaha AI 2.0 Hackathon
Placed in the Top 12 out of 105 teams from across India.