MANJUNATH V. JOSHI Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, (DA-IICT) , Post Bag No-4, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382007, INDIA Telephone: +91 - 79 - 30510611 email: mv_joshi@daiict.ac.in Education PhD., (Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay), Dissertation Motion-free Super-resolution Imaging [2001 - 2004] M.Tech., (Communication Engineering), (Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay) [1987 - 1989] B.E., (Electronics and Communication Engineering), (Mysore University, Karnataka) [1979 - 1984] Experience Dean (Students), DA-IICT, Gandhinagar [2008 - 2011] Professor, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar-Gujarat, India [2008 -         ] Associate Professor, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar-Gujarat, India [2005 - 2007] Professor, Gogte Institute of Tech (GIT), Belgaum-Karnataka, India [2005 - 2005] Assistant Professor, Gogte Institute of Tech (GIT), Belgaum-Karnataka, India [1995 - 2004] International Exposure Guest Researcher, University of Trento, Italy April-June, 2004 (Under India Trento Project for Advanced Research - ITPAR). Invited Speaker - University of Hong-Kong, Hong-Kong Jan-Feb, 2005. Visiting Scientist, LSIIT Lab, Strasbourg, France May-Nov, 2007 (Under Space Fusion Project Funded by French Research Agency - ANR). Awards and Honors Outstanding Researcher Award-2004 (Engg. Section), Research Scholars Forum, IIT Bombay-India. Infineon India Best PhD Thesis Award -2005. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Award 2006-07 (Information Technology), Government of Gujarat-India. Program Committee Member ICCV-2005, Reviewer IEEE trans. Image Processing, IEEE trans. Geoscience and remote sensing, Optical Engineering. Visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, July-November, 2010. Adjunct faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, July-November, 2011. Expert Committee Member, NBA New-Delhi. Current Sponsored Projects “Immersive Navigation for Walk Through Application” IDH project sponsored by DST, India (Duration: Jan 2011-Jan 2014) Group members: Manjunath Joshi, Mukesh Zaveri, Hemant Patil “Text to Speech for Gujarathi language” Project sponsored by DIT, India (Duration: 2012 – 2014) Group members: Hemant Patil and Manjunath Joshi Teaching Taught for 16 years at Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum, India in the following areas: Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Microprocessors, Digital Communications, Communication Theory and Techniques, Analog Communications, Microwave Engineering. Supervised number of B.E and M.Tech student theses in the area of Communications, Signal and Image Processing and Computer Vision. Currently supervising five PhD candidates. Presently teaching Statistical Communication Theory for undergraduate students and Computer Vision for postgraduate students. Research Interests Computer Vision & Image Processing Image Super-resolution Multi-resolution Fusion 3D estimation Optimization techniques, Statistical methods PhD Scholars Dr. Prakash Gajjar (Learning based Super-resolution) Rakesh Patel (Super-resolution of Syper-spectral Images) Kishor Upla (Multiresolution Fusion) Jignesh Bhatt (Spectral Unmixing) - Jointly with Prof. Mehul Raval Sonam Nahar (Multi-View and Learning based Stereo) Milind Padalkar M.Tech. Students 2010 - 12 Chintan Parmar (Automatic Image Inpainting for Heritage Sites) 2011 - 12 Harikumar (Multiresolution Fusion) Manali Vora (Automatic Inpainting) Ajay Parmar (Speech and Image for Face Recognition) 2012-13 Neha Sisodiya (Image to Text) Jaladhi Vyas (Automatic Detection of Destination Image for Morphing) Publications Books Subhasis Chaudhuri and Joshi Manjunath, “Motion-free Super-resolution,” Springer-NY, 2005. Book Chapters Prakash P. Gajjar, Manjunath Joshi and Kishor P. Upla “Transform domain based learning for super-resolution restoration”, book chapter in “Image Restoration: Fundamentals and Advances (Digital Imaging and Computer Vision)” (Eds.) Bahadir Kursat Gunturk and Xin Li, CRC press, ISBN: 978-1-4398-6955-0 (hardback), pp. 175 - 215, July 2012. International Journals D. Rajan, S. Chaudhuri and M.V. Joshi, “Multi-Objective Super-Resolution Technique: Concept and Examples,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special issue on Super-Resolution image Reconstruction, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 49-61, May 2003. C. V. Jiji, M. V. Joshi and S. Chaudhuri, “Use of Learnt Wavelet Coefficients in Image Super-Resolution,” International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 105-112, Sep. 2004. M. V. Joshi, S. Chaudhuri and R. Panuganti, “Super-Resolution Imaging: Use of Zoom as a Cue,” Image and Vision Computing, vol. 22, no 14, pp. 1185-1196, Dec. 2004. M. V. Joshi, S. Chaudhuri and R. Panuganti, “A Learning-Based Method for Image Super-Resolution from Zoomed Observations,” IEEE Trans. Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Special Issue on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 35(3), pp. 527-537, June 2005. M. V. Joshi and S. Chaudhuri, “Joint Blind Restoration and Surface Recovery in Photometric Stereo,” Journal of Optical Society of America-A, vol. 22(6), pp. 1066-1076, June 2005. M. V. Joshi and S. Chaudhuri. “Simultaneous Estimation of Super-Resolved Depth Map and Intensity Field Using Photometric Cue,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 101, pp. 31-44, Jan. 2006. M. V. Joshi, L. Bruzzone and S. Chaudhuri, “A Learning Based Approach to Multiresolution Fusion in Remotely Sensed Images”, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 44(9), pp. 2549-2562, Sep. 2006. S. Sharma and M. V. Joshi, “A Practical Approach for Simultaneous Estimation of Light Source Position, Scene Structure and Blind Restoration Using Photometric Observations,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Machine Learning and Image Processing, Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 785364. M. V. Joshi and A. Jalobeanu, “MAP estimation for Multiresolution Fusion in Remotely Sensed Images using an IGMRF Prior Model,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol 48(3), July 2009. P. Gajjar and M. V. Joshi, “A New Learning based Super-Resolution: Use of DWT and IGMRF Model Prior”, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol 19(5), May 2010. National / International Conferences M.V. Joshi and S. Chaudhuri, “Super-Resolution Imaging: Use of Zoom as a Cue,” in Proc. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP-02), Ahmedabad, India, Dec. 2002. M. V. Joshi and S. Chaudhuri, “A Learning-Based Method for Image Super-Resolution from Zoomed Observations,” in Proc. Fifth Int. Conf. on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR-03), ISI Kolkata, India, pp. 179-182, Dec. 2003. M. V. Joshi and S. Chaudhuri, “Photometric Stereo Under Blurred Observations,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-04), Aug. 2004, Cambridge UK. M. V. Joshi and S. Chaudhuri,“Zoom-Based Super-Resolution through SAR Model Fitting,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-04), Oct. 2004, Singapore. P. Gajjar, M. V. Joshi, A. Banerjee and S. Mitra, “Decimation estimation and Super-Resolution Using Zoomed Observations,” in Proc. Fifth Indian Conf. on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP-06), LNCS 4338, Madurai, India, pp 45-57, Dec 2006. P. Gajjar, M. V. Joshi, A. Banerjee and S. Mitra, “Decimation estimation and Linear Model Based Super-resolution Using Zoomed Observations,” in Proc. Third Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, LNCS Series, Girona, Spain, June 2007. S. Sharma and M. V. Joshi, “Practical Approaches for the Estimation of High Resolution Depth Map and Intensity Field using Photometric cue,” in Proc. Thirteenth National Conf. on Communications (NCC-07), IIT Kanpur, India, Jan 2007. S. Sharma and M. V. Joshi , “A Practical Approach for Super-Resolution Using Photometric Cue and Graph cuts,'' in Proc. British Machine Vision Conf., University of Warwick, UK, Sep. 2007. N. Manvani, S. Mitra and M. V. Joshi, “Spoken Language Identification for Indian Languages Using Split and Merge EM Algorithm,” in Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Patten Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PreMI-07), LNCS Series, ISI Kolkata, India, Dec. 2007. Singh, P. Jaikumar, S. K. Mitra, M. V. Joshi and A. Banerjee, “Detection and Tracking of Objects in Low Contrast Conditions,” in Proc. National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), DAIICT Gandhinagar, India, Jan. 2008. P. Gajjar and M. V. Joshi, “A Fast Approach to the Learning-based Super-Resolution Using Autoregressive Model Prior and Wavelet Prior,” in Proc. Fourteenth National Conf. on Communications, IIT Mumbai, India (NCC-08), Feb. 2008. M. V. Joshi and A. Jalobeanu, '”Multiresolution Fusion in Remotely Sensed Images Using IGMRF Prior and MAP Estimation'” in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 2008. Nikhil Khandelwal and Nitin Gupta and M. V. Joshi, “Image Restoration: Use of AR and IGMRF priors”, International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, September 2008. P. Gajjar and M. V. Joshi, “Image Super-Resolution Using a New Learning Technique and IGMRF Prior” in Proc. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP-08), Bhubaneswar, India December, 2008. R. V. S. Krishna and M. V. Joshi, “Nonhomogeneous autoregressive model based prior for multiresolution fusion”, in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Cape Town, South Africa, July 2009. P. Gajjar and M. V. Joshi, “Zoom Based Super-resolution: A Fast Approach Using Particle Swarm Optimization”, International Conference of Image and Signal Processing (ICISP-2010, LNCS-Series), Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada, June 30 - July 2, 2010. Manjunath Joshi, Abhishek Shripat, Pradipta Nanda, Subrahmanyam Ravishankar, and K. V. V. Murthy, “MAP-MRF estimation for multi-resolution fusion of remotely sensed images”, in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 2010. Manjunath Joshi, Prakash Gajjar, Subrahmanyam Ravishankar, and K. V. V. Murthy, “Multiresolution fusion in remotely sensed images: Use of Gibbs prior and PSO optimization”, in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 2010. Prashant Garg, Mohit Maheshwari, Sammer Dubey, Manjunath Joshi, Asim Banerjee and Vijaykumar Chakka, “Alias Minimization of 1-D signals using DCT based Learning” in Proc. 53rd IEEE Int'l Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems (MWSCAS), Seattle, Washington, August, 2010. Kishor Upla, Manjunath Joshi, Prakash Gajjar and Asim Banerjee, “A Fast Approach for Edge Preserving Super-resolution” , in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multiledia & Expo, (ICME), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2011. Chintan Parmar, Manjunath V. Joshi, Mehul Raval, and Mukesh Zaveri, “Automatic inpainting for the facial images of monuments,” Proc. of Centenary Conference-Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore, pp. 415-420, Dec. 15-17, 2011. Milind Padalkar, Manjunath Joshi, Mukesh Zaveri and Chintan Parmar, “Exemplar based Image Inpainting using Autoregressive Parameter Estimation”, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing, IIT Patna, India, pp. 154 - 160, Jan 2012. Rakesh C. Patel, Prakash P. Gajjar, Manjunath V. Joshi, Kishor P. Upla. “A model based approach to multiresolution fusion: Use of CS” in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Munich, Germany, July 2012. Rakesh C. Patel and M. V. Joshi “Super-resolution of hyper-spectral images using compressive sensing” in ISPRS congress, Melbourne, Australia, August-September 2012. Jignesh Bhatt, Manjunath Joshi and Mehul Raval, “A regularization based method for abundance estimation”, in Proc. SPIE Remote Sensing, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 24-27 September 2012. Harikumar, Manjunath Joshi and Mehul Raval, “Multiresolution image fusion using compressive sensing and graph cuts”, in Proc. SPIE Remote Sensing, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 24-27 September 2012. Jignesh Bhatt, Manjunath Joshi and Mehul Raval, “A MAP-HMRF model for abundance estimation”, in Proc. SPIE Remote Sensing, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 24-27 September 2012. Nilay Khatri and Manjunath Joshi , “Image Super-Resolution: Use of Self-learning and Gabor Prior”, in Proc. Eleventh Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV-12), Daejeon, Korea, 5-9 November, 2012. Milind Padalkar, Mukesh Zaveri and Manjunath Joshi , “SVD Based Automatic Detection of Target Regions for Image Inpainting”, in Proc. ACCV Workshop on e-Heritage 2012 (ACCV-12), Daejeon, Korea, 5-9 November, 2012. Naman Turakhia, Ruchin Shah and Manjunath Joshi , “Automatic Crack Detection in Heritage Site Images for Image Inpainting”, in Proc. Eighth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), Mumbai, 16 - 19 December, 2012.