Resume     

"Soccer Video Processing for the Detection of Advertisement Billboards", A. Watve and Shamik Sural, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2008 (accepted)

"Detection of On-field Billboard Advertisements from Soccer Telecasts", A. Watve and S. Sural, Proc. of the IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2006.

D. E. Shaw India Software Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India

Developed Software to parse data feeds coming for security exchanges. The work was mostly in Java and Perl. Also worked on some in-house projects.

M. Tech. Project

Detection of on-field advertisement billboards in soccer telecasts at School of Information Technology, IIT Kharagpur Objective of the project is to track advertisements in soccer video footage to nd out time (and size) for which an advertisement billboard was shown. It is a pattern recognition based application, which uses domain knowledge and properties of videos for object detection and tracking. System will be developed in C.

B.E. Project

Local Network Monitoring System - at Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) Anushaktinagar, Mumbai The system scans the selected hosts in a LAN using port scanner and makes a database (in postgreSQL) of the gathered data. User can query the database to detect inconsistencies or abnormalities. The system was developed in C. GUI was developed using JAVA Swing.

Wavelet transform and Multi-resolution analysis

Object tracking in video scenes

10 GB Ethernet

USB 2.0

Currently enrolled for Ph.D. In Computer Science and Enginnering at Michigan State University, East Lansing

2006     Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in Information Technology
CGPA 9.64 /10.0

2004     Mumbai University Nerul, New Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology
Percentage of marks: 70.0% (First class with distinction)

2000     Atomic Energy junior college Anushaktinagar, Mumbai
HSC (Higher Secondary School Certi cate)
Aggregate percentage of marks: 92.33 % (First class with distinction)
PCM (Physics + Chemistry + Mathematics) 97%

1998     New Bombay High School Vashi, New Mumbai
SSC (Secondary School Certi cate)
Percentage of marks: 88.66 % (First class with distinction)
Two silver medals and a gold medal for excellence in Mathematics, Science and Sanskrit

Received National Talent Search (NTS) Scholarship in 1998

Received JRD Tata scholarship in 2002 and 2003

All India rank of 25 (99.74 percentile) in GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)

C/C++

Perl

Java

SQL (mainly with databases MySQL and PostgreSQl)

IDEs : Eclipse, KDevelop, Quanta+, Kile

LaTeX

General Secretary - Maintenance, of J. C. Bose hall of residence, IIT Kharagpur

Placement Representative of School of Information Technology

Represented J C Bose hall of residence in several inter-hall competitions such as biz-quiz, product design competition, inter-hall maths olympiad etc.

Dr. Shamik Sural, Asst. professor, School of Information technology, IIT Kharagpur
Email: shamik@sit.iitkgp.ernet.in

Dr. Sakti Pramanik, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Email: pramanik@cse.msu.edu