DR. ARIJIT SUR. Brief Biography:

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1 DR. ARIJIT SUR Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India and Web: Multimedia lab: Brief Biography: Dr. Sur received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in He has completed his M. Sc. in computer and Information Science in 2001 and M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering in 2003, both from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta. Dr. Sur joined Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in June 2009 as an Assistant Professor and has become Associate Professor in May Currently, three research scholars are pursuing their Ph.D. work under his guidance (as supervisor / co-supervisor), and five students have graduated. Dr. Sur has founded a research project lab named "Multimedia Lab" in Dept. of CSE on Dr. Sur has coauthored more than 15 top tier journal papers and more than 30 papers in different premier conferences. Date of Birth: 21st November 1976 Research: Computer Vision using Deep Learning: Currently, our group is working on various computer vision problems using deep learning framework. Specifically, we are concentrating on single image super resolution, depth estimation from a single image, image steganalysis, image restoration, image and object memorability etc. using mainly deep neural architectures such as CNN, RNN (or LSTM), GAN etc. Prior works: Previously, we had concentrated on different aspects of multimedia security such as Compressed Domain Video Watermarking for H.264/AVC, HEVC, scalable video watermarking, 3D image/video watermarking, steganography and steganalysis, Resource Allocation Strategies for Multimedia Services in Wireless Networks etc.

2 Students: Research Scholars: Sl. No. Name of the Student 1 Tanima Dutta 2 Nilkanta Sahu 3 Shuvendu Rana Topic / Thesis title Compressed Domain Video Watermarking for H.264/AVC Robust Video Watermarking against Content Adaptation Attack Authentication for the 3D video sequence 3 Sibaji Gaj Watermarking Schemes for High Definition Videos 4 Satish Kumar Resource Allocation Strategies for Multimedia services in wireless Networks Cosupervisor Jointly with Prof. P K Bora, EEE, IITG Jointly with Dr. Arnab Sarkar, CSE, IITG Status Graduated 2014 Graduated 2016 Graduated 2017 Graduated 2017 Graduated Sathisha B Image Memorability Ongoing Current Affiliation Assistant Professor, IIT BHU Assistant Professor, IIIT Guwahati Research Associate, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Postdoctoral Fellow, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA Research fellow, 5G Innovation Centre University of Surrey, UK 7 Brijesh Singh 8 Prasen Sharma Image Steganalysis Computer Vision using Deep Learning Techniques Jointly with Dr. Pinaki Mitra, CSE, IITG Ongoing Ongoing

3 Professional Activities: Courses / Workshops / Conferences Organizing Co-chair 10th Indian Conference on Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2016) Tutorial Co-Chair, 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS) AICTE sponsored QIP Workshop on "What is common among Cloud Computing, Nanotechnology, and Green Computing?" (jointly with Prof. K Srinivasan and Dr. Santosh Biswas) AICTE Sponsored QIP Short Term Course on "Multimedia Communication" (jointly with Prof. Sukumar Nandi) Year Reviewer of 1. IEEE Transaction on IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 2. IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics and Security 3. IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing 4. IEEE Transaction on Multimedia 5. IEEE Signal Processing Letters 6. Signal Processing, Elsevier 7. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier 8. Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier 9. Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier 10. International Journal of Network Security 11. The ninth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing

4 Projects: Title Status Sponsoring agency Design and development of a statistical steganalytic tool and investigate the scope of the deep neural network as potential steganalyzer Design, Development of a Watermarking System for Scalable Video Authentication Recommen ded by the working group Completed Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India Budget (Rs.) 70 Lakhs Lakhs Role Princi pal Invest igator Princi pal Invest igator Other PI/ Co- PIs Co-PI: Prof. P K Bora, EEE, IITG Shot Based Video Watermarking For Very Low Bit Rate Video Completed Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India 6.40 Lakhs Princi pal Invest igator Development of Framework fo Completed Logging and Analysis of Network Traffic to secure IT infrastructure Projects of MCIT at Manipur University, Guwaha University, Assam Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India 15 Lakhs Co- Princi pal Invest igator PI: Dr. S. Biswas Co-PI: Prof. S. Nandi Remote Triggered Digital System Laboratory under Remote Triggered Lab ongoing MHRD, Govt. of India 49 Lakhs Princi pal Invest igator Others PIs: Dr. S. Biswas Dr. J.K. Deka

5 Awards: Dr. Sur is a recipient of Institute Scholarship ( ), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur and Infosys Scholarship ( ) during his Ph.D. tenure at IIT Kharagpur. He was also awarded the prestigious Microsoft Outstanding Young Faculty Programme Award at Dept. of CSE, IIT Guwahati. Patents : Watermark Evaluation Tool (Indian Patent Applied) Selected Publications: Book Chapters: 1. Book Chapter : Nilkanta Sahu, Arijit Sur, "Scalable Video Watermarking: A Survey", Innovative Research in Attention Modelling and Computer Vision Applications, Edited by Rajarshi Pal, IGI Global Publication S. Kumar, D. Goswami, A. Sarkar and A.Sur. "A Buffer Aware Resource Allocation Framework for Video Streaming over LTE" (Chapter 14),. Accepted in: Communication Systems and Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol , April, Journal Publications: Sl. No. Journal Details: 1 S. Kumar, A. Sarkar, A. Sur, "A Resource Allocation Framework for Adaptive Video Streaming Over LTE", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier (Accepted) 2 Nilkanta Sahu, Arijit Sur, "SIFT Based Video Watermarking Resistant to Temporal Scaling", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Elsevier (Accepted) Sibaji Gaj, Aditya Kanetkar, A. Sur, Prabin Kumar Bora "Drift Compensated Robust Watermarking Algorithm for H.265/HEVC Video Stream", ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. (TOMM) 2016 (Accepted) Sibaji Gaj, Anoop Rathor, A. Sur, Prabin Kumar Bora, "A Robust Watermarking Scheme against Frame Blending and Projection Attacks" Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer US, September 2016(Accepted) Rana S., Sur A., "Depth Based View Invariant Blind 3D Image Watermarking" ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. Volume 12 Issue 4, August 2016

6 6 Nilkanta Sahu, Shuvendu Rana and A. Sur, "MCDCT-TF based video watermarking resilient to temporal and quality scaling", Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1-26, Springer, October 2015 (Online). 7 S. Kumar, A. Sarkar, S. Sriram, A. Sur. "A Three-Level LTE Downlink Scheduling Framework for RT VBR Traffic" Computer Networks, Elsevier, Volume 91, Pages , November Sibaji Gaj, Ashis Singh Patel, A. Sur, "Object-Based Watermarking for H.264/AVC Video Resistant to RST Attacks", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, pp 1-28, 23 January 2015 (online) 9 A. Sur, Sista Venkat Madhav Krishna, Nilkanta Sahu and Shuvendu Rana, "Detection of Motion Vector Based Video Steganography", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Volume 74, Issue 23, pp , December Swathi Karri and A. Sur, "Steganographic Algorithm Based on Randomization of DCT Kernel", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Volume 74, Issue 21, pp , November Shuvendu Rana, Nilkanta Sahu, and A. Sur, "Robust watermarking for resolution and quality scalable video sequence,", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Volume 74, Issue 18, pp , September A. Sur, D. Shyam P. Goel, IIT Kharagpur and J. Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur "An Image Steganographic Algorithm Based on Spatial Desynchronization",Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Volume 71, Issue 3, pp , August A. Sur, R. Vignesh, IIT Kharagpur and J. Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, "Pixel rearrangement based statistical restoration scheme reducing embedding noise", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol 68, issue. 3, pp , February A. Sur, A. S. Nair, A. Kumar, A. Jain, and S. Nandi "Steganalysis of Network Packet Length Based Data Hiding", Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, Springer, vol 32, issue 3, pp , A. Sur, R. Vignesh and J. Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, "Secure Steganography using Randomized Cropping", LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, Springer, Volume 7110/2012, pp , 2012.

7 Conference Publications: Sl. No. Conference Details 1 Sathisha Basavaraju, Paritosh Mittal, Arijit Sur, Image Memorability: The Role of Depth And Motion, IEEE ICIP 2018 (accepted) 2 Satish Kumar, Paras Vishnoi, Arnab Sarkar, Arijit Sur, QoE Aware Resource Allocation for Multi-View Video Flows in LTE, HPCC 2018 (accepted) 3 A. Lekharu, S. Kumar, A.sur, A.Sarkar, "A QoE Aware SVC Based Client-side Video Adaptation Algorithm for Cellular Networks". Accepted in: International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Rana, S., Gaj, S., Sur, A.: "View Invariant 3D Video Watermarking using Depth Based Embedding". International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2016). (Accepted 2016) 5 Gaj, S., Rana, S., Sur, A., Bora, P.: "A Robust Watermarking Scheme against Frame Blending, Projection and Content Adaption Attacks". International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2016). (Accepted 2016) 6 Rana, S., Gaj, S., Sur, A., Bora, P.: Detection of Fake 3D Video Using CNN, 18th IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2016) (Accepted) 7 Rana, S., Gaj, S., Sur, A., Bora, P.: Segmentation-Based 3D Depth Watermarking using SIFT, 18th IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2016)(Accepted) 8 Gaj, S., Rana, S., Sur, A., Bora, P.: A Drift Compensated Reversible Watermarking Scheme for H.265/HEVC, 18th IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2016) (Accepted) 9 S. Kumar, S. Sriram, A. Sarkar, A. Sur. A Three Level Adaptive Video Streaming Framework Over LTE.,IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct 2016.(Accepted) 10 Shuvendu Rana, A Sur, "3D video watermarking using DT-DWT to resist synthesis view attack". in European Signal Processing Conference 2015 (EUSIPCO 2015), Nice, France, Aug

8 11 Sibaji Gaj, Shuvendu Rana, Anirban Lekharu, A Sur, Prabin Bora, "RST Invariant Multi-View 3D Image Watermarking using DWT and SVD ", NCVPRIPG2015, Patna, India 12 Sibaji Gaj, A Sur, Prabin Bora,"A Robust Watermarking Scheme against Re-Compression Attack for H.265/HEVC", NCVPRIPG2015, Patna, India 13 Shuvendu Rana, Vishavdeep Mattu, A Sur, "SIFT-based View Invariant Watermarking for DIBR 3D Image", NCVPRIPG2015, Patna, India Nilkanta Sahu, Vivek Tiwari and A Sur, "Robust Video Watermarking Resilient to Temporal Scalability", NCVPRIPG2015, Patna, India Priyatham Bollimpalli, Nilkanta Sahu and A. Sur, "SIFT-Based Robust Image Watermarking Resistant To Resolution Scaling,", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2014 Shuvendu Rana, Arijit Sur, "Blind 3D Video Watermarking Based on 3D-HEVC Encoder Using Depth", Proceedings of the Eighth Indian Conference on Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2014) Tanima Dutta, A. Sur, Sukumar Nandi, "Motion Coherent Region Detection in H.264 Compressed Videos", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013), July 2013 Lalit Vashishtha,Tanima Dutta and A. Sur, "Least Significant Bit Matching Steganalysis Based on Feature Analysis", The nineteenth annual National Conference on Communications (NCC- 2013), Delhi, January 16-17, 2013 Tanima Dutta, A. Sur, Sukumar Nandi, "A Robust Compressed Domain Video Watermarking in P-frames with Controlled Bit Rate Increase", The nineteenth annual National Conference on Communications (NCC-2013), Delhi, January 16-17, 2013 Boorla Chandrakanth, Tanima Dutta and A. Sur, "Steganographic Algorithm Based on Parametric Discrete Cosine Transform", Proceedings of the Eighth Indian Conference on Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2012), Article No. 79, ACM New York, NY, USA, Anand S Nair, Abhishek Kumar, A. Sur, Sukumar Nandi, "Length Based Network Steganography using UDP Protocol", 2011 International Conference on Computer and Communication Devices (ICCCD 2011), pp , Bali Island, Indonesia. April 1-3, 2011 A. Sur, Piyush Goel,, IIT Kharagpur and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay,, IIT Kharagpur, "Adaptive Pixel Swapping Based Steganography Reducing Embedding Noise", 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI' 11), June 27 - July 1, 2011, Moscow, Russia Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6744/2011, pp , 2011.

9 Vengala Satish Kumar, Tanima Dutta, A. Sur and Sukumar Nandi "Secure Network Steganographic Scheme Exploiting TCP Sequence Numbers", The Fourth International Conference on Network Security & Applications (CNSA-2011), July 15 ~ 17, 2011, Chennai, India, Advances in Network Security and Applications, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Volume 196, Part 1, pp Omprakash Meena, Sathisha Basavaraju and A. Sur, "DCT block location based data hiding" World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), pp , December 2011 Ankush Rai, Ferdous Barbhuiya, A. Sur, Santosh Biswas, Suchetana Chakraborty and Sukumar Nandi, "Exploit Detection Techniques for STP using Distributed IDS", World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), pp , 2011 A. Sur and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur: An Adaptive Steganographic Scheme with JPEG Compressed Digital Images, Proceedings, National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), Jan Udit Singh, Rajat Singh, A. Sur "Reversible Data Hiding by Utilizing the Local Maxima in the Histogram",Second International Conference on Multimedia and Content-Based Image Retrieval (ICMCBIR) 2010 Anand S Nair, A. Sur, Sukumar Nandi, "Detection of Packet Length Based Network Steganography", International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES), pp , 2010 Udit Singh, A. Sur "Reversible Data Hiding by Alternate Shifting of Peaks in the Histogram" First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM), 2010 A. Sur, Piyush Goel,, IIT Kharagpur and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur: Spatial Desynchronization : A Possible Way to Resist Calibration Attack, International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES), pp , A. Sur, Piyush Goel and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay: A New Statistical Restoration Method for Spatial Domain Images, Third International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'09), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 5909/2009, pp A. Sur, Srikar Sagar, Rajarshi Pal, Pabitra Mitra and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur: A New Image Watermarking Scheme using Saliency-Based Visual Attention Model, IEEE INDICON, pp. 1-4, A. Sur, Piyush Goel and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay: A Spatial Domain Steganographic Scheme for Reducing Embedding Noise, 3rd International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, ISCCSP March 12 14, 2008, St. Julians, Malta, on page(s):

10 A. Sur, Piyush Goel and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay: A New Approach for Reducing Embedding Noise in Multiple Bit Plane Steganography, International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, ICISP July 1-3, 2008, Cherbourg-Octeville, Normandy, France, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 5099/2008, on page(s): A. Sur, Piyush Goel and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay: Pixel Swapping: Another Possible Way to Resist Targeted Attacks on LSB Steganography, International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW 2008), November 10 12, 2008, Busan, Korea, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 5450/2009, on page(s): A. Sur, Piyush Goel and JayantaMukhopadhyay: A SDS Based Steganographic Scheme for Reducing Embedding Noise, Proceedings, ADCOM 2007, Dec 18-21, Guwahati, INDIA, IEEE Computer Society Press, on page(s): ( ). A. Sur. and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay: Adaptive data hiding in compressed video domain, ICVGIP-2006, Dec , Madurai, India, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4338/2006. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg (2006), on page(s):