Faculty · Department of Electrical Engineering

Rajbabu Velmurugan

Rajbabu Velmurugan

Contact

Email:
rajbabu@ee.iitb.ac.in

Office:
+91-22-2576-7444

Residence:
+91-22-2576-8444

Address:
1st Floor (Next to PC lab), Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay, Powai Mumbai 400 076, India

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Research Interests

Statistical and digital signal processing Audio and speech processing Image processing and computer vision Signal processing system design

Qualifications

  • • Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Tech., Atlanta, 2007
  • • M.S., Clarkson University, Potsdam, 1998
  • • B.E., Government College of Tech., Coimbatore, 1995

Work Experience

  • • Professor, IIT Bombay, Dec 2019 – present
  • • Asso. Professor, IIT Bombay, Sep 2014 – Nov 2019
  • • Asst. Professor, IIT Bombay, Sep 2007 – Aug 2014
  • • The Mathworks, Natick, USA, 1998 – 2001
  • • Larsen & Toubro (ECC) Ltd., 1995 – 1996

Publications

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  • Parth Mehta, Kumar Appaiah, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Debasattam Pal, "All-Pass Filter Design Using Unimodular Interpolation" , IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 30, pp. 433-437, Apr. 2023. [ DOI ]
  • Anwesh Mohanty, Biplab Banerjee, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "SSMTReID-Net: Multi-Target Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Person Re-Identification" , Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 163, pp. 40-46, Nov. 2022. [ DOI ]
  • Pinalkumar Engineer, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Sachin Patkar, "Scalable implementation of particle filter-based visual object tracking on network-on-chip (NoC)" , Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Mar. 2019. [ DOI ]
  • Avik Hati, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "An image texture insensitive method for saliency detection" , Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 43, no. C, pp. 212-226, Feb. 2017.
  • Gargi Phadke and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Mean LBP and modified fuzzy C-means weighted hybrid feature for illumination invariant mean-shift tracking" , Signal, Image and Video Processing, Nov. 2016.
  • Viji P Panakkal and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "An Improved Measurement Model for Target Tracking under Measurement Origin Uncertainty" , Journal of Advanced Information Fusion, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 20, Dec. 2015.
  • Renu Rameshan, Subhasis Chaudhuri and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Convergence analysis of a quadratic upper bounded TV regularizer based blind deconvolution" , Signal Processing, vol. 106, pp. 174-183, Jan. 2015.
  • Volkan Cevher, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and James H. McClellan , "Acoustic Multitarget Tracking Using Direction-of-Arrival Batches" , IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 2810-2825, Jun. 2007.
  • Subhasis Chaudhuri, Rajbabu Velmurugan and Renu Rameshan, "Blind Image Deconvolution: Methods and Con- vergence", 2014.
  • Archiki Prasad, Preethi Jyothi, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "An Investigation of End-to-End Models for Robust Speech Recognition" in ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , IEEE, Jun. 2021. [ DOI ]
  • Sayan Banerjee, S Divakar Bhat, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Directed Variational Cross-encoder Network for Few-shot Multi-image Co-segmentation" in 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) , IEEE, Jan. 2021. [ DOI ]
  • Yashswi Jain, Ashvini Kumar Sharma, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Biplab Banerjee, "PoseCVAE: Anomalous Human Activity Detection" in International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) , Dec. 2020. [ DOI ]
  • Amey Chindarkkar, Sweta Priyadarshi, Narendra S. Shiradkar, Anil Kottantharayil, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Deep Learning Based Detection of Cracks in Electroluminescence Images of Fielded PV modules" in 2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) , IEEE, Jun. 2020. [ DOI ]
  • Sayan Banerjee, Avik Hati, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Cosegnet: Image co-segmentation using a conditional siamese convolutional network" in International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Aug. 2019.
  • Himanshu Pandotra, Rajbabu Velmurugan , K. S. Gurumoorthy, and Ajit Rajwade, "Perturbed compressed sensing based single snapshot doa estimation" in Proc. IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) , Dec. 2018.
  • T. M. Feroz Ali, Kalpesh Patel, Rajbabu Velmurugan and Subhasis Chaudhuri, "Multiple kernel fisher discriminant metric learning for person re-identification" in Proc. Indian Conf on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) , Dec. 2018.
  • Sayan Banerjee, Avik Hati, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Image co-segmentation using graph convolution neural network" in Proc. Indian Conf on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) , Dec. 2018.
  • Ashish Goyal, Neha Bhargava, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Subhasis Chaudhuri, "Hierarchical deep network for group discovery and multi-level activity recognition" in Proc. Indian Conf on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) , Dec. 2018.
  • Avik Hati, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Co-segmentation of Non-homogeneous Image Sets" in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP) , Oct. 2018.
  • Nikhil Mohanan, Prem Nayak, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Preeti Rao, "NMF based front-end processing in multi-channel distant speech recognition," in Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments , Sep. 2018.
  • Nikhil Mohanan, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Preeti Rao, "A non-convolutive NMF model for speech dereverberation" in Proc. Interspeech , Sep. 2018.
  • Nikhil Mohanan, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Preeti Rao, "Speech dereverberation using NMF with regularized room impulse response" in IEEE In- ternational Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , Apr. 2017.
  • Gargi Phadke, Shubham Dawande, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Non-negative Matrix Factorization based Illumination Robust Meanshift Tracking" in Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC) , Mar. 2017.
  • Kalyani Deopujari, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Kanchan Tiwari, "Spatial Temporal Weighted Histogram based Mean Shift Target tracking for Illumination Variation Format" in Proc. Indian Conf on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) , ACM, Dec. 2016.
  • Avik Hati, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Image Co-segmentation Using Maximum Common Subgraph Matching and Region Co-growing" in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , Springer, pp.736--752, Oct. 2016.
  • Avik Hati, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Salient object carving" in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP) , Sep. 2015.
  • Viji P Paul and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "A factor graph approach for efficient JPDA implementation in multi-target tracking" in Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conf. , Mar. 2015.
  • Pinal J Engineer, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Sachin B Patkar, "Parameterizable FPGA framework for particle filter based object tracking in video" in Proc. International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID) , Jan. 2015.
  • Avis Hati, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Saliency detection based on a sparsity of segments model" in Proc. Indian Conf. on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) , Dec. 2014.
  • Gargi Phadke and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Improved weighted histogram for illumination invariant mean-shift tracking" in Proc. Indian Conf on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) , Dec. 2014.
  • Viji Paul Panakkal and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Effective joint probabilistic data association using maximum a posteriori estimates of target states" in International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) , Jul. 2013.
  • Gargi Phadke and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Improved mean-shift for multi-target tracking" in IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS) , Jan. 2013.
  • Gargi Phadke and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Illumination Invariant Mean-Shift Tracking" in IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) , pp.407-412, Jan. 2013.
  • Nagesh S. Nayak, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and P. C. Pandey , "Estimation of Lip Opening for Scaling of Vocal Tract Area Function for Speech Training Aids" in National Conference on Communications,Kharagpur,India , Dec. 2012.
  • Renu M. Rameshan, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Joint MAP estimation for blind deconvolution: when does it work ?" in Indian Conf. on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) , Dec. 2012.
  • Sumeet Agrawal, Pinalkumar Engineer, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Sachin B. Patkar, "FPGA Implementation of particle filter based object tracking in video" in International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED) , Dec. 2012.
  • Viji P Paul and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Iterative joint probabilistic data association for avoiding track coalescence and track swap in multi-target tracking" in Proc. IEEE 7th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM) 2012 , Jun. 2012.
  • Nagesh S Nayak, Rajbabu Velmurugan , Prem C Pandey, and Sudipan Saha, "Estimation of lip opening for scaling of vocal tract area function for speech training aids" in National Conference on Communications , Feb. 2012.
  • S.Hiware, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Subhasis Chaudhuri, "Modeling of PSF for Refractive Index Variation in Fluorescence Microscopy" in Proc. International Conference Image Processing, Brussels , Sep. 2011.
  • M. R. Renu, Subhasis Chaudhuri, and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "High Dynamic Range Imaging under Noisy Observations" in Proc. International Conference Image Processing, Brussels , Sep. 2011.
  • Viji P Paul and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Effective Data Association Scheme for Tracking Closely Moving Targets Using Factor Graphs" in National Conference on Communications , Jan. 2011.
  • S. P. Noolu, M. Shojaei Baghini, and V. Rajbabu, "Efficient Analog Architectures for DCT Processing" in NASA/ESA AHS, USA , pp.346-353, Jun. 2010.
  • Viji P Paul and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Bearings-Only Tracking using Derived Heading" in IEEE Aerospace Conference , Mar. 2010.
  • Viji P Paul and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Nonparametric techniques for graphical model-based target tracking in collaborative sensor groups" in National Conference on Communications , Jan. 2010.
  • Viji Paul P and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Tracking Closely Moving Objects with Pair-wise Interacting State Vector" in Intl. Radar Symp. India. , Dec. 2009.
  • Viji P Paul and Rajbabu Velmurugan , "Distributed Tracking using Nonparametric Belief Propagation in an Arbitrary Radar Network" in Intl. Radar Symp. India. , Dec. 2009.
  • Rajbabu Velmurugan , Volkan Cevher, and James H McClellan, "Implementation of Batch-based Particle Filters for Multi-Sensor Tracking" in IEEE CAMSAP conference , Dec. 2007.
  • Rajbabu Velmurugan , Shyam Subramanian, Volkan Cevher, James H McClellan, and David V Anderson, "Mixed-mode Implementation of Particle Filters" in IEEE PACRIM conference , Aug. 2007.
  • Volkan Cevher, Faisal Shah, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and James H McClellan, "A Multi Target Bearing Tracking System using Random Sampling Consensus" in IEEE Aerospace Conference , Invited paper , Mar. 2007.
  • Rajbabu Velmurugan , Shyam Subramanian, Volkan Cevher, David Abramson, K M Odame, J D Gray, H J Lo, James H McClellan, and David V Anderson, "On Low-Power Analog Implementation of Particle Filters for Target Tracking" in Proc. 14th European Signal Processing Conf. {EUSIPCO} , Sep. 2006.
  • Volkan Cevher, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and James H McClellan, "A Range-Only Multiple Target Particle Filter Tracker" in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing {ICASSP} , May 2006.
  • Volkan Cevher, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and James H McClellan, "Multi Target Direction-of-Arrival Tracking using Road Priors" in IEEE Aerospace Conference , Mar. 2006.
  • James H McClellan, L D Harvel, Rajbabu Velmurugan , Milind Borkar, and Chris Scheibe, "{CNT}: Concept-Map Based Navigation and Discovery in a Repository of Learning Content" in Proc. Frontiers in Education 34th Annual Conf. , Oct. 2004.
  • James H McClellan , Milind Borkar, Rajbabu Velmurugan , L D Harvel, and Chris Scheibe, "Concept Maps For Navigating Signal Processing Education Resources" in Proc. {IEEE} DSP/SPE Workshop , Aug. 2004.
  • James H McClellan , Milind Borkar, Rajbabu Velmurugan , and Gregory Krudysz, "Automated Creation of Resources for HTML based Concept Maps" in MERLOT Intl. Conf. , Aug. 2003.