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West Bengal State University
Barasat, North 24 Paraganas
Postal Address: Berunanpukuria, P.O. Malikapur,
North 24 Parganas, PIN 700126
Office Fax : (033) 2524 1977
Telephone : 25241975, 25241976, 25241978, 25241979

 
 
 
 
 

Dr. Kaushik Roy

Reader,

Department of Computer Science,
West Bengal State University,
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata- 700 126
West Bengal, INDIA
e-mail: kaushik.mrg@gmail.com,  
Mobile no. 09432841740

 
 

 

Name KAUSHIK ROY
Designation READER
Academic Qualification PhD (Engg), M. E. &  B. E. in Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interest Offline and On-line Handwriting Recognition, Postal Automation, Forensic Document Processing, Medical Image Processing
Teaching Design and Analysis of Algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Advanced Operating System, Pattern Recognition,

Thesis Title : On the Development of a Optical Character Recognition for Indian Postal Automation

The project handled by me as PI :

Online Bangla Handwriting Recognition System Funded by AICTE, No.: 8023/BOR/RPS-109/2006-07 dt. 26.02.2007

Awards Won: Young IT Professional Award 2004 -(YITPA’04), conferred by the Computer Society of India

Acted as member of the Organizing Committee: IWDA’05 RETIS’06, RETIS’08, ICFHR’10

Membership to Professional Bodies: IUPRAI (Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence [Affiliated to International Association of Pattern Recognition])

Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals:

1.       K. Roy, C. Chaudhuri, M. Kundu, M. Nasipuri and D. K. Basu, "Comparison of the Multilayer perceptron and the nearest neighbor classifier for handwritten digit recognition", Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1245-1257, 2005.

2.       K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "Recognition of Bangla Handwritten characters", International Journal of Tomography and Statistics, International Journal of Tomography and Statistics Special Issue on: Recent Advances in Pattern Recognition using Signal Processing, Vol. 5, No. AI207, pp. 27-36, 2007.

3.       K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "Unconstrained Oriya Handwritten Numeral Recognition using Modified Quadratic Discriminant Function", International Journal of Computers & Mathematical Science Application, Vol. 1, No. 2-4, pp. 281-293, 2007.

4.       K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "A Lexicon Driven Handwritten City Name Recognition Scheme for Indian Postal Automation", IETE, Vol. E92-D No. 5, pp.1146-1158, 2009.

5.       K. Roy, S. Vajda, U. Pal, A. Belaid, and B. B. Chaudhuri, "On the Development of a System for Indian Postal Automation", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 23 (8), pp.1599-1632, 2009.

Publications in Procedings of Conferences

1.        K. Roy, C. Chaudhuri, S. Roy, M. Kundu, M. Nasipuri and D. K. Basu, "An Application of the Multi Layer Perceptron for Handwritten Digit Recognition", In Proc. International Conference on Devices for Communication, 2004.

2.        K. Roy, C. Chaudhuri, P. Rakshit, M. Kundu, M. Nasipuri and D. K. Basu, "A Comparative Assessment of Performances of the RBF Network and the MLP for Handwritten Digit Recognition", In Proc. International Conference on Communication Devices and Intelligent Systems, pp. 540-543, 2004.

3.        K. Roy, S. Basak and U. Pal "English Handwritten Touching String Segmentation", In Proc. International Conference on Communication Devices and Intelligent Systems, pp. 628-613, 2004.

4.        K. Roy, J. Mustafi and U. Pal "A System for Handwritten Bangla and English Numeral Recognition", In Proc. First National Conference on Advanced Image Processing and Networking, pp. 103-108, 2004.

5.        K. Roy, U. Pal, and B.B. Chaudhuri, "Address Block Location and Pin Code Recognition for Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. 2nd National Workshop on Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing, pp. 8-15, 2004.

6.        K. Roy, S. Vajda, U. Pal, and B. B. Chaudhuri, "A System towards Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. 9th International Workshop on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, pp. 361-367, 2004.

7.        K. Roy, U. Pal and B. B. Chaudhuri, "A System for Joining and Recognition of Broken Bangla Numerals for Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. 4th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, pp. 581-586, 2004.

8.        K. Roy, A. Banerjee, and U. Pal, "A System for Word-wise Handwritten Script Identification for Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. IEEE India Annual Conference 2004, pp. 266-271, 2004.

9.        K. Roy and U. Pal, "An Improved Algorithm for Binarization of Indian Postal Document Images", In Proc. National Conference on Recent Advances in Power Signal Processing and Control, pp 151-156, 2004.

10.     K. Roy, U. Pal and B. B. Chaudhuri, "A System for Neural Network based Word-wise Handwritten Script Identification for Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing and Control, pp. 581-586, 2005.

11.     K. Roy, S. Das, "A System for Automatic Sorting of Indian Postal Document", National Competition for Young IT Professional Awards 2004-YITPA'04, conducted by Computer Society of India, 2004.

12.     K. Roy and A. Banerjee, "Segmentation of Bangla Handwritten Character for Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. 2nd national Conference on Advanced Image Processing and Networking, pp. 1-11, 2005.

13.     K. Roy, S. Vajda, U. Pal, B. B. Chaudhuri and A. Belaid, "A System for Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. International Workshop on Document Analysis, pp. 255-281, 2005.

14.     K. Roy, S. Vajda, U. Pal, B. B. Chaudhuri and A. Belaid, "A System for Indian Postal Automation based on Pin-code and City Name", In Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 1060-1064, 2005.

15.     K. Roy, T. Pal, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "Oriya Handwritten Numeral Recognition System", In Proc. 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 770-774, 2005.

16.     K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "Recognition of Bangla Handwritten characters", In Proc. 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 431-443, 2005.

17.     K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Characters", In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Machine Intelligence, pp. 480-485, 2005.

18.     K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "English Multi-oriented Character Recognition", In Proc. 13th International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communications, 2005.

19.     K. Roy, T. Pal, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "A system for Bangla Handwritten Numeral Recognition based of Directional Feature", In Proc. Cognition Recognition, pp. 497-505, 2005.

20.     K. Roy, C. Chaudhuri, U. Pal, and M. Kundu, "A Study on the Effect of Varying Training set Sizes on Recognition Performance with Handwritten Bangla Numerals", In Proc. IEEE India Annual Conference 2005, pp. 570-574, 2005.

21.     K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "English Multi-oriented Character Recognition", In Proc. 18th International Conference on Pattern recognition, pp. 873-876, 2006.

22.     K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "A Lexicon Driven Method for Unconstrained Bangla Handwritten Word Recognition", In Proc. 10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pp. 601-606, 2006.

23.     K. Roy and U. Pal, "Word-wise Handwritten Script Identification", In Proc. 10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pp. 521-526, 2006.

24.     K. Roy, D. Pal and U. Pal, "Pin-code extraction and recognition for Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems, pp. 192-195, 2006.

25.     Krishanu Roy, K. Roy and U. Pal, "Segmentation of Unconstrained Handwritten Text based on RLSA Algorithm", In Proc. National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems, pp. 196-199, 2006.

26.     K. Roy, N. Sharma, T. Pal and U. Pal, "Online Bangla Handwriting Recognition System", In Proc. 6th  International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, pp. 121-126, 2007.

27.     K. Roy, U. Pal and F. Kimura, "Bangla Handwritten Pin Code String Recognition for Indian Postal Automation", In Proc. 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, pp. 290-295, 2008.

28.     K. Roy and K. Majumder, "Trilingual Script Separation of Handwritten Postal Document", In Proc. Sixth Indian Conference on Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing, pp. 693-700, 2008.

29.     K. Roy, “Stroke-Database Design for Online Handwriting Recognition in Bangla”, In Proc. International Conference on I3T, pp. 190-198, 2009.

30.     U. Pal, R. K. Roy, K. Roy and F. Kimura, “Indian Multi-Script Pin Code String Recognition for Postal Automation”, In Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 456-460 2009.

31.     K. Roy and J. Paul, “A Study on Writer Identification in Bangla”, In Proc. National Conference on NCUBQT’09 pp. 24-29, 2009.

32.     K. Roy and S. Sen, “Towards Online Bangla Handwriting Recognition”, In Proc. National Conference on NCUBQT’09 pp. 1-6, 2009.

33.     K. Roy and A. Bandhopadhya “A System for Unconstrained Bangla Handwriting Recognition”, In Proc. NCPRIG09 pp-77-82, 2010.

34.     S. Dey, K. Roy and S. Roy, “Automatic Test of Color Blindness”, In proceedings of National Seminar on Human Health - A Bicultural synthesis, 2010.

35.     K. Roy, A. Alaei and U. Pal, “Word-wise Handwritten Persian and Roman Script Identification”, Accepted for publication in In Proc. 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2010.

36.     Bidyut Das, Deba Prasad Mandal and K. Roy, “Extraction of Collocations from a Text Corpus: A Fuzzy Measure”, Accepted for publication in International Conference on Advances in Communication, Network and Computing, 2010.

Working Experience

1.      Lecturer, West Bengal University of Technology, BF 142, Sector –I Saltlake, Kolkata-64 (May '06 –Mar’09).

2.      Scientific Officer, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Kolkata, (Feb. '06 –May ‘06):

3.      Asst. Professor, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, (Aug. '05 –Feb’06):

4.      Project Linked Personnel, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata, (Jan. '03 –Sept.‘05):

5.      Lecturer, University Institute of Technology, Burdwan University, Barddhaman (Sept'02 - Jan.’03):

6.      Lecturer (part-time), M. C. K. V. Institute of Engineering, Kolkata (May'01 –Aug'02):

7.      Software Engineer, SCRIPTRON, Kolkata (Mar'99 - July '00):

 
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