SANTOSH KUMAR VIPPARTHI

@iitrpr.ac.in

Associate Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar)

SANTOSH KUMAR VIPPARTHI
Dr. Santosh Kumar Vipparthi, with over 12 years of experience, is the Head and Associate Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering (sAIDE) at IIT Ropar. Previously, he contributed his expertise to IIT Guwahati’s School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and MNIT’s Computer Science and Engineering Department. His research spans visual perception tasks, including object detection and underwater exploration, with publications in top journals like IEEE-TIP. Dr. Vipparthi also serves on technical committees for major conferences. He is seeking motivated interns and PhD scholars. More details at [his website](.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Facial Expression Recognition, Change Detection
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Scopus Publications

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Scholar Citations

30

Scholar h-index

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Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • FedHMed: Adaptive progressive loss and KL-divergence regularization for federated heterogeneous medical image classification tasks
    KP Singh, M Verma, DK Tyagi, SK Vipparthi, S Murala, ...
    Knowledge-Based Systems, 116112 , 2026
    2026
  • NTIRE 2026 Rip Current Detection and Segmentation (RipDetSeg) Challenge Report
    A Dumitriu, A Ralhan, F Miron, F Tatui, RT Ionescu, R Timofte, A Naeem, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.17070 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 19
  • FedHC: Enhanced federated learning with Hessian and cosine correlation for proximal correlation
    KP Singh, M Verma, DK Tyagi, SK Vipparthi, GSR Kosuru, S Murala, ...
    Knowledge-Based Systems, 115775 , 2026
    2026
  • A motion flow guided MicroNet framework for micro expression recognition
    M Verma, SK Vipparthi, M Abdel-Mottaleb
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 104765 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Multimodal Emotion Recognition under Modality Uncertainty
    SM Sania Bano, Santosh Kumar Vipparthi
    ICME-2026 , 2026
    2026
  • QuCNet: Quantum Deep Learning Driven Multi-Circuit Network for Remote Sensing Image Classification
    SM Komal, Mukul Gupta, Saumya Singh, Santosh Kumar Vipparthi, C. C. Reddy
    CVPR-2026 , 2026
    2026
  • QuEENet: Quantum-Enhanced Expressive Network for Image Classification
    S Bayal, RG Dawane, K Komal, SK Vipparthi, S Murala
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer … , 2026
    2026
  • DTMIR-Pro: Domain Translation with Prompt-based Latent-Space Generalization for Multi-Weather Image Restoration
    A Kulkarni, PW Patil, SK Vipparthi, S Murala, B Raman
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer … , 2026
    2026
  • ME-NAS: A Micro Expression Feature Adaptive Neural Architecture Search
    M Verma, SK Vipparthi, S Murala, M Abdel-Mottaleb
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology , 2026
    2026
  • Compact convolution transformer with cross-feature aggregation for hand-gesture recognition
    S Narayan, P Hambarde, SK Vipparthi, AP Mazumdar, S Murala
    Computers and Electrical Engineering 128, 110727 , 2025
    2025
  • Learnable directional scale space filters for video motion magnification
    J Singh, SK Vipparthi, S Murala, GSR Kosuru, H Almarzouqi
    Knowledge-Based Systems, 114714 , 2025
    2025
  • Hierarchical motion magnification
    J Singh, SK Vipparthi, S Murala, GSR Kosuru, H Al-Marzouqi
    Neurocomputing 650, 130869 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • TransWaveNet: Transformer for Underwater Image Restoration with Wavelets
    P Mishra, MDR Khan, SS Phutke, SK Vipparthi, S Murala
    IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence , 2025
    2025
  • Computer Vision and Image Processing: 9th International Conference, CVIP 2024, Chennai, India, December 19–21, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part IV
    J Kakarla, R Balasubramanian, S Murala, SK Vipparthi, D Gupta
    Springer Nature , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Former-HGR: Hand gesture recognition with hybrid feature-aware transformer
    M Verma, G Gopalani, S Bharara, SK Vipparthi, S Murala, ...
    IEEE Sensors Letters , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Cross-centroid ripple pattern for facial expression recognition
    M Verma, SK Vipparthi
    Multimedia Tools and Applications 84 (13), 11707-11727 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 12
  • Uswformer: Efficient sparse wavelet transformer for underwater image enhancement
    P Mishra, N Mehta, SK Vipparthi, S Murala
    2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 12
  • PULSE: Physiological Understanding with Liquid Signal Extraction
    S Ahmad, S Bano, S Verma, YS Rawat, S Chanda, SK Vipparthi, S Murala
    2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • TRUST: Time-Domain Residual Unsupervised Stability Technique for Improved Heart Rate Estimation
    S Ahmad, S Bano, S Chanda, SK Vipparthi, S Murala
    2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • A novel approach for image retrieval in remote sensing using vision-language-based image caption generation
    PS Yadav, DK Tyagi, SK Vipparthi
    Multimedia Tools and Applications 84 (6), 2985-3014 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • LEARNet: Dynamic imaging network for micro expression recognition
    M Verma, SK Vipparthi, G Singh, S Murala
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 29, 1618-1627 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 183
  • An empirical review of deep learning frameworks for change detection: Model design, experimental frameworks, challenges and research needs
    M Mandal, SK Vipparthi
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 23 (7), 6101-6122 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 146
  • BerConvoNet: A deep learning framework for fake news classification
    M Choudhary, SS Chouhan, ES Pilli, SK Vipparthi
    Applied Soft Computing 110, 107614 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 124
  • NTIRE 2024 image shadow removal challenge report
    FA Vasluianu, T Seizinger, Z Zhou, Z Wu, C Chen, R Timofte, W Dong, ...
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern … , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 105
  • AVDNet: A small-sized vehicle detection network for aerial visual data
    M Mandal, M Shah, P Meena, S Devi, SK Vipparthi
    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 17 (3), 494-498 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 86
  • 3DCD: Scene independent end-to-end spatiotemporal feature learning framework for change detection in unseen videos
    M Mandal, V Dhar, A Mishra, SK Vipparthi, M Abdel-Mottaleb
    IEEE transactions on image processing 30, 546-558 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 76
  • Mor-uav: A benchmark dataset and baselines for moving object recognition in uav videos
    M Mandal, LK Kumar, SK Vipparthi
    Proceedings of the 28th ACM international conference on multimedia, 2626-2635 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 75
  • Color directional local quinary patterns for content based indexing and retrieval
    SK Vipparthi, SK Nagar
    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences 4 (1), 6 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 70
  • Spectroformer: Multi-domain query cascaded transformer network for underwater image enhancement
    R Khan, P Mishra, N Mehta, SS Phutke, SK Vipparthi, S Nandi, S Murala
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF winter conference on applications of computer … , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 69
  • Local Gabor maximum edge position octal patterns for image retrieval
    SK Vipparthi, S Murala, SK Nagar, AB Gonde
    Neurocomputing 167, 336-345 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 59
  • Hinet: Hybrid inherited feature learning network for facial expression recognition
    M Verma, SK Vipparthi, G Singh
    IEEE Letters of the Computer Society 2 (4), 36-39 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 55
  • Local directional mask maximum edge patterns for image retrieval and face recognition
    SK Vipparthi, S Murala, AB Gonde, QMJ Wu
    IET Computer Vision 10 (3), 182-192 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 55
  • Regional adaptive affinitive patterns (RADAP) with logical operators for facial expression recognition
    M Mandal, M Verma, S Mathur, SK Vipparthi, S Murala, D Kranthi Kumar
    IET Image Processing 13 (5), 850-861 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 52
  • Expert image retrieval system using directional local motif XoR patterns
    SK Vipparthi, SK Nagar
    Expert Systems with Applications 41 (17), 8016-8026 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 50
  • Hyfinet: hybrid feature attention network for hand gesture recognition
    G Bhaumik, M Verma, MC Govil, SK Vipparthi
    Multimedia Tools and Applications 82 (4), 4863-4882 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 49
  • Scene independency matters: An empirical study of scene dependent and scene independent evaluation for CNN-based change detection
    M Mandal, SK Vipparthi
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 23 (3), 2031-2044 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 49
  • SSSDET: Simple short and shallow network for resource efficient vehicle detection in aerial scenes
    M Mandal, M Shah, P Meena, SK Vipparthi
    2019 IEEE international conference on image processing (ICIP), 3098-3102 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 49
  • Challenges in time-stamp aware anomaly detection in traffic videos
    KM Biradar, A Gupta, M Mandal, SK Vipparthi
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04574 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 49
  • ExtriDeNet: an intensive feature extrication deep network for hand gesture recognition
    G Bhaumik, M Verma, MC Govil, SK Vipparthi
    The Visual Computer 38 (11), 3853-3866 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 47
  • Affectivenet: Affective-motion feature learning for microexpression recognition
    M Verma, SK Vipparthi, G Singh
    IEEE MultiMedia 28 (1), 17-27 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 41