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    Pritam Paral

    About


    Dr. Pritam Paral received the B.Tech. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India, in 2012, and the M.E. in Electrical Engineering (Specialization - Control Systems) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2014. He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Techno India University, West Bengal, India, from 2014 to 2016. Between 2016 and 2021, he pursued his doctoral research work in the Electrical Engineering Department of Jadavpur University under the “Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics and IT” of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. Dr. Paral completed his Ph.D. (Engineering) Degree in Instrumentation and Measurement (I&M) in 2022. From March 2022 to early January 2023, he worked as a Research Associate under the “SERB-National Science Chair” Scheme, Government of India, at the Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India. Since late January 2023, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, Howrah, India. Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Professor (Grade - II) in the EE Department, IIEST, Shibpur, Howrah. 

    Dr. Paral has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in renowned international journals and conferences, as well as authored several book chapters in books from reputable international publishers. His current research interests include explainable AI for cyber-physical systems, neuromorphic computing, granular computing, assistive technology, human-robot collaboration with physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), application of generative AI in IoT, etc. Dr. Paral serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and is also a reviewer of several other IEEE and Elsevier journals. He is a member of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society (IMS).

    Academic Qualifications


    • Ph.D. (Engg.) - 2022
    • M. E. - 2014
    • B. Tech. - 2012

    Research Statement


    • Human-Centered Robotics
    • Computer Vision/Machine Learning/Deep Learning
    • Evolutionary Computation
    • Granular Computing
    • Instrumentation and Signal Processing
    • Fractional Order Chaotic Systems

    Latest Publications


  • 1 Ashwin Rai, Pubali De, Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, and Amitava Chatterjee, Performance comparison of K-SVD, discriminative K-SVD, and approximate K-SVD dictionary learning algorithms for public road type recognition, 710 – 715, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC), Noida, India, 2025
  • 2 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Sugata Munshi, A novel 2D robust LPP-based approach using density-based neighborhood granulation for challenging visual cue detection, 25(5), 8665-8673, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2025
  • 3 Pritam Paral, Saibal Ghosh, Sankar K. Pal, and Amitava Chatterjee, Adaptive non-homogeneous granulation-aided density-based deep feature clustering for far infrared sign language images, 9(2), 1269-1280, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2025
  • 4 Reeju Bhattacharya and Pritam Paral, Density-based clustering with direction-aware distance for vision sensing-based walking stick detection in collaborative robotics, 1 - 6, in Proc. IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Agartala, India, 2024
  • 5 Reeju Bhattacharya, Ronojit Pal, Pritam Paral, and Anindita Sengupta, Photometric invariant visual walking stick detection in human-robot coexisting environments: A stratified random sampling based approach, 1 - 8, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer, Electrical & Communication Engineering (ICCECE), Kolkata, India, 2024
  • 6 Debarshi Brahma, Pritam Paral, Saibal Ghosh, and Amitava Chatterjee, Vision sensing based people following robot: A superpixel augmented density based clustering approach, 1 - 6, in Proc. IEEE Guwahati Subsection Conf. (GCON), Guwahati, India, 2023
  • 7 Debarshi Brahma, Pritam Paral, and Amitava Chatterjee, Choice of distance metrics in DBSCAN based color template matching applied to real-time human shoe detection, 1 - 5, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computational Systems and Communication (ICCSC), Thiruvananthapuram, India, 2023
  • 8 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, and Amitava Chatterjee, Weight thresholded regularized robust coding for vision sensing-based hand gesture detection in collaborative robotics, 98(11), 116002, Physica Scripta, 2023
  • 9 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Sugata Munshi, Rough entropy-based fused granular features in 2D locality preserving projections for high dimensional vision sensor data, 23(16), 18374-18383, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023
  • 10 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Sugata Munshi, Histogram refined local ternary pattern-based bilateral LPP for vision sensor-based robot navigation guidance under challenging environments, 7(6), 1-4, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2023
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    Publications


  • 1 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Sugata Munshi, A novel 2D robust LPP-based approach using density-based neighborhood granulation for challenging visual cue detection, 25(5), 8665-8673, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2025
  • 2 Pritam Paral, Saibal Ghosh, Sankar K. Pal, and Amitava Chatterjee, Adaptive non-homogeneous granulation-aided density-based deep feature clustering for far infrared sign language images, 9(2), 1269-1280, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2025
  • 3 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, and Amitava Chatterjee, Weight thresholded regularized robust coding for vision sensing-based hand gesture detection in collaborative robotics, 98(11), 116002, Physica Scripta, 2023
  • 4 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Sugata Munshi, Rough entropy-based fused granular features in 2D locality preserving projections for high dimensional vision sensor data, 23(16), 18374-18383, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023
  • 5 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Sugata Munshi, Histogram refined local ternary pattern-based bilateral LPP for vision sensor-based robot navigation guidance under challenging environments, 7(6), 1-4, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2023
  • 6 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, Anjan Rakshit, and Sankar K. Pal, Extended target tracking in human–robot coexisting environments via multisensor information fusion: A heteroscedastic Gaussian process regression based approach, 19(9), 9877-9886, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023
  • 7 Pritam Paral, Saibal Ghosh, Amitava Chatterjee, and Sankar K. Pal, Automatic relevance determination kernel-embedded Gaussian process regression for sonar-based human leg localization with a mobile robot, 7(1), 1-4, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2023
  • 8 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, Anjan Rakshit, and Sankar K. Pal, Sonar-based human leg localization using chaos enhanced dynamic neighborhood learning-based GSA aided sNDT algorithm, 71, 1-12, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2022
  • 9 Debarshi Brahma, Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Anjan Rakshit, Color template matching based on fuzzy density clustering for vision sensor based shoe detection in human-robot coexisting environment, 22(14), 14320-14327, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022
  • 10 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Anjan Rakshit, Human position estimation based on filtered sonar scan matching: A novel localization approach using DENCLUE, 21(6), 8055-8064, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021
  • 11 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Anjan Rakshit, Chaos-based random sampling for photometric invariant shoe detection with vision sensor in human–robot coexisting environments, 20(10), 5424-5434, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020
  • 12 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Anjan Rakshit, OPTICS-based template matching for vision sensor-based shoe detection in human-robot coexisting environments, 68(11), 4276-4284, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2019
  • 13 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Anjan Rakshit, Vision sensor-based shoe detection for human tracking in a human–robot coexisting environment: A photometric invariant approach using DBSCAN algorithm, 19(12), 4549-4559, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019
  • 1 Ashwin Rai, Pubali De, Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, and Amitava Chatterjee, Performance comparison of K-SVD, discriminative K-SVD, and approximate K-SVD dictionary learning algorithms for public road type recognition, 710 – 715, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC), Noida, India, 2025
  • 2 Reeju Bhattacharya and Pritam Paral, Density-based clustering with direction-aware distance for vision sensing-based walking stick detection in collaborative robotics, 1 - 6, in Proc. IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Agartala, India, 2024
  • 3 Reeju Bhattacharya, Ronojit Pal, Pritam Paral, and Anindita Sengupta, Photometric invariant visual walking stick detection in human-robot coexisting environments: A stratified random sampling based approach, 1 - 8, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer, Electrical & Communication Engineering (ICCECE), Kolkata, India, 2024
  • 4 Debarshi Brahma, Pritam Paral, Saibal Ghosh, and Amitava Chatterjee, Vision sensing based people following robot: A superpixel augmented density based clustering approach, 1 - 6, in Proc. IEEE Guwahati Subsection Conf. (GCON), Guwahati, India, 2023
  • 5 Debarshi Brahma, Pritam Paral, and Amitava Chatterjee, Choice of distance metrics in DBSCAN based color template matching applied to real-time human shoe detection, 1 - 5, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computational Systems and Communication (ICCSC), Thiruvananthapuram, India, 2023
  • 6 Tanmoy Dasgupta, Pritam Paral, and Samar Bhattacharya, Fractional order sliding mode control based chaos synchronization and secure communication, 602 – 607, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI), Coimbatore, India, 2015
  • 7 Pritam Paral, Tanmoy Dasgupta, and Samar Bhattacharya, Colour image encryption based on cross-coupled chaotic map and fractional order chaotic systems, 1947 – 1952, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), Melmaruvathur, India, 2014
  • 8 Tanmoy Dasgupta, Pritam Paral, and Samar Bhattacharya, Colour image encryption based on multiple fractional order chaotic systems, 583 – 587, in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Control, Instrumentation, Energy and Communication (CIEC), Calcutta, India, 2014
  • 1 Saibal Ghosh, Pritam Paral, Pubali De, Amitava Chatterjee, and Sugata Munshi, Multi-color multishape visual cue recognition using a hybrid approach of cosine similarity-based 2DLPP and granular computing, in Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Smart Applications. RAAISA 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer Nature Singapore,1380, 469 - 482, , 2025
  • 2 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Patrick Siarry, Innovative applications of metaheuristics to supervised machine learning, in Handbook of Heuristics, Springer Nature Switzerland,1 – 30, , 2025
  • 3 Reeju Bhattacharya, Ronojit Pal, Pritam Paral, and Anindita Sengupta, Kernel density estimation based clustering for visual walking stick detection in human-robot coexisting environments, in Data Science and Applications. ICDSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer Nature Singapore,1237, 151 – 164, , 2025
  • 4 Sayantan Chakraborty, Pritam Paral, and Amitava Chatterjee, Parameter sensitivity analysis for branch and bound algorithm based CFAsT-Match approach for shoe detection in collaborative robotics, in Computational Intelligence and Data Analytics. ICCIDA 2024. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, Springer Nature Singapore,236, 409 - 420, , 2025
  • 5 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Anjan Rakshit, Sonar sensing-based human leg localization using Gaussian process regression, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Mathematics and Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer Singapore,1412, 1029 - 1041, , 2022
  • 6 Pritam Paral, Amitava Chatterjee, and Anjan Rakshit, Study of score coefficient functions for DBSCAN-based photometric invariant approach in vision sensor-based shoe detection for human tracking, in Intelligent Electrical Systems: A Step towards Smarter Earth, CRC Press, ch. 20,173 - 180, , 2021
  • 7 Tanmoy Dasgupta, Pritam Paral, and Samar Bhattacharya, Grayscale image encryption based on high-dimensional fractional order Chua’s system, in Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics-Volume2. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Springer International Publishing,28, 317 - 324, , 2014

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    Created: 23 November 2019