Faculty Name : Thotreingam Kasar

Department : Electronics & Communication Engineering

Adjunct Associate Professor,
Dept. of ECE,
GSSSIETW, Mysuru.

Education Details:

• Ph.D., Department of EE, IISc Bangalore, 2012.
• M. Tech. Signal Processing, IIT Guwahati, 2004.
• M.Sc. Electronics, University of Delhi South Campus, 2001.
• B.Sc. (Hons) Electronics, University of Delhi, 1999.

Personal Details :

• Date of birth : 02/03/1979
• Hobbies : Table tennis, Snooker and Chess.
• Languages Known: English, Hindi and Manipuri

Research details :

• Camera-captured document analysis
• Interactive image processing

Profession Experience:

• Working as Adjunct Associate Professor at GSSSIETW, Mysuru from 01/02/2016 till date.
• Post-doctoral research fellow, Laboratoire LORIA, Universite de Lorraine, FRANCE, Jan 2014 - April 2015.
• Post-doctoral research fellow, Laboratoire LITIS, Universite de Rouen, FRANCE, June 2012-Dec 2013.
• Lead-Research, SRM Research Institute Bangalore, INDIA, Oct 2011-April 2012.

Publications:

Patents Filed

• T. Kasar and A.G Ramakrishnan, “A method to extract and align text of an image captured and a system thereof, Indian Patent Office Reference No. 109/CHE/2011, 2011.

List of Papers in International Journals

• T. Kasar and A. G. Ramakrishnan, “Alignment of curved text strings for enhanced OCR readability” International journal of computer vision & signal processing ISSN: 2186-1390, 3(1), pp. 1-9, 2013.

List of Papers in International Conferences

• T. Kasar, T K Bhowmik and A Belaid, “Table information extraction and structure recognition using query patterns” Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 1086-1090, 2015 Nancy, France.
• T. Kasar, P. Barlas, S. Adam, C. Chatelain and T. Paquet, “Détection de tableaux dans des documents complexes” Colloque International Francophone sur l’Écrit et le Document, (CIFED), 2014, pp. 363-366, Nancy, France.
• T. Kasar, P. Barlas, S. Adam, C. Chatelain and T. Paquet, “Learning to Detect Tables in Scanned Document Images using Line Information” Proc. 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 1185-1189, 2013, Washington DC, USA.
• T. Kasar and A.G. Ramakrishnan, “Multiscript and multioriented text localization from scene images”, Proc. 4th International Workshop on Camera-based Document Analysis and Recognition, 2011, pp. 1-14, Beijing, China.
• T. Kasar, D. Kumar, A. M. Prasad, D. Girish and A.G. Ramakrishnan, “MAST: Multi-script annotation toolkit for scenic text”, Proc. Joint Workshop on Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy and Unstructured Text Data, 2011, pp. 1-8, Beijing, China.
• T. Kasar and A. G. Ramakrishnan, “COCOCLUST: Contour-based Color Clustering for Robust Binarization of Colored Text”, Proc. 3rd Intl. Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition (satellite workshop of ICDAR 2009), pp. 11-17, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
• T. Kasar and A. G. Ramakrishnan, “CCD: Connected Component Descriptor for Robust Mosaicing of Camera-Captured Document Images”, Proc. 8th IAPR Intl. Workshop Document Analysis Systems, pp. 480-487, 2008, Nara, Japan.
• T. Kasar, J. Kumar and A. G. Ramakrishnan, “Font and Background Color Independent Text Binarization”, Proc. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition (satellite workshop of ICDAR2007), pp. 3-9, 2007, Curitiba, Brazil.
• T. Kasar and A. G. Ramakrishnan, “Block-Based Feature Detection and Matching for Mosaicing of Camera-Captured Document Images”, Proc. IEEE TENCON, pp. 1280-1283, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.
• J. Kumar, T. Kasar and A. G. Ramakrishnan, “Edge-Based Connected Component Analysis for Skew Correction of Complex Color Document Images”, Proc. IEEE TENCON pp 1233-1236, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.

List of Papers in National Conference

• T. Kasar, A.G. Ramakrishnan, Amey A. P. Dharwadker and Abhishek Sharma, “TexTraCC: Text Extraction Using Color Connected Components”, Proc. Centenary Conference of Electrical Engineering, 2011, IISc Bangalore, India.
• A. Sharma, A. Dharwadker and T. Kasar, “MobLP: A CC-based approach to Vehicle license plate number segmentation from images acquired with a mobile phone camera”, Proc IEEE conference INDICON 2010, 1-4, Kolkata, India.
• T. Kasar, J. Kumar and A.G Ramakrishnan, “Specialized Text Binarization Technique for Camera-based Image”, Proc. Workshop on Image and Signal Processing, pp. 28-31, 2007, IIT Guwahati, India.
• G. Ananthakrishnan, T. Kasar and A. G. Ramakrishnan, “A novel GMM based approach for Prototype Selection”, Proc. National Conf. on Signal Processing, Communication Control, pp. 69-73, 2005, Pune, India.

Academic activities:

• Handled Best Practice Sessions on Signals & Systems and Image processing courses for UG students, GSSIETW
• Conducted hands-on sessions on Image processing for PG students, Dept. of ECE, GSSIETW
• Guided 4 UG mini projects, Dept. of ECE, GSSSIETW.

Faculty development activities:

(Attended/Conducted):

• Conducted a series of 7 seminars on "Selected topics in image processing" for the faculty at GSSSIETW, June - July, 2016
• Conducted a 7-day Faculty Development Program on "Image analysis and Pattern Recognition" for the faculty at GSSSIETW, Dec 2016 - Jan, 2017

Professional membership :

• Life member, Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI)

Contact details:

Department of ECE,
GSSS Institute Of Engineering & Technology For Women
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Phone: 0821-4257304/305.(EXT-203).

My Vision:

To make significant contributions in the field of image processing and computer vision.