International Journals

  1. P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B. B. Bhattacharya, On the Representation of a Digital Contour with an Unordered Point Set for Visual Perception, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2011 (accepted). web.

  2. S. Pal and P. Bhowmick, Determining Digital Circularity Using Integer Intervals, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 2011. web.

  3. M. Dutt, A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, On Finding an Orthogonal Convex Skull of a Digital Object, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Vol. 21(1), pp. 14–27, 2011.

  4. M. Dutt, A. Sarkar, A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B.B. Bhattacharya, A Fast and Efficient Algorithm for Word Segmentation and Baseline Detection in Handwritten Documents Using Isothetic Covers, International Journal of Digital Library Systems, 2011 (to appear).

  5. G. Kumar, N.K. Sharma, and P. Bhowmick, Wheel-throwing in Digital Space Using Number-theoretic Approach, International Journal of Arts and Technology, Vol. 4(2), pp. 196-215, 2011. web

  6. S. Mandal, A.K. Das, P. Bhowmick, and B. Chanda, A Unified Algorithm for Identification of Various Tabular Structures from Document Images, International Journal of Digital Library Systems, Vol. 2(2), pp. 27-54, 2011.

  7. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Construction of Isothetic Covers of a Digital Object: A Combinatorial Approach, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol 21, No. 4, pp. 295-310, 2010.

  8. S. Pal and P. Bhowmick, Cubic Approximation of Curve-shaped Objects in ℤ2: A Generalized Approach Based on Discrete Curvature, Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences & Cryptography, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 407-427, 2010.

  9. S. Pal, P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B.B. Bhattacharya, Understanding Digital Documents Using Gestalt Properties of Isothetic Components, International Journal of Digital Library Systems, Vol. 1, No. 3, pages 1-25, 2010. web

  10. P. Bhowmick, R. K. Pradhan, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Approximate Matching of Digital Point Sets Using a Novel Angular Tree, IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 2009, pages 769-782.

  11. P. Bhowmick and B. B. Bhattacharya, Removal of Digitization Errors in Fingerprint Ridgelines using B-splines, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 42, Issue 3, March 2009, pages 465-474.

  12. P. Bhowmick and B. B. Bhattacharya, Real Polygonal Covers of Digital Discs—Some Theories and Experiments, Fundamenta Informaticae, Vol. 91, 2009, pages 487–505.

  13. P. Bhowmick and B. B. Bhattacharya, Number-Theoretic Interpretation and Construction of a Digital Circle, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 156, Issue 12, June 2008, pages 2381-2399.

  14. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Archival Image Indexing with Connectivity Features using Randomized Masks, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 8, Issue 4, September 2008, pages 1625-1636.

  15. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Shape Codes and Their Applications to Image Retrieval, Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (ELCVIA), Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 62-75, 2008.

  16. P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Thinning-free Polygonal Approximation of Thick Digital Curves Using Cellular Envelope, Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (ELCVIA), Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 76-95, 2008.

  17. P. Bhowmick and B. B. Bhattacharya, Fast Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves Using Relaxed Straightness Properties, IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Vol. 29, No. 9, pp. 1590-1602, 2007.

  18. P. Bhowmick, A. Bishnu, B. B. Bhattacharya, M. K. Kundu, C. A. Murthy, and T. Acharya, Determination of Minutiae Scores for Fingerprint Image Applications, International Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 537-571, 2005.

    A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Finding the Orthogonal Hull of a Digital Object: A Combinatorial Approach (revision), 2008.

Book Chapters

  1. S. Pratihar and P. Bhowmick, On Applying the Farey Sequence for Shape Representation in ℤ2. Speech, Image and Language Processing for Human Computer Interaction: Multi-modal Advancements, U.S. Tiwary and T.J. Siddiqui (Ed.), IGI Global, 2011 (accepted).

  2. A. Biswas, S. Pal, P. Bhowmick, and B.B. Bhattacharya, Geometric Analysis and Efficient Indexing of Digital Documents, Machine Learning Techniques for Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: Technologies, Applications & Perspectives, C.-H. Wei (Ed.) (accepted), 2010.

  3. A. Bishnu, P. Bhowmick, B. B. Bhattacharya, M. K. Kundu, C. A. Murthy, and T. Acharya, A Combinatorial Approach to Ridge Extraction in a Gray-scale Fingerprint Image and its Hardware Implementation, Advances in Intelligent Information Processing: Tools and Applications
    (Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research, Vol. 2)    , World Scientific, pp. 213-242, 2008.


International Conferences

  1. Sanjoy Pratihar and Partha Bhowmick. Skew Correction of Engineering Drawings by Digital-geometric Analysis of Farey Ranks, International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), IEEE Press, Waknaghat, Shimla, India, Nov. 3-5, 2011.  web.

  2. Soumen Bag, Partha Bhowmick, Priyaranjan Behera, Gaurav Harit. Robust Binarization of Degraded Documents using Adaptive-cum-Interpolative Thresholding in a Multi-scale Framework, International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), IEEE Press, Waknaghat, Shimla, India, Nov. 3-5, 2011.

  3. Paramita De, Sekhar Mandal, and Partha Bhowmick. Recognition of Electrical Symbols in Document Images Using Morphology and Geometric Analysis, International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), IEEE Press, Waknaghat, Shimla, India, Nov. 3-5, 2011.

  4. Avishek Dan, Sanjib Sur, Sekhar Mandal, and Partha Bhowmick. Handwritten Bangla character recognition in machine-printed forms using gradient information and Haar wavelet, International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), IEEE Press, Waknaghat, Shimla, India, Nov. 3-5, 2011.

  5. Soumen Bag, Gaurav Harit, and Partha Bhowmick. Topological Features for Recognizing Printed and Handwritten Bangla Characters, Joint Workshop on Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, Sep. 17, 2011 (to appear in ACM Digital Library).

  6. Dinesh Billa, Partha Bhowmick, and Jayanta Mukhopadhyay. Cavity Analysis of Large Atomic Structures by Cascaded Discretization and Geometric Searching, 2011 World Congress on Engineering and Technology (CET), Oct. 28-30, 2011, Shanghai, China. web

  7. Soumen Bag, Gaurav Harit, and Partha Bhowmick. Topological Features for Recognizing Printed and Handwritten Bangla Characters. International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR 2011), Beijing, China, 2011 (accepted).

  8. Subhro Roy, Rahul Chatterjee, Partha Bhowmick, and Reinhard Klette. MAESTRO: Making Art-Enabled Sketches Through Randomized Operations. CAIP 2011, Seville (Spain), 29-31 August, 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol. 6854, pp. 318-326. web

  9. N. Karmakar, A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B.B. Bhattacharya, Construction of 3D Orthogonal Cover of a Digital Object, 14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis: IWCIA'11, Madrid, Spain, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol. 6636, pp. 70-83, 2011. web

  10. M. Dutt, A. Biswas, and P. Bhowmick, ACCORD: With Approximate Covering of Convex Orthogonal Decomposition, DGCI-2011: 16th IAPR International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol. 6607, pp. 489-500, 2011. web

  11. S. Pratihar and P. Bhowmick, Vectorization of Thick Digital Lines Using Farey Sequence and Geometric Refinement, Proc. ICVGIP-2010, pp. 518-525, Chennai, India.

  12. S. Pratihar and P. Bhowmick, Shape Decomposition Using Farey Sequence and Saddle Points, Proc. 7th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP-2010), pp. 77-84, Chennai, India.

  13. S. Mandal, A.K. Das, and P. Bhowmick, A Fast Technique for Vectorization of Engineering Drawings using Morphology and Digital Straightness, Proc. ICVGIP-2010, pp. 490-497, Chennai, India.

  14. S. Bag, P. Bhowmick, and G. Harit, Recognition Of Bengali Handwritten Characters Using Skeletal Convexity and Dynamic Programming, Proc. EAIT-2011, IEEE CS Press, pp. 265-268.

  15. S. Pal, P. Bhowmick, and A. Biswas, FACET: A Fast Approximate Circularity Estimation Technique, Proc. EAIT-2011, IEEE CS Press, pp. 106-109, February 19-20, 2011, Kolkata.

  16. A. Sarkar, A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B.B. Bhattacharya, Combinatorial Construction of the Orthogonal Concavity Tree of a Digital Object, Proc. EAIT-2011, IEEE CS Press, pp. 210-213.

  17. Partha Bhowmick, Oishee Pal, and Reinhard Klette, A Linear-time Algorithm for Generation of Random Digital Curves, Proc. PSIVT-2010, IEEE CS Press, pp. 168-173. web

  18. S. Pratihar, S. Pal, P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B.B. Bhattacharya, Recognition of Hand-drawn Graphs Using Digital-geometric Techniques, 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), Kolkata, pp. 89-94, 2010.

  19. A. Sarkar, A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B.B. Bhattacharya, Word Segmentation and Baseline Detection in Handwritten Documents Using Isothetic Covers, 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), Kolkata, pp. 445-450, 2010.

  20. Soham Das, Kishaloy Halder, Sanjoy Pratihar, and Partha Bhowmick, Properties of Farey Sequence and their Applications to Digital Image Processing, Fourth International Conference on Information Processing, Bangalore, 2010 (accepted).

  21. Partha Bhowmick, Sahadev Bera, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, Digital Circularity and Its Applications, Proc. 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis: IWCIA'09, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol. 5852, pp.1-15, 2009.

  22. Arindam Biswas, Mousumi Dutt, Partha Bhowmick, and Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, On Finding the Orthogonal Convex Skull of a Digital Object, Proc. 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis: IWCIA'09, pp.25-36, 2009.

  23. Sanjoy Pratihar and Partha Bhowmick, On Applying the Farey Sequence for Shape Representation in ℤ2, 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI-2010): to appear as an edited Springer volume, IIIT, Allahabad, January 16-18, 2010.

  24. Gautam Kumar, Naveen K. Sharma, and Partha Bhowmick, Creating Wheel-thrown Potteries in Digital Space, Proc. of International Conference on Arts and Technology: ArtsIT 2009, Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST), Vol 30, Springer, pp.181-189, 2010. web

  25. Shyamosree Pal and Partha Bhowmick, Estimation of Discrete Curvature Based on Chain-Code Pairing and Digital Straightness, Proc. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 1097-1100, Cairo, Egypt, November 7-11, 2009.

  26. Sahadev Bera, Partha Bhowmick, and Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, Detection of Circular Arcs in a Digital Image Using Chord and Sagitta Properties, 8th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2009), La Rochelle, France, LNCS, Springer, Vol. 6020, pp.69-80, 2010. web

  27. Shyamosree Pal, Partha Bhowmick, Arindam Biswas, and Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, GOAL: Towards understanding of Graphic Objects from Architectural to Line drawings, 8th Intl. Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2009), La Rochelle, France, LNCS, Springer, Vol. 6020, pp.81-92, 2010.

  28. Sanjoy Pratihar and Partha Bhowmick, A Thinning-free Algorithm for Straight Edge Detection in a Gray-scale Image, Proc. 7th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2009), IEEE CS Press, pp. 341-344, February 4-6, 2009, Kolkata, India.

  29. Sanghati Ghosh and Partha Bhowmick, Extraction of Smooth and Thin Ridgelines from Fingerprint Images Using Geometric Prediction, Proc. 7th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2009), IEEE CS Press, pp. 345-348, February 4-6, 2009, Kolkata, India.

  30. Shyamosree Pal and Partha Bhowmick, Cubic Approximation of Curve-shaped Objects in ℤ2: A Generalized Approach Based on Discrete Curvature, Pre-ICM International Convention on Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, 18-20 December, 2008.

  31. Partha Bhowmick, Evolution of Geometric Figures from the Euclidean to the Digital Era, Proc. 1st International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, Springer, pp. 19-36, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, January 19-21, 2009.

  32. A. Biswas, Moumita Sarkar, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Finding the Orthogonal Hull of a Digital Object: A Combinatorial Approach, LNCS, Vol. 4958, pp. 124-135, 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA 2008), Buffalo, USA, 2008.

  33. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Extraction of Regions of Interest from Face Images Using Cellular Analysis, Article No. 15, pp. 1-8, ACM Compute 2008, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2008.

  34. B. B. Bhattacharya, A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and T. Acharya, A Fast On-chip Mean Filter Requiring only Integer Operations, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6822, 682217, SPIE VCIP (Visual Communication and Image Processing) Conference, California, January 26-31, 2008.

  35. P. Bhowmick and B. B. Bhattacharya, GRASP: Geometric Recognition of Corner-to-Corner Straight Pieces in an Aerial Map, Proc. International Symposium on Data, Information & Knowledge Spectrum, Kochi, pp. 55-60, December 2007.

  36. P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B. B. Bhattacharya, ICE: The Isothetic Convex Envelope of a Digital Object, Proc. International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA), pp. 219-223, 2007, IEEE CS Press.

  37. P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Ranking of Optical Character Prototypes Using Cellular Lengths, Proc. International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA), pp. 422-426, 2007, IEEE CS Press.

  38. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Characterization of Isothetic Polygons for Image Indexing and Retrieval, Proc. International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA), pp. 590-594, 2007, IEEE CS Press.

  39. P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B. B. Bhattacharya, PACE: Polygonal Approximation of Thick Digital Curves Using Cellular Envelope, Proc. 5th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), LNCS Vol. 4338, pp. 299-310, 2006.

  40. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, SCOPE: Shape Complexity of Objects using Isothetic Polygonal Envelope, Proc. 6th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2007), pp. 356-360, January 2-4, 2007, Kolkata, India.

  41. P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B. B. Bhattacharya, DRILL: Detection and Representation of Isothetic Loosely Connected Components without Labeling, Proc. 6th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2007), pp. 343-348, January 2-4, 2007, Kolkata, India.

  42. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, MuSC: Multigrid Shape Codes and Their Applications to Image Retrieval, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security: CIS 2005, Xian, China, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer, Vol. 3801, pp. 1057-1063.

  43. P. Bhowmick, A. Biswas, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Isothetic Polygons of a 2D Object on Generalized Grid, 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2005), Dec. 20-22, 2005, Kolkata, LNCS, Springer, Vol. 3776, pp. 407-412.

  44. P. Bhowmick and B. B. Bhattacharya, Approximation of Digital Circles by Regular Polygons, International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2005), 22-25 August, 2005, Bath, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol. 3686, pp. 257-267.

  45. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Reconstruction of Torn Documents Using Contour Maps, Proc. ICIP 2005, III:517-520, Genoa, Italy, September 11-14, 2005.

  46. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, TIPS: On Finding a Tight Isothetic Polygonal Shape Covering a 2D Object, 14th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2005), 19-22 June 2005, Joensuu, Finland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol. 3540, pp. 930-939.

  47. P. Bhowmick and B. B. Bhattacharya, CODE: An Adaptive Algorithm for Detecting Corners and Directions of Incident Edges, ICVGIP 2004, pp. 509-515, Kolkata.

  48. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, CONFERM: Connectivity Features with Randomized Masks and Their Applications to Image Indexing, ICVGIP 2004, pp. 556-562, Kolkata.

  49. P. Bhowmick and B. B. Bhattacharya, Approximate Fingerprint Matching Using Kd-tree, Proc. 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), Cambridge, UK, IEEE CS Press, Vol. I, pp. 544-547.

  50. A. Bishnu, P. Bhowmick, S. Dey, B. B. Bhattacharya, M. K. Kundu, C. A. Murthy, and T. Acharya, Combinatorial Classification of Pixels for Ridge Extraction in a Gray-scale Fingerprint Image, ICVGIP 2002, pp. 451-456.

  51. P. Bhowmick, A. Bishnu, B. B. Bhattacharya, M. K. Kundu, C. A. Murthy, and T. Acharya, Determination of Minutiae Scores for Fingerprint Image Applications, ICVGIP 2002, pp. 463-468.


Patents

  1. T. Acharya, B. B. Bhattacharya, P. Bhowmick, A. Bishnu, A. Biswas, M. K. Kundu, C. A. Murthy, S. Das, and S. C. Nandy, Minutia Matching using Scoring Techniques, US Patent No. 7,359,532, issued on April 15, 2008.

  2. T. Acharya, B. B. Bhattacharya, P. Bhowmick, A. Bishnu, J. Dey, M. K. Kundu, and C. A. Murthy, Method and Apparatus for Providing a Binary Fingerprint Image, US Patent No. 7,136,515, issued on 14/11/2006.

  3. T. Acharya, B. B. Bhattacharya, P. Bhowmick, A. Bishnu, J. Dey, M. K. Kundu, and C. A. Murthy, Architecture for Processing Fingerprint Images, US Patent No. 6,795,592, issued on 21/09/04.

  4. T. Acharya, B. B. Bhattacharya, P. Bhowmick, A. Bishnu, J. Dey, M. K. Kundu, and C. A. Murthy, Method and Apparatus to Reduce False Minutiae from a Binary Fingerprint Image, US Patent No. 7,136,515 Issued on November 14, 2006.