Ankan Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor on Contract

Area: Digital Business & Analytics

Educational Background:

• Ph.D.
  Title of the thesis: Blind approaches for quality assessment of images and videos
  Thesis Awarded: December, 2018; ISI Kolkata in Computer Science
• M. Tech. in Computer Science in 2006, Indian Statistical Institute
• B.E. in Construction Technology in 2004, Jadavpur University

Work Experience:

• July 2007- March 2008: Project linked personal ISI Kolkata
• July 2008-July 2010: Junior Research Fellow ISI Kolkata
• August 2010-July 2015: Senior Research Fellow ISI Kolkata
• August 2015-January 2016: Visiting Scientist ISI Kolkata
• January 2016-Decemember 2019: Visiting Faculty Aliah University Kolkata and some other Institutes
• January 2020-March: 2020 Visiting Scientist ISI Kolkata
• February 2021-March: 2021 Visiting Scientist ISI Kolkata

Publications

International Conference:

1. Bhattacharya, S. Palit, D. Sarkar, “Blind quality assessment of video using fragile watermarking”, 28th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2013), 2013, pp. 489-493, DOI: 10.1109/IVCNZ.2013.6727063.
2. Bhattacharya and S. Palit, “Determination of the cause and amount of image degradation using a reduced reference approach”, 28th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2013), 2013, pp. 418-423, DIO: 10.1109/IVCNZ.2013.6727051.
3. Bhattacharya, S. Palit and G. Roy, “A novel technique for the blind assessment of image degradation due to compression”, IVCNZ ’12: Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Nov. 2012 Pages 440–445, DOI:10.1145/2425836.2425920
4. Bhattacharya, S. Palit, N. Chatterjee and G. Roy, “Blind assessment of image quality employing fragile watermarking,”, 7^th International Symposium on Image & Signal Processing and Analysis, 4-6 Sep., 2011, pp. 31-36, Dubrovnik, Croatia. INSPEC Accession Number:12307440
5. Ankan Bhattacharya , Sarbani Palit, Fathima Nuzla Ismail, Abira Sengupta Leveraging Explainable AI for Rainfall Prediction and Its Impact on Methane Emissions from Rice Paddies Using Multivariate Environmental Data. CICBA 2025, Jadavpur, India

SCI Index Journal:

1. Bhattacharya and S. Palit, “Measurement of Image Degradation: A no reference approach ”, Multimedia Tools and Applications November Mar. 2020, Vol. 79 Issue 9/10, p5545-5572. 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-019-08444-w.
2. Bhattacharya and S. Palit, “Blind Quality Assessment of Image and Video based on fragile watermarking and robust features”, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing Volume 29, Issue 4, Oct. 2018, pp 1679–1709, DOI: 10.1007/s11045-017-0518-4.