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20202026
most citedComputational Solar Energy -- Ensemble Learning Methods for Prediction of Solar Power Generation based on Meteorological Parameters in Eastern India

93 citations · 112 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CV2026

Seeing Roads Through Words: A Language-Guided Framework for RGB-T Driving Scene Segmentation

Ruturaj Reddy, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Junn Yong Loo +2

Robust semantic segmentation of road scenes under adverse illumination, lighting, and shadow conditions remain a core challenge for autonomous driving applications. RGB-Thermal fus…

cs.AI2026

RAPiD: Reward-Guided Consistency Distillation of Diffusion Planners for Real-Time Autonomous Driving

Ruturaj Reddy, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Junn Yong Loo +2

Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denoising process introduces a latency bottleneck for real-time closed-loop deployme…

cs.CV2025

DexAvatar: 3D Sign Language Reconstruction with Hand and Body Pose Priors

Kaustubh Kundu, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Lucy Robertson-Bell +2

The trend in sign language generation is centered around data-driven generative methods that require vast amounts of precise 2D and 3D human pose data to achieve an acceptable gene…

cs.GR2025

PhysHDR: When Lighting Meets Materials and Scene Geometry in HDR Reconstruction

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Kalin Stefanov, Ganesh Krishnasamy +2

Low Dynamic Range (LDR) to High Dynamic Range (HDR) image translation is a fundamental task in many computational vision problems. Numerous data-driven methods have been proposed t…

cs.CV2025

Seeing in the Dark: A Teacher-Student Framework for Dark Video Action Recognition via Knowledge Distillation and Contrastive Learning

Sharana Dharshikgan Suresh Dass, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Ganesh Krishnasamy +2

Action recognition in dark or low-light (under-exposed) videos is a challenging task due to visibility degradation, which can hinder critical spatiotemporal details. This paper pro…

cs.CV2024

A Cycle Ride to HDR: Semantics Aware Self-Supervised Framework for Unpaired LDR-to-HDR Image Reconstruction

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Kalin Stefanov, Lemuel Lai En Che +3

Reconstruction of High Dynamic Range (HDR) from Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images is an important computer vision task. There is a significant amount of research utilizing both conven…

cs.DB2024

Demystifying Object-based Big Data Storage Systems

Anindita Sarkar Mondal, Madhupa Sanyal, Ari Kusumastuti +2

Today's era is the digitized era. Managing such generated big data is an important factor for data scientists. Day by day, it increases the demand for big data storage systems. Dif…

cs.CV2024

ActNetFormer: Transformer-ResNet Hybrid Method for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition in Videos

Sharana Dharshikgan Suresh Dass, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Ganesh Krishnasamy +2

Human action or activity recognition in videos is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications in surveillance and monitoring, self-driving cars, sports analytics, human…

cs.CV2024

GTA-HDR: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for HDR Image Reconstruction

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Kalin Stefanov, KokSheik Wong +2

High Dynamic Range (HDR) content (i.e., images and videos) has a broad range of applications. However, capturing HDR content from real-world scenes is expensive and time-consuming.…

eess.IV2024

HistoHDR-Net: Histogram Equalization for Single LDR to HDR Image Translation

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Ganesh Krishnasamy, KokSheik Wong +2

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to replicate the high visual quality and clarity of real-world scenes. Due to the high costs associated with HDR imaging, the literature offer…

cs.CV2023

Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Context for Temporally Consistent Robust 3D Human Motion Recovery from Monocular Videos

Sushovan Chanda, Amogh Tiwari, Lokender Tiwari +3

Recovering temporally consistent 3D human body pose, shape and motion from a monocular video is a challenging task due to (self-)occlusions, poor lighting conditions, complex artic…

cs.CV2023

ArtHDR-Net: Perceptually Realistic and Accurate HDR Content Creation

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Ganesh Krishnasamy, KokSheik Wong +2

High Dynamic Range (HDR) content creation has become an important topic for modern media and entertainment sectors, gaming and Augmented/Virtual Reality industries. Many methods ha…

cs.LG2023★ 93 cited

Computational Solar Energy -- Ensemble Learning Methods for Prediction of Solar Power Generation based on Meteorological Parameters in Eastern India

Debojyoti Chakraborty, Jayeeta Mondal, Hrishav Bakul Barua +1

The challenges in applications of solar energy lies in its intermittency and dependency on meteorological parameters such as; solar radiation, ambient temperature, rainfall, wind-s…

cs.LG2022

VacciNet: Towards a Smart Framework for Learning the Distribution Chain Optimization of Vaccines for a Pandemic

Jayeeta Mondal, Jeet Dutta, Hrishav Bakul Barua

Vaccinations against viruses have always been the need of the hour since long past. However, it is hard to efficiently distribute the vaccines (on time) to all the corners of a cou…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

A Perspective on Robotic Telepresence and Teleoperation using Cognition: Are we there yet?

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Ashis Sau, Ruddra dev Roychoudhury

Telepresence and teleoperation robotics have attracted a great amount of attention in the last 10 years. With the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution already being started, we…

cs.DC2021★ 1 cited

Data science and Machine learning in the Clouds: A Perspective for the Future

Hrishav Bakul Barua

As we are fast approaching the beginning of a paradigm shift in the field of science, Data driven science (the so called fourth science paradigm) is going to be the driving force i…

cs.AI2021★ 7 cited

Detecting socially interacting groups using f-formation: A survey of taxonomy, methods, datasets, applications, challenges, and future research directions

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Theint Haythi Mg, Pradip Pramanick +1

Robots in our daily surroundings are increasing day by day. Their usability and acceptability largely depend on their explicit and implicit interaction capability with fellow human…

cs.DC2021★ 1 cited

Cloud Big Data Mining and Analytics: Bringing Greenness and Acceleration in the Cloud

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Kartick Chandra Mondal

Big data is gaining overwhelming attention since the last decade. Almost all the fields of science and technology have experienced a considerable impact from it. The cloud computin…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Approximate Computing for Robotic path planning -- Experimentation, Case Study and Practical Implications

Hrishav Bakul Barua

Approximate computing is a computation domain which can be used to trade time and energy with quality and therefore is useful in embedded systems. Energy is the prime resource in b…

cs.RO2020

DeComplex: Task planning from complex natural instructions by a collocating robot

Pradip Pramanick, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Chayan Sarkar

As the number of robots in our daily surroundings like home, office, restaurants, factory floors, etc. are increasing rapidly, the development of natural human-robot interaction me…

cs.CV2020

Let me join you! Real-time F-formation recognition by a socially aware robot

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Pradip Pramanick, Chayan Sarkar +1

This paper presents a novel architecture to detect social groups in real-time from a continuous image stream of an ego-vision camera. F-formation defines social orientations in spa…

cs.RO2020★ 3 cited

Demo: Edge-centric Telepresence Avatar Robot for Geographically Distributed Environment

Ashis Sau, Ruddra Dev Roychoudhury, Hrishav Bakul Barua +5

Using a robotic platform for telepresence applications has gained paramount importance in this decade. Scenarios such as remote meetings, group discussions, and presentations/talks…

cs.RO2020★ 4 cited

I can attend a meeting too! Towards a human-like telepresence avatar robot to attend meeting on your behalf

Hrishav Bakul Barua, Chayan Sarkar, Achanna Anil Kumar +2

Telepresence robots are used in various forms in various use-cases that helps to avoid physical human presence at the scene of action. In this work, we focus on a telepresence robo…