Subhashis Banerjee

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Subhashis Banerjee

Head of the Department, Computer Science
Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science
http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~suban suban@ashoka.edu.in Full CV
Subhashis is on leave from  the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi, where he has held the Ministry of Urban Development, Microsoft and Naren Gupta chair professorships. He was the head of the department of computer science at IIT Delhi between 2004-2007 and head of the computer centre between 2009-2014. Subhashis is also associated with the School of Public Policy and the Centre for Transportation Research and Injury Prevention at IIT Delhi.
 
Subhashis’ primary areas of research are computer vision and machine learning, with a special emphasis on geometric algorithms. He has been on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Computer Vision and Computers and Graphics, and has published in leading journals and conferences. He has also worked extensively on design of computing and networking infrastructure and IT services and in developing the supercomputing infrastructure at IIT Delhi, which is one of the largest in the country. He has been an academic visitor to several universities and research laboratories all over the world.
 
Recently he has also developed an interest in policy issues digitisation and society, including digital identity, electronic voting, data and privacy protection, and fairness and reliability of machine learning algorithms.
 
Subhashis graduated in electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1982 and did his Master’s and PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 1984 and 1989 respectively.

Privacy and Security in large public service applications

Governments around the world – and  India in particular – are trying to build large data registries for effective delivery of a variety of public services. However, these efforts are often undermined due to serious concerns over privacy risks associated with collection and processing of personally identifiable information. While a rich set of special- purpose privacy-preserving techniques exist in computer science, they are unable to provide end-to-end protection in alignment with legal principles in the absence of an overarching operational architecture to ensure purpose limitation and protection against insider attacks. This either leads to weak privacy protection in large designs, or adoption of overly defensive strategies to protect privacy by compromising on utility.

We investigate the issues in designing an operational architecture for privacy-by-design based on independent regulatory oversight stipulated by most data protection regimes, regulated access control, purpose limitation and data minimisation.

Electronic voting

India’s parliamentary election is the largest in the world, with 543 constituencies and well over 1 million voters per constituency on the average, and voting is conducted electronically since 2004. However, there is considerable doubt about the integrity of both the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) used by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the procedure for maintaining and updating voters lists.

We analyse the ECI solutions from the points of view of verifiability and compliance with democratic principles. We also investigate the possibility of end-to-end verifiable electronic voting that can support voter-verified paper audit trails in a closely coupled manner.

Computational radiology

In collaboration with the radiology group at AIIMS, New Delhi, we investigate improved detection of breast cancer from mammograms in situations where the presentation is obscure and difficult. We also investigate using other auxiliary information to improve the accuracy of detection.

In a one-off problem, we also addressed detection of Covid from chest X-Ray in a hospital setting.

  • Detection of iso-dense, obscure masses in mammographically dense breasts. Rohan Dhanakshirur, Krithika Rangarajan, Akhil Baby, Chandan Paul, Arun Gupta, Smriti Hari, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. 2021 (Communicated)
  • Multi-modal cancer detection on mammography using patient history and multiple view. Krithika Rangarajan, Rohan Dhanakshirur, Arun Gupta ( AIIMS), Smita Manshanda, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora.  2021 (Communicated)
  • Ultra-high resolution, multi-scale, context-aware approach for small cancers on Mammography. Rohan Dhanakshirur, Krithika Rangarajan, Uday Marri, Manisha Jana, Smriti Hari, Arun Gupta, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. 2021 (Communicated)
  • Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Chest X-Ray Assessment Scheme for COVID-19. Krithika Rangarajan, Sumanyu Muku, Amit Kumar Garg, Pavan Gabra, Sujay Halkur Shankar, Neeraj Nischal, Kapil Dev Dev Soni, Ashu Seith Bhalla Seith Bhalla, Anant Mohan, Pawan Tiwari, Sushma Bhatnagar, Raghav Bansal, Atin Kumar, Shivanand Gamanagati, Richa Aggarwal, Upendra Baitha, Ashutosh Biswas, Arvind Kumar, Pankaj Jorwal, . Shalimar, A Shariff, Naveet Wig, Rajeshwari Subramanium, Anjan Trikha, Rajesh Malhotra, Randeep Guleria, Vinay Namboodiri, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. . European Radiology. January 2021. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-07628-5)
  • Simulation Training for Diagnostic Radiology: Use of GAN Generated Images for Resident Training in Mammography. Sneha Goswami, Ambikapathi P, Suransh Chopra, Vishwas Lathi, Krithika Rangarajan, Surabhi Vyas, Smriti Hari, Arun Gupta, Vinay Namboodiri, Subhashis Banerjee, Chetan Arora. RSNA 2020.

Neurosurgery simulation

We have an ongoing collaboration with AIIMS where we study and build simulators for neuroendoscopy skills training.

  • A Review of Physical Simulators for Neuroendoscopy Skills Training. Britty Baby, Ramandeep Singh, Rajdeep Singh, Ashish Suri, Chetan Arora, Subodh Kumar, Prem Kumar Kalra, Subhashis Banerjee.  World Neurosurgery, 137:398-407, May 2020.
  • A review of virtual reality simulators for neuroendoscopy. Britty Baby, Ramandeep Singh, Ashish Suri, Rohan Raju Dhanakshirur, Argha Chakraborty, Subodh Kumar, Prem Kumar Kalra, Subhashis Banerjee.  Neurosurgical Review, Volume 43, pages 1255-1272, 2020.

Predicting development indicators using satellite imagery

We develop a set of machine learning based tools for accurate prediction of socio-economic indicators from daytime satellite imagery. The diverse set of indicators are often not intuitively related to observable features in satellite images, and are not even always well correlated with each other. Our predictive tool is more accurate than using night light as a proxy, and can be used to predict missing data, smooth out noise in surveys, monitor development progress of a region, and flag potential anomalies. December 2021. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00109)

  • Using satellites and artificial intelligence to measure health and material-living standards in India. Adel Daoud, Felipe Jordan, Makkunda Sharma, Sourabh Bikash Paul, Fredrik Johansson, Devdatt Dubhashi, Subhashis Banerjee.
  • On monitoring development indicators using high resolution satellite images. Potnuru Kishen Suraj, Ankesh Gupta, Makkunda Sharma, Sourabh Bikas Paul, Subhashis Banerjee, December 2017. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02282)

On large-scale 3D reconstruction

We look at large scale (city scale) 3D reconstruction from image collections.

Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) and Ego-motion

We briefly looked at some problems related to self-driving cars, in particular that of monocular SLAM and ego-motion.

  • Batch based Monocular SLAM for Egocentric Videos. Suvam Patra, Kartikeya Gupta, Faran Ahmad, Chetan Arora, Subhashis Banerjee.  IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), March 2019. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05564,Video 1,Video 2)
  • A Joint 3D-2D based method for free space detection on roads. Suvam Patra, Pranjal Maheshwari, Shashank Yadav, Chetan Arora, Subhashis Banerjee.  IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), March 2018. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02144,Video)
  • Deep CNN with Color Lines model for unmarked road segmentation. Shashank Yadav, Suvam Patra, Chetan Arora, Subhashis Banerjee.  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2017), Beijing, September 2017 (https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~suvam/camera_ready_2702.pdf)
  • Computing Egomotion with Local Loop Closures for Egocentric Videos. Suvam Patra, Himanshu Aggarwal, Himani Arora, Chetan Arora, Subhashis Banerjee. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), March 2017 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.04743)

On reliability of machine learning

We investigate reliability issues of machine learning, especially with respect to adversarial attacks.

  • REGroup: Rank-aggregating Ensemble of Generative Classifiers for Robust Predictions. Lokender Tiwari, Anish Madan, Saket Anand, Subhashis Banerjee.  IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2022. (https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2022/papers/Tiwari_REGroup_Rank-Aggregating_Ensemble_of_Generative_Classifiers_for_Robust_Predictions_WACV_2022_paper.pdf)

 

Study at Ashoka

Study at Ashoka