Publications

 

 

Mar 2026

FLASH-SAR: Fast Learning Self-supervised Hierarchical Architecture for SAR. 

Sai Shruti Prakhya and Uttam Kumar (2026). Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2026 Workshops), Arizona, USA, 6-10 March, 2026.

Jan 2026

Bridging the Domain Gap in Agricultural Vision: Parameter-Efficient VLM Adaptation via Expert Descriptions

Aggarwal, D., Mittal, Y. and Kumar, U. (2026). Bridging the Domain Gap in Agricultural Vision: Parameter-Efficient VLM Adaptation via Expert Descriptions. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops.

Dec 2025

Spatial Attention-Enhanced Dual-Path Skip Connection Siamese Network for Temporal Land Cover Change Detection Using SAR

Srivastava, H., Kumar, U. and Prakhya, S. S. (2025). Spatial Attention-Enhanced Dual-Path Skip Connection Siamese Network for Temporal Land Cover Change Detection Using SAR. In International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA), Springer, LNCS 15134.

Oct 2025

Caption, Create, Continue: Continual Learning with Pre-trained Generative Vision-Language Models. 

Indu Solomon, Aye Phyu Phyu Aung, Uttam Kumar and J. Senthilnath (2025). Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025), 2025.

Aug 2025

TESA-Net: A Novel Triplet Attention-Enhanced Skip Atrous Network for Urban Land Use and Land Cover Segmentation using SAR

Srivastava, H. and Kumar, U. (2025). TESA-Net: A Novel Triplet Attention-Enhanced Skip Atrous Network for Urban Land Use and Land Cover Segmentation using SAR. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).

Aug 2025

Analysis of Regional Air Quality Data Using Extreme Value Theory and Deep Learning Models

Thottolil, R., Panja, M. and Kumar, U. (2025). Analysis of Regional Air Quality Data Using Extreme Value Theory and Deep Learning Models. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).

Jul 2025

SAR-Only Few-shot Learning for Urban Land Use Classification. 

Himanshi Srivastava, Uttam Kumar and L. S. S. Reddy (2025). IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2025), 2025.

Jul 2025

Predicting Urban Growth Using a Spatio-Temporal Matrix Model: Insights from Bangalore City, India. 

Rahisha Thottolil, Uttam Kumar and Sai Shruti Prakhya (2025). IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2025), 2025.

Dec 2024

Spatiotemporal Forecasting of Traffic Flow using Wavelet-based Temporal Attention. 

Madhurima Panja, Tanujit Chakraborty and Uttam Kumar (2024). IEEE Access, 12, pp. 182745-182758.

Oct 2024

U-Tell: Unsupervised Task Expert Lifelong Learning. 

Indu Solomon, Aye Phy Phyu Aung, Uttam Kumar and J. Senthilnath (2024). IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024), 2024.

Sep 2024

Continual Learning with Task Specialists. 

Solomon, I., Aung, A. P. P., Kumar, U. and Jayavelu, S. (2024). Continual Learning with Task Specialists. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17806.

May 2024

Advancing Image Classification through Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: A Study on LoRA with Plant Disease Detection Datasets. 

Aggarwal, D., Mittal, Y. and Kumar, U. (2024). Advancing Image Classification through Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: A Study on LoRA with Plant Disease Detection Datasets. In The Second Tiny Papers Track at ICLR.

Mar 2024

Interactive influence of urban heat island and urban pollution island in two major cities of India (Bangalore and Delhi). 

Anindita Dasgupta and Uttam Kumar (2024). IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, and Geoinformatics (MIGARS 2024), 2024.

Mar 2024

Bangalore Coming Closer to It’s Satellite Town : Overview of Urban Sprawl in The City. 

Anindita Dasgupta and Uttam Kumar (2024). IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS 2024), 2024.

2024

Predicting Urban Land Use Changes Using a Cellular Automata-Based Patch-Generating Land Use Simulation (CA-PLUS) Model: A Case Study of Bangalore City, India. 

Rahisha Thottolil, Uttam Kumar, Aswathi Mundayatt and Sai Shruti Prakhya (2024). TechRxiv Preprint, 2024.

Dec 2023

Prediction of Transportation Index for Urban Patterns in Small and Medium-sized Indian Cities using Hybrid RidgeGAN Model. 

Rahisha Thottolil, Uttam Kumar and Tanujit Chakraborty (2023). Nature Scientific Reports, 13:21863. (IF: 4.6)

Dec 2023

Van der Pol-informed Neural Networks for Multi-step-ahead Forecasting of Extreme Climatic Events. 

Anurag Dutta, Madhurima Panja, Uttam Kumar, Chittaranjan Hens and Tanujit Chakraborty (2023). 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023-AI4Science), New Orleans, US, 10 – 16 December, 2023.

Dec 2023

Predicting Urban Expansion using a Patch-generating Land Use Simulation (PLUS) Model: A Case Study of Bangalore City, India. 

Rahisha Thottolil, Uttam Kumar and Aswathi Mundayatt (2023). InGARSS 2023, 10-13 December, 2023, Bangalore, India.

Dec 2023

Online Incremental Machine Learning Model for Multi-Sensor and Multi-Temporal Satellite Data: A Case Study of Bangalore. 

Yash Mittal, Uttam Kumar and Deeksha Aggarwal (2023). InGARSS 2023, 10-13 December, 2023, Bangalore, India.

Dec 2023

Comparative Analysis of Unsupervised Pre-Training Models for LULC Classification With Limited Labelled Data

Deeksha Aggarwal, Uttam Kumar and Rikhil Gupta (2023). InGARSS 2023, 10-13 December, 2023, Bangalore, India.

Dec 2023

Indian Cities of the Future: Predicting the Urban Patterns and Transportation Indices for India’s Urban Ecosystem using Machine Learning. 

Rahisha Thottolil, Uttam Kumar and Tanujit Chakraborty (2023). POMS INDIA International Conference 2023, XLRI Jamshedpur, 4-6 December, 2023, Jamshedpur, India.

Dec 2023

Comparison of Carbon footprint of major cities in India and China with Japan and United States: Understanding production and consumption aspects. 

Anindita Dasgupta and Uttam Kumar (2023). POMS INDIA International Conference 2023, XLRI Jamshedpur, 4-6 December, 2023, Jamshedpur, India.

Nov 2023

Probabilistic AutoRegressive Neural Networks for Accurate Long-Range Forecasting. 

Madhurima Panja, Tanujit Chakraborty, Uttam Kumar and Abdenour Hadid (2023). ICONIP 2023, 20-24 November, 2023, Auckland, New Zealand.

Oct 2023

Data Generation with Structure Enforcing Adversarial Learning. 

Indu Solomon, Uttam Kumar and Senthilnath J. (2023). ICIP 2023, October 8-11, 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Aug 2023

Epicasting: An Ensemble Wavelet Neural Network for forecasting epidemics. 

Madhurima Panja, Tanujit Chakraborty, Uttam Kumar and Nan Liu (2023). Neural Networks, Vol. 167, pp. 164-175.

Jul 2023

Topological Classification of Small and Medium Sized Urban Road Networks - A Case Study of Indian Cities. 

Thottolil, R. and Kumar, U. (2023). Topological Classification of Small and Medium Sized Urban Road Networks - A Case Study of Indian Cities. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).

Feb 2023

An ensemble neural network approach to forecast Dengue outbreak based on climatic condition. 

Madhurima Panja, Tanujit Chakraborty, Sk Shahid Nadim, Indrajit Ghosh, Uttam Kumar and Nan Liu (2023). Chaos Solitons & Fractals, Vol. 169, 113124.

Nov 2022

Searching for Heavy-Tailed Probability Distributions for Modeling Real-World Complex Networks. 

Tanujit Chakraborty, Swarup Chattopadhyay, Suchismita Das, Uttam Kumar and J. Senthilnath (2022). IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 113426-113441.

Oct 2022

Data Oversampling with Structure Preserving Variational Learning. 

Indu Solomon, J. Senthilnath, Md Meftahul Ferdaus and Uttam Kumar (2022). Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022), Atlanta, USA, 17-21 October, 2022.

Oct 2022

Class Incremental Learning in Plants. 

Yash Mittal and Uttam Kumar (2022). ACM AI-ML Systems Conference 2022, Bangalore, India, 12-15 October, 2022.

Jul 2022

Automatic Building Footprint Extraction using Random Forest Algorithm from High Resolution Google Earth Images: A Feature-Based Approach. 

Rahisha Thottolil and Uttam Kumar (2022). IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT 2022), Bangalore, India, 8-10 July, 2022.

Jul 2022

Comparative Evaluation of the Convolutional Neural Network based Transfer Learning Models for Classification of Plant Disease. 

Naresh Pajjuri, Uttam Kumar and Rahisha Thottolil (2022). IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT 2022), Bangalore, India, 8-10 July, 2022.

Jun 2022

A comparative study of Deep Learning methods for Building Footprint extraction using high resolution WorldView 2 images. 

Rahisha Thottolil and Uttam Kumar (2022). Student Paper Presentation Competition (SPP-2022), IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Bangalore Chapter, 4 June, 2022.

Jun 2022

Analysis of the Urban Heat Island phenomenon in rapidly urbanizing Bangalore City. 

Anindita Dasgupta and Uttam Kumar (2022). Student Paper Presentation Competition (SPP-2022), IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Bangalore Chapter, 4 June, 2022.

May 2022

Impact of Increased Urbanisation on Land Surface Temperature: A Case Study of Bangalore. 

Anindita Dasgupta and Uttam Kumar (2022). Applications of ML and Data Science in Inter-disciplinary areas, IIM Visakhapatnam, 29-30 May, 2022.

May 2022

Urban Land Resource Mapping of Bangalore City using Sentinel-2A data through Machine Learning on Google Earth Engine Platform. 

Rahisha Thottolil and Uttam Kumar (2022). Applications of ML and Data Science in Inter-disciplinary areas, IIM Visakhapatnam, 29-30 May, 2022.

Jan 2022

PPDL – Privacy Preserving Deep Learning Using Homomorphic Encryption. 

Nayna Jain, Karthik Nandakumar, Nalini Ratha, Sharath Pankanti and Uttam Kumar (2022). 9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD, 5th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data, 7–10 January, 2022.

Jan 2022

Towards Building a Flexible Online Learning Model for Data Stream Classification. 

Deeksha Aggarwal, Uttam Kumar and J. Senthilnath (2022). 9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD, 5th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data, 7–10 January, 2022.

Dec 2021

Multimodal and Multi-Temporal Spatial Data Analysis in Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing Platform to detect Human Settlements without Electricity: A Case Study of Bangalore City. 

Manjunath Bhimappa Ujjinakoppa, Uttam Kumar, Rahisha Thottolil and Anindita Dasgupta (2021). IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS 2021), Ahmedabad, India, 6-10 December, 2021.

Dec 2021

Urban Heat Island and its impact on Impervious Surfaces during Two Seasons: A Case Study of Bangalore. 

Anindita Dasgupta and Uttam Kumar (2021). IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS 2021), Ahmedabad, India, 6-10 December, 2021.

Dec 2021

Assessment of Topological Pattern of Road Network: A Case Study of Bangalore City. 

Rahisha Thottolil and Uttam Kumar (2021). IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS 2021), Ahmedabad, India, 6-10 December, 2021.

Dec 2021

Classification and Identification of Crops using Deep Learning with UAV Data. 

Abhishek Narvaria, Uttam Kumar, Shree Jhanwwee Kanumuru and Gurdeep Jyoti Kaur (2021). IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS 2021), Ahmedabad, India, 6-10 December, 2021.

Dec 2021

SGDOL: Self-evolving Generative and Discriminative Online Learning for Data Stream Classification. 

Deeksha Aggarwal, J. Senthilnath, Uttam Kumar, Vivek Yadav, Sushant Kulkarni, Md Meftahul Ferdaus and Xiaoli Li (2021). 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW 2021), Auckland, New Zealand, 2021.

Oct 2021

CryptInfer – Enabling Practical Inference on Encrypted Skin Lesion Images for Melanoma Detection. 

Nayna Jain, Karthik Nandakumar, Nalini Ratha, Sharath Pankanti and Uttam Kumar (2021). ACM AI-ML Systems Conference 2021, Bangalore, India, 21-24 October, 2021.

Oct 2021

Optimizing Homomorphic Encryption based Secure Image Analytics. 

Nayna Jain, Karthik Nandakumar, Nalini Ratha, Sharath Pankanti and Uttam Kumar (2021). IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2021), Tampere, Finland, 6-8 October, 2021.

Feb 2021

Efficient CNN Building Blocks for Encrypted Data. 

Nayna Jain, Karthik Nandakumar, Nalini Ratha, Sharath Pankanti and Uttam Kumar (2021). AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence (PPAI 2021), 2-9 February, 2021.

Dec 2020

A Comparative Evaluation of the Deep Learning Algorithms for Pothole Detection. 

Roopak Rastogi, Uttam Kumar, Archit Kashyap, Shubham Jindal and Saurabh Pahwa (2020). IEEE INDICON 2020, New Delhi, India, 11-13 December, 2020.

Dec 2020

Power Lines Detection and Segmentation In Multi-Spectral UAV Images Using Convolutional Neural Network. 

Hota, M., Rao, B. S. and Kumar, U. (2020). Power Lines Detection and Segmentation In Multi-Spectral UAV Images Using Convolutional Neural Network. In IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS).