- Reviewer for the following journals:
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2003-present)
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2002-present)
- SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging (2003-present)
- CNRS Lebanese Science Journal (2002-present)
- Reviewer for the following conferences:
- IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc. (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
- IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
- IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (2004)
- IEEE/ACM Int. Symposium on Microarchitecture (2000)
- Chaired the following conference sessions:
- ``Image Processing and Scene Analysis,'' 2003 IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers
- ``Wireless Video/Sequence Design and Synchronization,'' 2003 Wireless Networking Symposium
Relevant Courses
At UT, Austin
Neural Networks,
Dissertation Writing
Photographic Communication,
Dissertation Reading
Information Theory,
Research Problems,
Graduate Research Internship
Embedded Software Systems,
Optimization in Engineering Systems,
Computer Graphics
Computer Networks,
Conference Course,
Graduate Research Internship
Operating Systems,
Data Mining ,
Vision Systems
Multidimensional
DSP, Probability and Stochastic
Processes, VLSI-I
Real
Analysis, Conference Course
Superscalar
Microprocessor Architecture, Signal
Compression, Digital
Signal Processing
Engineering
Programming Languages, Digital
Image and Video Processing, Wavelets
At IIT Kharagpur
Analog Circuits, Solid State Devices,
Digital Electronics, Analog and Digital Communications, Computer and Microprocessor
Organization, Computer Vision, Biomedical Engineering, Operating Systems,
Microwave Engineering, VLSI, Mathematics I-IV, Advanced Mathematics
- Assembly Languages: Texas Instruments TMS320C3000, TMS320C6000 VLIW DSP and TMS320C5500, Intel 8085/86, Motorola M-Core, ARM.
- High-level Languages: Java, C++, C, Fortran.
- Operating Systems: TI DSP BIOS, VxWorks, Unix
- Electronic Design Automation Tools: Ptolemy, SimpleScalar, Micro Magic tools, Xilinx FPGA
- Scripting Languages: csh, ksh
- Algorithm development environments: Matlab
- Software development tools: Makefiles, Source Code Control, Debuggers, CodeComposer Studio
1. Image Processing
a. JPEG 2000 Image Compression Improvement for Specific Applications , 2001-2002.
Supervisor: Prof. Brian Evans, Prof. Alan Bovik.
Implemented Generalized Bitplane-by-Bitplane Shift method for JPEG 2000 region of interest coding, with Dr. Zhou Wang. Proposed integration of PGM and GIF coders with JPEG 2000 codec, for better compression of images with natural and graphic contents.
b. JPEG2000 Performance Optimization for Nokia Video Phones, Summer Intern, 2001.
Supervisor: Dr. Fred W. Ware, Mr. Tony Newpower and Mr. Paul Kearney.
Responsible for optimizing memory usage for an implementation of JPEG2000 on a open multimedia application platform (OMAP) architecture, and studying error resilience techniques for JPEG2000.
c. 3-D Image Reconstruction from Stereo Images Using Wavelet Transform, B.Tech project work, 1998-99.
Supervisor: Prof. Biswanath N. Chatterji, Dept. of E&ECE, IIT Kharagpur.
Implemented wavelet transform on stereo images. Extracted camera parameters from the lowest resolution image and utilized it to reconstruct the 3-D image.
2. Video Compression
a. Video Compression Using Foveation, Fall 1999-Spring 2002.
Supervisor: Prof. Brian L. Evans, Dept. of ECE, UT Austin.
Responsible for implementing foveated H.263 video encoder on TI TMS320C6000 processor and to optimize it for speed and performance. Also, compare performance of the H.263 video encoder on the VLIW and the SuperScalar machine.
3. Image Communication / Networking
a. JPEG 2000 Image Communication over HTTP in a Client/Server Environment, Summer Internship, 2002
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Gormish, Senior Research Engineer, and Mr. Martin Boliek, Manager, Color Image Processing Group, RICOH Research Center, California.
Implemented efficient communication of JPEG 2000 images in a client/server environment using tile-parts.
b. Designing an Embedded Database for Client-Server mode of Computer Interconnection, Summer Training, 1998
Supervisor: Mr. Vikram Madan, Design Engineer, Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon.
Implemented the client processes in C. Transported the whole module onto VxWorks and debugged the module.
4. VLSI System Design
a. Design of CORDIC Chips using FPGA for Low-cost Doppler Ultrasonography System, 1997-1999.
Supervisor: Prof. Swapna Banerjee, Dept. of E&ECE, IIT Kharagpur.
Academic Accomplishments
1. May 2004 Travel Grant,
Center for Perceptual Systems, The University of Texas at Austin, TX.
2. 2002 Nokia Mobile Phones
R&D Intern Scholarship Award, Irving, TX.
3. 2000-01 Texas Telecommunications
Engineering Consortium (TxTEC) Graduate Fellowship,
awarded by the College of Engineering, University of Texas.
4. Spring 2001 Best Project Award in
the Data Mining class, for implementing Multi-Domain Recommender System, along
with Miguel Vazquez, Noppadon Kamolvilassatian and Sumit Taank. 5. Rank: 3 / 39 in the Dept. of
E&ECE, IIT Kharagpur. 6. 1999 Sarat Memorial Award,
for highest CGPA amongst women students, IIT Kharagpur. 7. 1997 Hughes Software Systems
Best Student Award, IIT Kharagpur. 8. Selected in Regional Mathematics
Olympiad, 1993. 9. Placed in National Top 1% in
National Standard Examination in Physics, 1995. 10. Selected in Top-30 in Jagadish
Bose National Science Talent Search Test, 1995.
Patents
Michael J. Gormish and
Serene Banerjee,
"TRUEW: Transport of Reversible and Unreversible Embedded Wavelets'',
RII-295, Application No.: 10/273734,
filed by Ricoh Innovations, Inc., Oct. 18th, 2002, USA
Refereed Journal Papers
1. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "Low-Complexity Unsupervised Automation of Photographic Composition Rules for In-Camera Image Acquisition", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, in preparation.
Refereed Conference Papers
1. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "Unsupervised Merger Detection and Mitigation in Still Images Using Frequency and Color Content Analysis", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc., May 17-21, 2004, vol. III, pp. 549-552, Montreal, Canada.
2. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "Unsupervised Automation of Photographic Composition Rules in Digital Still Cameras", Proc. SPIE/IS&T Conf. on Sensors, Color, Cameras, and Systems for Digital Photography VI, Jan. 18-22, 2004, vol. 5301, pp. 364-373, San Jose, CA.
3. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "A Novel Gradient Induced Main Subject Segmentation Algorithm for Digital Still Cameras", Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 9-12, 2003, Pacific Grove, CA.
4. M. J. Gormish and S. Banerjee, Tile-Based Transport of JPEG 2000 Images", Proc. EURASIP Int. Workshop on Visual Content Processing and Representation, Sep. 18-19, 2003, pp. 217-224, Madrid, Spain.
5. S. Banerjee and M. J. Gormish, "The Transport of Reversible and Unreversible Embedded Wavelets (TRUEW)", Proc. IEEE Conf. on Data Compression, Mar. 25-27, 2003, pp. 415, Snowbird, UT.
6. Z. Wang, S. Banerjee, B. L. Evans and A. C. Bovik, "Generalized Bitplane-by-Bitplane Shift Method for JPEG2000 ROI Coding", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 22-25, 2002, vol. III, pp. 81-84, Rochester, NY.
7. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "Tuning JPEG2000 Image Compression for Graphics Regions", Proc. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Apr. 7-9, 2002, pp. 67-71, Santa Fe, NM.
8. S. Banerjee, L. K. John and B. L. Evans, "The EASE Branch Predictor", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, Computers, and Devices, Dec. 14-16, 2000, vol. I, pp. 59-62, Kharagpur, India.
9. S. Banerjee, H. R. Sheikh, L. K. John, B. L. Evans and A. C. Bovik, "VLIW DSP vs. Superscalar Implementation of a Baseline H.263 Video Encoder", Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2000, vol. II, pp. 1665-1669, Pacific Grove, CA.
Standards Contributions (JPEG 2000)
1. M. J. Gormish and S. Banerjee, TRUEW: Transport of Reversible and Unreversible Embedded Wavelets (A JPIP proposal), ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG1 N2602, Jul. 3, 2002, Ricoh Innovations, Menlo Park, CA.
Other Major Publications
1. H. R. Sheikh, S. Banerjee, B. L. Evans and A. C. Bovik, "Optimization of a Baseline H.263 Video Encoder on the TMS320C6x", Proc. Texas Instruments DSP Educator's Conference, Aug. 2-4, 2000, Houston, TX.
Oral Presentations
1. May 20, 2004,
"Unsupervised Merger Detection and Mitigation in Still Images Using
Frequency and Color Content Analysis"
, Poster Session on Image Analysis at IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing,
Montreal, QC, Canada. 2. April 28, 2004,
"Composition-Guided Image Acquisition"
, Wireless Networking and Communications
Seminar and Ph.D. Defense, Dept. of ECE,
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 3. January 19, 2004,
"Unsupervised Automation of Photographic Composition Rules in Digital
Still Cameras", IS&T/SPIE Conf. on Sensors, Color, Cameras, and
Systems for Digital Photography,
Santa Clara, CA. 4. November 11, 2003,
"Automatic Main Subject Detection for Digital Still Camera",
Poster Session at Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers,
Pacific Grove, CA. 5. May 13, 2003,
"Content-Guided Image Acquisition",
Texas Instruments Research Center,
Dallas, TX. 6. January 20, 2003,
"Content-Guided Image Acquisition for Better Image Communication",
California Research Center, Ricoh Innovations, Inc.,
Menlo Park, CA. 7. November 25, 2002,
"Content-Guided Image Acquisition", Wireless Networking and Communications
Seminar and Ph.D. Qualifying Exam, Dept. of ECE,
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 8. September 6, 2002,
"Image Communication: Past, Present, and Future", Graduate Student Informal
Seminar Series, Dept. of ECE,
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 9. August 19, 2002,
"TRUEW: Moving image communication a step forward", Summer
Series Presentation,
California Research Center, Ricoh Innovations, Inc.,
Menlo Park, CA. 10. April 8, 2002,
"Tuning JPEG2000 Image Compression for Graphics Regions", Poster Session at Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation,
Santa Fe, NM. 11. August 9, 2001,
"JPEG 2000 for Nokia Communicator Phones", Nokia Intern Presentation,
Irving, TX. 12. December 16, 2000,
"The EASE Branch Predictor", IEEE Int. Conf.
on Computers, Communications and Devices, IIT Kharagpur, India. 13. November 3, 2000,
"Performance Analysis and Motion Estimation Algorithms for H.263 Video",
HP Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA. 14. November 1, 2000,
"VLIW DSP vs. Superscalar Implementation of a Baseline H.263 Video Encoder",
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove,
CA.
Interests and Activities
1. Hobbies include Sitar, Synthesizer, Dramatics,
Choreography, Painting, Poetry, Embroidery, Travel, Music, Badminton, Swimming and Reading 2. Received Saccidananda Basak
Memorial Award, being adjudged the best National Social Service
volunteers of the year 1997 at IIT Kharagpur. 3. Received Suhasini Devi Memorial
Award, being adjudged the best woman all arounder of the year
1999 at IIT Kharagpur.
Citizenship and Visa Status
Country of citizenship: India
Visa status: F1
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