Siddheswar (Sid) Ray, Senior Lecturer

PhD and DIC, Imperial College, University of London 1985

MStat (CompSci option), Indian Statistical Institute

BSc (Hons)(Stat option), University of Calcutta

Senior member of IEEE

Expertise and research interests

Image processing and pattern recognition with specific interests in image segmentation and classification; Image filtering and restoration; Texture analysis; Document image analysis; Analysis of multispectral and medical images; Image data mining and compression; Clustering; Bayesian networks; Inductive inference; Statistical, fuzzy and neural network-based methods.

Background

Dr Ray completed his PhD in electrical engineering with the thesis entitled "The Effectiveness of Features in Pattern Recognition." His PhD program was supported by the Commonwealth Scholarships Scheme. After finishing his PhD in 1985, he joined the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta where he worked until 1990, initially in a lecturing position and then as an associate professor. In 1987 he was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship to pursue postdoctoral research, tenable in the USA during 1987-1988, in the area of texture analysis of image. In 1990 he joined Monash University as a lecturer. Since 1995 he has been a senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Since 1985, Dr Ray has been involved in a large number of internally funded and externally funded research projects in the area of image processing and pattern recognition. His research grant successes include one ARC large grant, two ARC small grants and one faculty research grant. He has authored and co-authored approximately 50 research papers. He has been a referee in the areas of his expertise for a large number of international conferences and journals. He has been a senior member of the IEEE since 1989.

Selected publications

S Ray (with A K Datta and N R Ganguli), Maximum likelihood methods in vowel recognition' a comparative study, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Anal. and Mach. Intel., Vol. PAMI-4, pp.683-689, Nov. 1982.

S Ray, A heuristic noise reduction algorithm applied to hand written numeric characters, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 7, pp.9-12,1988.

S Ray, On a theoretical property of the Bhattacharyya coefficient as a feature evaluation criterion, Pattern Recognition Letters Journal, Vol. 9, pp.315-319,1989.

S Ray and L F Turner, Mahalanobis distance-based two new feature evaluation criteria, Information Sciences, Vol. 60, pp.211-245,1992.

S Ray (with S Suthaharan), Estimation of Gamma in the Wiener filter approach to image restoration, in Proceedings. Second Biennial Conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Sydney, Australia, pp.594-599, Dec. 8-10,1993.

S Ray, Entropy-based image segmentation, Proc. Third international conference on advances in pattern recognition and digital techniques, Calcutta, India, pp.698-715, Dec 28-31,19931invited paper).

S Ray (with S Suthaharan), Generation of signal-uncorrelated noise for control experiments in image restoration, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 17, pp.219-230,1996.

S Ray (with R H Turi), K-means clustering for colour image segmentation with automatic detection of K, in Proceedings. IASTED Int. Conf. on Signal and Image Processing (SIP '98), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 28-31 October,1998.

 

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