Dr. Maheshkumar H. Kolekar

 
Dr. Maheshkumar H.Kolekar

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department
Head- Center for Advanced Systems Engineering, IIT Patna since Jan 2014.

Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur
post-doctoral fellow, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Ph: +91-612-302 8043 (Off.) +91-612-302 8131 (Lab)
Fax: +91-612-227 7383
mahesh[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Research Areas : Digital Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Video Processing, Video Surveillance, Multimedia Communication, Signal Processing for communication, Tele-medicine, Medical Signal and Image Processing, Neuroscience, Neuro-congnition.
Courses taught at IITP :
  • Electrical Sciences (EE101)
  • Advanced Digital Signal Processing (EE520)
  • Communication Systems Engineering Lab-I
  • Computer Graphics (CS362)
  • Digital Signal Processing (EE320)
  • Advanced Digital Image Processing (EE720)
  • Digital Signal Processing Lab (EE321)
  • Design Lab (EE304)
  • Basic Electronics Lab (EE102)
  • Signals and Systems (Tutorial) (EE220)
  • Image Processing (EE490)
  • Intelligent Visual Surveillance (EE491)
Workshops/ Seminars Organised :
  • International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing organised at IIT Patna from 13th to 15th January, 2012
Awards & Honours :
  • Best Paper Award, International Conference Symhealth, 2017
  • DAAD Fellow, TU Berlin, Germany, Faculty Exchange Programme, 2017
  • Best paper award -Computer Society of India (2004).
  • Invited as panelist in the session for Disaster Management and Internal Security of Global Indian Scientists and Technocrats Convention (GIST) organized by Govt. of India, at Pune during Dec. 18-20, 2009
  • Contributed as chief-guest for the National Conference on Advanced Computing and delivered keynote address during Dec. 11-13, 2009 at Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat.
  • Member of the Board of Studies (BOS) -Dr B. A. Technological University, Lonere, India
  • Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2006
Member of Professional bodies : IEEE (Senior Member); ISTE (Life Member); IETE (Life Member); CSI (Life Member)
Current Sponsored projects :
Title Principal Investigator Sponsored by
Abnormal Human Activity Recognition

Dr. M. H. Kolekar

Principal Scientific Advisor Office, Govt. of India, New Delhi
Multimodal Brain Finger-printing Dr. M. H. Kolekar Center for Advanced Systems Engineering, IIT Patna
Member, Editorial Board :
  • Technical Program Chair, fourth International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems at Bangalore during Sept 19-22, 2018.
  • Area Chair, Int Conf on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), 2018, IIITDM Jabalpur.
  • Program Chair, Fourth Int Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet (VisionNet’17) , Manipal University, India.
  • Area Chair, Int Conf on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), 2017, IIT Roorkee.
  • Special Session Chair, IEEE Region 10 Annual Conference (TENCON), 2016, Singapore.
  • Editorial Board member of American Journal of Signal Processing, Scietific and Academic Publishing 
  • Guest Editor, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, American Publisher, Special Issue on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, 2012 
  • Organizing Chair-  International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing to be held at IIT Patna during Jan 13-15, 2012.
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications (ICMIA), October 24-26, 2011, Macao, CHINA
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- International Conference on Next Generation Information Technology, June 21-23, 2011, KOREA
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, Gwalior, India, 2011
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies, Katra, J & K, India, 2011
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- 5th Indian International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI), 2011
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- International Conf. on Intelligent Systems and and Data Processing, India, 2011
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- 2nd International Conf. on Computer and Communication Technology, India, 2011
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- 1st International Conf. on Computer and Communication Technology, India, 2010
  • Technical Programme Committee Member- IEEE Int Conf. on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICMUT) workshop on Unified Communication Networks and services for Nomads, St.-Petersburg, Russia, (2009).
  • International Technical Committee Member- Modelling and Simulation – IASTED
  • Reviewer, Int Journal on Knowledge based Systems, Elsevier Publications
  • Reviewer, Int. Journal of Visual Communication and Image representation, Elsevier Publications
  • Reviewer, Int Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Inderscience publications
Workshop Organized :
  • Organizing workshop on, “Human Behavior Analysis based on Video Analytics and Deep Learning” during 15th IEEE Int. Conf on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS), 27-30 Nov 2018, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Organized Special Session on Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems at the International Conference on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2014.
  • International Conference on "Signal, Image and Video Processing” to be held at IIT Patna during Jan 13-15, 2012
  • One-day workshop on "Experiential Engineering" at IIT Patna on March 24, 2011 (sponsored by National Instruments, Bangalore)
  • International workshop on "Applications of Video Processing" at IIT Patna on Dec 24, 2010.
  • Mahesh H. Kolekar, Vinod Kumar, "Biomedical Signal and Image Processing in Patient Care”, IGI Global Publisher, 2017 (Editors)
  • Chandan Jha, Maheshkumar Kolekar, "Classification and Compression of ECG Signal for Holter Device", Biomedical Signal and Image Processing in Patient Care, IGI Global Publisher, 2017
  • S. Chatterjee and Maheshkumar H Kolekar, “Feature extraction and segmentation techniques in static hand gesture recognition system”, book chapter of book on Hybrid Intelligence for Image Analysis and Understanding, John Wiley Publication, UK, 2017
  • D.P. Dash , Maheshkumar H. Kolekar, "Epileptic Focus Localization: A Discrete Wavelet Transform and Hidden Markov Model based Approach for Epileptic Focus Localization", Biomedical Signal and Image Processing in Patient Care, IGI Global Publisher, 2017.
  • M. H. Kolekar et al, “An introduction to wavelet based image processing and its applications“, book on Recent Advances in Computer Vision and Image Processing: Methodologies and Applications, IGI Global publishers, USA, 2013.
  • M. H. Kolekar and U. Rajendra Acharya, “Special Issue on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing”, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, American Scientific Publishers, June 2012 (Guest Editor)
  • M. H. Kolekar, Proceedings of International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing, Excellent Publishing House, Jan 2012 (Editor)
  • A. K. Verma, S Sarangi, M. H. Kolekar, “Misalignment Fault Prediction of Motor-Shaft using Multiscale Entropy and Support Vector Machine” Springer book on Advances in Intelligent Informatics, Springer International Publishing, pp.359-370, 2015.
  • H Rai, M. H. Kolekar, N Keshav, J K Mukherjee, “Trajectory Based Unusual Human Movement Identification for Video Surveillance System” Springer book on Progress in Systems Engineering, pp. 789-794, 2015
Invited Talks :
  • Delivered invited talk on as keynote speaker during “Human Activity Recognition and Tracking to enhance security”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Computing and Electronics” at University of Allahabad, April 2018.
  • Delivers invited talk as keynote speaker in the IEEE Int. Conf on Image Information Processing (ICIIP 2017), JUIT Solan, Dec 2017.
  • Delivered keynote address on “Abnormal Human activity Recognition for Video Surveillance” during 3rd International Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet, Sept 21-24, 2016 at LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA.
  • Delivered invited talk on, "Video Object Detection and Tracking” Computer Science Dept, Workshop on Video Analytics under Indo–US 21st century Knowledge Initiative Programme, NIT Tiruchirappalli, on Nov 27, 2015.
  • Delivered invited talk on, "Hidden Markov model based Human Activity recognition” Workshop on Video Analytics under Indo–US 21st  century Knowledge Initiative Programme, NIT Tiruchirappalli, on Nov 28, 2015.
  • Delivered invited talk on, "Image Processing Techniques for medical applications” Computer Science Dept, ISM Dhanbad on Dec 30, 2014.
  • Delivered invited talk on, "Image Processing Techniques on Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis and 3D Modeling of Aorta" in 1st Cardiovascular Bioengineering Symposium at IIT Delhi on Dec 12, 2013.
  • Delivered keynote address on, “Image Processing Techniques for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis and pre-surgical planning”, in International Conference Biomedical Systems, signals,  and Images, IIT Madras, Chennai, Nov 30, 2012
  • Delivered invited talk on, “Real-time Abnormal Human Activity Recognition” at Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai on Sept 14, 2012.