Educational Qualifications

• Ph.D. from Computer Science & Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2011
• M.E. in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2006
• B. Tech. in Information Technology from Kalyani Government Engineering College in 2004

Research Interests

• Visual Attention
• Image Watermarking
• Steganography
• Video Summarization

Professional Experience

• Working as Assistant Professor in IDRBT since August 2011
• Worked as Research Associate, Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata from Dec. 2010 to Aug. 2011

Recent Publications

• "Video summarization and significance of content: a review" by R. Pal, S. K. Pal, A. Ghosh.
  Handbook in Soft Computing for Video Surveillance (S. K. Pal, A. Petrosino, L. Maddalena eds.), Chapmann & Hall/CRC (to be published in January 2012).
• "Suitable features for visual saliency computation in monochrome images" by R. Pal, P. Mitra, J. Mukhopadhyay
  Proc. of 4th IEEE International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, pages 1457-1460, Sanghai, China, October 2011.
• "Image retargeting through constrained growth of important rectangular partitions" by R. Pal, J. Mukhopadhyay, P. Mitra.
  Proc. of 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, LNCS 6744, pages 104-109, Moscow, Russia, June 2011.
• "Modelling visual saliency using degree centrality" by R. Pal, A. Mukherjee, P. Mitra, J. Mukherjee.
  IET Computer Vision, vol. 4, issue 3, pages 218-229, September 2010.