Pravin Kumar Rana
Curriculum vitae
Contact Information
Office
Communication Theory Laboratory
Mobile Phone: +46 (0) 738 790 621
School of Electrical Engineering
Email: pravin.kumar.rana@ee.kth.se
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Skype: pravin.kumar.rana
Osquldas Väg 10, SE-100 44 Stockholm
Web: people.kth.se/∼prara
Sweden
Home
Kungshamra 3, 1105
17070 - Solna, Sweden
Objective
To conduct theoretically sound and application motivated research in an industrial environment
Research Interests
Image and video processing, multiview and 3D video processing, computer vision and graphics,
pattern recognition, vision geometry
Education
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 – Present
Advisor
Research area
Expected
Doctor of Philosophy in Telecommunications
Markus Flierl
Multiview and 3D video processing
February, 2014
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
2006 – 2008
Advisor
Grade
Specialization
Master of Technology in Earth System Science and Technology
Mihir Kumar Dash
9.53/10 Cumulative GPA
Satellite Oceanography
Ranchi University, Ranchi, India
2002 – 2004
Advisor
Grade
Specialization
Master of Science in Physics.
K. K. Dey
Graduated with first class (71.81%)
Electronics and Communication
Ranchi University, Ranchi, India
1998 – 2002
Grade
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics.
Graduated with first class (74.75%)
Research Positions
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 – Present
Graduate Researcher, ACCESS Linnaeus Center, School of Electrical Engineering.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
2006 – 2008
Student Researcher, Center for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences.
Ranchi University, Ranchi, India
2003 – 2004
Student Researcher, University Department of Physics.
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Professional Positions
Government Mining Technical Institute, Koderma, India
2005 – 2006
Lecturer, Department of Physics.
Research Activities
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 – Present
Designing and improving depth image based rendering algorithms for high quality free-viewpoint
television experience.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
2007 – 2008
Developed a model to predict daily and monthly variations in sea ice edge in the Antarctic by
utilizing gradient vector flow.
Ranchi University, Ranchi, India
2001 – 2002
Implemented operational amplifier based general impedance converter circuit and used it to
simulate different types of second-order active electronic resistor-capacitor filters.
Teaching Activities
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 – 2013
2010 – 2013
2009, 2012
2009
EN2401 Image and Video Processing, Teaching assistant.
EN2600 Project Course on Multimedia Signal Processing, Teaching assistant.
EN2500 Information Theory and Source Coding, Teaching assistant.
EN111X Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, Teaching assistant.
Government Mining Technical Institute, Koderma, India
2005 – 2006
Physics, Course responsible, Teacher, Examiner.
Professional Activities
Affiliations
2013 – Present
2011 – Present
2010 – Present
IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS), Graduate student member.
European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), Graduate student member.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Graduate student member.
Reviewer
Conference
IEEE SPS International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
Recent Developments on Signal Processing (RDSP)
Projects
2008 – 2011
Leader
Industrial partner
Academic partner
Results
3D Video Coding
Markus Flierl
Ericsson Research Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Journal articles: 1 submitted, Conference articles: 3, Patents: 2 pending, Technical reports: 1
Awards and Achievements
2006 – 2008
2006
2004
2002
Ministry of Human Resource Development Scholarship, Government of India.
Scored among top six percent in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, Government of India.
Secured top position in Master of Science examination, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India.
Secured third position in Bachelor of Science examination, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India.
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Invited Talks and Workshops
2013
2012
2011
2010
2008
ACCESS Industrial Workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
ACCESS PhD & Post-doc Workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
ACCESS Industrial Workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Saint Malo, France
Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Risø, Denmark
Computer Skill
Operating systems
Environment
Languages
Libraries
Video processing
Text processing
Web management
Certification
Webmaster
Windows, Linux
Microsoft Visual Studio
C/C++, Visual C++, MATLAB, HTML
Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV) Library, Point Cloud Library (PCL)
View Synthesis RS, Depth Estimation RS, Joint Multiview VC
LATEX, Microsoft Office
Atex Polopoly
Computer Network Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Languages
Fluent
English
Native
Hindi
Personal
Nationality
Indian
Publications
Patents
[1]
I. Girdzijauskas, M. Flierl, and P. K. Rana, “Methods and processor for 3D scene representation,” Mar.
2012, WO Application No.: PCT/SE2012/050255. (in collaboration with Ericsson AB), Pending.
[2]
M. Flierl, P. K. Rana, I. Girdzijauskas, T. Rusert, and A. Georgakis, “Methods and arrangements for
3D scene representation,” Nov. 2010, WO Application No.: PCT/SE2010/051294. (in collaboration
with Ericsson AB), Pending.
Submitted refereed journal articles
[1]
P. K. Rana, J. Taghia, Z. Ma, and M. Flierl, “Probabilistic multiview depth image enhancement using
variational inference,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. submitted, 2013.
[2]
Z. Ma, P. K. Rana, J. Taghia, M. Flierl, and A. Leijon, “Bayesian estimation of Dirichlet mixture model
with variational inference,” Pattern Recognition. submitted, 2013.
[3]
P. K. Rana and M. Flierl, “Multiview depth consistency testing,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. submitted, 2013.
Refereed journal articles
[1]
P. K. Rana, M. K. Dash, A. Routray, and P. C. Pandey, “Prediction of sea ice edge in the antarctic
using GVF snake model,” Journal of the Geological Society of India, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 99–108, Aug.
2011.
Refereed conference articles
[1]
P. K. Rana, Z. Ma, J. Taghia, and M. Flierl, “Multiview depth map enhancement by variational Bayes
inference estimation of Dirichlet mixture models,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), (Vancouver, Canada), pp. 1528–1532, May 2013.
[2]
P. K. Rana, J. Taghia, and M. Flierl, “A variational Bayesian inference framework for multiview depth
image enhancement,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), (Irvine,
California, USA), pp. 183–190, Dec. 2012.
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[3]
S. Parthasarathy, A. Chopra, E. Baudin, P. K. Rana, and M. Flierl, “Denoising of volumetric depth
confidence for view rendering,” in Proceedings of 3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), (Zurich, Switzerland), pp. 1–4, Oct. 2012.
[4]
P. K. Rana and M. Flierl, “Depth pixel clustering for consistency testing of multiview depth,” in
Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), (Bucharest, Romania), pp. 1119–
1123, Aug. 2012.
[5]
P. K. Rana and M. Flierl, “View interpolation with structured depth from multiview video,” in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), (Barcelona, Spain), pp. 383–387, Aug.
2011.
[6]
P. K. Rana and M. Flierl, “Depth consistency testing for improved view interpolation,” in Proceedings
of IEEE SPS International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), (Saint Malo, France),
pp. 384–389, Oct. 2010.
Technical reports
[1]
A. Georgakis, P. K. Rana, and I. Radulovic, “3DTV exploration experiments (EE1 & EE4) on the
Lovebird1 data set,” Tech. Rep. M16977, MPEG ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG, Xian, China, Oct. 2009,
(in collaboration with Ericsson AB).
Conference abstracts
[1]
P. K. Rana, A. Routray, M. K. Dash, and P. C. Pandey, “Prediction of antarctic sea ice edge using
artificial intelligence,” in SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference, (St. Petersburg, Russia), Abstract
S1.6/O28, Jul. 2008.
Dissertations
[1]
P. K. Rana, “Prediction of antarctic sea ice edge using active contour model,” Master of Technology,
Center for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,
India, May 2008.
[2]
P. K. Rana and G. Mishra, “Study on general impedance converter and its application in realization
of second order active electronic resistor-capacitor-filters,” Master of Science, University Department of
Physics, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India, Jul. 2004.
Media Coverage
[1]
Free Viewpoint Television: Det nya TV-tittandet, Osqledaren, no. 3, Dec. 2009. (Swedish)
c Pravin Kumar Rana
Stockholm, September 16, 2013
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