National Institute of Technology, Warangal

Dr. Bulla Rajesh

Assistant Professor

Office Address:

Room No: 322
Computer Science and Engineering Group
Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City
Gnan Marg, Satyavedu (M), Chittoor (D), India-517646.

Academic Qualifications

Education:

Ph.D. in Information Technology, August 2022

Thesis Title: Text Segmentation directly in JPEG compressed document images.

Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad

M.Tech. in Information Technology, July 2018

Thesis Title: Person re-identification in CCTV videos.

Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad

Research Areas of Interest

Image and Video Processing, Document Image Analysis, Compressed domain processing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine/Deep Learning, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Pattern Recognition, Medical Image Analysis, Data Science

Awards / Honours

  • Qualified in GATE 2016 and MHRD Fellowship for M.Tech, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India Dec 2018
  • MHRD Fellowship for Ph.D, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India Dec 2018

Projects

Publications

Journals

  • Bulla. Rajesh, M. Javed, P. Nagabhushan, “Automatic Tracing and Extraction of Text-Line and Word Segments Directly in JPEG Compressed Document Images.” IET Image Processing, Volume 14, Issue 9, 20 July 2020, p. 1909 – 1919,  https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ipr.2019.1437
  • Bulla. Rajesh,  M. Javed, P. Nagabhushan, “FastSS: Fast and smooth segmentation of JPEG compressed printed text documents using DC and AC signal analysis.” Multimedia Tools Applications (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11858-0

Conferences:

  • Bulla. Rajesh, P. Jain, M. Javed and D. Doermann, "HH-CompWordNet: Holistic Handwritten Word Recognition in the Compressed Domain," 2021 Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2021, pp. 362-362, doi:  10.1109/DCC50243.2021.00081. [A*, Core ranking]
  • Bulla. Rajesh, M. Javed, P. Nagabhushan and W. Osamu, "Segmentation of Text-Lines and Words from JPEG Compressed Printed Text Documents Using DCT Coefficients," 2020 Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2020, pp. 389-389, doi: 10.1109/DCC47342.2020.00083.  [A*, Core ranking]
  • Bulla, Rajesh, M. Javed, Ratnesh and S. Srivastava, "DCT-CompCNN: A Novel Image Classification Network Using JPEG Compressed DCT Coefficients," 2019 IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CICT48419.2019.9066242.
  • Bulla. Rajesh, M. Javed and P. Nagabhushan, "Automatic Text Line Segmentation Directly in JPEG Compressed Document Images," 2019 IEEE 8th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE), 2019, pp. 1067-1068, doi: 10.1109/GCCE46687.2019.9015518.
  • R. Chandra, M. Javed, Bulla. Rajesh, B. S. Sanjeev and S. Khijmatgar, "Target-less Drug Discovery Pipeline using Feature Driven Development (FDD) model," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2021, pp. 2651-2658, doi: 10.1109/BIBM52615.2021.9669585.
  • A. Singh, Bulla. Rajesh and M. Javed, "Deep Learning Based Image Segmentation Directly in the JPEG Compressed Domain," 2021 IEEE 8th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/UPCON52273.2021.9667630.
  • Shrikanth Temburwar, Bulla  Rajesh, M. Javed, “Deep Learning Based Image Retrieval in the JPEG Compressed Domain,” MISP2021, SPRINGER, 26 June 2022,  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0840-8_26 
  • Atul Sharma, Bulla Rajesh, M. Javed, “Detection of Plant Leaf Disease Directly in the JPEG Compressed Domain using Transfer Learning  Technique,” MISP2021, 26 June 2022, SPRINGER, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0840-8_30  
  • Jatin Bindra, Bulla Rajesh, Savita Ahlawat, “Deeper Into Image Classification,” ICICC, 31, July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5148-2_7
  • Bulla Rajesh, Manav Kamlesh Agrawal, Milan Bhuva,Kisalaya Kishore, Mohammed Javed, “Document Image Binarization in JPEG Compressed Domain using Dual Discriminator Generative Adversarial Networks,” CVMI, IIIT-Allahabad, 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7867-8_60.
  • Bulla Rajesh, Nandakishore Dusa, Mohammed Javed, Shiv Ram Dubey, P.Nagabhushan, “T2CI-GAN: Text to Compressed Image generation using Generative Adversarial Network”, CVIP, VNIT, 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31417-9_23.
  • Bulla Rajesh, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Ayush Raj, Mohammed Javed, Shiv Ram Dubey, “HWRCNet: Handwritten Word Recognition in JPEG Compressed Domain using CNN-BiLSTM Network”, ICDAL, 2022.

Book Chapters

Work Experience

  • Served as an Assistant Professor at Vignan University, Guntur, Jun 3 2022 – April 25 2023

Teaching

UG Courses:

  • Data Structures in C
  • Data Structures using Python
  • Biometrics
  • Digital Image Processing

PG Courses:

  • Biometrics

Contact Information

Address for Communication:

Room No: 322
Computer Science and Engineering Group
Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City
Gnan Marg, Satyavedu (M), Chittoor (D), India-517646.