Dr. Toshan  Meenpal

Department Electronics & Telecom. Engineering
Designation Associate Professor
Educational Qualification MTech (IIT Kharagpur), PhD (HBNI (BARC) Mumbai)
E-Mail tmeenpal.etc@nitrr.ac.in
Contact Number
Areas of Interest

Digital Image Processing, Video Processing, Computer Vision, Multimedia Security, Cryptography, Steganography, Image Forensics.

For more details visit my personal webpage:

https://sites.google.com/nitrr.ac.in/nitrrcvlab/people/faculty?authuser=1 

Publications

Refereed Journal (SCI/SCIE Indexed)

  1. Nitish Kumar, Toshanlal Meenpal,,Encoder-decoder-based CNN model for detection of object removal by image inpainting, J. Electron. Imaging 32(4), 042110 (2023), Doi: 10.1117/1.JEI.32.4.042110. (IF:1.1)
  2. Goyal, Aarti, and Toshanlal Meenpal. "Kinship verification using multi-level dictionary pair learning for multiple resolution images." Pattern Recognition (2023): 109742. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109742 (IF:8)
  3. Oruganti, Madhu, T. Meenpal, and Saikat Majumder. "Easy pair selection method for Kinship Verification using fixed age group images." Image and Vision Computing (2023): 104727. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2023.104727 (IF:4.7)
  4. K. B. Jaiswal and T. Meenpal,"Heart rate estimation network from facial videos using spatiotemporal feature image" Computers in Biology and Medicinel, vol. 151, pp. 106307, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106307. (IF: 6.69)
  5. A. Goyal, T. Meenpal and M. Mukherjee, "Family classification and kinship verification from facial images in the wild", Machine vision and application, vol. 33,no. 6, pp. 1-18, 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-022-01341-7 . (IF: 2.98) 
  6. K. B. Jaiswal and T. Meenpal,"rPPG-FuseNet: Non-contact heart rate estimation from facial video via RGB/MSR signal fusion" Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 78, pp. 104002, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2022.104002. (IF: 5.07)
  7. M. Mukherjee and T. Meenpal,"Binary cross coupled discriminant analysis for visual kinship verification" Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 108, pp. 116829, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2022.116829(IF: 3.45)
  8. A. Verma, T. Meenpal and B. Acharya, "Computational Cost Optimization of Convolution Neural Networks by Insignificant Filter Removal", Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST), vol. 25,no. 2, pp. 150-265, 2022, DOI:https://www.romjist.ro/full-texts/paper713.pdf .
  9. M. Mukherjee and T. Meenpal,"FuseKin: Weighted image fusion based kinship verification under unconstrained age group" journal of visual communication and image representation, vol. 84, pp. 103470, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2022.103470 . (IF: 2.88)
  10. A. Verma, T. Meenpal, and B. Acharya, "Human Body Pose Distance Image Analysis for Action Recognition", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 36,no. 7, pp. 2255012, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218001422550126 . (IF: 1.26)
  11. N. Kumar and T. Meenpal, "Salient keypoint-based copy-move image forgery detection," Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 54, pp. 1-24, 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2021.2016964 . (IF: 1.2)
  12. A. Goyal and T. Meenpal, “Robust discriminative feature subspace analysis for kinship verification,” Information Sciences, vol. 578, pp. 507-524, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2021.07.046. (IF: 8.23)
  13. A. Verma, T. Meenpal, and B. Acharya, “Multiperson interaction recognition in images: A body keypoint based feature image analysis,” Computational Intelligence, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 461–483, 2021. [2.14]
  14. A. Goyal and T. Meenpal, "Patch-Based Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform for Kinship Recognition," in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 30, pp. 191-206, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2020.3034027. (IF: 11.04)
  15. A. Goyal and T. Meenpal, “Eccentricity based kinship verification from facial images in the wild,” Pattern Analysis and Applications, vol. 24,no. 1, pp. 119–144, 2021. (IF: 2.30)
  16. A. Verma, T. Meenpal, and B. Acharya “Human interaction recognition in videos with body pose traversal analysis and pairwise interaction framework,” IETE Journal of Research, pp. 1–13, 2020.(IF:1.87)
  17. T. Meenpal, "DWT-based blind and robust watermarking using SPIHT algorithm with applications  in tele-medicine." Sādhanā ,43(1) , 2018. (IF:1.6)
  18. A. Verma, T. Meenpal, B. Acharya, “Interrelationship identification between humans from images using two class classifier”,  International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.21), 5-8. 2018, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.21.11823
  19. T. Meenpal, A. Goyal, A. Meenpal, “Face recognition system based on principal components analysis and distance measures,” International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.21), 15-19, 2018, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.21.11826
  20. T. Meenpal,  "A light weight and secure video conferencing scheme utilizing public network." Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76(3), pp. 3699-3714, 2017. (IF :2.7)
  21. T. Meenpal, S. Banik and S. Maitra, "A Scheme for Conditional Access based systems using Index Locations of DCT Coefficients", Springer Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 2014, DOI: 10.1007/s11554-014-0409-y.

Patent

  1. T. Meenpal, M. Mukherjee, A. Meenpal, A system and method for generating a facial image of parent from a single sample of child's facial images and vice-versa. (Indan Patent Published 22/04/2022).
  2. T. Meenpal, M Oruganti, A. Meenpal, A system, method and model for identification of parents of a child found missing from the image of the child. (Indan Patent Published 22/04/2022).

Book Chapter 

  1. Kumar, Nitish, and Toshanlal Meenpal. "ResUNet: An Automated Deep Learning Model for Image Splicing Localization." International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022.
  2. T. Meenpal, A. Goyal, and M. Mukherjee, “Spatial domain representation for face recognition,” in Visual Object Tracking with Deep NeuralNetworks. IntechOpen, 2019.

International Conference Proceedings:

  1. M. Oruganti, T. Meenpal, S. Majumdar and S. R. N. Kusu, "Deep Learning Model for Facial Kinship Verification Using Childhood Images*," 2023 International Conference for Advancement in Technology (ICONAT), Goa, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICONAT57137.2023.10080273.
  2. K. B. Jaiswal, M. Choubey, A. Mishra, D. Singh and T. Meenpal, "Color space analysis for improvement in rPPG," 2023 International Conference for Advancement in Technology (ICONAT), Goa, India, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICONAT57137.2023.10080102.
  3. M. Oruganti, T. Meenpal and S. Majumder, "Selective variance based kinship verification in parent's childhood and their children," 2021 National Conferenceon Communications (NCC), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi : 10.1109/NCC52529.2021.9530084.
  4. G. Mahesh, T. Meenpal and K. B. Jaiswal, "Power-efficient FPGA implementation of RCM-RW on Digital Images," 2021 12th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Kharagpur, India, 2021, pp. 1-7, doi : 10.1109/ICCCNT51525.2021.9579997.
  5. K. Verma, T. Meenpal and K. B. Jaiswal, "Area Efficient Hardware Architecture of Skeletonization for 2D Images," 2021 12th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Kharagpur, India, 2021, pp. 1-7, doi : 10.1109/ICCCNT51525.2021.9579997.
  6. N. Kumar and T. Meenpal, “Semantic segmentation-based image inpainting detection,” in Innovations in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, M. N. Favorskaya, S. Mekhilef, R. K. Pandey, and N. Singh, Eds.Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021, pp. 665–677.
  7. K. B. Jaiswal and T. Meenpal, "Continuous Pulse Rate Monitoring from Facial Video Using rPPG," 2020 11th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Kharagpur, India, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICCCNT49239.2020.9225371.
  8. A. Goyal, and T. Meenpal, ”Kinship Verification from Facial Images Using Feature Descriptors,”Cognitive Informatics and Soft Computing. Springer, Singapore, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Singapore, vol. 768, pp-371-380, 2019.
  9. N. Yadav, A. Goyal, and T. Meenpal, “A Feature Averaging Method for Kinship Verification,” Cognitive Informatics and Soft Computing, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Singapore, vol. 768, pp-381-391, 2019.
  10. S. Majumder, A. Bibhudendra, T.  Meenpal, "Rateless Distributed Source-Channel Coding of Correlated Binary Sources Using Raptor Codes," Advances in Data and Information Sciences, pp. 283-291. Springer, Singapore, 2019.
  11. A. Goyal, T. Meenpal,”Template Matching for Kinship Verification in the Wild,” First international Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition. (CIPR 2019), CIPR.
  12. A. Verma, T. Meenpal, B. Acharya, “Object Proposals based on Variance Measure,” First international Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition. (CIPR 2019), CIPR.
  13. Manupotisreenivasulu, T. Meenpal, "Efficient MUX based CORDIC on FPGA for Signal Processing Application", 2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT).
  14. Manupotisreenivasulu, T. Meenpal, "Efficient Hardware Implementation of 2D Convolution on FPGA for Image Processing Application", 2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT).
  15. Rahul N. Kupade, T. Meenpal, "FPGA Implementation of Moving Object Segmentation using ABPD and Background Model", 2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT).
  16. S. Mehta, T. Meenpal, A. Verma, “Generation of Pixel Level Segmentation Masks for Detected Human Objects in a Scene with Deep Learning”, 2019 Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (i-PACT).
  17. M. Mukherjee, T. Meenpal, “Kinship verification using Compound Local Binary Pattern and Local Feature Discriminant Analysis”, 2019 The 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking (ICCCNT).
  18. N. Kumar, T. Meenpal, “Texture-Based Malware Family Classification”, 2019 The 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking (ICCCNT).
  19. Jaiswal, Kokila Bharti, and T. Meenpal. "Kinship Verification Using Color Features and Covariance Descriptor." 2019 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT). IEEE, 2019.
  20. A. Goyal, T. Meenpal, ”Detection of facial parts in kinship verification based on edge information,” International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, (CICT 2018), 2018.
  21. A. Verma, T. Meenpal, B. Acharya, “A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Interrelationship Identification between Humans from Images,” International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, (CICT 2018), 2018.
  22. T. Meenpal, Aditi Jain, Ankita Jain, “Scrambling based robust image watermarking in DWT-DCT fused domain”, International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization (EESCO)- 2015.
  23. T. Meenpal and A. Meenpal, “Difference Expansion Based Reversible Data Hiding Scheme Using Edge Directions”, International Conference on Data Mining and Computational Intelligence (ICDMCI 2015).
  24. P. Shah, T. Meenpal, A. Sharma, V. Gupta, and A. Kotecha, “A dwt-svdbased digital watermarking technique for copyright protection,” in InternationalConference on Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communicationand Optimization (EESCO), 2015.
  25. T. Meenpal and A. K. Bhattacharjee, “Watermark Removal Attack extended to Forgery against Correlation-basedWatermarking Schemes”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. No. 9478, pp. 463-479, 2015.
  26.  T. Meenpal and A. K. Bhattacharjee, “High Capacity Reversible Data Hiding using IWT”, International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED), 2011, pp. 352 - 357, 2011.
Other Info.

Sponsored Research Project :

 1. Title- Design and development of an Automatic Kinship Verification system for Indian faces with possible integration of AADHAR Database.

Sponsored by- SERB, Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), GoI.

Duration- 3 years (2017-20)

Approximate Cost-25 Lacs

Status: Completed

2. Title - Design of JPEG Anti-Forensics Scheme(s) for evaluation of existing JPEG forensic schemes

Sponsored by- Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, India.

Duration- 2 years (2017-18)

Approximate Cost-28 Lacs

Status: Completed

Ph.D Supervision :

Degree Awarded :- 3

Pursuing :- 4

Industry Experience (4 years):

 

2 years (2005-2006) Embedded Software Engineer at NVIDIA GRAPHICS PUNE
2 Years (2007-2008): Senior Design Engineer at ST Microelectronics Gr Noida. 

 

Academic Experience (14 years) :

Assistant Professor and Head of Department at MMCT, DMAT and KITE Raipur

2013-Present: Associate Professor at NIT, Raipur.

Educational Qualification:

Ph.D from HBNI (BARC) Mumbai.

M.Tech in Automation and Computer Vision Engg (Currently known as Visual Information and Embedded Systems Engg.) – IIT, Kharagpur.

B. Tech.  in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering- SGSITS, Indore.

Short Term Training Program Organized & Co-ordinated:

One week STTP on “Digital Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications” at NIT Raipur (07-11 March, 2016).

One week STTP on "Multimedia Security, Cryptocurrency and Forensics" at NIT Raipur ( 30 Oct- 03 Nov, 2017)

Courses Taught:

  1. Digital Image Processing
  2. Introduction to Deep Learning
  3. Multimedia Communication
  4. Neural networks and fuzzy logic
  5. Analog Communication

Extra Curricular Activities

  • Expert member to review the feasibility of the project "High Resolution MMW Seeker" at Research Centre Imarat, DRDO, Hyderabad.
  • Collaborating as technical expert for various procurement and research related activities, BSF, Bhilai.

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/nitrr.ac.in/nitrrcvlab/home?authuser=1