Ishan Nigam

E-Mail : ishannigam@nsitonline.in

Phone: +91-9911184867

Education
2010-2014

B.E. - Information Technology

NSIT, University of Delhi, India

72.12%

Research Assistantship
06/14 - Present

Image Analysis and Biometrics Lab - IIIT Delhi, India

A Robust Leap Signature Identification System
Proposed a novel behavioral biometric system developed for in-air 3D signatures.
Adapted information descriptor to incorporate rotational invariance in signature.
Compared proposed information descriptor to state-of-the-art descriptors.
Ocular Biometrics : A Survey of Modalities and Fusion Approaches
Performed literature review of ocular modalities as part of a project funded by
the Department of Information Technology, Government of India.
Information fusion approaches that combine ocular modalities with other
modalities were studied.
Paper submitted to Information Fusion (Elsevier).

Internships
12/13 - 02/14

Leap Signature Recognition Using HOOF and HOT Features

Image Analysis and Biometrics Lab - IIIT Delhi, India
Conceptualized biometric verification system for 3D signature recognition.
Modeled structural and temporal information from the signature using optical
flow and trajectory information.
Fused information from 2 descriptors to propose Leap signature as soft biometric.
Research paper published at International Conference on Image Processing, 2014.
Advisors: Dr. Mayank Vatsa and Dr. Richa Singh

06/13 - 07/13

A Real-Time Super-Resolution Framework for XRay Imaging

Imaging and Computer Vision Group - Siemens Corporate Research, India
Optical flow used to model sub-pixel motion in casaded frames of video sequence.
Predicted motion information used to estimate respective high-resolution frames.
Obtained de-noised super-resolved video sequence with real-time execution.

Publications
[1] I. Nigam, M. Vatsa, R. Singh. Leap Signature Recognition Using HOT and

HOOF Features. 21st IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2014.

[2] A. Mohananey, I. Nigam, S. Goel. A Scalable Real-Time Algorithm for Facial

Recognition. 6th International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, 2013.

(Submitted)

[3] I. Nigam, M. Vatsa, R. Singh. Ocular Biometrics : A Survey of Modalities and Fusion

Approaches. Information Fusion (Elsevier), 2014. [Impact Factor: 3.472]

Research Projects
11/13 - 05/14

Understanding Public Opinion in Absence of Sufficient Data

Advisor: Dr. Shampa Chakraverty, Professor - NSIT, New Delhi, India
Information combined from several sources to overcome absence of relevant data.
Modeled the weight of individual text elements based on the popularity of the
source as well as the specific text element.
Adaptive Boosting algorithm applied to predict opinion. Proposed framework
outperformed three standard classifiers on two different datasets.

8/13 - 11/13

Real-time Gesture Recognition

Advisor: Dr. Mayank Vatsa, Assistant Professor - IIIT Delhi, India
Studied active contour, gradient vector flow, optical flow to track gestures.
Generated a dataset on a LEAP Motion beta device for 30 subjects.
Applied Hidden Markov Models, Dynamic Time Warping to classify 3D gestures.

05/12 - 09/12

A Scalable Real-Time Algorithm for Facial Recognition

Advisor: Dr. Anand Gupta, Assistant Professor - NSIT, New Delhi, India
Pre-classification Euclidean Distance filter applied to geometrical face landmarks
to predict top-10 subjects. Unique match found using EigenFaces based PCA.
Research paper published at Intl. Conf. on Image and Signal Processing, 2013.

Awards, Honors, and Travel Grants

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Winter School on Theoretical Computer Science [Microsoft Research]

Awarded Student Travel Grant. Selected among 70 students from across India.
Winter School on Neural Engineering [IISc Bangalore]
Awarded Student Travel Grant. Selected among 30 students from across India.
Runners-up, Cracking C++ Competition, Modern School Vasant Vihar
Stood 2nd amongst 20 teams in an algorithmic programming competition.
Raman Subramanyam Award for All Round Performance
Selected among 250 students for academic and extra-curricular excellence.
RSR Charitable Trust Scholarship
Secured 2nd position overall in the batch in 10th Grade High School Examinations.
Vedant Mehra Memorial Award
Highest score in Mathematics(100/100) in 10th Grade High School Examinations.

Technical Skills
Programming/ Scripting: C, C++, MATLAB
Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Windows
Independent Coursework: Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Positions of Responsibility
01/13-05/14

Founding Student Chair, ACM NSIT Student Chapter

Initiated ACM Student Chapter to promote research among undergraduates.

10/12-05/14

Editor, The Alliance (NSITs independent student e-newspaper)

Guided a team of 12 journalists; resposible for releasing 8 bi-semester editions.