Highlights of Education and experience:

• Completed M. Tech and Phd from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.
• B.Tech from University of Kerala
• Professor, SRM University- AP from 04-04-2022 to 28-02-2023,
• Principal, College of Engineering Trivandrum from 01-06-2018 to 31-03-2022.
• Worked as Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Professor in various Government Engineering Colleges under Director of Technical Education, Government of Kerala from 01-07-1991 to 31-05-2018.
• Visiting Researcher at University of Trento, Italy during 2006.
• Electronics officer at National Airports Authority from 1989-1991.
• Worked as Engineer-SB at Institute for Plasma Research Gandhinagar during 1989.

Research Interests:

• Computer Vision
• Image Processing
• Computational
• Photography
• Signal Processing

Education:

Professional Service:

04-04-2022 to 28-02-2023- Professor, SRM University-AP

01-06-2018 to 31-03-2022- Principal, College of Engineering Trivandrum

01-07-2017 to 31-05-2018- Dean Research, College of Engineering Trivandrum

01-04-2015 to 30-06-2017- Head of Department of Electronics and Communication, College of Engineering Trivandrum

01-07-1991 to 31-03-2015: Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Professor under Directorate of Technical Education (Various Government Engineering Colleges)

Electronics officer – National Airports Authority from 1989-1991.

Engineer-SB at Institute for Plasma Research Gandhinagar during 1989.

Research Interests (in detail):

Computer Vision
Image Processing
Computational Photography
Signal Processing

Awards & Fellowships

1. Best paper Award: National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG 2015), IIT Patna
2. Challenge Winner Award: UDC 2020 Challenge on Image Restoration of Under-Display Camera In conjunction with European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020 Workshop on Real-world Recognition from Low-quality Inputs (RLQ), Glasgow, UK,August 2020
3. Challenge Winner Award: AIM 2020 Challenge on Scene Relighting and Illumination Estimation, Advances in Image Manipulation Workshop, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Glasgow, UK, August 2020

Memberships

• Senior Member, IEEE
• Fellow, IETE

List of Publications

Journals:

1. Jiji, C. V., Joshi, M. V. and Chaudhuri, S. (2004). Single frame image super-resolution using learned wavelet coefficients. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 14(3) 105 – 112.
2. Jiji, C. V and Chaudhuri, S. (2006). Single frame image super-resolution through contourlet learning. EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, 2006, 1 – 11.
3. Jiji, C.V., Chaudhuri, S. and Chatterjee, P. (2007) Single frame image super-resolution: should we process locally or globally? Springer Journal Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 18, 123 – 152.
4. Abdu Rahiman V. and Jiji C. V. Face Hallucination using Eigen Transformation in Wavelet Domain. International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP)(2010), Volume(3),Issue(6), 265 – 282.
5. Jiji C. V. and Ravi Krishnan Unni, Fusion of Multispectral and Panchromatic Images Based on the Non subsampled Contourlet Transform. International Journal of Image and Graphics (2013) , Volume 13, No:03
6. Edison, A. & Jiji, C.V., Automated video analysis for action recognition using descriptors derived from optical acceleration. Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer (2019), vol 13(5), pp. 915-922. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-019-01428-1
7. Bastian B.T., Jiji C.V., Pedestrian detection using first- and second-order aggregate channel features. International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, Springer (2019), vol 8, pp. 127-133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13735-019-00171-0
8. George, Neetha & Jiji, C.V., Two stage contour evolution for automatic segmentation of choroid and cornea in OCT images.  Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering , Elsevier (2019). doi:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbe.2019.05.012
9. Blossom Treesa Bastian, Jaspreeth N, Ranjith S. Kumar, Jiji C. V., Visual inspection and characterization of external corrosion in pipelines using deep neural network, NDT & E International, Elsevier (2019). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2019.102134
10. Deepak Berwal ,Vandana C. R., Sourya Dewan,  Jiji C. V., Maryam ShojaeiBaghini, Motion Artifact Removal in Ambulatory ECG Signal for Heart Rate Variability Analysis, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE (2019)
11. Bastian B. T., Jiji C. V., Integrated Feature Set Using Aggregate Channel Features and Histogram of Sparse Codes for Human Detection,  Multimedia Tools and  Applications79, 2931–2944 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08498-w
12. Linu Shine, Jiji C. V., Automated detection of helmet on motorcyclists from traffic surveillance videos: A Comparative analysis using hand-crafted features and CNN,   Multimedia Tools and  Applications79, 14179–14199 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-08627-w
13. Blossom Treesa Bastian &JijiCharangatt Victor, Detection and pose estimation of  autorikshaws from traffics images,  Machine Vision and Applications31, 54 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-020-01106-0

Conferences

1. Jiji, C. V. and Chaudhuri, S. (2004). PCA based generalized interpolation for image super resolution. Indian conference on computer vision graphics and image processing ICVGIP,(pp. 139-144), Kolkata.
2. C. V. Jiji, Prakash Neethu, Subhasis Chaudhuri: Alias-Free Interpolation. European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006: 255-266
3. V. Abdu Rahiman and C. V. Jiji: Face Hallucination Using PCA in Wavelet Domain. Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal VISAPP 2008: 180-187.
4. Jiji C. V. and Ravi Krishnan Unni: Fusion of Multispectral and Panchromatic Images using Non subsampled Contourlet Transform. International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2008, Las Vegas Nevada, USA, 608-613
5. Sreekanth G. Pai and C. V. Jiji, A stochastic image denoising algorithm using3-D block filtering under a non-local means framework. Proceedings of the Eighth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP2012), IIT Mumbai.
6. Georgin Jacob and C. V. Jiji, Image recovery from partial wavelet coefficients via sparse representation. Proceedings of the Eighth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2012), IIT Mumbai.
7. C. Muhammed Faasil and C. V. Jiji, Kernel Estimation from blurred edge profiles using radon transform for shaken images. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE National conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), 18-21, December 2013, IIT Jodhpur.
8. K.V Jobin, C. V. Jiji , P.R Anurenjan , Automatic number plate recognition system using modified stroke-width transform. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE National conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), 18-21, December 2013, IIT Jodhpur.
9. S. Archana , C. V. Jiji,  A Novel Poselet Extraction Method and Human Action Recognition using RGBD. Applications of Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (WACIG) Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, ICVGIP-2014, IISc, Bangalore, India.
   
   
10. V. Vibin, C. V. Jiji, A Real Time OpenCV Implementation To Disclose Thoracic Movements During Human Respiration using video magnification. Medical Image Processing (MedImage), ICVGIP-2014, IISc, Bangalore, India.
11. Manu C. S. and C. V. Jiji. “A Novel Remote Sensing Image Fusion Algorithm Using ICA Bases.” Eighth International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, ISI Kolkata, ICAPR 2015
12. Anitha Edison and C. V. Jiji. “HSGA: A novel acceleration descriptor for human action recognition.” 2015 Fifth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), IEEE, 2015—BEST PAPER AWARD
13. Anoop K. Johnson and C. V. Jiji. “Single shot High Dynamic Range imaging using histogram separation and exposure fusion.” 2015 Fifth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG),IEEE, 2015.
14. SooryaS.Kumar and C. V. Jiji. “Histogram of Radon Projections: A new descriptor for object detection.” 2015 Fifth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), IEEE, 2015.
15. Anitha Edison and Jiji C. V., “Optical Acceleration for Motion Description in Videos” The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2017, pp. 39-47
16. Bastian, Blossom Treesa, and C. Victor Jiji. “Aggregated Channel Features with Optimum Parameters for Pedestrian Detection.” International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. Springer, Cham, 2017.

17.Sreena, V. G., and C. V. Jiji. “RGB Patch Clustering for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution Using Sparse Coding.” 2017 Ninth International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR). IEEE, 2017.

18. Bastian, Blossom Treesa, and C. V. Jiji. “Enhanced Aggregated Channel Features Detector for Pedestrian Detection Using Parameter Optimisation and Deep Features.” Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics: 6th National Conference, NCVPRIPG 2017, Mandi, India, December 16-19, 2017.
19. Neetha, George, and C. V. Jiji. “A Two Stage Contour Evolution Approach for the Measurement of Choroid Thickness in EDI-OCT Images.” Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics: 6th National Conference, NCVPRIPG 2017, Mandi, India, December 16-19, 2017.
20. Parvathi, V. S., and Jiji C. V. “Multiview 3D Reconstruction of Underwater Scenes Acquired with a Single Refractive Layer Using Structure from Motion.” 2018 Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications (NCC). IEEE, 2018.
21. Shine, Linu, Anitha Edison, and C. V. Jiji. “A Comparative Study of Faster R-CNN Models for Anomaly Detection in 2019 AI City Challenge.” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops. 2019.
22. Parvathi, V. S., and Jiji C. V. “Refraction Corrected Pose Estimation for 3D reconstruction of underwater objects.” Accepted for publication in the proceedings of 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2019
23. Neetha, George, and C. V. Jiji. “Convolutional Neural Network for automatic segmentation of EDI OCT images” Accepted for publication in the proceedings of 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2019
24. Deepa P. L. and Jiji C. V. “Non-uniform deblurring from blurry/noisy image pairs” Accepted for publication in the proceedings of Fourth International conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), MNIT Jaipur, September 27-29, 2019
25. Neetha, George, and C. V. Jiji. “Choroid disease Classification using convolutions neural networks”. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of  “Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics: 7thNational Conference, NCVPRIPG 2019, December 2019.
26. Anitha Edison and C. V. Jiji. “Motion- constrained Generative Adversarial Network for Anomaly Detection”. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of  “Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics: 7th National Conference, NCVPRIPG 2019, December 2019.
27. ShanxinYuan,  RaduTimofte,  Ales Leonardis,  Densen Puthussery, Hrishikesh P S,  Jiji C V,  et.al.  “NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Image Demoireing: Methods and Results”, Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR) Workshops, 2020.
28. Seungjun Nah, Sanghyun Son, Radu Timofte, Kyoung Mu Lee, , Hrishikesh P S,
    Densen Puthussery, Akhil K A,  Jiji C V, et.al. “NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Image and Video Deblurring”, Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR) Workshops, 2020.
29. Kai Zhang, ShuhangGu, RaduTimofte ,Taizhang Shang, Hrishikesh P S, Densen Puthussery, Jiji C V, et,al.“NTIRE 2020 Challenge on  Perceptual Extreme Super-Resolution:  Methods and Results”, Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR) Workshops, 2020.
30. Linu Shine, Vaishnav M. A. and Jiji C. V. ” Fractional Data Distillation Model for Anomaly Detection in Traffic Videos ” Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR) Workshops, 2020.
31. Neetha George, JijiCharangatt Victor. ” OCT Segmentation Using Convolutional Neural Network” 2020 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Workshops ( ISBI Workshops), Iowa City, Iowa, April 3-7, 2020.
32. P. S. Hrishikesh, Densen Puthussery, C. V. Jiji et al. (2020) AIM 2020 Challenge on Efficient Super-Resolution: Methods and Results. In: Bartoli A., Fusiello A. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67070-2_1
33. Densen Puthussery, P. S. Hrishikesh, Melvin Kuriakose, C. V. Jiji et al. (2020) AIM 2020 : Scene Relighting and Illumination Estimation Challenge,  Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67070-2_30
34. P. S. Hrishikesh, Densen Puthussery, C. V. Jiji et al. (2020) AIM 2020 Challenge on Video Extreme Super-Resolution: Methods and Results. In: Bartoli A., Fusiello A. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66823-5_4
35. Densen Puthussery, C. V. Jiji, P. S. Hrishikesh, Melvin Kuriakose et. al., (2020) AIM 2020 Challenge on Rendering Realistic Bokeh. In: Bartoli A., Fusiello A. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67070-2_13
36. Densen Puthussery, HrishikeshPanikkasserilSethumadhavan, Melvin Kuriakose, JijiCharangatt Victor (2020) WDRN: A Wavelet Decomposed RelightNet for Image Relighting,   Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67070-2_31
37. PanikkasserilSethumadhavan H., Puthussery D., Kuriakose M., Charangatt Victor J. (2020) Transform Domain Pyramidal Dilated Convolution Networks for Restoration of Under Display Camera Images. In: Bartoli A., Fusiello A. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12539. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68238-5_28
38. Densen Puthussery, P. S. Hrishikesh, Melvin Kuriakose, C. V. Jiji et al. (2020) UDC 2020 Challenge on Image Restoration of Under-Display Camera: Methods and Results. In: Bartoli A., Fusiello A. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12539. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68238-5_26
39. E Perez-Pellitero, Akhil K A, Jiji C. V. et al. ”NTIRE 2021 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging: Dataset, Methods and Results.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2021, pp. 691-700.
40. K A Akhil, C V Jiji ”Single image hdr synthesis using a densely connected dilated Convnet” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops pp.526-531.2021
41. Hrishikesh P. S., Densen Puthussery and Jiji C. V.” A Transformer based UNet Architecture for fast and efficient Image Demoireing” 7th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2022), VNIT Nagpur, November 04-06, 2022

42. Blossom Treesa Bastain and Jiji C. V. ”RMSOD: A Retinanet based Mixed Supervised Object Detection Framework” IEEE 19th India Council International Conference (INDICON 2022), CUSAT, Kochi, 24-26 November 2022

43. Hrishikesh P.S., Densen Puthussery , K. A. Akhil and Jiji C.V.” Relativistic GAN using Receptive Field Block for Single Image Super-Resolution with improved Perceptual Quality” Accepted for the IEEE 11^th International Conference on ESDC 2023, IIIT Sri City, May 2023