Sonal Kumar

About

Sonal Kumar received the M.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering with a gold medal from the National Institute of Technology Patna, and a B.E. degree in Information Science and Engineering from VTU University. Currently, he is actively engaged in pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His research focus centers on the exploration of self-supervised techniques for Computer Vision and Deep Learning applications.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Research Scholar
  1995 - Present

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Ph.D.
  2020 - Present

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• A Fully Unsupervised Framework for Object Mask Labeling with the Self-supervised Vision Transformer
  Sonal Kumar, Kathrotiya Sanket Jitendrabhai, Akshay Daydar +2 more
  2027 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-31920-3_8
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• C-LEAD: Contrastive Learning for Enhanced Adversarial Defense
  Suklav Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Arijit Sur
  SN Computer Science 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s42979-026-05066-6
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• PLUM: A Prompt-Guided Lightweight Unified Model for Enhancement of Multidegraded Underwater Image
  Alik Pramanick, Akshay Daydar, Sonal Kumar +2 more
  IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 2026 DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2026.3680311
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• Unsupervised Contrastive Refinement with Graph-Aware Multimodal Interaction for Radiology Report Generation
  Akshay Daydar, Mr.G. Chenna Keshava Reddy, Sonal Kumar +3 more
  IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2026 DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2026.3670375
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• River-GEM: Generating and Enhancing Muddy Water Images
  Alik Pramanick, Chivukula Sairam Satwik, Sonal Kumar

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  • Akshay Daydar
  • Arijit Sur
  ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025 DOI: 10.1109/icassp49660.2025.10887847
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• GraPix: Exploring Graph Modularity Optimization for Unsupervised Pixel Clustering
  Sonal Kumar, Arijit Sur, Rashmi Dutta Baruah
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78192-6_13
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• Med-SeAM: Medical Context Aware Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Anomaly Classification in Knee MRI
  Akshay Daydar, Ajay Kumar Reddy, Sonal Kumar +2 more
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3702250.3702276
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• DatUS: Data-driven Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation with Pre-trained Self-supervised Vision Transformer
  Sonal Kumar, Arijit Sur, Rashmi Dutta Baruah
  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 2024 DOI: 10.1109/TCDS.2024.3383952
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• Data-driven Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation with Pre-trained Self-supervised Vision Transformer
  2024 DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2401.12820
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• IPCL: ITERATIVE PSEUDO-SUPERVISED CONTRASTIVE LEARNING TO IMPROVE SELF-SUPERVISED FEATURE REPRESENTATION
  Sonal Kumar, Anirudh Phukan, Arijit Sur
  ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings 2024 DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447607
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• Blockchain-based Sybil-secured Smart Forest Fire Surveillance
  Sreemana Datta, Sonal Kumar, Ditipriya Sinha +1 more
  Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s12652-021-03591-1
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• Blockchain-Based Sybil-Secure Data Transmission IoT Framework for Smart City Applications
  Sonal Kumar, Ayan Kumar Das, Ditipriya Sinha
  Evolution in Computational Intelligence 2021 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5788-0_35
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