Investigations in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision for Industry 4.0

Basanta Kumar Swaim is presently Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, at the Government College of Engineering Kalahandi, Bhawanipatna, Odisha. Formerly, he was working as a Lecturer at the postgraduate level in the department of CSA, Utkal University, BBSR, Orissa. He has been doing his research work in the domain of Speech Processing for the Oriya language for the last 17 years. His area of interest includes Speech Processing Technology, Image Processing, Data Mining and Pattern Recognition. He has a number of publications to his credit in international journals and conferences.

Vijay Kumar is Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department, NIT Hamirpur. He received his Ph.D. degree from NIT Kuruksherta. Previously, he received M.Tech. and B.Tech. degrees from GJUS&T, Hisar and M.M. Engineering College, Mullana, respectively. He has 4 years of teaching and research experience in the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. Prior, he has 8 years of teaching experience in various reputed institutes. He completed 2 DST SERB sponsored research projects. Presently, he is working on 1 CSIR sponsored research project. He has published more than 100 research papers in International Journals/Conferences. He has many book chapters in international repute publishers. He has supervised many Ph.D. and M.Tech. thesis on Metaheuristics, Image Mining, and Data Clustering. He has been listed among World’s Top 2% Scientists (2021 and 2022). He is the reviewer of several reputed SCI journals. He is member of ACM, CSI, International Association of Engineers, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, Singapore. His current research area is Soft Computing, Data Mining, Deep Learning, Steganography, and Pattern Recognition. [Editor]