Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)Waseda University

Name

DHAR, Pranab Kumar

Position and Affiliated Institution

Professor, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET)

Degree

Ph.D. (Information and Computer Sciences)

Education and Academic Employment

Research Topic

Advances in Digital Watermarking Based on Matrix Decomposition

Fields of Research Interests

Security and Privacy, Digital Watermarking, Steganography, Cryptography, Multimedia Data Compression, Sound Synthesis, Digital Signal and Image Processing

Academic Publications

• Md. Kowsher, Abdullah As Shami, Nusrat Jahan Prottasha, Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, Pranab Kumar Dhar, and Takeshi Koshiba, “ Bangla-BERT: Transformer-based Efficient Model for Transfer Learning and Language Understanding”, IEEE Access, 2022.
• Md. Billal Hossain, Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, Iqbal H. Sarker, Md. Kowsher, Pranab Kumar Dhar, and Takeshi Koshiba, “ CARAN: A Context-Aware Recency Based Attention Network for Point-of-interest Recommendation”, IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 36299-36310, 2022.
• Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, Mohammad Shahedul Islam, Md. Abul Kashem Mia, Homammas Shamsur Rahman, Pranab Kumar Dhar, and Takeshi Koshiba, “Frequent contiguous pattern mining over biological sequences of protein misfolded diseases”, BMC Bioinformatics, Springer Vol. 12, No. 2, 435, pp. 1-28, 2021.
• Pranab Kumar Dhar and Tetsuya Shimamura, Advances in Audio Watermarking Based on Matrix Decomposition, ISBN:978-3-030-15725-8, Springer, July 2019.
• Pranab Kumar Dhar and Tetsuya Shimamura, Advances in Audio Watermarking Based on Singular Value Decomposition, ISBN:978-3-319-14799-4, Springer, April 2015.
• Farhana Shirin Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Dhar, Kaushik Deb, and Takeshi Koshiba, “Blind Image Watermarking in Canonical and Cepstrum Domains Based on 4-Connected T-o’clock Scrambling”, Symmetry, MDPI, Vol. 12, No. 2, 266, pp.1-20, 2020.
• Pranab Kumar Dhar and Tetsuya Shimamura, “Blind SVD-Based Audio Watermarking Using Entropy and Log-Polar Transformation”, Journal of Information Security and Application (JISA), Elsevier, Vol. 20, pp. 74-83, February 2015.
• Pranab Kumar Dhar and Tetsuya Shimamura, “Audio Watermarking Based on Eigenvalue Decomposition”, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communication and Computer Sciences, Vol. E97-A, No. 12, pp. 2658-2661, December 2014.

Affiliated Academic Organizations

Adjunct Faculty:
East Delta University (EDU), Chattogram, Bangladesh
Port City International University (PCIU), Chattogram, Bangladesh

Awards

• Received ‘Best Paper Award’ for the paper titled “DWT-DCT-Based Audio Watermarking Using Singular Value Decomposition and Quantization” of the Journal of Signal Processing supported by the Research Institute of Signal Processing Japan (RISP) on March 25, 2015.
• Received ‘Best Paper Award’ for the paper titled “Image Watermarking in LWT Domain Based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Singular Value Decomposition” presented at the 9^th International Conference on Strategic Technology (IFOST), December 21-23, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 2014.
• Received ‘Excellent Paper Award’ for the paper titled “Robust FFT-Based Audio Watermarking for Copyright Protection” presented at the Proceedings of the Engineering and Arts Society in Korea, October 10-11, 2009, Daegu, Korea.
• Received ‘Best Paper Award’ for the paper titled “Synthesis of Bowhead Whale Sound using Modified Spectral Modeling” presented at the 5^th International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2009), September 16-19, 2009, Ulsan, South Korea.

Other Interests

Playing cricket, watching movies, listening to music

HP（URL）

https://scholar.google.com/citations?authuser=1&user=L2Ra8yMAAAAJ