Pushpajit Khaire

Designation: 

Assistant Professor
Contact Details

E-mail: 

pushpjitkhaire[at]nitk.edu.in

Telephone: 

91-824-2473369
Academic Background

BE- Nagpur University
MTech- Nagpur University
PhD- VNIT, Nagpur
PostDoc- University of Bristol, United Kingdom (World QS Rank -55, 2023)

Areas of Interest
• Computer Vision and Deep Learning
• Machine Learning and LLMs / VLMs
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Applications
• Video Surveillance
Significant Projects

1. Principal Investigator (PI) | Real-Time Target Detection using AI for Military Surveillance.
Funding Agency: Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India
Grant Amount: ₹30 Lakhs, 3 years (Ongoing)

2. Principal Investigator (PI) | AI for Academic Surveillance
Funding Agency: NITK Surathkal (In-House Research Grant)
Grant Amount: Seed Funding 8 Lakhs, 2 years (Ongoing

Achievements

Awards and Distinctions

1. DAAD AInet Fellow, Germany, 2023-24 
2. DST-SERB Fellowship, India, 2016-19
3. MHRD Fellowship, India, 2010-12  
Significant Publications

· JOURNALS (SCI/SCIE)

[1] P. Khaire, P. Kumar, and J. Imran, “Combining CNN streams of RGB-D and skeletal data for human activity recognition,” Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 115, pp. 107–116, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2018.04.035.

[2] P. Khaire and P. Kumar, “RGB+D and deep learning-based real-time detection of suspicious event in Bank-ATMs,” Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 1789–1801, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s11554-021-01155-2.

[3] P. Khaire and P. Kumar, “A semi-supervised deep learning based video anomaly detection framework using RGB-D for surveillance of real-world critical environments,” Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, vol. 40, Art. no. 301346, 2022.

[4] P. Khaire and P. Kumar, “Deep learning and RGB-D based human action, human-human and human-object interaction recognition: A survey,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 86, Art. no. 103531, 2022.

[5] P. Khaire and P. Kumar, “Online suspicious event detection in a constrained environment with RGB+D camera using multi-stream CNNs and SVM,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 81, no. 23, pp. 32857–32881, 2022.

[6] C. Morgan, P. Khaire, et al. “A multimodal dataset of real world mobility activities in Parkinson’s disease,” Scientific Data, vol. 10, no. 1, Art. no. 918, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02663-5.

CONFERENCE / BOOK CHAPTERS(Scopus)

[1] P. Khaire, J. Imran, and P. Kumar, “Human activity recognition by fusion of RGB, depth, and skeletal data,” in Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 703, Springer, 2018, pp. 409–421. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-7895-8_32. Indexed: Scopus. Institutional record reports 22 citations.

[2] A. Mayya, P. Khaire, and M. Zaki, “Domain-Specific EfficientNet-Transformer based Vision Language Model for Campus Navigation,” in 2025 IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics (ICEI 2025), IIT Dharwad, India, 2025.

[3] P. A. Khaire and R. R. Kotkondawar, “Measures of image and video segmentation,” in Applied Video Processing in Surveillance and Monitoring Systems, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 28–53. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1022-2.ch002. Indexed: Scopus. Institutional record reports 4 citations.

Reviewer of Referred Journals

1. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (SCIE)

2. Artificial Intelligence Review (SCIE)

3. IEEE Sensors (SCIE)

4. International Journal of Image and Graphics (Scopus)

5. Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (Scopus)

 

Contact us

Dr. Pushparaj Shetty D , Professor and Head
Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences,
NITK, Surathkal
P. O. Srinivasnagar, Mangalore - 575 025
Karnataka, India.

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