Address: Room No. 718-C, Academic Block - 3, Delhi Technological University, Shahbad, Daulatpur, Main Bawana Road, Delhi-110042, India. 

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Dr. Bindu Verma is a faculty member in the Department of Information Technology at Delhi Technological University( Formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering). She earned the Doctorate degree in Automated Intent Recognition using Hand Gesture and Face Expression Analysis from School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has completed his M.Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Computer Science in 2015.  Before joining Delhi Technological University, she has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of CSE & IT, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida for more than three years. She has also worked as Software Engineer in Accenture India Pvt. Ltd. Banglore.

Dr. Bindu Verma is passionate to work in the area of computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, intelligent systems, affective state monitoring. She had made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, emotion recognition, and intent recognition with many research articles published in reputative journals such as Elsevier, Springer including IEEE transaction. She also serve as a reviewer of many International Journals such as IET intelligent transport system, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, International Journal of Engineering Applications for Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, The Visual Computers, etc.

Achievements:

•  Research Excellence Award DTU 2022, 2023

• Cleared UGC- Net in December 2013 and June 2014, December 2014 and June 2015. Certificate No: 141023605

• 2013: Cleared GATE Examination with 98.9 Percentile.

• Awarded Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship from UGC in 2015. Award No: F./2014-15/NFO-2014-15-OBC-UTT-6082 /(SA-III/Website)

• Awarded an Financial Assistance, International Travel Support(ITS) from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), File No: File Number: ITS/2018/003824

Certifications:

1. Deep Learning.AI complete course certification offered by Coursera.

   1. Convolutional Neural Networks

   2. Structuring Machine Learning Projects

   3. Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

   4. Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Ph.D Guidance:

• Ms. Reena Tripathi

• Ms. Lakshita Agarwal

• Ms. Nidhi

• Mr. Abhisht

M.Tech Guidance: 

• Kaustav Sen (M.Tech. ISY 2021-23)Thesis Title: Enhancing Heart Disease Prediction Performance with a Soft Voting Ensemble and Additional Technique

• Arti Singh (M.Tech. ISY 2021-23)   Thesis Title: Emotion Detection using Seperable Convolutionals

• Hemsagar Mehar (M.Tech. ISY 2022-24) Thesis Title: CONTEXT BASED EMOTION RECOGNITION USING EMOTIC DATASET

• Shujaa Ahmad ((M.Tech. ISY 2022-24) Thesis Title: FORGERY DETECTION IN DIGITAL IMAGES USING CNN

• Manish Kumar  (M.Tech. ISY 2023-25) Ongoing

• Sujeet Kumar  (M.Tech. ISY 2023-25) Ongoing

International Journals :

1. Nidhi, Verma, B. A lightweight convolutional swin transformer with cutmix augmentation and CBAM attention for compound emotion recognition. Appl Intell (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-024-05598-5 [SCI: IF 5.3]

2. Tripathi, R., Verma, B. Motion feature estimation using bi-directional GRU for skeleton-based dynamic hand gesture recognition. SIViP (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-024-03153-w [SCIE: IF 2.6]

3. Agarwal, L., Verma, B. From methods to datasets: A survey on Image-Caption Generators. Multimedia Tools Appl 83, 28077–28123 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-16560-x [SCIE: IF 3.6]

4. Tripathi, R., Verma, B. Survey on vision-based dynamic hand gesture recognition. Vis Comput (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-023-03160-x [SCIE: IF 3.5]

5. Nidhi, Verma, B. From methods to datasets: a detailed study on facial emotion recognition. Appl Intell 53, 30219–30249 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-023-05052-y [SCI: IF 5.3]

6. Sharma, P., Arya, R., Verma, R., Verma, B. Conv-CapsNet: capsule based network for COVID-19 detection through X-Ray scans. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 28521–28545 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14353-w [SCIE: IF 3.6]

7. H. Mittal and B. Verma, "CAT-CapsNet: A Convolutional and Attention Based Capsule Network to Detect the Driver’s Distraction," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 9561-9570, Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2023.3266113. [SCIE: IF 8.5]

8. Verma, B. (2022). A two stream convolutional neural network with bi-directional GRU model to classify dynamic hand gesture. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 87, 103554.[SCIE: IF 2.6]

9. Verma, B., Choudhary, A. Affective state recognition from hand gestures and facial expressions using Grassmann manifolds. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 14019–14040 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-10341-6 [SCIE: IF 3.6]

10. Verma, B., Choudhary, A. Grassmann manifold based dynamic hand gesture recognition using depth data. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 2213–2237 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08266-w [SCIE: IF 3.6]

11. Verma, B., & Choudhary, A. (2018). Framework for dynamic hand gesture recognition using Grassmann manifold for intelligent vehicles. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 12(7), 721-729. [SCIE: IF 3.2]

International Conferences:

1. Bindu Verma, and Ayesha Choudhary. “Unsupervised learning based static hand gesture recognition from RGB-D sensor.” In International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition,pp. 304-314. Springer, Cham, 2016.

2. Bindu Verma, and Ayesha Choudhary. “Deep Learning Based Real-Time Driver Emotion Monitoring.” In IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES), pp.1-6., 2018.

3. Bindu Verma, and Ayesha Choudhary, “A Framework for Driver Emotion Recognition using Deep Learning and Grassmann Manifolds”, In 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 1421-1426, 2018.

4. Gupta I, Garg N, Aggarwal A, Nepalia N, Verma B. Real-time driver's drowsiness monitoring based on dynamically varying threshold. In2018 Eleventh International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3) 2018 Aug 2 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

5. Bindu Verma, and Ayesha Choudhary, Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network with RGB-D Fusion. InProceedings of the 11th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing 2018 Dec 18 (pp. 1-8).

Professional Memberships

1. Member of IEEE Professional

2. Member of IEEE ITSS Society

3. ISTE Membership

4. CSI Membership

Academic Responsibilities

• Deputy Coordinator, Ph.D admission, IT Dept. DTU ( 2024-25).

• Time Table In-charge, IT Department, (2021, 2022)

• DRC Member, IT Dept, DTU ( 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

• BOS Member, IT Dept, DTU ( 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

• Member of ISO and Academic Audit Team, IT Dept., DTU.

• Member of Registration cum Orientation Committee of B.Tech. admitted students Induction Programme (2022-23, 2023-24).

• Member of Display Committee of DTU Convocation (2021, 2022, 2023).

• Lab In-charge of Object Oriented Programming Lab, IT Dept., DTU.