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Sankar K. Pal
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Sankar Kumar Pal is an Indian computer scientist whose research spans machine intelligence, pattern recognition, image processing, and soft computing.
Biography
Sankar Kumar Pal, born in 1950, is an Indian computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He previously served as both its Director and President. He is also an ANRF Prime Minister Professor of the Government of India, hosted at IIIT Bhubaneswar.
His research covers pattern recognition, image processing, fuzzy neural networks, soft computing, granular mining, and machine intelligence. He studies fuzzy set theory, neuro-fuzzy systems, and rough-fuzzy computing to model uncertainty, with applications in machine learning, knowledge-based systems, and data mining. He founded ISI’s Machine Intelligence Unit in 1993 and its Center for Soft Computing Research in 2004. He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1990 and the Padma Shri in Science and Engineering in 2013.
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Books by Sankar K. Pal
Handbook on soft computing for video surveillance
Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance describes video surveillance as an interdisciplinary field involving video acquisition, processing, and interpretation for security, safety, and facility management. Its preface outlines challenges including motion detection, object classification, tracking, activity understanding, and semantic description.