Dr. Debanjan Sadhya is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Atal Bihari Vajpayee - Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management Gwalior, India. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India for one and a half years. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT(BHU), India in the area of biometric encryption in 2017. Before this, he completed his Master's (M-Tech, Specialization - Wireless Communication and Computing) from IIIT-Allahabad, India in 2013, and Bachelor's (B-Tech, Specialization - Computer Science and Engg.) from WBUT, India in 2010. His main areas of interest include biometrics, information security, data privacy, and cryptography. He has been a member of IEEE since 2015.

Biography

Professional Experience

List of Publications

JOURNALS

1. Shaheen Usmani, Sunil Kumar, Debanjan Sadhya, "Spatio-temporal knowledge distilled video vision transformer (STKD-VViT) for multimodal deepfake detection'', Neurocomputing, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2024.129256

2. Medhavi Srivastava, Debanjan Sadhya, "Achieving epsilon-Object Indistinguishability in Surveillance Videos through Trajectory Randomization'', IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2024.3495789

3. Brijesh Kumar Chaurasia, Bodhi Chakraborty, Debanjan Sadhya, "Trust computation in VNs using blockchain'', Wireless Networks, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s11276-024-03851-w

4. Debanjan Sadhya, "Achieving Unlinkability in Fingerprint Templates via k-anonymity and Random Projection'', Sadhana, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s12046-024-02571-3

5. Debanjan Sadhya, Tanya Sahu, “A critical survey of the security and privacy aspects of the Aadhaar framework," Computers & Security, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2024.103782

6. Varesh Mishra, Debanjan Sadhya, “Height and Punishment: Towards Accountable IoT Blockchain with Network Sanitization,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2023.3315192

7. Shaheen Usmani, Sunil Kumar, Debanjan Sadhya, ''Efficient Deepfake Detection using Shallow Vision Transformer,'' Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-023-15910-z

8. Debanjan Sadhya, Santosh Singh Rathore, Amitesh Singh Rajput, Abhinav Anand, "Securing Multimedia Videos Using Space-Filling Curves'', Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-022-13066-w

9. Debanjan Sadhya, Bodhi Chakraborty, "Quantifying the Effects of Anonymization Techniques over Micro-databases'', IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TETC.2022.3141754

10. Joy Brahma, Debanjan Sadhya, "Preserving Contextual-Privacy for Smart home IoT devices with Dynamic Traffic Shaping'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3126453

11. Gaurav Yadav, Santosh Singh Rathore, Debanjan Sadhya, ''Named entity recognition for weather domain text in Hindi'', International Journal of Swarm Intelligence, 2021. DOI: 10.1504/IJSI.2021.118623

12. Debanjan Sadhya, Utkarsh Utsav, Zahid Akhtar, ''Generation of Cancelable Locality Sampled Codes from Facial Images'', IET Biometrics, 2021. DOI: 10.1049/bme2.12016

13. Ashish Sharma, Nikita Sharma, Yatharth Saxena, Anuraj Singh, Debanjan Sadhya, ''Benchmarking Deep Neural Network Approaches for Indian Sign Language Recognition'', Neural Computing and Applications, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s00521-020-05448-8

14. Debanjan Sadhya, Kanjar De, Balasubramanian Raman, Partha Pratim Roy, ''Efficient Extraction of Consistent Bit Locations from Binarized Iris Features'', Expert Systems With Applications, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2019.112884

15. Debanjan Sadhya, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''A Comprehensive Survey of Unimodal Facial Databases in 2D and 3D Domains'', Neurocomputing, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2019.05.045

16. Debanjan Sadhya, Kanjar De, Balasubramanian Raman, Partha Pratim Roy, ''Development of a Clustering Based Fusion Framework for Locating the Most Consistent IrisCodes Bits'', Information Sciences, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2019.04.001

17. Debanjan Sadhya, Balasubramanian Raman, ''Generation of Cancelable Iris Templates via Randomized Bit Sampling'', IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2019.2907014

18. Amit, Balasubramanian Raman, Debanjan Sadhya, ''Dynamic Texture recognition using Local Tetra Pattern - Three Orthogonal Planes (LTrP-TOP)'', The Visual Computer, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s00371-019-01643-4

19. Debanjan Sadhya, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''Design of a cancelable biometric template protection scheme for fingerprints based on Cryptographic hash functions", Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-017-5095-x

20. Debanjan Sadhya, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''Construction of a Bayesian Decision Theory Based Secure Multimodal Fusion Framework for Soft Biometric Traits", IET Biometrics, 2017. DOI: 10.1049/iet-bmt.2017.0049

21. Debanjan Sadhya, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''Privacy risks ensuing from crossmatching among databases: A case study for soft biometrics", Information Processing Letters, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.ipl.2017.08.001

22. Debanjan Sadhya and Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''Providing robust security measures to Bloom filter based biometric template protection schemes,'' Computers & Security, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2017.02.013

23. Debanjan Sadhya, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Bodhi Chakraborty, ''Review of keybinding-based biometric data protection schemes'', IET Biometrics, 2016. DOI: 10.1049/iet-bmt.2015.0035

24. Debanjan Sadhya, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''Privacy preservation for soft biometrics based multimodal recognition system'', Computers & Security, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2016.01.003

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 CONFERENCES

1. Nitin Keshri, Debanjan Sadhya, Bodhi Chakraborty, "Mitigating Packet-level Signature Attacks in PINGPONG via Differential Privacy'', 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), India, 2024.  [ACCEPTED]

2. Shaheen Usmani, Sunil Kumar, Debanjan Sadhya, "Enhancing Generalization Ability in Deepfake Detection via Continual Learning'', 15th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), India, 2024. DOI: 10.1145/3702250.3702258

3. Mayank Mishra, Tanya Sahu, Debanjan Sadhya, "Optimizing identification time in fingerprint recognition using Cuckoo filter'',  2nd International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI), India, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/CVMI59935.2023.10465034

4. Shaheen Usmani, Bharat Chandwani, Debanjan Sadhya, "Driver Drowsiness Detection using Vision Transformer'', 8th IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), India, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58181-6\37

5. Abhishek Pratap Singh, Debanjan Sadhya, Santosh Singh Rathore, "Fast similarity search in large-scale Iris databases using high-dimensional hashing'', 11th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDA), India, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49601-1_13

6. Pratheesh Suresh, Debanjan Sadhya, Amitesh Singh Rajput, "Generation of Multi-Layered QR Codes with Efficient Compression'', 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), India, 2023.  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45170-6_31

7. Anivesh Panjiyar, Debanjan Sadhya, "Defending against code injection attacks using Secure Design Pattern'', 29th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Japan, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/APSEC57359.2022.00085

8. Pankaj Gugnani, W. Wilfred Godfrey, Debanjan Sadhya, "Ethereum Based Smart Contract for Event Management System'', 6th IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technology (CICT), India, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/CICT56698.2022.9997939

9. Venkat Sai Swarup, Debanjan Sadhya, Vinal Patel, Kanjar De, "Presentation Attack Detection in Iris Recognition through Convolution Block Attention Module'', 2022 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), United Arab Emirates, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/IJCB54206.2022.10007966

10. Amisha Sinha, Debanjan Sadhya, "Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure with Identity Management using Hyperledger Fabric'', 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Portugal, 2022. DOI: 10.5220/0011273000003283

11. Rachit Goel, Utkarsh Singh, Debanjan Sadhya, "Privacy Preserving Contact Tracing using Ethereum Blockchain Network'', 10th IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), India, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TENSYMP54529.2022.9864380

12. Himanshi Kalra, Abhishek Pratap Singh, Debanjan Sadhya, "Anomaly detection in Border Gateway Protocol using supervised machine learning'', 3rd IEEE Bombay Section Signature Conference (IBSSC), India, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/IBSSC53889.2021.9673281

13. Divya, Sunil Kumar, Debanjan Sadhya, Santosh Singh Rathore, "Efficient Text Normalization via Hybrid Bi-directional LSTM'', 3rd IEEE Bombay Section Signature Conference (IBSSC), India, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/IBSSC53889.2021.9673310

14. Himanshu Choudhary, Debanjan Sadhya, Vinal Patel, "Automatic Speaker Verification using Gammatone Frequency Cepstral Coefficients'', 8th International Conference on Signal Processing & Integrated Networks (SPIN), India, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/SPIN52536.2021.9566150

15. Arun Negi, Santosh Singh Rathore, Debanjan Sadhya, "USB Keypress Injection Attack Detection via Free-Text Keystroke Dynamics'', 8th International Conference on Signal Processing & Integrated Networks (SPIN), India, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/SPIN52536.2021.9566083

16. Nishant Raj, Debanjan Sadhya, "Securing Biometric Data over Cloud via Shamir's Secret Sharing", 5th IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), India, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1086-8_25

17. Saurabh Mishra, Debanjan Sadhya, "LiARX: A lightweight cipher based on the LTS design strategy of ARX", 16th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), India, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65610-2_2

18. Saloni Nanwate, Debanjan Sadhya, "Similarity Attack on Cancelable Biometric Templates using Particle Swarm Optimization", IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), India, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/GUCON48875.2020.9231257

19. Sanyam Rajpal, Debanjan Sadhya, Kanjar De, Partha Pratim Roy, Balasubramanian Raman, ''EAI-NET: Effective and Accurate Iris Segmentation Network'', 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), India, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34869-4_48

20. Debanjan Sadhya, Zahid Akhtar, Dipankar Dasgupta, ''A Locality Sensitive Hashing Based Approach for Generating Cancelable Fingerprints Templates'', 10th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS), USA, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/BTAS46853.2019.9185991

21. Debanjan Sadhya, Bodhi Chakraborty, ''A Quantitative Study of Attribute-based Correlation in Micro-databases and its Effects on Privacy'', 24th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), New Zealand, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21548-4_37

22. Debanjan Sadhya, Akshay Agarwal, Balasubramanian Raman, ''Perfectly Secure Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme for Privacy Preserving Image Processing Over Cloud'', 11th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), India, 2018. DOI: 10.1145/3293353.3293360

23. Anjali Gautam, Debanjan Sadhya, Balasubramanian Raman, ''A Modified FCM Based Brain Lesion Segmentation Scheme for Medical Images'', 3rd IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), India, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9291-8_13

24. Bodhi Chakraborty, Debanjan Sadhya, Shekhar Verma, Krishna Pratap Singh, ''Information Theoretic Analysis of Privacy in a Multiple Query-Response Based Differentially Private Framework'', International Conference on Communication, Networks and Computing (CNC), 2018, India. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2372-0_23

25. Debanjan Sadhya, Ankit Gautam, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''Performance Comparison of Some Face Recognition Algorithms on Multi-covariate Facial Databases'', 4th International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP), India, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ICIIP.2017.8313741

26. Debanjan Sadhya, Bodhi Chakraborty, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''Capturing the Effects of Attribute-Based Correlation on Privacy in Micro-databases", 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Spain, 2017. DOI: 10.5220/0006417504300436

27. Debanjan Sadhya, Parth Pahariya, Rishi Yadav, Apoorv Rastogi, Ayush Kumar, Lakshya Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''BioSoft - A Multimodal Biometric Database Incorporating Soft Traits'', 3rd IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), India, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ISBA.2017.7947693

28. Debanjan Sadhya, Sanjay Kumar Singh, ''An Improved and Robust Fusion Framework for Soft Biometric Traits'', IEEE UP Section Conference on Electrical Computer and Electronics (UPCON), India, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/UPCON.2015.7456718