Alok Singh

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Research Associate

University of Oxford, UK

  • Birthday: October, 1996
  • Website: https://alokssingh.github.io/
  • Phone: +91-8476815804
  • City: Oxford, UK
  • Degree: PhD (NIT Silchar, India)
  • Email: alok.rawat478@gmail.com

Hi!

Currently, I am working with Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford as a Research Associate in Machine Learning.

I received my PhD from National Institute of Technology, Silchar Assam, India. My research interests lie in multimodal machine learning, automatic video captioning, shot boundary detection and natural language processing. I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Thoudam Doren Singh and Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay.

Before starting my PhD, I received my master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT Silchar, India in 2019. During my master’s, I invested my valuable time by working on Shot Boundary Detection under the supervision of Dr. Dalton Meitei Thounaojam.

Technical Skills

Python9
Java8
Deep Learning8.5
Natural Language Processing9
Computer Vision8

Updates

Publications

Journals

  • Meetei, L. S., Singh, A., Singh, T. D., & Bandyopadhyay, S. Does cues in a video help in handling rare words in a machine translation system under a low-resource setting? Natural Language Processing Journal, 100016. 2023

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  • Singh, A., Singh, T.D. & Bandyopadhyay, S. V2T: video to text framework using a novel automatic shot boundary detection algorithm Multimed Tools Appl (2022). (SCIE, IF- 3.6)

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  • Singh, A., Singh, T.D. & Bandyopadhyay, S. Attention based video captioning framework for Hind. Multimedia Systems (2021). (SCIE, IF- 2.577).

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  • Singh, A., Singh, T.D. & Bandyopadhyay, S. An encoder-decoder based framework for Hindi image caption generation. Multimed Tools Appl (2021). (SCIE, IF- 3.9).

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  • Chakraborty, S., Singh, A. & Thounaojam, D.M. A novel bifold-stage shot boundary detection algorithm: invariant to motion and illumination. Vis Comput (2021). (SCIE, IF- 3.5).

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  • Singh, A., Thounaojam, D. M., & Chakraborty, S. A novel automatic shot boundary detection algorithm: roubust to illumination and motion effect. Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIViP) 14, 645–653 (2019). (SCIE, IF- 2.3)

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Conferences

  • Singh, A., Meetei, L. S., Singh, S.M., Das, R., Singh, T.D., & Bandyopadhyay, S. VATEX2020: pLSTM framework for video captioning Procedia Computer Science, 218, 1229-1237.

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  • Meetei, L. S., Rahul, L., Singh, A., Singh, S.M., Singh, T.D., & Bandyopadhyay, S. Hindi to English Multimodal Machine Translation on News Dataset in Low Resource Setting Procedia Computer Science, 218, 1229-1237.

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  • Singh, A., Meetei, L. S., Singh, S.M., Singh, T.D., & Bandyopadhyay, S. An efficient keyframes selection based framework for video captioning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing ICON-2022.

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  • Meetei, L. S., Rahul, L., Singh, A., Singh, S.M., Singh, T.D., & Bandyopadhyay, S. & Bandyopadhyay, S. An Experiment on Speech-to-Text Translation Systems for Manipuri to English on Low Resource Setting In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing ICON-2021.

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  • Singh, S.M., Meetei, L. S., Singh, A., Singh, T.D., & Bandyopadhyay, S. & Bandyopadhyay, S. On the Transferability of Massively Multilingual Pretrained Models in the Pretext of the Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman Languages. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing ICON-2021.

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  • Chakraborty, S., Thounaojam, D.M., Singh, A ., & Pal, G., ALO-SBD: A Hybrid Shot Boundary Detection Technique for video surveillance System. Book chapter in Edge Analytics (2022).

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  • Singh, A., Meetei, L.S., Singh, T., & Bandyopadhyay, S. Generation and Evaluation of Hindi Image Captioning of Visual Genome. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 170. Springer, Singapore.

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  • De, P. K., Pankaj, & Singh, A. A Study of Propagation of Love Waves in an Anisotropic Porous Layer Under Initial Stress. Recent Trends in Applied Mathematics: Select Proceedings of AMSE 2019. Springer Singapore, 2021.

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Resume

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD - Computer Sc. & Engg.)

2019 - 2022

National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India  (Institute website)

  • Teaching assistant (2019 - 2022)
  • Course Material

    • Master of Technology (M.Tech - Computer Sc. & Engg.)

    2017 - 2019
    CPI – 8.88/ 10 ( Equiv. to 88.8% )

    National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India  (Institute website)

  • Teaching assistant (2017 - 2019)

    • Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech - Computer Sc. & Engg.)

    2013 - 2017
    Percentage – 73.35%

    Uttarakhand Technical University, India

    Industrial Training

    Internship

    June 2015 - July 2015

    RWX Technology

    Academic Activities

    Workshop Reviewing

    ALVR2020 (ACL2020), ALVR2021 (NAACL-2021), MMTLRL2021, (RANLP-2021)

    Journals Reviewing

    Multimedia Tools and Applications , Applied Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Imaging Science Journal, Expert Systems With Applications, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing

    Conference Reviewing

    ICON-2021, ICICSA2023

    Research Activitiese

    Research Associate

    Oct. 2022 - Present

    Sustainable Finance Group, SSEE University of Oxford, UK

    Supervisors: Dr Ben Caldecott and Dr Steven Reece
    • Research goal: Asset Ownership: Mapping Asset level data to companies using Natural language processing and computer vision. It involved the extraction of information from different sources using natural language processing and location with the help of satellite images.

    Research Assistant

    July. 2019 Oct. - 2022

    Centre for Natural Language Processing, NIT Silchar, India

    Supervisors: Dr Thoudam Doren Singh and Prof.Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
    • Research goal: Visual Description Generation: bridging a gap between vision and natural language. The research aims to generate a short natural language description of the action and events occurring in an Image or Video.

    Research Assistant

    July. 2017 Oct. - 2019

    Computer Vision Lab, NIT Silchar, India

    Supervisors: Dr Dalton Meitei Thounaojam
    • Research goal: Temporal Shot Boundary Detection in the presence of illumination and motion effect in a video. The research aimed to detect abrupt boundaries in a video under illumination and motion effect effectively and efficiently.

    Talks/Tutorials:

  • Presented a tutorial on Asset Ownership: Mapping Asset level data to companies using NLP at the Natural Language Processing for Sustainable Finance Programme Symposium (University of Oxford). [Online Presentation!]
  • Presented a tutorial on “Visual Description Generation: Fusion of Vision and Natural Language” in Recent Advance in Machine Translation (RAMT-2021) a workshop organised by NIT Silchar. [Online Presentation!]

    • { A .pdf version of Alok's resume can be downloaded by clicking here }

    Contact

    If you would like to reach out to me, please drop an e-mail....! :)

    Location:

    Oxford, UK

    Call:

    +44-7400046063

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