About Me:

Email: rohitsaluja@cse.iitb.ac.in

Address:
New CSE Building (adjacent to Kanwal Rekhi Building), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076, India.

Permanent Address:
54 B Viratnagar, Panipat - 132103, Haryana, India.

Areas of Interests:

Interactive Learning systems, Optical Character Recognition, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Graphics.

Career Goals:

To keep myself abreast with the latest technological advancements/developments and contribute to the field of Computer Science, in the best way possible, with full devotion and dedication.

Education:

Ph.D. (2014 - current), IITB-Monash, CGPA: 8.13.
B.E. Hons. (E.E.E. 2006 - 2010), B.I.T.S. Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, CGPA: 9.14.
XII (2006), C.B.S.E, Percentage: 86.6.
X (2004), C.B.S.E, Percentage: 82.

Publications:

1.“OCR On-the-Go: Robust End-to-end Systems for Reading License Plates and Street Signs”, Rohit Saluja, Ayush Maheshwari, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Parag Chaudhuri, and Mark Carman, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2019, Sydney, Australia.

2.“Sub-word Embeddings for OCR Corrections in highly Fusional Indic Languages”, Rohit Saluja, Mayur Punjabi, Mark Carman, Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Parag Chaudhuri, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2019, Sydney, Australia.

3.“StreetOCRCorrect: An Interactive Framework for OCR Corrections in Chaotic Indian Street Videos.”, Pankaj Singh, Bhavya Patwa, Rohit Saluja, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, and Parag Chaudhuri, 2nd International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis (ICDAR- OST) 2019, Sydney, Australia.

4.“Error Detection and Corrections in Indic OCR using LSTMs”, Rohit Saluja, Devaraj Adiga, Parag Chaudhuri, Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Mark Carman, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2017, Kyoto, Japan.

5.“A Framework for Document Specific Error Detection and Corrections in Indic OCR”, Rohit Saluja, Devaraj Adiga, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Parag Chaudhuri and Mark Carman, 1st International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis (ICDAR- OST) 2017, Kyoto, Japan.

6."Analysis of bluetooth patch antenna with different feeding techniques using simulation and optimization." Rohit Saluja, A.L. Krishna, P.K. Khanna, D. Sharma, P. Sharma and H.C. Pandey, Recent Advances in Microwave Theory and Applications, International Conference on IEEE, 2008, Jaipur, India.

7.“Improving the learnability of classifiers for Sanskrit OCR corrections”, Devaraja Adiga, Rohit Saluja, Vaibhav Agrawal, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Parag Chaudhuri, K. Ramasubramanian and Malhar Kulkarni, Proceedings of the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, Vancouver, 2018.

Awards:

1. Our team "CLAM" secured 2nd position in Multilingual PostOCR Competetion at ICDAR'19. Our model achieved highest corrections of 44% in Finnish, which is significantly higher than overall topper (8% in Finnish).

2.“Development of an adaptive framework for end-to-end corrections in Indic OCR”, Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Parag Chaudhuri, IIT Bombay Impactful Research Award, 2017.

3.“A Framework for Error Detection and Corrections in Sanskrit”, Rohit Saluja, Devaraj Adiga, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Parag Chaudhuri and Mark Carman, Research and Innovation Symposium in Computing (RISC) 2017 (Most Admiring Poster Presentation Award), IIT-Bombay, India.

Professional Experience:

Engineer (2010-2014), Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), Project Engineering Management (PEM) Division, Noida, India.
Completed Improvement Projects Rewards Scheme System (IMPRESS) project on “cable routing” in 2014.
Developed a lisp program (AUTOCAD) to extract cable lengths interactively from drawings and a windows host script to enter them into routing software. Project saves 400 man-hours & 1500 papers for every power plant project @ BHEL-PEM.
Skills developed: Control System Design, System Design Studies.

Engineer Trainee (2010 January - July), LSI Logic (now Avagotech), Pune, India. Completed a project related to branching representation of clocks in MATLAB.

Research Trainee (2008 May-July), Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani, Rajasthan, India.
Published the research paper mentioned at the end of Publications.

Software Experience:

Developed OpenOCRCorrect - An Adaptive Framework for correcting mistakes in OCR output. The source code can be downloaded fromhere.

Helped in developing Shobhika - A Devanāgarī font for scholars, The source code can be downloaded fromhere.

Programming Languages: C++, Lua, Python, Matlab.

Engineering Softwares: Tesseract-ocr, Qt , Torch/Pytorch, Tensorflow, Kaldi ASR.

Extracurriculars:

Taekwondo - Black belt, Wushu and Judo (Won 5 gold medals and 2 best fighter trophies at the district level, 3 - silver medals at the state level and a bronze medal at the national level).

Hobbies - Write poems, play musical instruments like Harmonium and Flute.