Dr. Poornima Singh Thakur

Academic Qualifications

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Vision Transformer, Explainable AI, Object Detection, Blockchain Technology

Selected Publications

1. Chaturvedi, S., Thakur, P.S., Khanna, P., Ojha, A.,Song, Y., Awange, J. ‘Satellite Image based Surveillance and Early Wildfire Smoke Detection using a Multi-Attention Interlaced Network’. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
2. Thakur, P.S., Chaturvedi, S., Seal, A., Khanna, P., Sheorey, T. and Ojha, A., 2025. An Ultra Lightweight Interpretable Convolution-Vision Transformer Fusion Model for Plant Disease Identification: ConViTX. IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
3. Chaturvedi, S., Shubham Arun, C., Singh Thakur, P., Khanna, P. and Ojha, A., 2024. Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection. Fire Ecology, 20(1), p.83.
4. Chaturvedi, S., Thakur, P.S., Khanna, P. and Ojha, A., 2024. Smoke detection in foggy surveillance environment using parallel vision transformer network. Neural Computing and Applications, 36(31), pp.19499-19514.
5. Thakur, P.S., Chaturvedi, S., Khanna, P., Sheorey, T. and Ojha, A., 2024. Real-Time Plant Disease Identification: Fusion of Vision Transformer and Conditional Convolutional Network With C3GAN-Based Data Augmentation. IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics.
6. Thakur, P.S., Chaturvedi, S., Khanna, P., Sheorey, T. and Ojha, A., 2023. Vision transformer meets convolutional neural network for plant disease classification. Ecological Informatics, 77, p.102245.
7. Thakur, P.S., Sheorey, T. and Ojha, A., 2023. VGG-ICNN: A Lightweight CNN model for crop disease identification. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 82(1), pp.497-520. 

Thakur, P.S., Khanna, P., Sheorey, T. and Ojha, A., 2022. Trends in vision-based machine learning techniques for plant disease identification: A systematic review. Expert Systems with Applications, 208, p.118117. 

Competitive Grant(s)

Faculty Development / Management Development / Workshops / Conferences