DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, NITK SURATHKAL 

 

Journal Publications in 2026

SI NO          AUTHOR, PAPER AND JOURNAL DETAILS 

  1. Reshma Unnikrishnan, Sowmya Kamath S, Ananthanarayana V S “SenseFusion: A Unified Framework for Multimodal and Temporal Clinical Data Modeling for Predictive Analytics Applications” Information Fusion, Volume 129, May 2026, 104021 (SCI/Scopus, Impact factor 15.5)  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2025.104021

  2. Ramu S, R M R Guddeti and Biju R. Mohan, “Federated Learning Approach for Human Activity Recognition in Online Exam Environment", Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, 84, 41527–41540, April 5, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-025-20815-0 (SCI/Scopus).

  3. Madhusmita Das, Biju R. Mohan and R M R Guddeti, “HSoMLSDP: A Hybrid Swarm-optimized Machine Learning Framework for Software Defect Prediction", IEEE Access, Vol. 13, pp. 61161-61180, April 3, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3557532(SCI/Scopus).

  4. Rajesh Nayak and  Jaidhar C.D. Anomalous Electrical Power Consumption Detection in Household Appliances via Micro-Moment Classification, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (Early Access), 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TAI.2025.3622104

  5. Priyadarshini, R., and Sowmya Kamath. "Automated Oil Spill Detection and Segmentation in Marine Ecosystems using Drone-captured Images and Attention-enhanced Convolutional Architectures." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE, 2026 [SCI, IF: 5.3].

  6. Sowmya Kamath S, Shikha Reji, Kattamudu Vaibhava Lakshmi, Supreetha R, Pratiksha Gawas, Veena Mayya, Manali Hazarika, "Ensemble Machine Learning Approaches for Automated Fungal Keratitis Diagnosis using In-Vivo Confocal Microscopy Images", Healthcare Technology Letters, Wiley Publishers

  7. Pratiksha Gawas and Sowmya Kamath S, “Multistage Image Reconstruction and Attention-based Semi-supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation" Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, 2025 (SCIE/Scopus)

  8. Savio Lobo and Sowmya Kamath S, “Text Analysis and Machine Learning Models for Suicide Ideation Detection in Social Media Posts", SN Computer Science, 2025 (Scopus)

  9. Karthik K., Sowmya Kamath, and Ashish Katlam. "Content-based medical retrieval systems with evidence-based diagnosis for enhanced clinical decision support." Expert Systems with Applications (2025): 126678. (SCI/Scopus, IF: 7.5)

  10. Nandan, A.D.M., Praveen, K., Thejdeep, R.C. et al. Deep learning-based stress detection using encoded physiological signal representations. Netw Model Anal Health Inform Bioinforma 15, 44 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13721-026-00730-6

  11. Rosamma, K.S., Nagamma, P. A Hybrid Lead Scoring-BiGRU Model for Extractive Summarization of News Articles. SN COMPUT. SCI. 6, 664 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04202-y

  12. Jat, T., Bhat, P. & Patil, N. Detection of Heart Abnormality with Stethoscope Sounds. SN COMPUT. SCI. 6, 677 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04235-3

  13. P. Bhat and N. Patil, "Integrating Evolutionary and Structural Properties for Protein Interaction Site Prediction Using Graph and Temporal Convolutions," in IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 2001-2012, Sept.-Oct. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TCBBIO.2025.3580202

  14. LekshmiAmmal, H.R., Madasamy, Anand Kumar. LeDoFAN: enhancing lengthy document fake news identification leveraging large language models and explainable window-based transformers with n-gram expulsion. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 16, 6577–6596 (2025).

  15. Prabhu, M. M., Srinivasa, H., Prudvi Kumar, R. N. S., & Madasamy, Anand Kumar. (2026). Advancing legal question answering: multi-level summarization, unsupervised methods and beyond. International Journal of Computers and Applications, 48(1), 60–74

  16. Spurthy Maria Pais, Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Vigneshkumar Balamurugan and Jia Chen, “High Spatial-Resolution Estimation of XCO2 using Stacked Ensemble Model”, Remote Sensing, MDPI, vol. 17, no. 20, pp. 2647–2665, October 2025 [DOI: 10.3390/rs17203415] 

  17. Kolukuluri, V., Purushothama B R. “FT-MSIS: A Fault-Tolerant (n, n) Multi-Secret Image Sharing Scheme Without All-or-Nothing Recovery”, International Journal of  Information.Technology. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-025-02655-1

  18. Harshil Pradhan, Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee, Ramya D Shetty, “Geo-stance-aware Recommender for Climate Action via Spatio-temporal Multilayer Networks”, Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, December 2025 [DOI: 10.1007/s13278-025-01553-5] [ESCI, Q1]

  19. Ramya D Shetty, Manoj T, Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee and Vasudeva Acharya, “NDWC: Global Scaling with Reducing Factor for Influence Ranking in Weighted Complex Networks”, IEEE Access, IEEE, vol. 13, pp. 183821 - 183835, October 2025 [DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3624006]

  20. Sawant, S.V.,Rudra, B.Utilization of Quantum Random Numbers in Crystal-Kyber Based Post Quantum Virtual Private Network for Vehicular Communication IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Article2026. DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2025.3617510

  21. Renisha, P.S.,Rudra, B.Quantum-Safe Threshold Cryptography for Decentralized Group Key Management via Dealerless DKG (CRYSTALS–Kyber) Mathematics ArticleOpen Access2025. DOI: 10.3390/math13213429

  22. Kumar, K.,Rudra, B.Text Augmentation for Enhancing the Text Classification for Low Resource Language SN Computer Science Article2025 DOI: 10.1007/s42979-025-04120-z

 

Conference Publications in 2026

SI NO          AUTHOR, PAPER AND CONFERENCE DETAILS 

  1. Rickesh T N, Uzzwal, Sowmya Kamath S., “Evaluating Attention Reuse in Dynamic 3D Gaussian Reconstruction”, Foundation Models for Vision Applications (FMVA) Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2026, Palais des congrès de Lyon, Lyon, France (August 17-22 2026)

  2. Bhuvanesh Singla, Raajan Wankhede, Aakarsh Bansal, Sowmya Kamath S, “Synthetic CT Generation from MRI Scans: An Experimental Study on Generative Modelling Techniques”, International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Sustainable Technologies, IIT Patna

  3. Priyadarshini R and Sowmya Kamath S, “CNN and Transformer-Based Object Detection Approaches for Urban Plastic Litter Monitoring”, International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Sustainable Technologies (ICST 2026), IIT Patna

  4. Aakarsh Bansal, Sowmya Kamath S, Supreetha R., “Advancing Cephalometric Landmark Detection through Vision-Adapted Transformer and LSTM Models”, 11th International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing, December 9–12, 2026, NIT Calicut, India

  5. Abhishek Srinivas, Aakarsh Bansal, Sowmya Kamath S, “HALELab-NITK at #SMM4H-HeaRD2026: Inclusion of Feature Engineering for Detection of Patient Metadata in SARS-CoV2 Sequencing Articles”, 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), San Diego, California, July 2 - 7, 2026

  6. Pratiksha Gawas and Sowmya Kamath S., “KALA-Net: Lightweight, Data-Efficient Knowledge Distillation Framework for Glaucoma Diagnosis”, to 2026 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Penang, Malaysia, 29 June - 1 July 2026 (Best paper award)

  7. Thanmayee, Sowmya Kamath S, “A Unified Spatiotemporal Framework for Activity-Aware Surveillance Video Summarization“, 2026 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Penang, Malaysia, 29 June - 1 July 2026 (Best paper award)

  8. Vinay Devara, Sowmya Kamath S, “Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Through Reranking and Vector-Store Quantization”, 2026 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Penang, Malaysia, 29 June - 1 July 2026

  9. Pratiksha Gawas and Sowmya Kamath S., “DT-KAD: Dual-Teacher Knowledge and Attention Distillation for Efficient Breast Cancer Diagnosis using Ultrasound Imaging Data”, 7th International conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (DeLTA 2026), Jul 15-16, 2026, Porto, Portugal

  10. Uzzwal Vanshik Reddy, Sowmya Kamath S, Vijayan Sugumaran, “Expansion Is Not Enough: Revisiting Dynamically Expandable Networks for NLP Tasks“, 31st International Conference on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLDB 2026), Trondhiem, Norway (Core B ranked)

  11. Ritik Mahajan, Sowmya Kamath S, Supreetha R, Vijayan Sugumaran,  “Automated ICD-10 Coding Approaches with UMLS Integration and Model Interpretability Support“, 31st International Conference on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLDB 2026), Trondhiem, Norway (Core B ranked)

  12. T. N Rickesh , M Uzzwal Vanshik Reddy , Sowmya Kamath S, “Rethinking Transformer Design for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction: An Efficient, Width-Dominant Approach”, 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Applications for Industrial Systems: The Role of AI-based Methods, at 2026 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Netherlands, June 21-25, 2026 (Core A ranked)

  13. Jatin Grewal and Sowmya Kamath S, “Automated Oil Spill Mapping with Optical Imagery Using Deep Segmentation Models“, 2026 IEEE Space, Aerospace and Defence Conference (SPACE), IIIT Bangalore

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