Digital Signal and Image Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Signal Processing,

Experience:

Total experience: 06 years

• Assistant Professor (Grade-I) in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra (Haryana), India (21st November 2022 – till date)
• Assistant Professor (Grade-II) in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela (Odisha), India (05th March 2018 – 18th November 2022)
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kota (Rajasthan), India (24th May 2017 – 28th February 2018)

SPONSORED PROJECTS (01)

1. “Development of contactless vital sign monitoring system using PPG based on Smartphone Camera” sponsored by SERB (SRG scheme), Govt of India, Duration 2019 2022 (Principal Investigator).

Publications:

Journals

1. Arya Deo Mehta and Hemant Sharma, “CPulse: Heart Rate Estimation from RGB Videos under Realistic Conditions”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023 (accepted). (SCI, IF – 5.6)
2. Arya Deo Mehta and Hemant Sharma, “OPOIRES: A robust non-contact respiratory rate extraction based on optimal points-of-interest selection from an RGB camera,” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 86 (2023): 105193. (SCI, IF – 5.1)
3. Hemant Sharma, “Extraction of respiratory rate from PPG using ensemble empirical mode decomposition with Kalman filter,” Electronics Letters 56.13 (2020): 650-653. (SCI, IF – 1.2)
4. Hemant Sharma and K. K. Sharma, “Sleep apnea detection from ECG using variational mode decomposition,” Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express 6.1 (2020): 015026. (Scopus, IF – 1.4)
5. Hemant Sharma, “Heart rate extraction from PPG signals using variational mode decomposition,” Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 39.1 (2019): 75-86. (SCI, IF – 6.4)
6. Hemant Sharma and K. K. Sharma, “ECG-derived respiration based on iterated Hilbert transform and Hilbert vibration decomposition,” Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine 41 (2018): 429-443. (SCI, IF – 4.4)
7. Hemant Sharma and K. K. Sharma, “ECG-derived respiration using Hermite expansion,” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 39 (2018): 312-326. (SCI, IF – 5.1)
8. Hemant Sharma and K. K. Sharma, “An algorithm for sleep apnea detection from single-lead ECG using Hermite basis functions,” Computers in biology and medicine 77 (2016): 116-124. (SCI, IF – 7.7)
9. Hemant Sharma, K. K. Sharma, and Om Lata Bhagat, “Respiratory rate extraction from single-lead ECG using homomorphic filtering,” Computers in Biology and Medicine 59 (2015): 80-86. (SCI, IF – 7.7)
10. Hemant Sharma and K. K. Sharma, “Baseline wander removal of ECG signals using Hilbert vibration decomposition,” Electronics Letters 51.6 (2015): 447-449. (SCI, IF – 1.2)

Conferences

1. Arpita Panigrahi and Hemant Sharma, “Non-Contact HR Extraction from Different Color Spaces Using RGB Camera,” 2022 National Conference on Communications (NCC). IEEE, 2022.
2. Arya Deo Mehta and Hemant Sharma, “Heart rate estimation from RGB facial videos using robust face demarcation and VMD,” 2021 National Conference on Communications (NCC). IEEE, 2021.
3. Arya Deo Mehta and Hemant Sharma, “Tracking nostril movement in facial video for respiratory rate estimation,” 2020 11th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT). IEEE, 2020.
4. Amita Sharma and Hemant Sharma, “Demand side response: Drivers, challenges, and opportunities,” Proceedings of International Conference on Advancements in Computing & Management (ICACM), 2019.
5. Hemant Sharma, “Extraction of respiration from PPG signals using Hilbert vibration decomposition,” Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics 2019 (Singapore).
6. Hemant Sharma and K.K. Sharma, “Respiration Estimation using Photoplethysmogram Signals,” in National Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networks 2017, Jaipur.
7. Hemant Sharma and K. K. Sharma, “Application of iterated Hilbert transform for deriving respiratory signal from single-lead ECG,” 2016 1st India International Conference on Information Processing (IICIP). IEEE, 2016.