Educational History

B. E. (Electrical and Electronics Engineering), Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 2006
M. S. (Electrical and Computer Engineering), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, 2008
Ph. D. (Electrical and Computer Engineering), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, 2012

Courses offered

E9 241 Digital Image Processing
E9 208 Digital Video: Perception and Algorithms
E9 246 Advanced Image Processing

Awards / Honours / Affiliations

Winner of the 2020 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for “Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization”
Winner of the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award
Winner of the 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award

Publications

• V. Kanchana, N. Somraj, S.Yadwad, and R. Soundararajan, “Revealing Disocclusions in Temporal View Synthesis through Infilling Vector Prediction,” Proc. of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Hawaii, USA, Jan 2022
• S. Mitra, R. Soundararajan, S. S. Channappayya, “Predicting Spatio-temporal Entropic Differences for Robust No Reference Video Quality Assessment,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, pp. 170-174, Jan 2021
• P. C. Madhusudana and R. Soundararajan, “Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of Stitched Images for Virtual Reality,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 28, no. 11, pp. 5620-5635, Nov 2019
• R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik, “Video Quality Assessment by Reduced Reference Spatio-temporal Entropic Differencing,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 684-694, Apr. 2013
• A. Mittal, R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik, “Making a ‘Completely Blind’ Image Quality Analyzer,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 209-212, Mar. 2013