Ayan Kumar Bhunia

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 970 citations indexed

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Ayan Kumar Bhunia is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ayan Kumar Bhunia has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 970 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Ayan Kumar Bhunia's work include Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (19 papers), Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (14 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (8 papers). Ayan Kumar Bhunia is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (19 papers), Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (14 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (8 papers). Ayan Kumar Bhunia collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and China. Ayan Kumar Bhunia's co-authors include Yi-Zhe Song, Tao Xiang, Aneeshan Sain, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Yongxin Yang, Subhadeep Koley, Jun Guo, Yifeng Ding, Jiyang Xie and Zhanyu Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, ACM Transactions on Graphics and 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

In The Last Decade

Ayan Kumar Bhunia

29 papers receiving 948 citations

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The Devil is in the Channels: Mutual-Channel Loss for Fine-Grained Image Classification

2020 270 citations Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Yi-Zhe Song et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ayan Kumar Bhunia United Kingdom	17	787	293	63	55	53	30	970
Aneeshan Sain United Kingdom	16	566 0.7×	181 0.6×	50 0.8×	41 0.7×	58 1.1×	38	688
Pinaki Nath Chowdhury United Kingdom	15	474 0.6×	127 0.4×	57 0.9×	57 1.0×	35 0.7×	36	605
Weicheng Xie China	13	382 0.5×	182 0.6×	65 1.0×	21 0.4×	30 0.6×	53	663
Yunyang Xiong United States	8	249 0.3×	128 0.4×	48 0.8×	22 0.4×	40 0.8×	16	479
Duanqing Xu China	10	582 0.7×	180 0.6×	45 0.7×	81 1.5×	30 0.6×	41	720
Pengfei Xu China	13	311 0.4×	73 0.2×	118 1.9×	97 1.8×	97 1.8×	41	513
Shafin Rahman Bangladesh	12	398 0.5×	267 0.9×	57 0.9×	10 0.2×	33 0.6×	58	584
Holger Caesar Netherlands	7	772 1.0×	324 1.1×	40 0.6×	49 0.9×	46 0.9×	19	948
Shuai Zheng United Kingdom	11	716 0.9×	117 0.4×	14 0.2×	17 0.3×	64 1.2×	19	867

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Koley, Subhadeep, Tapas Kumar Dutta, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2025). SketchFusion: Learning Universal Sketch Features through Fusing Foundation Models. 2556–2567.

Koley, Subhadeep, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2024). How to Handle Sketch-Abstraction in Sketch-Based Image Retrieval?. 16859–16869. 12 indexed citations

Koley, Subhadeep, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2024). You'll Never Walk Alone: A Sketch and Text Duet for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval. 16509–16519. 11 indexed citations

Koley, Subhadeep, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2024). Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Great Sketch-Photo Matchmakers. 16826–16837. 7 indexed citations

Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, et al.. (2024). DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch. 8629–8639. 4 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Pinaki Nath, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2023). SceneTrilogy: On Human Scene-Sketch and its Complementarity with Photo and Text. 10972–10983. 14 indexed citations

Koley, Subhadeep, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2023). Picture that Sketch: Photorealistic Image Generation from Abstract Sketches. 6850–6861. 37 indexed citations

Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, et al.. (2023). Data-Free Sketch-Based Image Retrieval. 12084–12093. 10 indexed citations

Sain, Aneeshan, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, et al.. (2023). CLIP for All Things Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, Fine-Grained or Not. 2765–2775. 69 indexed citations

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Chowdhury, Pinaki Nath, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2023). What Can Human Sketches Do for Object Detection?. 15083–15094. 28 indexed citations

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Sain, Aneeshan, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Subhadeep Koley, et al.. (2023). Exploiting Unlabelled Photos for Stronger Fine-Grained SBIR. 6873–6883. 17 indexed citations

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Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, Subhadeep Koley, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2022). Sketching without Worrying: Noise-Tolerant Sketch-Based Image Retrieval. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 989–998. 41 indexed citations

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Sain, Aneeshan, et al.. (2022). Sketch3T: Test-Time Training for Zero-Shot SBIR. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 7452–7461. 35 indexed citations

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Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, Aneeshan Sain, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, & Yi-Zhe Song. (2021). Text is Text, No Matter What: Unifying Text Recognition using Knowledge Distillation. 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 963–972. 19 indexed citations

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Sain, Aneeshan, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Yongxin Yang, Tao Xiang, & Yi-Zhe Song. (2021). StyleMeUp: Towards Style-Agnostic Sketch-Based Image Retrieval. 8500–8509. 73 indexed citations

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Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Aneeshan Sain, et al.. (2021). More Photos are All You Need: Semi-Supervised Learning for Fine-Grained Sketch Based Image Retrieval. 4245–4254. 45 indexed citations

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Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Yongxin Yang, et al.. (2021). Vectorization and Rasterization: Self-Supervised Learning for Sketch and Handwriting. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 5668–5677. 40 indexed citations

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Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Aneeshan Sain, & Yi-Zhe Song. (2021). Towards the Unseen: Iterative Text Recognition by Distilling from Errors. 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 14930–14939. 15 indexed citations

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Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, Yongxin Yang, Timothy M. Hospedales, Tao Xiang, & Yi-Zhe Song. (2020). Sketch Less for More: On-the-Fly Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 9776–9785. 80 indexed citations

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Bhunia, Ayan Kumar, Ayan Das, Yongxin Yang, et al.. (2020). Pixelor. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 39(6). 1–15. 21 indexed citations

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