Faculty
Ms. Sonali Samal
Assistant Professor
Alliance College of Engineering and Design
Mrs. Sonali Samal is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the National Institute of Technology Meghalaya in India. She holds her M.Tech degree from SOA University in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Her academic and research interests span various fields, including cyber image analysis using AI and deep learning, image forgery detection, obscenity detection, biomedical image processing, and optimization algorithms. Throughout her master's and doctoral studies, she has published several journal papers, conference papers, and book chapters. She was recently awarded the prestigious Raman Charpak Fellowship in 2023, which has offered her the opportunity to conduct research at the LITIS lab, University of Rouen Normandy in France.
Journals
- Samal, S., Zhang, Y. D., Saez, J. M. G., Wang, S. H., Balabantaray, B. K., & Nayak, R. (2023). EAYv3 - CFC3: Ensemble Learning with Attention-Based Yv3 Combined with CFC3 Loss for Obscenity Detection. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.
- Samal, S., Nayak, R., Jena, S., & Balabantaray, B. K. (2023). Obscene image detection using transfer learning and feature fusion. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-29.
- Samal, S., Zhang, Y. D., Gadekallu, T. R., Nayak, R., & Balabantaray, B. K. (2023). SBMYv3: Improved MobYOLOv3 a BAM attention?based approach for obscene image and video detection. Expert Systems, e13230.
- 4. Samal, S., Zhang, Y. D., Gadekallu, T. R., & Balabantaray, B. K. (2023). ASYv3:Attention?enabled pooling embedded Swin transformer?based YOLOv3 for obscenity detection. Expert Systems.
- Hansda, R., Nayak, R., Balabantaray, B. K., & Samal, S. (2022). Copy-move image forgery detection using phase adaptive Spatio-structured SIFT algorithm. SN Computer Science, 3, 1-16.
- Sarangi, A., Samal, S., & Sarangi, S. K. (2020). Performance Analysis of Weighted Cat Swarm Optimization with Sobol Mutation. Procedia Computer Science, 171, 532-540.
- Champatiray, C., Samal, S., Bahubalendruni, M. R., Mahapatra, R. N., Mishra, D., & Balabantaray,B.K.(2022). Modified Cat Swarm Optimization for Optimal Assembly Sequence Planning Problems. International Journal of Performability Engineering, 18(4), 289.
She was awarded the prestigious Raman Charpak Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, in collaboration with the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France. This fellowship provided her the opportunity to conduct a part of her Ph.D. research at the University of Rouen Normandy, France, from 16th May to 17th July 2024. This program facilitates collaboration between India and France, allowing Ph.D. scholars to gain valuable international research experience.
Awards
- 2023 Institute Best Early Researcher Award, Fourth Research Conclave, NIT Meghalaya.
- 2020 Best Research Paper and Presentation, IEEE CISPSSP-2020, Keonjhar, Odisha.
- 2019 Best Research Paper and Presentation, IEEE ICACCS-2019, Coimbatore.
- 2019 IELTS (International English Language Testing System): Scored 6.5/10
- 2014 First Prize, Hydro Rocket Competition, NIT Rourkela.
- 2011 First Prize, District Science Exhibition on Curing Cancer using Nanotechnology, Cuttack, Odisha
- Samal, S., Gadekellu, T. R., Rajput, P., Zhang, Y. D., & Balabantaray, B. K. (2023, May). SAS-UNet: Modified encoder-decoder network for the segmentation of obscenity in images. In 2023 IEEE/ACM 23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGRID) (pp. 45-51). IEEE.
- Samal, S., Pandit, S., Balabantaray, B. K., Sahani, A. K., & Nayak, R. (2022, December). AVENet: Attention- Based VGG 16 with ELM for Obscene Image Classification. In International Conference on Frontiers in1 Computing and Systems (pp. 3-11). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
- Sarangi, A., Sarangi, S. K., & Samal, S. (2021). Global Best-Guided Modified Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Applications in Machine Learning. In Intelligent and Cloud Computing: Proceedings of ICICC 2019, Volume 2 (pp. 391-398). Springer Singapore.
- Samal, S., Sarangi, A., & Sarangi, S. K. (2021). Weighted particle swarm optimization with Tdistribution in machine learning applications. In Intelligent and Cloud Computing: Proceedings of ICICC 2019, Volume 2 (pp. 299-307). Springer Singapore.
- Samal, S., Sarangi, S. K., & Sarangi, A. (2020, July). Analysis of Adaptive Mutation in Crazy Particle Swarm Optimization. In 2020 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Smart Power System and Sustainable Energy (CISPSSE) (pp. 1-5).
- Sarangi, A., Samal, S., & Sarangi, S. K. (2019, March). Analysis of Gaussian & Cauchy mutations in modified particle swarm optimization algorithm. In 2019 5th International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication Systems (ICACCS) (pp. 463-467).
- Sarangi, A., Samal, S., & Sarangi, S. K. (2019, February). Comparative analysis of Cauchy mutation and Gaussian mutation in crazy PSO. In 2019 3rd International Conference on Computing and Communications Technologies (ICCCT) (pp. 68-72). IEEE.
- Ambekar, N., Samal, S., Thokchom, S., Thakran Y., (2023) EVMNet: Classification of DDoS Attacks using ELM-Enhanced Deep Learning Model with Feature Fusion. In 20th Indian Council International Conference (INDICON 2023)
- Sawkmie, L., Samal., S., Balabantaray, B., (2023) Automatic Image Registration Using SIFT and AKAZE: An application for Preservation of Cultural Heritage, OITS International Conference on Information Technology (OCIT), National Institute of Technology Raipur
Books
- Advances in Mathematical Statistics, by Sonali Samal, Romit Panigrahi, and Prajukta Patra, ISBN-13: 978-3-330-65227-9, ISBN-10: 3330652276, EAN: 9783330652279, English, 92 pages, published on June 5, 2017.
- Introduction to MATLAB and its Applications, by Sonali Samal, Romit Panigrahi, ISBN-13: 978-6202027250, ISBN-10: 6202027258, published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing on October 16, 2017.
