Suvajit Patra

Computer Science Researcher | RKMVERI, Belur

I am a Computer Science researcher working under the guidance of Dr. Soumitra Samanta, with interests in Computer Vision, Computational Linguistics, Deep Learning, and Automated Sign Language Understanding. My research focuses on engineering scalable architectures for continuous sign language processing and optimizing spatio-temporal representations.

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Research Interests

Computer Vision Deep Learning Automated Sign Language Understanding Computational Linguistics

Teaching Experience

Worked as a teaching assistant under Dr. Soumitra Samanta in the following courses:

DA345: Deep Learning and its Application in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
2026, 2025
DA222: Machine Learning (ML)
2024, 2023, 2022
DA243: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
2023, 2022

Education

2020 — 2022

M.Sc. in Computer Science

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI), Belur, India

2017 — 2020

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India

Academic Service & Activities

Seminar on Deep Learning in Sign Language Recognition & Generation

Speaker / Presenter | RKMVERI, 2025

Journal & Conference Peer Reviewer

ITU Kaleidoscope (2026)

Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (2025)

Institutional Governance & Representation

Student Representative, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), RKMVERI

Member, Anti-Ragging Committee, RKMVERI

Publications

A Gloss-driven Indian Sign Language Production System using Learned Pose Representations
S. Patra, A. Maitra, S. Punyeshwarananda, S. Samanta
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (Accepted)(2026)
Hierarchical Windowed Graph Attention Transformer Encoder and a Large Scale Dataset for Indian Sign Language Recognition
S. Patra, A. Maitra, M. Tiwari, K. Kumaran, S. Prabhu, S. Punyeshwarananda, S. Samanta
Pattern Analysis and Applications 28 (3), 1-20(2025)
STARK: Spatio-Temporal Attention for Representation of Keypoints for Continuous Sign Language Recognition
S. Patra, S. Samanta
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16163(2026)
A Continuous Indian Sign Language Production System from Isolated Signs
S. Patra, A. Maitra, S. Samanta
11th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communications (ICSCC)(2025)
Hierarchical Windowed Graph Attention Network and a Large Scale Dataset for Isolated Indian Sign Language Recognition
S. Patra, A. Maitra, M. Tiwari, K. Kumaran, S. Prabhu, S. Punyeshwarananda, S. Samanta
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14224(2024)
MSBAD at SignEval 2026: Multi-Scale Born-Again Distillation Ensemble for Radar-Based Sign Language Recognition
A. Maitra, S. Patra, S. Samanta
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)(2026)
RAVEN: A Rapid Agentic Vision Framework for Emergency Response in Vulnerable Settlements
A. Maitra, S. Patra, S. Mukherjee
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)(2026)