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Arkaprabha Basu

PhD Student @ CVSSP, CoSTAR Fellow, University of Surrey

Guildford, United Kingdom · arkaprabha17@gmail.com

Research Publications

All LLM/MLLM Medical Vision Core ML Heritage

HalluShift: Measuring Distribution Shifts towards Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models

Authors: Sharanya Dasgupta, Sujoy Nath, Arkaprabha Basu, Pourya Shamsolmoali, Swagatam Das
Venue: IJCNN 2025 · Ranking: B

Benchmarks internal distribution shifts to flag hallucination-prone generations.

Hallushift++: Bridging Language and Vision through Internal Representation Shifts for Hierarchical Hallucinations in MLLMs Accepted

Authors: Sujoy Nath, Arkaprabha Basu, Sharanya Dasgupta, Swagatam Das
Venue: ICVGIP 2025

Medical Report Generation with Fine‑Tuned Large Language Models Workshop

Authors: Arkaprabha Basu, Avisek Gupta, Swagatam Das
Venue: IJCNN 2025 · DLIA Workshop · Ranking: B

Explores instruction‑tuning strategies for reliable radiology‑style generation.

From Complexity to Clarity: Transforming Chest X‑ray Reports with Chained Prompting

Authors: Sujoy Nath, Arkaprabha Basu, Kushal Bose, Swagatam Das
Venue: AAAI 2025 (Student Abstract) · Ranking: A*

A chained prompting recipe (CPIR‑MR) to translate radiology reports into layperson‑friendly prose.

Concurrent Density Estimation with Wasserstein Autoencoders: Some Statistical Insights

Authors: Anish Chakrabarty, Arkaprabha Basu, Swagatam Das
Venue: Statistics & Computing · Ranking: Q1

Characterizes information preservation and generation consistency under the Wasserstein metric.

Near‑Perfect Image Super‑Resolution: Exploring Multiple Divergence Measures in Fully Convolutional GAN Under review

Authors: Arkaprabha Basu, Kushal Bose, Sankha Subhra Mullick, Anish Chakrabarty, Swagatam Das
Venue: Elsevier EAAI (Q1)

On Robust Cross Domain Alignment Under review

Authors: Anish Chakrabarty, Arkaprabha Basu, Swagatam Das

Improved Alzheimer’s Disease Detection with Dynamic Attention Guided Multi‑modal Fusion

Authors: Arkaprabha Basu, Sourav Raha, Avisek Gupta, Swagatam Das
Venue: ICPR 2024 · Ranking: B

Digital Restoration of Cultural Heritage With Data‑Driven Computing: A Survey

Authors: Arkaprabha Basu, Sandip Paul, Sreeya Ghosh, Swagatam Das, Bhabatosh Chanda, Chakravarthy Bhagvati, Václav Snasel
Venue: IEEE Access · Ranking: Q1 (Top 8%)

Do Pre‑processing and Class Imbalance Matter to the Deep Image Classifiers for COVID‑19 Detection? An Explainable Analysis

Authors: Arkaprabha Basu, Sourav Das, Sankha Mullick, Swagatam Das
Venue: IEEE TAI 2022 · Ranking: Q1 (Top 20%)

On Regenerative and Discriminative Learning from Digital Heritages: A Fractal Dimension based Approach

Authors: Sreeya Ghosh, Arkaprabha Basu, Sandip Paul, Swagatam Das, Bhabatosh Chanda
Venue: ADCIS 2022

Face Mask Recognition using Advanced Face Cut Algorithm for COVID‑19 Safety Measures

Authors: Arkaprabha Basu, Md Firoj Ali
Venue: ICCCNT 2021

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Research Experience

PhD Student — CVSSP, University of Surrey

Guildford, UK · Oct 2025 — Present
Focus: Vision‑Language Models (VLM), Diffusion, MLLM Hallucination & Alignment; Multimodal medical analysis.

Project Associate — TCG CREST

Kolkata · Feb 2024 — Dec 2024
Multimodal explainable AI & report generation with Llama, Gemma‑2, Phi‑3; clinical readability and faithfulness objectives.

Project Linked Person — Indian Statistical Institute

Kolkata · Jul 2022 — Mar 2023
Temple Tile Reconstruction (Bankura Terracotta): 3D‑aware few‑shot GAN + super‑resolution; automated defect detect/replace; Streamlit tool.

Project Linked Person — Indian Statistical Institute

Kolkata · Jan 2021 — Oct 2021
COVID‑19 from Chest X‑rays: Image enhancement + class‑imbalance aware ResNet50; XAI to highlight abnormal rib‑cage regions.

Industry Experience

Data Scientist — HappyMonk.ai

Bengaluru · Apr 2023 — Dec 2023
Edge anomaly detection for multi‑camera surveillance using YOLOv8/YOLOv5, SlowFast & Re‑ID; optimized TAO/ETLT → ONNX → TensorRT; deployed on NVIDIA DeepStream.

Education

PhD in Computer Vision / AI (in progress)

CVSSP — University of Surrey · 2025 — Present

Master of Technology in Computer Science

University of Hyderabad · 2021 — 2023 · CGPA: 9.3

Master of Science in Computer Science

Pondicherry Central University · 2018 — 2020 · CGPA: 8.74

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Calcutta University · 2015 — 2018 · 82.13%

Thesis Projects

Digital Reconstruction of Temple Tiles

ISI Kolkata & University of Hyderabad · Jul 2022 — Mar 2023
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Handwritten Character Recognition

Pondicherry Central University · Dec 2019 — May 2020
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