Publications

Journal

  • 2026 — An Explainable Context-Adaptive Fusion and Expert-in-the-Loop Evaluation Framework for Underwater Sonar Image Classification
    Kamal Basha S, Anukul Kiran B, Athira Nambiar, Suresh Rajendran, Sooraj K Ambat
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), Vol. 159, Issue 2, pp. 1583–1598
    DOI

Conferences & Workshops

  • 2026 — Physics-Informed Simulation Framework for Realistic Sonar Image Generation and Statistical Validation (ACOUSIM)
    Kamal Basha S, Athira Nambiar
    IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2026)
    arXiv

  • 2026 — PS3Simulator: Physics-Parametrised Synthetic Sonar for Self-Supervised Sim-to-Real Transfer
    Kamal Basha S, Athira Nambiar
    Maritime Computer Vision Workshop (MaCVi) @ IEEE/CVF CVPR 2026, Denver, USA
    Paper · Code

  • 2026 — Class-Agnostic Triple Attention Model Towards Optimization and Variable Rate Compression in Wildlife Camera Trap
    Thomas Varughese, Kamal Basha S, Athira Nambiar
    Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics: 10th National Conference, NCVPRIPG 2025, Jammu, India, July 16–18, 2025, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, Jammu, India.
    Paper ·

  • 2026 — Semantic ROI- Aware Image Compression Using Vision Language Models for Wildlife Monitoring Thomas Varughese, Kamal Basha S, Athira Nambiar International Conference on Deep Sciences for Computing and Communications ICONDEEPCOM, Dubai, 2026. (Accepted)

  • 2025 — Supervised Contrastive Machine Unlearning of Background Bias in Sonar Image Classification with Fine-Grained Explainable AI
    Kamal Basha S, Athira Nambiar
    International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2025), IIT Ropar, India — Oral
    arXiv

  • 2025 — A Novel Context-Adaptive Fusion of Shadow and Highlight Regions for Efficient Sonar Image Classification
    Kamal Basha S, Anukul Kiran B, Athira Nambiar, Suresh Rajendran
    IEEE OCEANS 2025, Great Lakes, USA
    arXiv

  • 2025 — Advancing Welding Defect Detection in Maritime Operations via Adapt-WeldNet and Defect Detection Interpretability Analysis
    Kamal Basha S, Athira Nambiar
    International Conference on AI for the Oceans (ICAIO) Paper

  • 2024 — S3Simulator: A Benchmarking Side Scan Sonar Simulator Dataset for Underwater Image Analysis
    Kamal Basha S, Athira Nambiar
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024), Springer LNCS
    Paper · Code

  • 2024 — Synth-SONAR: Sonar Image Synthesis with Enhanced Diversity and Realism via Dual Diffusion Models and GPT Prompting
    Purushothaman Natarajan, Kamal Basha S, Athira Nambiar

Datasets

  • S3Simulator (ship, plane) and S3Simulator+ (mine) synthetic side-scan sonar datasets, available on request via Hugging Face — CAICV

Certifications

Awards

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