Citizenship: Nepal
Permanent Address: Sukhlaphata-10, Kanchanpur, Nepal
Mailing Address: Kathmandu University, Kavre, Nepal
Date of birth: 25th July, 1988
Phone: (+977)9848542617
yagya.pandeya@ku.edu.np
yagyapandeya@gmail.com

Carrier Objectives

An enthusiastic and adaptive person with a broad and acute interest in the discovery of deep learning and AI. I particularly enjoy collaborating with tech experts from different disciplines of computer science to develop new skills and solve new challenges.

Bio

I am an assistant professor in Computer science and Engineeing department at Kathmandu University, and also affiliated to the Jeonbuk National University, Fuse machine Nepal, and Guru technology research group in Nepal. I have a good experience of deep learning and machine learning technologies for image, audio, music, video and text processing using supervised and unsupervised classification, multi-level classification, self-supervised learning, meta-learning, incremental learning and generative networks (GAN, VAE), which are some of my major interest areas.
My current project consists of applying deep learning methods in the field of animal sound behavior analysis, music information retrieval, music video emotion analysis, music source separation, visual object detection, music melody and rhythm pattern recognition, music rhythm segmentation and transcription, cross-cultural music video emotion analysis and multi-dimensional information processing (multi-label, multi-task and multi-modal for audio, video and text data), with the aim of devising quantitative measures in affective computing, object detection and event localization. In the visual and remote sensing domain, we are working on pine wilt disease detection and strawberry disease detection. We proposed more than 10 datasets in audio and visual domain to train the deep neural network and made public to support new researchers.
I was a Global Korea Scholarship scholar sponsored by the Korean Government from 2016 to 2020. Under the scholarship, I received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Jeonbuk National University, South Korea. I was awarded by Excellent Research Award 2021 by Jeonbuk National University. My thesis work includes music video affective computing with supervised and unsupervised technology. Prior to embarking on the insanity of the doctoral studies, I received an ME in Computer Engineering from the Pokhara University, Nepal.
In my master thesis work, I worked on data communication and information processing using multiple antenna technology. I was a student listed on Dean’s List award by Pokhara University in 2014. A few years before, I received a BE in Computer Engineering from Pokhara University, with a thesis investigating home security system using microcontroller and sensor technology.

Educations

Jeonbuk National University

Major in Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
CGPA: 4.43/4.50
Sep. 2017 - Feb. 2021

Pokhara University

Nepal College of Information Technology, Balkumari, Lalitpur(PU Affiliated College)
Rank: Dean's List (CGPA: 3.97/4)
Aug. 2010 to May 2013

Pokhara University(PU)

National Academy of Science and Technology, Dhangadhi, Kailali(PU Affiliated College)
Rank: CGPA: 3.54/4
Aug. 2005 to Oct. 2010

National Examination Board(NEB)

Radiant Secondary School, Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur(Under NEB)(Class XII)
OVERALL PERCENTAGE: 55%
2005

National Examination Board(NEB)

Shree Radha-Krishna Secondary School, Tiltali, Doti(Under Government of Nepal)(Class X)
OVERALL PERCENTAGE: 74%
2003

WORK EXPERIENCES

Kathmandu University (AI Program Coordinator)

AI based teaching and research
Address: Kavrepalanchok, Nepal
Status: Assistant Professor
01 March 2022 - Ongoing

Fuzzy Logic and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Jeonbuk National University

Machine learning and Deep learning based research
Address: Jeonju City, South Korea
Status: Researcher
01 March 2021 - 28 Feb. 2022

Guru Technology

Deep learning based research and advisor.
Address: Kathmandu, Nepal
Status: Director of Research & Technology
01 March 2018 - Ongoing

Ministry of Home Affairs (Government of Nepal)

National Information Collection and Transfer
Address: Singhdurbar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Status: IT officer
27 April 2015 - Aug 22 2016

NAST Engineering College

Assistant Professor and Department head.
Address: Dhangadhi, Kailali, Nepal
Status: Head of Department
12 Feb 2013 - 27 April 2015

PROJECTS

Music Rhythm Segmentation

Jan. 2022 - June 2022

Music Source Separation

Oct. 2021 - Feb. 2022

Music genre calssification

Dec. 2020 - Sep. 2021

Plant Disease Classification

Oct. 2020 - March 2021

Music Video Affective Computing (Unsupervised)

Sep. 2020 - Jan. 2021

Music Video Affective Computing (Supervised)

Sep. 2020 - Jan. 2021
  • Article title:Deep-Learning-Based Multimodal Emotion Classification for Music Videos.[SCIE Journal]
  • Music video emotion classification dataset (Inproved and Extended version)
  • Ablation study on unimodla and multimodal using music, video and facial expression.
  • Network complexity reduction using novel channel and filter separable convolution.
  • Train time information sharing and boosting modules.
  • End-to-end training, better result on visual and statistical analysis.
  • Puplished on Sensors in July, 2021

Facemask States Detection

Nov. 2020 - Jan. 2021
  • Article title:Deep Learning Based Face Mask Status Detection for COVID-19.[Conference]
  • Semi-automatic visual object labeling tool
  • Facemask detection dataset with three cass categories of with mask, without mask and wrong weared mask.
  • Mask detetion using Faster-RCNN, Cascade FRCNN, FPN and Cascade FPN.
  • Comparision, visualization and analysis of sustem ability and applications.
  • Puplished on ICMLT Conferencein April 2021

Sound Event Labeling Tool

Dec. 2019 - Sep. 2020
  • Article title:A Semi-automatic Sound Annotation Tool for Audio/Video data.[SCIE Journal]
  • Semi-automatic sound event annotation tool using audio and video as input.
  • Automatic event detector is used to detect the audio event.
  • Based on the automatic detector result, an human annotation have to refine the annotation boundary.
  • Easy to use, better audio visualization, python based and output in easy CSV data file.
  • Diversified annotation tool for any rare sound event.
  • Puplished on Livestock Sciencein Feb. 2022

Music Source Seperation

June 2020 - Nov. 2020
  • Article title:Parallel Stacked Hourglass Network for Music Source Separation.[SCIE Journal]
  • Prepared Korean traditional song (Pansori) dataset with 3 sources.
  • Korean traditional music Pansori dataset, MIR-1K dataset, and DSD100 dataset used in experiment.
  • Proposed a novel parallel stacked hourglass network (PSHN) with multiple band spectrograms.
  • Ablation study on proposed and past architecture.
  • State-of-art result.
  • Puplished on IEEE Access in Nov. 2020

CNN Based Sound Event Detection in Cowshed

Dec. 2019 - Sep. 2020

Cow Sound Event Localization and Classification

Dec. 2019 - Sep. 2020
  • Article title:Visual Object Detector for Cow Sound Event Detection[SCIE Journal]
  • Cow sound event detection dataset with 4 class categories.
  • CNN used for sound event detection using Cow sound dataset and UrbanSound8K dataset.
  • Visual object detection architecture (F-RCNN, CF-RCNN, FPN, C-FPC) used for audio event detection (in Log Mel-Spectrogram).
  • Compare the proposed CNN and Visual object detection architecture using three test dataset.
  • Puplished on IEEE Access in Sep. 2020

Music-Video Emotion Classification

Jan. 2019 - Sep. 2019

Music Video Emotion Analysis

Dec. 2018 - March 2019

Domestic Cat Sound Classification

Dec. 2017 - Sep. 2018

Domestic Cat Sound Classification using Transfer Learning

Dec. 2017 - March 2018

Books Publications

Yagya Raj Pandeya Multimedia Information Processing using Deep Learning. (Under publication)
Yagya Raj Pandeya and Sharad Chandra Joshi, An Essential Guide to Computer Networks. (2006, in Nepal)

Achievements

  • President's Excellent Research Award ofJeonbuk National University (2021-02)
  • Winner Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP) (2016)
  • Awarded by Dean's List of Pokhara University in 2014
  • Language Skills

    • English Language
    • Korean Language
    • Hindi
    • Nepali
    • Good
    • Moderate(TOPIK-3)
    • Native
    • Native

    Techincal Skills

    • Programming Languages
    • Deep learning Framework
    • Platforms
    • I.D.E Skills
    • Python, C, C++, PHP
    • TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch
    • Linux, Windows, CUDA/Docker
    • Eclipse, UML, PyCharm

    References

    Prof. Joonwhoan Lee

    Ph.D. Adviser
    Institude: Jeonbuk National University
    Ph No.: +82-63-270-2406, +82-010-9855-2406
    Email: chlee@chonbuk.ac.kr

    Prof. Shashidhar Ram Joshi

    Master Adviser
    Institude: Pokhara University
    Ph No.: +977-01-5534070
    Email: srjoshi@ioe.edu.np

    Dr. Prem Bahadur Chand

    Undergraduate Instructor and Co-worker
    Institude: Dhangadhi Engineeing College (Pokhara University Affiliation)
    Ph No.: +977-9858487111, 9848424687
    Email: prem.chand@nast.edu.np