Bikram Koirala

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Dr.

Bikram

Koirala

Postdoctoral researchers

Email:

bikram dot koirala at uantwerpen.be

Address:

Vision Lab
University of Antwerp (CDE)
Universiteitsplein 1 (N Building)
B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium

Fax:

+32 (0) 3 265 22 45

Personal

Biography:

Bikram Koirala (Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, with a dissertation entitled "Development of Advanced Hyperspectral Unmixing Methods." He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, radiative transfer modeling, and hyperspectral image processing.

Research

Hyperspectral Unmixing
Machine Learning/ Deep Learning
Computer Vision/ Photogrammetry and Remote sensing
Geographical Information System
Graph Theory
Geomatics
Radiative transfer modeling

Key publications:

B. Koirala and Scheunders, P., “An efficient method for water content estimation of building materials from spectral reflectance”, NDT & E International, vol. 147, p. 103214, 2024.

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B. Koirala, Rasti, B., Bnoulkacem, Z., and Scheunders, P., “Nonlinear Spectral Unmixing Using Bézier Surfaces”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 62, pp. 1-16, 2024.

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B. Koirala, Rasti, B., Bnoulkacem, Z., Ribeiro, A. De Lima, Madriz, Y., Herrmann, E., Gestels, A., De Kerf, T., Lorenz, S., Fuchs, M., Janssens, K., Steenackers, G., Gloaguen, R., and Scheunders, P., “A Multisensor Hyperspectral Benchmark Dataset For Unmixing of Intimate Mixtures”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023.

a_multisensor_hyperspectral_benchmark_dataset_for_unmixing_of_intimate_mixtures_1_.pdf (22.13 MB)

B. Rasti, Koirala, B., and Scheunders, P., “HapkeCNN: Blind Nonlinear Unmixing for Intimate Mixtures Using Hapke Model and Convolutional Neural Network”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-15, 2022.

hapkecnnrg.pdf (8.23 MB)

B. Rasti, Koirala, B., Scheunders, P., and Chanussot, J., “MiSiCNet: Minimum Simplex Convolutional Network for Deep Hyperspectral Unmixing”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-15, 2022.

misicnet_ieee_tgrs_author_version.pdf (5.52 MB)

B. Koirala, Zahiri, Z., and Scheunders, P., “A Robust Supervised Method for Estimating Soil Moisture Content From Spectral Reflectance”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , vol. 60, pp. 1-13, 2022.

soil_moisture_content.pdf (7.95 MB)

P. Ghosh, Roy, S. Kumar, Koirala, B., Rasti, B., and Scheunders, P., “Hyperspectral Unmixing Using Transformer Network”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-16, 2022.

transformer_unmixing.pdf (6.32 MB)