Kailash A. Hambarde

Kailash A. Hambarde

Researcher · Instituto de Telecomunicações & Docente · UBI, Portugal
Pattern and Image Analysis · Information and Data Sciences

Research Interests

Computer Vision Person Re-Identification Biometric Recognition Deep Learning Vision Transformers Large Vision-Language Models Information Retrieval NLP

News

Apr 2025 Joined Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) as a Researcher in the Pattern and Image Analysis group, Thematic Line on Information and Data Sciences.
Jan 2025 New preprint: Human Re-ID Meets LVLMs — What can we expect? — comparing ChatGPT-4o, Gemini-2.0-Flash, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Qwen-VL-Max to state-of-the-art ReID models.
Aug 2024 Paper published in Quantum Information Processing: A Laplacian-based Quantum Graph Neural Network for Semi-Supervised Learning.
Oct 2023 Started as Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Beira Interior, leading projects on biometric recognition at extreme ranges.

Publications

DetReIDX: A Stress-Test Dataset for Real-World UAV-Based Person Recognition

Kailash A. Hambarde, Nzakiese Mbongo, M.P. Pavan Kumar, Satish Mekewad, Carolina Fernandes, Gökhan Silahtaroğlu, Alice Nithya, Pawan Wasnik, Md Rashidunnabi, Pranita Samale, Hugo Proença
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, 2026 Journal Paper

A stress-test dataset designed for UAV-based person recognition under real-world conditions, evaluating detection and re-identification at extreme distances.

VReID-XFD: Video-based Person Re-identification at Extreme Far Distance Challenge Results

Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença, Md Rashidunnabi, Pranita Samale
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshop (WACVW), 2026 Workshop Paper

Challenge results for video-based person re-identification at extreme far distances, benchmarking state-of-the-art methods.

VM-TAPS: View-specific Memory with Temporal and Scale Awareness Framework for Video-based Cross-View Person Re-Identification

Md Rashidunnabi, Kailash A. Hambarde, Vasco Lopes, João Neves, Hugo Proença
IJCB 2025: IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (in press) Conference Paper

View-specific memory framework with temporal and scale awareness for video-based cross-view person re-identification.

AG-VPReID 2025: Aerial-Ground Video-based Person Re-identification Challenge Results

Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
IJCB 2025: IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (in press) Challenge Paper

Results of the AG-VPReID 2025 challenge on aerial-ground video-based person re-identification.

Causality and 'In-the-Wild' Video-Based Person Re-Identification: A Survey

Md Rashidunnabi, Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
Electronics, 2025 Journal Paper

A comprehensive survey of causality-driven approaches in video-based person re-identification under unconstrained real-world conditions.

From One Domain to Another: The Pitfalls of Gender Recognition in Unseen Environments

Nzakiese Mbongo, Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
Sensors, 2025 Journal Paper

Analysis of domain generalization challenges in gender recognition across unseen environments.

LUSITANO-DATA: A Causal-Based Framework for Agnostic Intelligent Data Analysis

Asmae Lamsaf, Kailash A. Hambarde, Pranita Samale, João Neves, Hugo Proença
IEEE 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision (AIMV'25), 2025 Conference Paper

A causal-based framework for agnostic intelligent data analysis applied to manufacturing scenarios.

Human Re-ID Meets LVLMs: What can we expect?

Human Re-ID Meets LVLMs: What can we expect?

Kailash A. Hambarde, Pranita Samale, Hugo Proença
arXiv, 2025 Preprint

We compare the results due to ChatGPT-4o, Gemini-2.0-Flash, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Qwen-VL-Max to a baseline ReID PersonViT model, using the well-known Market1501 dataset.

A Laplacian-based Quantum Graph Neural Network for Semi-Supervised Learning

A Laplacian-based Quantum Graph Neural Network for Semi-Supervised Learning

Hamed Gholipour, Farid Bozorgnia, Kailash A. Hambarde, Hamzeh Mohammadigheymasi, Javier Mancilla, André Sequeira, João Neves, Hugo Proença, Moharram Challenger
Quantum Information Processing, Vol. 24, No. 4, Article 106, Springer, 2025 Journal Paper

This study investigates the performance of the Laplacian-based Quantum Semi-Supervised Learning (QSSL) method across four benchmark datasets.

Multimodal Iris, Face and Fingerprint Biometric Fusion for Enhanced Person Identification Using Hybrid Deep Learning

Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2AI 2024, Communications in Computer and Information Science vol. 2621, Springer, 2026 Conference Paper

Hybrid deep learning approach for multimodal biometric fusion combining iris, face, and fingerprint modalities.

Comparative Analysis of ViT (Vision Transformers) and Convolutional Neural Networks in Medical Imaging

Pranita Samale, Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD), 2024 Conference Paper

Comparative study of Vision Transformers versus CNNs for medical image analysis tasks.

Comparative Analysis of Faster R-CNN and YOLOv7 for Automated Fabric Defect Detection

Rui Carrilho, Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD), 2024 Conference Paper

Comparison of Faster R-CNN and YOLOv7 object detection frameworks for automated fabric defect detection.

Toward automated fabric defect detection: A survey of recent computer vision approaches

Toward automated fabric defect detection: A survey of recent computer vision approaches

Rui Carrilho, Ehsan Yaghoubi, José Lindo, Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
Electronics, 2024 Journal Paper

A survey of recent computer vision approaches for automated fabric defect detection.

A novel dataset for fabric defect detection: bridging gaps in anomaly detection

A novel dataset for fabric defect detection: bridging gaps in anomaly detection

Rui Carrilho, Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
Applied Sciences, 2024 Journal Paper

A novel dataset comprising a diverse selection of fabrics and defects from a textile company based in Portugal.

Image-based human re-identification: Which covariates are actually (the most) important?

Image-based human re-identification: Which covariates are actually (the most) important?

Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
Image and Vision Computing, 2024 Journal Paper

Analysis of subject features that provide the largest variations in re-identification performance.

Advancing Manufacturing Energy Efficiency: The Role of AI and Web-Based Tools

Advancing Manufacturing Energy Efficiency: The Role of AI and Web-Based Tools

Asmae Lamsaf, Pranita Samale, Hugo Proença, João Neves, Kailash A. Hambarde
ESCI 2024, IEEE Conference Paper

Demonstration of AI-based system for predicting manufacturing energy targets with R-squared of 0.78.

Information retrieval: recent advances and beyond

Information retrieval: recent advances and beyond

Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
IEEE Access, 2023 Journal Paper

Historical development of IR models, key advancements, and challenges in the domain.

WSRR: Weighted Rank-Relevance Sampling for Dense Text Retrieval

WSRR: Weighted Rank-Relevance Sampling for Dense Text Retrieval

Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo Proença
International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems, 2023 Conference Paper

New approach for dense text retrieval addressing limitations of current negative sampling strategies.

Diagnosis of Covid-19 via patient breath data using artificial intelligence

Diagnosis of Covid-19 via patient breath data using artificial intelligence

Özge Doğuç, Gökhan Silahtaroğlu, Zehra Nur Canbolat, Kailash A. Hambarde, Ahmet Alperen Yiğitbaşı, Hasan Gökay, Mesut Yılmaz
Emerging Science Journal, 2023 Journal Paper

Point-of-care testing system detecting COVID-19 via volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath using Gradient Boosted Trees.

Augmentation of behavioral analysis framework for E-commerce customers using MLP-based ANN

Kailash A. Hambarde, Gökhan Silahtaroğlu, Santosh Khamitkar, Parag Bhalchandra, Husen Shaikh, Pritam Tamsekar, Govind Kulkarni
ICDSM, 2020 Conference Paper

ANN model applied over customer datasets to forecast purchasing patterns.

Data analytics implemented over E-commerce data to evaluate performance of supervised learning approaches in relation to customer behavior

Kailash A. Hambarde, Gökhan Silahtaroğlu, Santosh Khamitkar, Parag Bhalchandra, Husen Shaikh, Pritam Tamsekar, Govind Kulkarni, Pranita Samale
Soft Computing for Problem Solving, 2019 Conference Paper

Data analytics over Turkey-based e-commerce dataset evaluating supervised learning approaches.

Prediction of artificial water recharge sites using fusion of RS, GIS, AHP and GA Technologies

Husen Shaikh, Santosh Khamitkar, Parag Bhalchandra, Pritam Tamsekar, Govind Kulkarni, Kailash A. Hambarde
Advances in Data Science and Management, ICDSM 2019 Conference Paper

Finding suitable areas for artificial water recharge using GIS, RS, AHP and GA technologies.

Comparative analysis of supervised machine learning algorithms for GIS-based crop selection prediction model

Pritam Tamsekar, Nilesh Deshmukh, Parag Bhalchandra, Govind Kulkarni, Kailash A. Hambarde, Husen Shaikh
Computing and Network Sustainability, IRSCNS 2018 Conference Paper

Comparative analysis of supervised ML algorithms for GIS-based crop selection.

Architectural outline of GIS-based decision support system for crop selection

Pritam Tamsekar, Nilesh Deshmukh, Parag Bhalchandra, Govind Kulkarni, Kailash A. Hambarde, Husen Shaikh
Smart Computing and Informatics, SCI 2016 Conference Paper

AHP and GIS-based crop selection decision support system for Indian farmers.

Architectural outline of decision support system for crop selection using GIS and DM techniques

Pritam Tamsekar, Nilesh Deshmukh, Parag Bhalchandra, Govind Kulkarni, Kailash A. Hambarde, Husen Shaikh
Computing and Network Sustainability, IRSCNS 2016 Conference Paper

Decision support system using GIS and DM techniques for precision farming in India.

Effective Use of GIS Based Spatial Pattern Technology for Urban Greenery Space Planning

Govind Kulkarni, Nilesh Deshmukh, Parag Bhalchandra, Pritam Tamsekar, Kailash A. Hambarde, Husen Shaikh
2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications (ICICA 2015) Conference Paper

Decision support system for local government providing suggestions for tree placement based on GIS spatial pattern analysis.

Contact

Instituto de Telecomunicações
Departamento de Informática, UBI
Covilhã 6201-001, Portugal