Apurba Adhikary

Work place: Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh

E-mail: apurba@nstu.edu.bd

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3970-1878

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Biography

Apurba Adhikary, PhD, received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea, in 2025. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), Noakhali, Bangladesh, where he has been serving since September 13, 2025. Previously, he served as a Lecturer and then as an Assistant Professor in the same department, from January 28, 2018, to January 27, 2020, and from January 28, 2020, to September 12, 2025, respectively. His research interests include integrated sensing and communication, holographic MIMO, cell-free MIMO, intelligent network resource management, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He received the Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award in Engineering from Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea, in 2025, the Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC) in 2023, and the Outstanding Paper Award at the 27th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) in 2025. He has published high-impact research articles in leading IEEE journals and conferences and serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Author Articles
Advancing Bangla Sign Language Detection through Dataset Creation, Model Comparison, and Deploy- ment

By Bristy Chakraborty Masudur Rahman Apurba Adhikary Minoru W. Yoshida

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2026.03.02, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2026

Bangla Sign Language is a unique sign language. Due to a lack of interpreters, the hearing- and speech- impaired community face challenges while communicating with the broader community. Recent studies have been con- ducted to reduce the gap between these two communities. But most of the researchers used a dataset with a controlled environment. We know the performance of a system highly depends on dataset quality. In this paper, we have created a new dataset, “BanglaSignSet” including 46 unique signs with over 10k images. We have carefully annotated and labeled the images using Roboflow. Our proposed dataset, “BanglaSignSet” consists of images with high resolution, good qual- ity, and adequate variation in environment and person. The constructed dataset has been trained using the most recent deep learning model, such as YOLOv8. We have also implemented different versions of the YOLOv8 model, such as YOLOv8n, YOLOv8s, and YOLOv8m. Additionally, we evaluated EfficientNet-B0 as a classification-based baseline to broaden the experimental comparison. The performance of models has been measured using different evaluation metrics such as mAP, precision, recall, and f1 score. A comparative analysis has been conducted based on the performance of the model. By comparative analysis we found a well-suited model, YOLOv8n, to deploy into a web-based application. To find the suitable model to deploy, we have considered factors such as memory requirement and inference speed. We have integrated the YOLOv8n model into a web application using the Python language. We have also tested the web application on Android devices and laptops. The web application detects signs from image input successfully.

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