Ajita Rattani

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter

• Rattani, A., Katamneni, V. (2023). An Examination of Fairness of Face and Periocular Recognition at NIR Spectrum. Springer.
• Rattani, A., Ramachandran, S. Demographic Fairness and Accountability of Audio and Video-based Unimodal and Bi-modal Deepfake Detectors.

Conference Proceeding

• Rattani, A., Shi, W. (2025). DAO-GP Drift Aware Online Non-Linear Regression Gaussian-Process. IEEE Conf on Big data.
• Rattani, A., Pujari, A. (2025). WaveVerify: A Novel Audio Watermarking Framework for Media Authentication and Combatting Deepfakes. Oral acceptance rate is 11%. IEEE IJCB.
• Rattani, A., Jakkam, J., Jayaraman, U., Sahayam, S. (2024). CoDeiT: Contrastive Data-efficient Transformers for Deepfake Detection.
• Rattani, A., Katamneni, V. (2024). Contextual Cross-Modal Attention for Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection and Localization. 8. NY, USA,
• Rattani, A., Manzoor, A. (2024). FineFACE: Fair Facial Attribute Classification Leveraging Fine-grained Features.
• Rattani, A., Aarotale, P. Machine Learning-based sEMG Signal Classification for Hand Gesture Recognition. 1-8. IEEE.
• Rattani, A., Ramachandran, S. (2024). Self-Supervised Learning Pipeline for Demographically Fair Facial Attribute Classification.
• Rattani, A., Aarotale, P. (2024). Sensor Fusion-based Deep Learning Models for Human Activity Classification.
• Rattani, A., Nadimpalli, A.V. (2023). Facial Forgery-based Deepfake Detection using Fine-Grained Features. Florida, IEEE.
• Rattani, A., Katamneni, V. (2023). MIS-AVoiDD: Modality Invariant and Specific Representation for Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection.
• Rattani, A., Aarotale, P. (2023). PatchBMI-Net: Lightweight Facial Patch-based Ensemble for BMI Prediction. Turkey, Istambul, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM).

Journal Article

• Rattani, A., Krishnamurthy, B. (2025). ABRobOcular: Adversarial benchmarking and robustness analysis of datasets and tools for ocular-based user recognition. Neurocomputing.
• Rattani, A., Manzoor, A., Krishnamurthy, B. (2025). Analyzing and Mitigating Bias of Facial Attribute Classifiers Using Chatgpt. Neurocomputing.
• Rattani, A., Ramachandran, S. (2025). Leveraging diffusion and Flow Matching Models for demographic bias mitigation of facial attribute classifiers. Neurocomputing.
• Rattani, A. (2023). A novel approach for bias mitigation of gender classification algorithms using consistency regularization. Image and Vision Computing Journal. Elsevier.
• Rattani, A. (2023). ProActive DeepFake Detection Using GAN-Based Visible Watermarking. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications. 27. New York, ACM.
• Rattani, A., Demissie, Z. The significance of volcanic segments and rifts in faults characterization within the Amagmatic graben of the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Elsevier.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Rattani, A. (Principal), "I-Corps: Translation Potential of Contactless Biometric System for Secure Recognition," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $50000 Funded. (2025 - 2027).
• Rattani, A. (Principal), "SecureEye: Safeguarding Ocular Biometrics Against Digital Threats," sponsored by UNT, Local, $10000 Funded. (2025 - 2025).
• Rattani, A. (Principal), "Probing Fairness of Ocular Biometrics Methods Across Demographic Variations," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $16000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).