Dr. C. Vasantha LakshmiDayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed to be University)
1. Teaching Assignments:
Odd Semister:
- CSM 102/CSD102 Computer Programming-I for BSc Computer Science, BSc VIT Integrated dual degree PGDCSA, IOT
- PEE 316 Image Processing MSc Computer Science, MTech Computer Scienc
- CSM 011 Media Processing (co-ordinating from DEI
- Infotech Prem Vidyalaya
Even Semister:
- CSM 202/CSD202 Data Structures2. Area(s) of Research
- CSM 202/CSD202 Data Structures
- CSM 026 Evolutionary Computing
- CSM 023 Pattern Recognition
- CSM 011 Intelligent Information Processing (co- ordinating from DEI)
- Infotech Prem Vidyalaya
2. Area(s) of Research:
- Image Processing, pattern Recognition, Soft Computing, Evolutionary Computing, Super Intelligence
3. Research Interests:
Optical Character Recognition of Indian languages, Machine learning, Optimization using Genetic Algorithms, Video Watermarking
4. Honors and Recognitions:
Awards / Prizes:
- Best Presentation Awardfor the paper, "A preprocessing technique to reduce Backpropagation training",In National Systems Conference (NSC-94), DEI, Agra, 1995.
- Awarded Production Engineering Division Medalof the Institution of Engineers (India) for the paper “Group Technology Cell formation with Similarity Coefficients and ART-2 Neural Networks paradigm”, in the 13th Indian Engineering Congress, 1999, Chandigarh.
- Awarded Young Scientist Award of the Indian Science Congress Association for the paper, “OCR of Printed Telugu Text with Multiple Fonts and Sizes”, ISCA, Chandigarh, January, 2004.
- Awarded Computer Engineering Division Prize for the paper titled “OCR of Basic symbols for printed Telugu text” by the Institution of Engineers at the nineteenth Indian Engineering congress on 17th Dec, 2004.
- Best Poster Presentation Awardfor the paper, “Optical Recognition of Handwritten Devnagari Numerals”, National Systems Conference (NSC 2007), Manipal, December, 2007.
- Best presentation Awardfor the paper, “A Fast and Robust Scheme for Recognition of Handwritten Devanagari Numerals”, National Systems Conference (NSC 2008), Roorkee, December, 2008.
- Young System Scientist Award for Best Presentationfor the paper, “DEIMMDAS: A Multi-lingual, Multimedia Document Analysis System”, NSC-2009, System Society of India, Agra, 27-29 Nov. 2009.
- Best Paper Award for the paper “Classification of Devanagari Characters based on Water bodies” International Conference on Emerging trends of Engineering, Science. Management and its applications, 2016
- Best Paper Award for the paper “Identification and Use of Touching Point Structural Property for Piece wise Classification of Devanagari Characters”, International Conference on Innovative Research in Engineering, Science and Management, New Delhi, 2016
- Best Paper Award for the paper “Identification of Modifier Component in Upper and Lower Zone of Devanagari Characters”, International conference on recent innovations in Engineering, Science and Management, 2016
- Best Paper Award for the paper “Hybrid DWT-SVD based Digital Color Image watermarking”, International Conference on Innovative Research in Engineering, Science and Management, New Delhi, 2016
Invited talks:
- Indian Science Congress Association Headquarters, Kolkata, 2005.
- Hindustan College of Science and Technology, Mathura.
- UGC SAP seminar on 31st, March, 2006, DEI, Agra.
- International Conference on Applied Multivariate Data Analysis (AMDA-2008), Hyderbad, January, 2008.
- Anna University, Coimbatore, January, 2009.
- Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion at the DIPP, New Delhi.
- Trademark Registry, Dwaraka, 2009
- National Institute of Design(NID), Ahmedabadon 25th August, 2010.
- CDAC PUNE, 2011
- Indo-German workshop,2013, DEI
- University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2013, 2014, 2016
- GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, 2014
- Technische Universitat, Berlin, 2013.
Research Projects handled:
|
S.No. |
Title of the project (Role) |
Name of the funding agency |
Duration |
Remarks |
|
1. |
Development of an Optical Character Recognition System for printed Telugu text (PI) |
UGC |
2 years |
Minor research project Status: Completed in 2003 |
|
2. |
Development of an e-Verification system for confusingly similar trademarks (PI) |
MIT |
2 years + 8 months |
Major Research project Rs. 16.99 lakhs + extended by 8 months with additional funding of Rs. 1.2 lakhs Status:Completed on 31st August 2007. |
|
3. |
Quantum Evolutionary Algorithms for Engineering Optimization(Co-PI) |
AICTE |
2 years |
6.7 lakhs Status:Completed 2009. |
|
4. |
Development of a web based tool for e-verification of confusingly similar Indian trademarks(PI) |
MIT |
2 years + 9 months |
Major Research Project for Rs. 31.98 lakhs Status: Completed[1st March, 2008-1st December 2010] |
|
5. |
Algorithm Engineering of Quantum Inspired Evolutionary Algorithms for hard Combinotorial Optimization Problems(Co-PI) |
DST-DFG |
2 years |
Major Research Project for Rs. 10.8 lakhs Status : Completed April 2012-April 2014 |
|
6. |
Design and Development of a System for Robust Watermarking of still Images and Videos |
DIT, MCIT |
3 years |
Major Research Project for Rs. 43,23,960/- Status: Completed January, 2014- January 2017. |
|
7. |
Identify attributes that will be essentially needed to be monitored for controlling zinc coating & build a predictive model for process control. |
Consultancywith ESSAR steels, Surat |
1.5 years |
26.88 lakhs Status: Ongoing |
Membership of Professional bodies:
- Life member ISCA
- Life Member SSI
- Member, IEEE
5. Selected Publications:
- C. Vasantha Lakshmiand C. Patvardhan, “An OCR system for Telugu text: A basic symbol approach”, International Journal on Pattern Analysis and Applications, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp 190-204, July 2004
- C. Vasantha Laksmiand C. Pavardhan, “A multi-font OCR system for Telugu text”, Post-proceedings of Language Engineering Conference–2002(IEEE Computer Society press), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, pp 7- 17,Dec., 2002
- C. Vasantha Lakshmi, Ritu Jain, and C. Patvardhan, “Handwritten Devnagari Numerals Recognition with higher accuracy”, Proceedings of ICCIMA’07, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications published by World Scientific Publishing Company Press., Sivakasi, 13-15 Dec 2007
- Nitin Mishra, C. Patvardhan C. Vasantha Lakshmi and Sarika Singh, “Shirorekha Chopping Integrated Tesseract OCR Engine for Enhanced Hindi Language Recognition”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol: 39 Issue: 6, pp 19-23, February 2012
- C. Patvardhan, A K Verma and C. Vasantha Lakshmi, “Document image denoising and binarization using curvelet transform for OCR applications”, proceedings of 3rd IEEE Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE-2012), ISBN: 978-1-4673-1720-7, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, pp 1-6, December 2012