Awards / Recognition

1. Certificate of appreciation for delivering the talk as a Resource person and sharing knowledge on Machine Learning and Deep Learning at Ghousia College of Engineering, Ramanagara, Karnataka, 12th Dec 2022
2. Certificate of appreciation for delivering the talk on Python Programming – Five Days FDP, organized by the Mechanical Department, SJB Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, on 20th Oct 2022
3. Recognized as an evaluator/judge in Student Project Exhibition-2023 (ISE, SJBIT); by addressing students and sharing research experience on different domains on 3rd May 2023.
4. Recognized as Reviewer for the Springer-Q1 “International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval” from March 2023 to till Date

Industry / Institutional Collaboration

1. Initiated MOU with Indian Tech-Keys – Born To Innovate, Bengaluru, on 22^nd January 2022, focusing on Internship training for U.G. and G. students and providing Guest Lectures.
2. Initiated MOU with Eucrypt Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru, on 13^th March 2021, mainly focusing on Placements with good packages from 8 to 10 lakh, Internship training and providing Guest Lectures

Reviewer in International Journal and Conference

• Working as Reviewer for the Springer-Q1 International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval from March 2023 to till Date.
• Working as Reviewer for the International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE-Q3) from October 2023 to till Date.
• Worked as Reviewer for the IEEE-Second International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Intelligent Control, Environment, Computing and Communication Engineering (ICATIECE-2022) at DSATM, Bengaluru, 2023
• Worked as Reviewer for the IEEE-International Conference on Applied Intelligence & Sustainable Computing (ICAISC-2023) at Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad, 16th -17th June 2023
• Worked as Reviewer for the IEEE-International Conference on Networks, Multimedia and Information Technology (NMITCON), September 2023.

Institutional/Departmental Activities

• Worked as a DCS (External Examiner) at BNMIT, Bengaluru, from July to October 2023
• Worked as Project Coordinator at SJB Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
• Worked as a Coordinator for the Third International Conference on Integrated Intelligent Computing Communication & Security, Atlantis Highlights in Computer Science held at SJBIT, 2021
• Worked as an Organizing Committee Member for the Second International Conference on Integrated Intelligent Computing, Communication & Security held at SJBIT in January 2018
• Worked as a Magazine Coordinator, Newsletter Coordinator, Guest Lecture Coordinator, Anti- Ragging Coordinator, Social Media Team and many more.
• Initiated and organized C Coding Challenge, around 259 students are participated from all departments, in August 2019.
• Actively coordinated with many Workshops and FDP.
• Active Member of NAAC and NBA (Criteria 3) accreditation
• Guided many UG. and PG. projects.
• VTU Paper Setting done for both UG  and PG.
• Prepared course material for “Deep Learning”.
• Recommended many students for Higher Education in US/UK/Australian universities, helped them pursue their M.S. in Machine Learning and Computer Vision areas, and continuously followed their progress (alumni).

Certifications

Successfully completed NPTEL Courses with FDP certification on

• Leadership and Effectiveness (12 Week Course) in 2023
• Stress Management (4 Week Course) in 2022
• Research Methodology (8 Week Course), 2019
• Introduction to Machine Learning (ELITE), IIT Kharagpur (8 Week Course), 2019

Successfully completed Udemy Courses to build in-demand career skills on

• Python Image Processing with Scikit-image in 2019
• Computer Vision on Raspberry Pi in 2020

Membership in Professional Bodies

Associate Member of Institute of Engineers, India

Life Member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG)

Participation in Training Courses/Seminars/Workshops

Expertise / list of Subjects handled

Under Graduate

• Machine Learning,
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning,
• NoSQL Database,
• Cryptography, Network Security and Cyber Laws,
• Data Mining and Data Warehousing,
• Python Application Programming,
• Analysis and Design of Algorithms,
• Object-oriented Programming in C++,
• Database Management Systems,
• Computer Concepts of ‘C’ Programming,
• Data Structures with C,
• Discrete Mathematical Structures,
• Graph Theory and Combinatorics,
• Operating Systems,
• Information Network

              Post Graduate  

• Information Security,
• Machine Learning Techniques,
• Blockchain Technology,
• Deep Learning

Research Interest

Research

• Scientific research interests include Image Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Crypotography.
• Working towards Research projects.
• Worked with real-time images/videos.

Journals/Book Chapter:

1. Chaitra Y.L., Dinesh R. (2022) An Impact of Radon Transforms and Filtering Techniques for Text Localization in Natural Scene Text Images. ICT with Intelligent Applications. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol Springer, Singapore, pp. 563-573. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4177-0_55 [Springer-Scopus-Q3-Book Chapter]
2. Chaitra, Y.L., Dinesh, R. et al. (2021) Deep-CNNTL: Text Localization from Natural Scene Images Using Deep Convolution Neural Network with Transfer Arab J Sci Eng. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-06309-9 [Springer-Scopus-Q1-Journal, Web of Science, SCIE]
3. Lokkondra, C.Y., Ramegowda, D. et al. (2021). ETDR: An exploratory view of text detection and recognition in images and videos. Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 383-393. https://doi.org/10.18280/ria.350504 [IIETA-Scopus, Q4-Journal, Publons, DBLP].
4. Chaitra, Y.L., Dinesh, R. et al. (2022). DEFUSE: Deep Fused End-to-End Video Text Detection and Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 459-466. https://doi.org/10.18280/ria.360314 [Scopus, DBLP, Publons, Q4].
5. Gowda, V.B., Thimmaiah, G.M., Jaishankar, M., Lokkondra, C.Y. (2023). Background-foreground segmentation using Multi-scale Attention Net (MA-Net): A deep learning Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 557-565. https://doi.org/10.18280/ria.370304 [Scopus, Q3-Journal].
6. Chaitra Y.L et al. (2023) Text Detection System from Images and Video Frames using Hybrid Approach for Cyber Forensics. [Communicated]
7. Chaitra Y.L et al. (2023) Real-time Machine Vision System for the Visually Impaired. [SN Computer Science, Scopus, Q3-Journal, Communicated]

International Conferences:

1. Chaitra, Y.L., Dinesh, R. et al. (2022). An Impact of YOLOv5 on Text Detection and Recognition System using TesseractOCR in Images/Video Frames, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Information System (ICDSIS), India, 1-6 https://10.1109/ICDSIS55133.2022.9915927 [IEEE, Scopus].

2. Rajashree S., Chaitra Y.L (2023). Secure communication between groups of Smart IoT devices over the IPv6 network, 2022 Second International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Intelligent Control, Environment, Computing & Communication Engineering (ICATIECE), https://10.1109/ICATIECE56365.2022.10047733 [IEEE, Scopus].
3. Chaitra Y.L (2023). Text Detection and Recognition from the Scene Images using RCNN and ICT with Intelligent Applications. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3761-5_8  [Springer-Scopus-Q3-Book Chapter]
4. Laxmi Shabadi, Chaitra Y.L et al. (2023). “Youtube Spam Detection Scheme Using Stacked Ensemble Machine Learning Model”. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Networks, Multimedia and Information Technology (NMITCON). https://10.1109/NMITCON58196.2023.10276002  [IEEE, Scopus]

Patent Published:

Title of the Invention: “Person Re-Identification Using Machine Learning Approaches in Video Surveillance”, Applicant: Chaitra and Team, Application Number: 202141036938, Complete Specification Filing Date: 15/08/2021,  Published Date: 20/08/2021

Book Published:

Title of the Book: Introduction to Machine Learning Algorithms for Beginners, Name of the publisher: Scientific International Publishing House, International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 978-93-5625-140-3, Year: 2022

National Conferences:

• Chaitra Y.L et al.,”Command computation and information security on satellite”, New Horizon College of Engineering, 25^th oct 2013, pp. 88-90.
• Chaitra Y.L et al., “Analysis on mobile cloud computing”, Sapthagiri College of Engineering, 11^th May 2013, pp. 33-37.
• Chaitra Y.L et al., “A collaborative approach to detect phishing attack”, R.L Jalappa Institute of Technology, 21^st May 2013, pp. 232-236.
• Chaitra Y.L et al., “Survey on optimizing test cases for object-oriented software”, MVJ college of Engineering, 5^th Oct 2012, pp.96-99.

1. Hobbies: Listening to Music, Reading Books
2. Sports: Badminton, Throwball