DR. RAJESH YAKKUNDIMATH

Associate Professor

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

K.L.E.Institute of Technology

Opp. Airport, Gokul,Hubli-580030,

Karnataka, India

Academic Qualifications: B.E.,M.Tech.,Ph.D.(CSE)

Areas of Specialization: Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

Work Experience:

1. VV Computers Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore Customer Support Engineer 2004-2005

2. R.E.C.Hulkoti Lecturer in Dept. of CSE 2006-2007

3. T.C.E.,Gadag Lecturer in Dept. of CSE 2007 – 2008

4. K.L.E.I.T.,Hubli Lecturer in Dept. of CSE 2008- 2012

5. K.L.E.I.T.,Hubli Assistant Professor in Dept. of CSE 2012-2016

6. K.L.E.I.T.,Hubli Associate Professor in Dept. of CSE 2017-till date

Research Experience: 7+ years

Research Publications in Refereed Journals:

1. Basavaraj S. Anami, Jagadeesh Pujari, Rajesh Yakkundimath “Identification and Classification

of Normal and Affected agriculture/horticulture produce based on combined color and texture feature

extraction” International Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering Sciences,Vol.1(3),

Sep-2011.

2. Basavaraj S. Anami, Jagadeesh Pujari, Rajesh Yakkundimath “Multi-scale Morphological Image

Segmentation based modified Watermarking Techniques” International Journal of Graphics and

Image Processing ,Vol.1(1),Aug-2011.

3. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Automatic Fungal Disease Detection

based on Wavelet Feature Extraction and PCA Analysis in Commercial Crops, International Journal

of Image, Graphics and Signal processing, Vol.6, Issue.1, 2014, pp.24-31.

4. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Grading and Classification of

Anthracnose Fungal disease in Fruits, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology,

Vol.52, Issue.3, 2013, pp.121-132.

5. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Statistical Methods for Quantitatively

Detecting Fungal Disease from Fruits Images. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and

Applications in Engineering, Vol.1, Issue. 4, 2013, pp. 60-67.

6. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Classification of Fungal Disease

Symptoms Affected on Cereals Using Color Texture Features. International Journal of Signal

Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Vol.6, Issue.6, 2013, pp. 321-330.

7. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Reduced Color and Texture Features Based

Identification and Classification of Affected and Normal Fruits Images, International Journal of

Agricultural and Food Science, Vol.3, Issue.3, 2013, pp.119-127.

8. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Recognition and Classification of Normal

and Affected Agriculture Produce Using Reduced Color and Texture Features, International Journal of

Computer Applications, Vol.93, Issue.11, 2014, pp.17-24.

9. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Recognition and Classification of Produce Affected by Identically Looking Powdery Mildew Disease, International Journal of Scientific Engineering in Agriculture-Acta Agriculturae, Vol.17, Issue.2, 2014, pp.29-34.

10. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Detection and Classification of Fungal

Disease with Radon Transform and Support Vector Machine Affected on Cereals, International Journal

of Computer Vision and Robotics, Vol.4, Issue.4, 2014, pp.261-280.

11. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Neuro-kNN Classification System for

Detecting Fungal Disease Affected on Vegetables Using Local Binary Patterns, Agricultural

Engineering International: CIGR Journal, Vol. 16, Issue.4, 2014, pp.299-308

12. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Image processing Based Detection

of Fungal Diseases in Plants. Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, Vol.46, 2015, pp.1802-1808.

13. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh Yakkundimath, Shamrao Jahagirdar and A.S.Byadgi, Quantitative detection

of soybean rust using image processing techniques, Journal of Crop Protection, Vol.5, Issue.1, 2016,

pp.75-87.

14. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, SVM and ANN based

classification of plant diseases using feature reduction technique. International Journal of Interactive

Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, Vol.3, Issue.7, 2016, pp.6-14.

15. J.D. Pujari, Dashrath.K.Bhadangkar, Rajesh.Yakkundimath, Identification and Recognition of

Facial Expressions Using Image Processing Techniques: A Survey. International Journal of

Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, Vol.5, Issue.5, 2016.

Papers Presented in Conference/Symposia:

1. Jagadeesh Pujari, Rajesh Yakkundimath and Basavaraj S. Anami, Color Based Identification and

Classification of Normal and Affected Agriculture/Horticulture Produce, Proc. of International

Conference on Communication, Computation, Management and Nanotechnology, ICN-2011,

23-25 Sep, Bhalki, India.

2. Jagadeesh D. Pujari, Rajesh.Yakkundimath and A.S.Byadgi, Identification and Classification of Fungal

diseases Affected on Agriculture/Horticulture Crops Using Image Processing Techniques, Proc. of

International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, IEEE

ICCIC-2014, 18-21 Dec 2014, Coimbatore, India.

3. Basavaraj S. Anami, Rajesh Yakkundimath, Prashant Bhandari “A Novel Invisible Watermarking

Insertion-Extraction using DWT Water marking Technique”, Proc. of ICNICT-2011, International

Conference, Ghaziabad, India.

4. Guruprasad K and Rajesh Yakkundimath “A combined approach of biometrics and watermarking for

digital image's copyright protection” Proc. of 2nd NCCOCE-2017, National Conference, Bangalore,

India, Pages.48-52.

5. Rajesh Yakkundimath, Jagadeesh D. Pujari and Guruprasad K “Android Based Detection of Plant

Diseases Affecting Leaves” Proc. of NCCCI, National Conference , 27-28 Jan-2017, Dindigal, India,

ISBN: 978-81-933316-1-3, Pages.303-307.

Seminars, Conferences and Workshops Attended:

1. Attended two days workshop on “Recent trends in Image Processing and Machine Learning based on Mathematical Modeling” 17-18 Feb 2017 at SDMCET, Dharwar.

2. Attended two weeks ISTE STTP workshop on “Introduction to design of algorithms” conducted by IIT

Kharagpur 27 April to 30 May 2015.

3. Attended two weeks ISTE workshop on ISTE workshop on “Computer programming” conducted by

IIT Bombay from may 20 to June 21 2014.

4. Attended two days workshop on “Outcome based education” 24-25 Jan 2014 at KLEIT, Hubli.

5. Attended one week STTP workshop on “Linear algebra and its applications” organized by department

of telecommunication eng /E & C engg. at JNN (Jawaharlal Nehru national college of engg.), Shimoga,

24-28 January 2011.

6. Attended three days workshop on “Research opportunities in the area of Digital image processing” 13th

-15th march 2009, SDMCET, Dharwad.

7. Attended two days IUCEE workshop on “Effective teaching & Washington Accord & ABET “ from

7-8 august 2008 at BVBCET, Hubli.

8. Attended two days workshop “Current Trends in Information Technology” at REC, Hulkoti, from

19 -20 march 2008.

Membership of Professional Organizations: Computer Society of India (CSI) N128064

Additional responsibilities:

• Worked as member of Board of Examiners SDMCET, Dharwar.

• Worked as department co-ordinator of NBA

• Worked as CSE department association co-ordinator

• Worked as co-ordinator of CSI

• Worked as co-ordinator of Microsoft IT Academy

• Actively involved in projects in the area of Image Processing

• Actively involved in National, International, Workshops and FDP programs conducted at

college level.

• Reviewer of various National/International/Conference Journals.