• Database Management System

• Big Data

• Machine Learning

• Data Warehouse and Data Mining

• Information Retrieval

• Pattern Recognition

• Image Processing

• Discrete mathematics and Graph theory, Automata theory and Compiler design, Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Data structures, Data Base Systems, Software Engineering, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing

• Object recognition, Feature extraction, Cluster analysis, Spatial knowledge representation, Image retrieval, Advanced data structures, Symbolic data analysis, Image segmentation, Character recognition, Document image analysis, Sign language recognition, Shape analysis, Text classification, Image/Video processing, Biometrics, Automation of Relational database design, Data Mining, Fuzzy Symbolic Databases, Precision Algorithm.

• Dr Sharath Kumar Y H, Shubha Joshi, Sinchana C L, Suhas Bhat, AllamaPrabhu V V, IOT BASED SMART AGRICULTURE SYSTEM, International Journal For Technological Research In Engineering Volume 7, Issue 12, August-2020.

• Dr Sharath Kumar Y H, Anusha R,Ashritha A,Kavya M B, Manushree Prakash Munchinamane., Implementation of Real Time Dress-Up System Based on Image Processing, Volume 2 , Issue 3, March 2020 , Page No : 104-108

• Dr Sharath Kumar Y H, Srinivasa.k, Shivadarshan.s, Syeda Saniya Mehdi, Ishwarya das V.H., Animal Identification Using Footprints, Volume 2 , Issue 3, March 2020 , Page No : 104-108

• Ravi P, Naveena C, Sharath kumar Y H. Deep Learning in Historical Kannada Document, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Volume 17, Numbers 9-10, September/October 2020, pp. 4111-4115(5)

• Ravi P, Naveena C, Sharath kumar Y H. A Symbolic Representation In Historical Kannada Document, International Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking Vol. 13, No. 3, (2020), pp. 1747 – 1756.

• Ravi P, Naveena C, Sharath kumar YH. (2020) OCR for historical Kannada documents using clustering methods. Indian Journal of Science and Technology .13(35):3652-3663. https://doi.org/10.17485/IJST/v13i35.1287

• N. Pavithra and K. Y. H. Sharath, "Sketch-based Image Retrieval: Effectivity Notion of Recent Approaches," 2020 International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET), Belgaum, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/INCET49848.2020.9153999.

• Ravi P., Naveena C., Sharath Kumar Y.H., Manjunath Aradhya V.N. (2020) Text-Line Extraction from Historical Kannada Document. In: Satapathy S., Bhateja V., Nguyen B., Nguyen N., Le DN. (eds) Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1014. Springer, Singapore

• § Balakrishna K, Mahesh Roa, Sharath Kumar Y H, A WSN Application to Optimize the Irrigation for Horticulture Crops in Real-time Using Climatic Parameters, Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamic and Control System, pp 199-207, 2018.

• Balakrishna K, Mahesh Roa, Sharath Kumar Y H, Integrated Nutrient Management for Tomato Crop Based on Soil Analysis for Sustaining Soil Fertility and Reducing Environmental Impact, International Journal of Computer Science Engineering (IJCSE), pp 154-162, Vol. 7 No.04 Jul-Aug 2018.

• Manohar N., Kumar Y.H.S., Rani R., Kumar G.H. (2019) Convolutional Neural Network with SVM for Classification of Animal Images. In: Sridhar V., Padma M., Rao K. (eds) Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 545. Springer, Singapore.

• Jyothi V.K., Guru D.S., Kumar Y.H.S. (2019) Classification of Natural Flower Videos Through Sequential Keyframe Selection Using SIFT and DCNN. In: Santosh K., Hegadi R. (eds) Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. RTIP2R 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1035. Springer, Singapore

• Sharath Kumar Y.H, Narayan Naik, “Feature Selection Using Genetic Algorithm” International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Applications and Management Studies (IJSRCSAMS ), ISSN : 2319 – 1953, Volume 7, Issue 4, July 2018.

• Sharath Kumar Y.H, Anirudha.N, "Grouping of Similar Images into a Folder Based on Face Recognition" International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 4, Issue 6, pp.338-344, May-June.2018

• Manohar N, Sharath Kumar Y H, Hemantha Kumar G. An Approach for the Development of Animal Tracking System, in International Journal for Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP), 8(1), 2018.

• Jyothi V K, Sharath Kumar Y H, Guru D S, Sequential approach for keyframe selection in natural flower videos, 6th international conference on signal and image processing (ICSIP), 2017,

• Guru D.S., Jyothi V.K., Sharath Kumar Y.H. (2018) Cluster Based Approaches for Keyframe Selection in Natural Flower Videos. In: Abraham A., Muhuri P., Muda A., Gandhi N. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 736. Springer, Cham

• Guru D.S., Jyothi V.K., Sharath Kumar Y.H. (2019) Features Fusion for Retrieval of Flower Videos. In: Nagabhushan P., Guru D., Shekar B., Kumar Y. (eds) Data Analytics and Learning. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 43. Springer, Singapore

• Jyothi V K, Guru D S and Sharath Kumar Y H, Deep learning for retrieval of natural flower videos, Procedia Computer Science, vol 132, pp 1533-1542,2018.

• Manohar N., Sharath Kumar Y.H., Kumar G.H., Rani R. (2019) Deep Learning Approach for Classification of Animal Videos. In: Nagabhushan P., Guru D., Shekar B., Kumar Y. (eds) Data Analytics and Learning. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 43. Springer, Singapore

• Sharath Kumar Y.H., Suhas G. Identification and Classification of Fruit Diseases. In: Santosh K., Hangarge M., Bevilacqua V., Negi A. (eds) Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. RTIP2R 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 709. Springer, Singapore, (2017).

• Sharath Kumar Y.H., Ranjith K.C. An Approach for Logo Detection and Retrieval in Documents. In: Santosh K., Hangarge M., Bevilacqua V., Negi A. (eds) Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. RTIP2R 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 709. Springer, Singapore, (2017)

• Manohar N, Subrahmanya S, Bharathi R K, Sharath Kumar Y H and Hemantha Kumar G, "Recognition and classification of animals based on texture features through parallel computing," 2016 Second International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Information Processing (CCIP), Mysore, pp. 1-5, 2016.

• Y. H. Sharath Kumar, Manohar N and Hemantha Kumar G, Supervised and Unsupervised Learning in Animal Classification, IEEE Explore, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, 21-24 Sept, (2016).

• Y. H. Sharath Kumar, N. Pavithra, KD-Tree Approach in Sketch Based Image Retrieval. MIKE 2015, LNCS, volume 9468, pp 247-258, (2015).

• Y. H. Sharath Kumar and V Vinutha, Hand Gesture Recognition for Sign Language: A Skeleton Approach, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA),IEEE publisher, pp 611-623, (2015).

• Y H Sharath Kumar, Guru D S, Vinay Kumar N, Delaunay Triangulation on Skeleton of Flowers for Classification, International Conference on Advanced Computing Technologies and Applications, vol 45, pp 226-235, Elsevier publisher, March 26-27, (2015).

• Y H Sharath Kumar, Monahor N, Chethan H K, Animal Classification System: A Block Based Approach , International Conference on Advanced Computing Technologies and Applications, Elsevier publisher, vol 45, pp 336-343, March 26-27, (2015).

• Suman, Y H Sharath Kumar, T Vasudev, Segmentation of Handwritten Text from underlined Variable Regions in Documents, International Journal of Information Processing, pp 23-30, Volume 8, issue 2, 2014.

• Y H Sharath Kumar, C D Divya, Feature Selection Approach in Animal Classification, Signal & Image Processing: An International Journal, pp 55-66, Volume 5, Number 4, 2014.

• Suman V, Y H Sharath Kumar, T Vasudev, detection of fabrication in photocopy document using texture features through k-means clustering, Signal & Image Processing: An International Journal, August 2014, pp 29-36,Volume 5, Number 4.

• Y H Sharath Kumar, D S Guru, Retrieval of Flower based on Sketches, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Elsevier publisher, pp 1577-1584, December 3-5, (2014).

• Y H Sharath Kumar, Guru D S, Whorl based Approach for Flower Segmentation, International Conference on Advance Computing, Communications and Information Science, Elsevier publisher, pp 47-55, June 26-28, (2014).

• Y. H. Sharath Kumar, Guru D. S. Classification of Flowers: A Symbolic Approach. International Conference on Multimedia Processing Communication and Information Technology, Association of Computer Electronics and Electrical Engineers (ACEEE), December 19-21, pp 228-235, India, (2013).

• D. S. Guru, Y. H. Sharath Kumar. Sketch Based Flower Detection and Tracking, International Conference on Multimedia Processing, Communication and Computing Application, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), December 13-15, vol. 213, pp 309-320, India, (2012).

• Guru D S, Y H Sharath Kumar, Manjunath S, Textural features in flower classification. Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Elsevier Publisher , Vol. 34, No. 3-4, pp. 1030-1036, (2011).

• Guru D S, Y H Sharath Kumar, Skeleton based Approach for Flower Classification. International Journal of Machine Intelligence, ISSN: 0975–2927 & E-ISSN: 0975–9166, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp-191-198, (2011).

• Guru D S, Y H Sharath Kumar and Manjunath S, Classification of flowers based on whorl region. Fifth Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp 1070-1088, 14th Dec – 16th Dec, (2011).

• D S Guru, Y H Sharath Kumar, Fusion Based Flower Classification System, Emerging Application of Computer Vision, ISSN: 978-5-317-03937-0, pp-110-122, Moscow, Russia, (2011).

• Guru D S, Y H Sharath Kumar and Manjunath S, Whorl identification in flower: A Gabor based approach. ACM First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia, Association of Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp 170 – 176,(2010).

• Guru D S, Y H Sharath, Manjunath S, Texture Features and KNN in Classification of Flower Images.International Journal of Computer Applications, Special Issue on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Foundation of Computer Science, USA, pp 21 – 29, (2010).

• AbdolvahabEhsanirad and Sharath Kumar Y.H. Leaf recognition for plant classification using GLCM and PCA methods, Oriental Journal of Computer Science & Technology, Volume 3 No. 1 31-36, (2010).

• Machine learning using Python Data Analysis and MATLAB:

Raw data analysis, understanding on data distribution, data set creation, data summarization. Feature Engineering: Feature extraction in images, Dimensionality reduction techniques such as feature selection and feature extraction techniques. Learning Techniques: Supervised (Naive Bayesian Classifier, Support Vector Machine, KNN classifier, Neural Networks) and Unsupervised (Hierarchical and Partitional Clustering algorithms). Result Analysis: Cross Validation (k-fold, Leave one out), Confusion matrix analysis, Correct Rand Index.

• Deep learning using Python with Tensorflow 2.0

Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks: Designing architecture for classification and prediction, Model building, model evaluating and analysis.

• Deep learning using C++ with Caffe

Convolutional Neural Networks: Designing architecture for classification and prediction, Model building, model evaluating and analysis

1. Reviewer for Pattern Recognition Journal and Other well Reputed Journals

2. Organizing Chair for ICCR 2021

3. Publication Chair for ICCR 2016, DAL 2018.

4. Serving as Board of Examination for University of Mysore, VTU Belgaum.

5. Delivered a lecture at Amritha Vidyalam Mysore 2019.

6. Delivered a lecture at SJBIT Bangalore on “Recent Trends in Data Mining ” 2017.

7. Session Chair in International conference in SJCE, Mysore 2016.

8. Have been guiding several B.E, M.Tech, MCA, M.Sc and M.S thesis/project works.

9. Visiting Professor, Huanghuai University of China, Zhumadian, China.

10. Served as a member of the organizing committees, Fifth International Conference on Cognition and Recognition 2016.

11. Served as a member of the organizing committees, Third International Conference on Image and Signal Processing 2017.

12. Served as a member of the organizing committees, First International Conference on Data Analytics and Learning 2018.

13. Session Chair in International conference in AMC, college Bangalore 2016.

14. Resource Person -Two day Workshop on Pattern Classification, Department of computer science, Central university Kerala, Kerala, India, 2015.

15. Delivered a lecture at Faculty Improvement Program on “Image Processing”, Mahajana Degree College, Mysore, 2017.

16. Delivered a lecture at Faculty Improvement Program on “Advance Database Systems”, Mahajana Degree College, Mysore 2015.

17. Conducted a “Hands-on Session on Matlab” in One day National Level Workshop on Image Processing and Visual Media Techniques, Amrita Scholl of Arts and Sciences, Mysore. 2015.

• Head of the Department

• Chairman of Media Cell

• Committee Member for different Cells.

• ERP In-charge

• Internal DCS for academic year 2018-19 and 2019-20

• Member of Computer Society of India (CSI). (Membership No: F8002182)

• Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). (Membership No: LM100154)

• INSTICC Membership No. 15325

• IEEE Senior Member: 94238661

• 1. Author in Proceedings of International Conference on Cognition and Recognition (Springer- LNNS), Vol 14, 2018

• 2. Author in Proceedings of First International Conference on Data Analytics (DAL’18) (Springer- LNNS), 2019

• 3. Book on “Web Designing” for Karnataka State Open University

1. Karnataka Government Sponsored “Precision framing to reduce the usage of Water in the Crop Field”.

2. Karnataka Government Sponsored “Police Beat System”.

3. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology Sponsored “ Face Recognition for Grouping the Similar Faces”

4. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology Sponsored “ Covid -19 Detection through Lungs”