B.L.Deekshatulu's profile

Faculty Profile
	B.L.Deekshatulu Visiting Professor (UPE) M.E and Ph.D IISc Bangalore, India	Contact Address: DCIS,University of Hyderabad, Central University P.O, Hyderabad - 500 046. INDIA. Phone: 91-040-23134015

Awards Recent Publications Academic Distinction Academic Outreach	Areas of Interest: Digital Image Processing and Remote Sensing Data Analysis,Neural Networks,Control systems. Professional Exposure: Awarded Martin Foster Medal by I.I.Sc., for Best Ph.D. thesis. Visited USSR during 1968 as a Government of India delegate for setting up School of Automation at I.I.Sc., Bangalore. Worked as Visiting Scientist at the IBM Watson Research Centre, York Town Heights, New York, and at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan during 1971-72 on Digital Image Processing and Remote Sensing. Designed and fabricated for the first time in India, Grey scale and color Drum Scanners for Computer Picture processing which has subsequently won him and his group a NRDC Award. Promoted to the grade "Outstanding Scientist" in July 1989 and “DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST” (grade of Secretary) in July 1995 Fellow of very many Indian Scientific Academies, FELLOW IEEE (USA), Fellow THIRD WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ITALY).

Awards

Bharat Ratna Sir M.VISVESWARAYA AWARD for “Outstanding Engineer” in 1984.
NRDC Invention Awards in Jan. 1986 and in Aug. 1993.
Dr. Biren Roy Space Science Award in 1988.
“PADAMSRI” medal in Jan. 1991 by President of India.
BRAHM PRAKASH MEDAL for significant contributions to Engineering Technology.
OM PRAKASH BHASIN AWARD for Science and Technology for 1995.
"Sivananda Eminent Citizen Award” from Vice President of India in Dec. 1998.
Awarded Boon Indrambarya GOLD MEDAL by Thailand Remote Sensing and GIS Association in November 1999 in Hong Kong for contributions to Remote Sensing.
Awarded 2002 Aryabhatta Award by Astronautical Society of India, for life time contributions to Remote Sensing.

Recent Publications

N. Yadaiah, L. Siva Kumar, V. Srihari Rao, B.L. Dekshatulu. Neural Network algorithm for identification of parameters of a Dynamic System with time delays. (Accepted in July 2006), Jour. Appld. Soft Computing(Elsevier).
N. Yadaiah, Lakshman Singh, Bapi Raju, V. Seshagiri Rao, B.L. Deekshatulu. Multi sensor Data fusion using Neural Networks. (poster presentation) International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, July 2006, Vancouver.
C.S. Sastry, A.K. Pujari, B.L. Deekshatulu. A Fourier-Radial descriptor algorithm for invariant feature extraction. International Journal of Wavelets, Multi Resolution and Inf. Processing, World Scientific Publication. Vol.4, No.1, 2006, pp. 197-212.
K. Jalaja, C. Bhagavati, A.K. Pujari, B.L. Deekshatulu. Some Texture Element Feature Characterization for CBIR. IEEE-IGARSS-05, SEOUL 25-29 July 2005.
Y. Bhawani Shankar, C. Bhagavati, Arun. K. Pujari, B.L.Deekshatulu. AQnalysis of Integrated region matching (IRM) of images for content based image retrieval (CBIR). Proceedings of ISRS, 2004, pp.100.
M. Ravindranadh, C.Bhagavati, Arun. K. Pujari, B.L.Deekshatulu. Colour Based Image retrieval of Remotely Sensed Data. Proceedings of ISRS, 2004, pp.105.
K. Kiran Kumar, C.Bhagavati, Arun. K. Pujari, B.L.Deekshatulu. Bitplane Based Area Morphology for CBIR. Proceedings of ICVGIP, 2004, pp.575-580.
Ch.s. Sastry, Arun. K. Pujari, B.L.Deekshatulu, C.Bhagavati. A Wavelet based multiresolution algorithm for rotation invariant content based information retrieval. Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 25, Issue 16, Decenber 2004, Pages 1845-1855.

Academic Distinction

Received the "Distinguished Alumni Award" from IISc, Bangalore (March'06).
Elected, Council member IETE for 2005-2008.
Elected as Distinguished Fello (DF) of The Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India (Sept-05).

Academic Outreach

Lecture: ICT for Development (with Bapi Raju) at Indian Science Congress, Jan'06, Hyderabad and chaired a session.
Lectures in Machine Learning at Gayatri Engineering College, Visakhapatnam, Oct 2005; Regional Engineering College, Warangal, Dec 2005; and at IDRBT Hyderabad, March 2006.
Delivered lectures to senior high school children al Jubilee Public School, Dec 05 and at University of Hyderabad Dec 05 on Remote Sensing - an Eye in the Sky.
Charman Advisory Committee CSI 2005 for Oraganizing Nationational Conference in November 2005.