Name : Dr . Mala John

Designation : Professor

Educational Qualification  : Ph.D

Area of Specialization  : Communication &  Signal Processing 

                                 Image Processing & Pattern recognition

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IRINS Profile

• Educational Qualification

  S.No.	Examination Passed	Name of the University/Board	Year of Passing/ awarded	Subject/ Specialization
  1	PhD	Anna University	(1995 - 2000)	Communication, Signal & Image Processing
  2	M.Tech	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	(1988 - 1989)	Electronics and Communication
  3	M.Sc	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	(1986-1988)	Physics

• Post Held

  Post Held	Period of Service		Name & Address of Employer
  	From	To
  Professor	August-2009	Till date	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Professor	January-2009	August-2009	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Assistant Professor	September-2002	August-2009	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Lecturer Sl.Grade	June-2002	September-2002	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Lecturer Sr. Grade	December-1998	May-2002.	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Lecturer	June-1992	December-1998	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Visiting Faculty	August-1990	August-1991	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai

• Journals

   

  4. Gracewell, J., John, M. "Dynamic background modeling using deep learning autoencoder network" published by  Multimedia Tools and Applications(2019) ISSN No. 1380-7501.

  3. Selvakumar Raja, Mala John, "A Novel Tamil Character Recognition Using Decision Tree Classifier", IETE Journal of Research, published by The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunicati. Vol. 59, Issue 5, pp. 574 - 580 (2013).

  2. Selvakumar Raja and Mala John, "EM algorithm based adaptive custom thresholding for image denoising in Wavelet domain", International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology , published by Wiley Interscience. Vol. 19, pp. 175-178 (2009). 

  1. Mala John, S.N.Sundaresan and P.V.ramakrishna, "Wavelet based Image Denoising: VQ-Bayesian Technique", Electronics Letters, published by IEE. pp. 1625-26 (1999).

• Conferences

  6. Prashanth Chandran, Mala John, Santhosh Kumar S and Mithilesh , "Tracking using Particle Filters for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems" presented in a International level conference on IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, China from 08-Oct-2014 to 11-Oct-2014.

  5. Mala John, "Identification of Carnatic Raagas using Hidden Markov Model" presented in a International level conference on 9th IEEE international Symposium on Machine Intelligence (SAMI 2011, organised by IEEE , Slovakia from 27-Jan-2011 to 29-Jan-2011.

  4. "Fusion Based Object Detection" presented in a National level conference on Sixth National Conference on Communications,, organised by I.I.T., Chennai, India from 29-Jan-2010 to 31-Jan-2010.

  3. "An application specific matrix processor for signal subspace based speech enhancement" presented in a International level conference on International Conference on ASIC, ASICON 2007, China from 26-Oct-2007 to 29-Oct-2007.

  2. "Onboard FSK Receiver architecture for Microsatellite" presented in a National level conference on National conference on RF and Baseband systems for wireless Applications, organised by TCE, Madurai, India from 09-Dec-2005 to 10-Dec-2005.

  1."A Vector Quantizer for Image Estimation in Wavelet Domain" presented in a International level conference on Proc. International Symp. on EIS, Scotland, U.K. from 21-Jun-2000 to 23-Jun-2000.

• Sponsored Porjects Completed

  6. "Development of Algorithms for Enhancement of OCU – For Teleoperation using Augumented Reality" (February-2013 - August-2015). Project Cost: 980000.00.

  5. "Content based Image Retrieval" (June-2008 - September-2010). Project Cost: 1062000.00.

  4. "ANUSAT –Microsatellite Project " (April-2004 - April-2012). Project Cost: 50000000.00.

  3. "Development of IP cores" (April-2001 - March-2002). Project Cost: 200000.00.

  2. "FPGA based DSP system Development" (April-1999 - March-2001). Project Cost: 500000.00.

  1. "Developement of High Pass Video Filter (hardware) (Analog) to be used in Speckle Interferometry based experiments. " (April-1997 - August-1998). Project Cost: 50000.00. 

• Books Published

   1. "Speech Recognition, Technologies and Applications-One chapter" authored by Mala John and Arun Selvaraj and published by I-Tech, Vienna, Austria.(2008)

• Programme Organised

  5. Co-ordinator, National level workshop on "Workshop on Video Analytics" from 28-Mar-2012 to 29-Mar-2012.

  4. Co-ordinator, National level workshop on "Workshop on Pattern Recognition" from 19-Mar-2010.

  3. Co-ordinator, International level conference on "International Conference on Communication, Signal Processing and Computer Networking, " from 04-Jan-2008 to 06-Jan-2008.

  2. Co-ordinator, International level conference on "International Conference on Communication, Signal Processing and Computer Networking " from 22-Feb-2007 to 24-Feb-2007.

  1. Co-ordinator, National level workshop on "Workshop on Wavelet Transform and its Applications" from 24-Jan-1997 to 25-Jan-1997. 

• Patent

  Having a patent for "A system and method for classification of moving object during video surveillance" awarded by Japan. Patent number:2011136524 (10-Jun-2011).

• Research Guidance

   

  Scholars  On Roll
  S.No	Name of the Scholar	Reg.No	Ph.D./ M.S.	Full Time/ Part Time
  1	S.Santhosh Kumar	1214439109	Ph.D.	Full Time
  2	B.Vijaya Lakshmi	1324439192	Ph.D.	Part Time
  3	J.Jeffin Gracewell	1414439266	Ph.D.	Part Time
  4	S.Jeba Berlin	1424439917	Ph.D.	Full Time
  5	P.Priya	1424439928	Ph.D.	Full Time

   

• Additional Responsibilities

  1. Director, AUKBC, Anna University, Chennai during February-2011 and November-2013

   

   2. Head Of The Department, Anna University, Chennai during May-2010 and June-2014.