About

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Chetana Hegde is working as Associate Professor at RNS Institute of Technology, Bangalore. She is a passionate teacher with around 15+ years of experience in industry, academia and research. She holds a doctoral degree in Computer Science. She teaches programming concepts to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

She is an active (Senior) member of a professional body IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and holds responsibilities at Bangalore Section of IEEE.

She is also the author of the book “Object Oriented Programming with C++”, published by Prism Publications, Bangalore. Her research interests include Biometrics, Image Processing, Algorithms and Data Analytics.

Few Achievements:

  • First Rank to University with two Gold Medals at B.Sc examinations in 1999.
  • Felicitated with Golden Jubilee award for scoring the highest marks in B.Sc. exam in the 50 years history of University.
  • Travel Grant from Department of Science and Technology (under MHRD, Government of India) under Young Scientist Scheme for travelling and presenting a paper at an International Conference IEEE TENCON 2009 held at Singapore.
  • Best Teacher Award from RNS Institute of Technology in 2010.
  • Best Paper Award from IEEE for the research paper presented and published at an International Conference IEEE TENCON 2011 held at Bali, Indonesia.
  • Invited Speaker at IEEE International Conference WIECON-ECE held at Dhaka.

Publications in International Journals:

  1. “Authentication using Finger Knuckle Prints”, Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, Special Issue on Image and Video Processing for Security, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 633 – 645, March 2013, ISSN: 1863 – 1703.
  2. “Heartbeat Biometrics for Human Authentication”, Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, Special Issue on Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 485 – 493, September 2011, ISSN: 1863 – 1703.
  3. “FKP Biometrics for Human Authentication”, CiiT International Journal of Biometrics and Bioinformatics, vol. 3, no. 5, May 2011, pp. 238 – 244, ISSN: 0974 – 9675.
  4.  “Signature Authentication for Banking Applications”, International Journal for Information Processing (IJIP), Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 65 – 78.
  5. “Dynamic Object Detection, Tracking and Counting in Video Streams for Multimedia Mining”, IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, vol. 35, No. 3, August 2008.
  6. “Google Maps and Bus Tracking”, ELK Asia Pacific Journal, May 2015, ISBN: 978-81-930411-5-4.
  7. “Wavelets-based Novel Approach for Biometric Authentication using Finger Vein Patterns”, International Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications (IJCEA), vol. 12, no.1, pp. 132 – 142, January 2018, ISSN: 2321-3469.

Publications in International Conference Proceedings:

  1. “Sentiment Analysis of Restaurant Reviews using Machine Learning Techniques”, Accepted for publication in proceedings of Springer – Verlang 3rd International Conference on Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology (ICERECT – 2018) to be held at PES College of Engineering, Mandya during 23rd – 24th August 2018.
  2. “Secured Human Authentication using Finger Vein Patterns”, Proceedings of International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI – 2018), Springer-Verlag, Jan 2018, Pune, India
  3. “Finger Vein Pattern –based Authentication using Geometrical Properties of Corner Points”, Proceedings of IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON – ECE 2017), Dec 2017, Dehradun, India
  4. “Finger Vein Pattern based Biometric Authentication using Gabor Wavelets”, Proceedings of National Conference on Computational Sciences and Soft Computing (NCCSSC – 2017), Dec 2017, Shimoga, India.
  5. “Traffic Signal Time Analysis and Voice – Based App for Visually Impaired Pedestrians”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology (ICERECT-2015), pp. 1 – 4, Dec 2015.
  6. “Video Shot Boundary Detection using Statistical Methods”, Proceedings of IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON – ECE 2015), pp. 52 – 56, Dec 2015, Dhaka.
  7. FKP Biometrics for Human Authentication using Gabor Wavelets”, Proceedings of International Conference IEEE – TENCON 2011, pp. 1072 – 1076, 21st – 24th November 2011, Bali, Indonesia (Best Paper Award).
  8. “Human Authentication using Finger Knuckle Print”, Proceedings of 4th International Conference ACM Compute – 2011, 25th – 26th March 2011, Bangalore.
  9. “Statistical  Analysis  for  Human  Authentication  using  ECG  Waves”,  Proceedings  of  5th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM – 2011), Springer – Verlag, pp. 287 – 298, 10th – 12th March 2011, Gurgaon.
  10. “Human Authentication Based on ECG Waves using Radon Transform”, Proceedings of International Conference on Security Technology (SecTech – 2010), Springer – Verlag, pp. 197 – 206, 13th – 15th December 2010, Jeju, South Korea.
  11. “Ear Pattern Recognition using Centroids and Cross-Points for Robust Authentication”, Proceedings of 3rdInternational conference on Human Computer Interaction (IHCI-2010), Springer – Verlag, pp. 378 – 384, 16th – 18th January 2010, Allahabad.
  12. “Authentication of Damaged Hand-Vein Patterns by Modularization”, Proceedings of International conference IEEE TENCON-2009, pp. 1 – 6, 23rd – 26th November 2009, Singapore (Travel Grant from Government of India).
  13.  “Secure Authentication using Image Processing and Visual Cryptography for Banking Applications”, Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Computing (IEEE – ADCOM-2008), pp. 65 -72, 14th – 17th December 2008, Chennai.
  14. “Authentication using Image Processing and Visual Cryptography”, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Processing (ICIP-2008), pp. 418 -423, 8th – 10th August 2008, Bangalore.
  15.  “Identification of Dynamic Objects in Video Streams for Multimedia Mining”, Proceedings of SPIT-IEEE Colloquium-2008, vol. 1, pp. 193-198, 4th – 5th February 2008, Mumbai.
  16. “Moving Object Identification Using Background Elimination Technique”, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Processing (ICIP-2007), vol. 1, pp. 507-512, 10th – 12th August 2007, Bangalore.
  17. “Graph Theory: Applications in Operations Research And Software Project Management”, Proc. of National Conference on Geometry, Analysis, Fluid Mechanics and Computer Applications (GAMCA-2004), pp. 174-182, December 2004, Shimoga.

Books Published:

  1. “Object Oriented Programming with C++”, March 2015 Published by Prism Publications, Bangalore. ISBN: 81-7286-900-2
  2. Contributed a chapter entitled “ECG Biometrics for Human Authentication”, in the book “Multibiometrics Systems: Modern Perspectives to Identity Verification“, published by LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, March 2012. ISBN: 978-3-8484-4937-8
  3. “Object Oriented Programming with C++”, 2nd Edition, June 2008. Published by Interline Publishing, Bangalore. ISBN: 81-7296-099-9
  4. “Object Oriented Programming with C++”, 1st Edition, Aug 2006. Published by Interline Publishing, Bangalore. ISBN: 81-7296-099-9