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Dr. B. Bharathi, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has  25 years of teaching and research experience.

She received her  PhD. in Computer Science (2014) from Anna University, Chennai, M.E.  Computer Science & Engineering (2006) from SSN College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, and B.E  Computer Science & Engineering (1998), from Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering, University of Madras.

In her doctoral research, she was working on speaker recognition task. She guided the projects in the areas of isolated and continuous speech recognition, multilingual speech recognition, speech emotion recognition, natural language processing, speech synthesis, speaker recognition, machine Translation, discriminative training techniques, and speaker clustering techniques for Under Graduate and Post Graduate students. She is a recognized supervisor of Anna University. One scholar completed her Ph.D work during the year 2023.  Two scholars are working in the area of speech processing.  She is associated with Centre for speech technology research group at SSN.

She has received “Best Teacher Award” from SSN College of Engineering for the period 2010-2011, 2012-2013, 2018-19 & 2020-21.

Areas of Research:

Speech processing, Natural language processing

Selected Publications:

1. B. Bharathi, C. Arunkumar and T. Nagarajan, “Improving the performance of speaker and language identification task using unique characteristics of a class” in the International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer Science+Business Media, DOI 10.1007/s10772-012-9167-z, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2013), Page 115-124, Impact Factor: 0.528, Online ISSN 1572-8110 Print ISSN 1381-2416
2. B. Bharathi, T. Nagarajan, “Speaker verification using speaker-specific-text”, in WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing”, E-ISSN: 2224-3488, Vol.10, July 2014, pp. 320-330, Impact factor: 0.914
3. B. Bharathi, S. Kavitha and N. Mariappan, “Real time speech based integrated development environment for C program”, Circuits and Systems, Vol.7, pp. 69-82, March 2016, ISSN Print: 2153-1285, E-ISSN: 2153-1293, http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/cs.2016.73008, IF: 0.67 – Scopus
4. B. Bharathi, ” Speaker-specific-text based speaker verification system using spectral and phase based features”, International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer Science+Business Media,10.1007/s10772-017-9416-2, May 2017, vol.20(3),pp.465-474.IF: 0.71 – Scopus
5. Suvidha Rupesh Kumar,  Bharathi, B. “A Novel Approach Towards Generalization of Countermeasure for Spoofing Attack on ASV Systems”,  Circuits Systems and  Signal Processing(2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-020-01501-y. ISSN: 0278-081X (Print) 1531-5878 (Online) Impact factor: 2.225 – Wos
6. Suvidha Rupesh Kumar, Bharathi, B. “Generative and Discriminative Modelling of Linear Energy Sub-bands for Spoof Detection in Speaker Verification Systems”, Circuits Syst Signal Process Vol. 41, pp. 3811–3831 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-022-01957-0 Available Online: 20-01-2022, ISSN: 0278-081X (Print) 1531-5878 (Online), Impact factor: 2.225 – Wos
7. S. Saranya, B. Bharathi, “NLP Approach for Recognizing Alzheimer’s Dementia from Spontaneous Speech” Indian Journal of Natural Sciences, Vol.14(77), Clarivate, 1.988, April, 2023, pp.54382-54390

Funded Projects:

1.Title: Speech enabled interactive enquiry system in Tamil

Funding Agency: Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai
Project Investigators: Dr. T. Nagarajan (PI), Dr. P. Vijayalakshmi (Co-PI), Dr. B.Bharathi (Co-PI) , Sasirekha (CoPI)
Duration: Mar. 2016 – Mar. 2017
Sanctioned amount: Rs. 9.52 lakhs
Status:  Completed

2. Title: Development of anti-spoofing method for automatic speaker verification system

Funding Agency: DST – TARE,
Project Investigators:   Dr. B.Bharathi (PI), Dr. Hema A Murthy (Mentor)

Duration: Nov 2018 – Nov.2021
Sanctioned amount: Rs. 18.3 lakhs
Status:  Completed

3. Title: Speech enabled interactive voice response system

Funding Agency: SSN Institutions,
Project Investigators:   Dr. B.Bharathi (PI), Dr. S. Kavitha (Co PI)

Duration: Nov 2017 – Nov.2020
Sanctioned amount: Rs. 2.10 lakhs
Status:  Completed

4. Title: Edge Computing based real time smart surveillance system

Funding Agency: SSN Institutions,
Project Investigators:   Dr. T.T. Mirnalinee (PI), Dr. J. Bhuvana (Co-PI), Dr. B. Bharathi (Co-PI)

Duration: Dec 2021– .Dec 2024
Sanctioned amount: Rs. 3 lakhs
Status:  On going

5. Title: Real-time multi dialect speech recognition for Tamil

Funding Agency: Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai
Project Investigators:   Dr. B. Bharathi (PI), Dr. P. Vijayalakshmi (Co-PI), Dr. T. Nagarajan (PI),

Duration: Feb 2023 – Jan 2024
Sanctioned amount: Rs. 13. 77 lakhs
Status:  On going

Internally funded student projects:

1. Speech based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for compiling C, C++ and Java Program (2014-2015)
2. Acoustic Dialect Decoder (ADD) – An Automated Audio Language Translation Device (2015-2016)
3. Speech Recognition based Chess System for the Visually Challenged (2015-2016)
4. Bi-Modal Biometric System for Person Authentication using Soft computing Techniques (2015-2016)
5. Continuous Speech Recognition for Tamil Language (2015-2016)
6. Multi-Level Smart Parking System (2016-2017)
7. Background noise filtering in real time call application (2017-2018)
8. Smart irrigation system (2017-2018)
9. Automated fertigation system (2018-2019)
10. Biometric voting system (2018-2019)
11. Intelligent surveillance and data base management system (2018-2019)
12. Voice enabled personal assistant robot for the visually impaired (2018-2019)
13. Weed detection and removal by robot for precision agriculture – Using image processing techniques (2018-2019)
14. IoT Driven Smart Bus Stops (2019-2020)
15. Binnconnect : smart waste management system using IoT (2021-2022)
16. Project Sanjaya – Live visual assistant in physics lab (2022-2023)
17. Augmented reality assisted wearable device for travel guidance (2022-2023)

Consultancy Works:

Training programme on “Machine learning” for HCL executives

Professional Bodies:

Annual member in ACM & IEEE

Life member in CSI

Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Js22CPwAAAAJ&hl=en

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharathi-b-14634844/

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7279-5357