Academics

Bio

Dr. Manisha Ravikumar Kowdiki is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronics and Communication Engineering at MIT-WPU, Pune. She graduated in E & TC Engineering in 2001 and completed her M.E. in Communication System from Dr. BAMU, Aurangabad in 2013. She pursued her Ph.D. in Digital Image Processing using AI-ML from Savitribai Phule, Pune University and completed her research on "Time Series analysis of Hand Joint Trajectories for Indian Sign Language Recognition" in 2023. Dr. Kowdiki has a keen interest in the areas of Image Processing, Computer Vision, AI-ML, and Signal Processing, and has published several research papers in international journals and conferences. She has also guided UG and PG students in their projects and actively participates in curriculum development, effective delivery of lectures, and achieving course outcomes.

Research Areas

DIP, AI-ML, Electronics

Publications

1) Automatic hand gesture recognition using hybrid meta-heuristic-based feature selection and classification with Dynamic Time Warping.

2) Adaptive hough transform with optimized deep learning followed by dynamic time warping for hand gesture recognition.

3) Algorithmic Analysis on Deer Hunting-based Grey Wolf for Dynamic Time Wrapping-based Hand Gesture Recognition.

4) Morphological Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition for Indian Sign Language.

5) Real-Time Voice Enabled Drivers' Safety Monitoring System Using Image Processing.

6) AI- based Crop Identification, Diesease Recognition & Pesticide Suggestion.

Google Scholar link :https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=6wKmjqwAAAAJ

Scopus link :https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57205768077

ORCID link : https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-8133-8211

Research Grants

Received 10 number of Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sence Tiny Machine Learning Kits from EDGE IMPULSE INC, Italy costing 600 - USD