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Dr A GOPAL

Dr A GOPAL

Chief Scientist & Scientist-in-charge

CEERI
  • agopalceeri@gmail.com
  • 044-2254 2281
  • Academic Background
  • Professional Background
  • Areas of Scientific Interest
  • Awards & Honours
  • Publications
  • Parents and Copyrights
  • PhD Guidance
  • Contributions to Book
  • PHD and PG Thesis

Academic Background

  • Post Doctoral Fellowship at USA during the year 1998.
  • Ph.D Thesis Title : Studies on the instrumentation development for the measurements of elastic constants of paper and paper products  having applications in production and quality control.
  • M.Sc., (Physics)
  • B.Sc., (Physics)

Professional Background

  • Scientist-in-charge of the Centre.
  • 31-10-1988 - 30-101993 Scientist -B
  • 31-10-1993 - 30-10-1998 Scientist-C
  • 31-10-1998 - 30-10-2003 Scientist-EI
  • 31-10-2003 - 30-10-2008 Scientist-EII
  • 31-10-2008 - 30-10-2014 Senior Principal Scientist
  • 31-10-2014 - till date Chief Scientist
  • 01-7-2016 - till date Scientist-in-charge
  • Guiding the D projects of the Centre in the areas of machine vision systems, IR signal analysis & instrumentation to cater to the needs of food & horticulture sectors. Many new projects in key industrial sectors identified, linkages established and proposals submitted for external funding with my guidance.
  • Overall management of the Centre in day-to-day activities.
  • Co-ordination with CSIR Madras Complex & CSIR-SERC.
  • Co-ordination with CSIR-CEERI, Pilani in R&D Programmes and other activities.

Areas of Scientific Interest

  • Design & Development of off-line electronic systems for industrial applications like paper industry.
  • Machine vision system for societal applications.
  • NIRS for industrial instrumentation.
  • Signal analytics under Cyber Physical Systems.
  • Organization of International conference, training programs, workshops, etc.
  • Recognized as guide for Ph.D programmes of various universities.
  • Project Management & Business Development

Awards & Honours

  • 1990 Foundation Day Merit award of CEERI, Pilani.
  • 1998 Achievement/merit award from Oakland University, USA for the outstanding contribution towards teaching & research during the fellowship program at the Department of Computer Science, Oakland University for the year 1998.
  • 2001 First Best paper award for contribution to the publication of the paper on ’Optical paper formation Analyser’ –Rao P.Sudhakara, Sridhar.R, Gopal A, Meenakshi.K, Revathy.R, Chitra.K and Palaniandi.D - Journal of IPPTA, Annual Convention Issue 2001, p 23-30.
  • 2001S Aixth Best paper award for contribution to the publication of the paper on ’Novel shape feature extraction and apples classification using computer vision’ -(P.Sudhakara Rao, Dr.A.Gopal & S.Md.Iqbal) – published in the proceedings of Second International Conference on EIT-2001, held at USA during June 7-9, 2001
  • 2004 First Best paper award for contribution to the publication of the paper on ’Image processing algorithms for shape analysis of potatoes –(Gopal.A, Mr.Md.Iqbal and Revathy.R)- published in the proceedings of 4th International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation during December 15-18, 2004
  • 2008 ISA Asia Pacific District –14 Prof. LIPTAK award for the year 2008 for the significant contribution to Instrumentation Automation through the involvement in ISA south India section activities
  • 2014 One of the best paper recognition of the conference of the paper “Detection and Quantification of Adulteration in Honey through Near Infrared Spectroscopy”- A.Gopal & C.Kumaravelu - Paper published in the first proceedings of the first International conference on Food Properties
  • 2015 Best Paper award - "Design, development and construction of a stationary weighing mechanism for handling citrus fruits using Maltese Cross Principle" at the "1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Management and Engineering" held at Chennai on 26-12-2015.
  • 2016 Best paper award “Quality assessment of single cotton Seed based on its protein and oil content using NIRS – C.Kumaravelu A.Gopal.”- International conference on recent trends in engineering science & management (ICRTESM 2016), held at Madurai during 15-16, July 2016

Publications

Year Title of Paper Name of Journal
1989 A non-destructive technique to measure tensile strength of paper Journal of Instrument Society of India, Vol.19, No.4, pp.327-334.
1991 A non-destructive method of measuring the strength of paper IMEKO XII – 12th IMEKO World Congress - Measurement and Progress – DIGEST Vol.II, P.II-283 – II-284.
1991 Estimating Poisson ratio in paper using non-destructive technique Journal of Instrument Society of India, Vol.21, No.1, pp. 36-48
1993 A non-destructive technique for measuring the tensile strength and breaking length of paper Proceedings of the 26th Pulp and Paper Annual Meeting  (ABTCP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 22-26, pp.262.
1993 A pc based system for determining elastic constant and anisotropy of paper Journal of Instrument Society of India,  Vol.22, No.3,4, pp.112-121
1995 A pc based colour and strength monitoring system for the pulp and paper industry Journal of Indian Pulp and Paper Technical Association  (IPPTA), Vol. No.2, pp. 21-32
1995 Measurement of tensile strength and breaking length Kothari’s Desk Book Series on the Paper Industry – Technology & Instrumentation,  pp.241-252
1996 A microprocessor based ultrasonic velocity monitor for liquids Journal of Instrument Society of India, Vol.26, No.4, pp.149-158
1997 Ultrasonic instrumentation in paper industry Proceedings of TCDC International Training Workshop on the Application of On-Line Instrumentation in Pulp & Paper, Leather and Food Processing Industries, Madras, India, 3-8 February.
1998 Electric power steering Proceedings of DSP Fest at Houston, USA by Texas Instruments
1999 Electric power steering system using DSP Proceedings of. International Conference on TIMA-99 held at Anna University, Madras
2001 Optical paper formation analyzer Journal of IPPTA, Annual Convention Issue, pp 23-30
2001 Novel shape feature extraction and apples classification using computer vision Proceedings of Second International Conference on EIT-2001 held at USA during June 7-9
2001 A new approach for size determination of apple fruit for automatic sorting and grading Proceedings of Second International Conference on EIT-2001 held at USA during June 7-9
2001 Design of the illumination system for sorting and grading of fruits Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation-TIMA   Chennai, August 17-19.
2001 Colour space analysis of fruits like apples Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation-TIMA   Chennai, August 17-19.
2001 New approach to define paper formation measurement Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation-TIMA   Chennai, August 17-19.
2003 Potatoes shape comparison using moments Proceedings of AMSA, Chennai, Dec.17-18.
2003 Biscuits colour classification using linear discriminant analysis Proceedings of AMSA, Chennai, Dec.17-18.
2004 Colour analysis of fruits using machine vision system for automatic sorting and grading Jr. of Instrument Society of India, Vol: 34, No:4, pp 284-292
2004 Classification of fruits based on shape using image processing technique Jr. of Instrument Society of India, Vol:34, No:4, pp 227-239.
2004 Color classification of fruits using color distance method Proc. of 4th International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation pp.355-362
2004 Image processing algorithms for shape analysis of potatoes Proc. of 4th International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation pp.389-398
2004 Development of a paper dirt speck analyzer system based on image processing technique- Journal of IPPTA on “Leveraging I.T and Process Automation in Pulp and Paper Industry
2008 Paper Dirt Speck Measurement using Image Processing Techniques. Paper Presented at National symposium on Instrumentation organized by ISOI during 8-10, December at Andhra University, VIZAG.
200 Non-Destructive testing Instrument system and method for detecting Internal defects (spongy tissue, Seed weevil & such others) in post harvested mangoes and sorting based on real time X-ray imaging and analysis. Initiated action for filing of Patent.
2009 Image processing technique for detection of black spot on mango surface Jr. of Instrument Society of India, Vol:39, No:3, pp 288-291.
2009 Implementation of shape classification algorithm for apple fruits in matalb Proceedings of NCVII-2009) held at BITS, Pilani from November 13-14, 2009
2009 Conveying Systems for Machine Vision Inspection of some Fruits and Vegetables – A Review Proceedings of NCVII-2009) held at BITS, Pilani from November 13-14, 2009
2010 Review of Machine Vision based Apple Sorting Systems - Review Jr. of Instrument Society of India, Vol: 40 No:1, pp 54-57
2010 Image Processing Algorithms for Detection of Surface Defects on Apples and Its Parallel Execution in Cluster Jr. of Instrument Society of India, Vol: 40 No:2, pp 103-106.
2011 Volume Estimation of Apple fruits using Image Processing 2011 International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP 2011) Proceedings of IEEE Explore.
2012 “Classification of Color Objects like Fruits using Probability Density Function (PDF)” International conference on Machine vision and Image Processing –MVIP 2012 –Published by IEEE explore. [978-4673-2320-8-2012-IEEE]
2012 “Classification of Selected Medicinal Plants Leaf Using Image Processing” International conference on Machine vision and Image Processing –MVIP 2012 –Published by IEEE explore. [978-4673-2320-8-2012-IEEE]
2012 “Classification of Biscuits based on Color and Dimension using Image Processing Techniques JR.ISOI,Vol.42,No.4, pp 276-279, 2012
2012 “Embedded System for real-time inspection and sorting of biscuits on moving conveyor”- Jr.IJESCE,Vol.4,No.2,89-93,2012 International journal of Embedded system and computer Engineering]
2012 Image Processing Tool to Identify Plants from Leaf Images” Proceedings of International conference on computer research and development (ICCRD 2013) pp 89-94-ISBN 97807 91860182 - Published by ASME Digital Library.
2013 Imaging System for quality Evaluation of Fruits & Horticultural Inspection, Proceedings of International Conference on Sensing, Signal Processing &  Security –ICSSS 2013-ISBN-978-81-908343-3-9.
2013 “Studies on Identification of Medicinal Plant Variety Based on NIR Spectroscopy Using Plant Leaves “ Paper accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of  15th International conference on ICACT 2013,10-11 , August to be published by IEEE explore
2013 Wireless Implementation of Mems Accelerometer to Detect Red Palm Weevil On Palms Paper accepted for presentation to ICAES 2013 conference to be held at CEERI Pilani and to be published in IEEE explore. .-978-1-4799-1441-8/13/IEEE-PP-248-252-
2013 Identification of Selected Medicinal Plant Leaves Using Image Features and ANN Paper accepted for presentation to ICAES 2013 conference to be held at CEERI Pilani and to be published in IEEE explore.-978-1-4799-1441-8/13/IEEE-PP-238-242.
2013 Paper accepted for presentation in ICCCNT 2013 conference during July 3-6.2013. Paper to be published in IEEE Xplore. Paper accepted for presentation in ICCCNT 2013 conference during July 3-6.2013. Paper to be published in IEEE Xplore.
2014 Estimation of Volume and Mass of Axi-symmetric Fruits using Image Processing Technique International Journal of Food of food properies, Vol,18, No3,pp 608-626,2015.
2014 “Honey Quality Evaluation and a Case Study on Effect of Jaggery Adulteration Using Spectral Techniques Jr.ISOI Vol.44No.4 pp 106-108.
2014 Detection and Quantification of Adulteration in Honey through Near Infrared Spectroscopy Paper published in the first International conference on Food properties –[ICFP2014]. Prepared under the direction of IEOM Research Solutions. ISBN: 9780980825121 (CD-ROM)- Received One of the best paper recognition of the conference of the paper.
2014 Identifying Sound of RPW In-Situ from External Sources Published in Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering SystemsAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Volume 324, 2015, pp 681-691
2014 Automated Quality Inspection of Citrus Fruits – A Review Accepted for publication in the proceedings of International Conference on Advanced and Agile Manufacturing Systems,    ICAM-2014, held at Oakland University, USA, May 28-30, 2014
2014 “Leaf Image Processing-Review” Paper accepted for the publication I n the proceedings of   2nd International Conference On Science and Management (ICSEM) to be held during March 28th -29th, 2014
2014 A Review of Techniques based on Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis for the Authentication of Honey Proceedings of International conference on Perspective in Vibrational spectroscopy ICOPVS held at Trivandrum during 8-12,  July 2014
2014 A Review on Adulteration of Honey using Spectroscopic Techniques Poceedings of International conference on Perspective in Vibrational spectroscopy ICOPVS held at Trivandram during 8-12,  July 2014
2014 Classification of wheat grains using Infrared spectroscophy. Poceedings of International conference on Perspective in Vibrational spectroscopy ICOPVS held at Trivandram during 8-12,  July 2014
2014 Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy for Quality Assessment of Indian Traditional Herbal Medicines: A Review.’  Int J Pharm Sci Res 2014; 5(8): 3133-43.doi: 10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.5(8).3133-43
2014 “Seed Germination analysis using Image processing techniques Jr. of Instrument Society of India, Vol: 44 No:4, pp 252-255.
2014 "A Comparative study on Detection of Adulteration on Honey International Journal of Applied Engineering Research>
2014 "A study on Classification of Wheat grains using IR Spectroscopy" a International Journal of Applied Engineering Research ISSN 0973-4562 Volume 9, Number 23 (2014) pp. 20485-20489
2014 Automated Quality Inspection of Citrus Fruits – A Review International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing systems, Volume 15, Issue 2, 125-140, 2015
2015 Database formation for authentication of tulsi leaf using image processing technique” Gate to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (gtCVPR) vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 9-17, 2015 doi:10.15579/gtcvpr. 0101.009017
2015 Grading of Citrus Fruits Based on Size and Shape Using Image Processing S. Md. Iqbal1,2*, P.E.Sankara-narayanan3, A. Gopal1, Athira B. Nair4 Paper published in proceedings of  ISCN 2015 International conference organized by MIT during 26-27, March 2015.
2015 Quality Evaluation of Honey using Multivariate Analysis C.Kumaravelu 1, a, G.Rajalakshmi 2, a, A.Gopal 1, Y. Prateek Reddy Paper accepted for publication in to International Journal of Applied Engineering Research.[ IJAER Paper Code: 32717]
2015 Classification of Selected Citrus Fruits based on Colour using Machine Vision System- S. Md. Iqbal1,2*, P.E.Sankara-narayanan3, A. Gopal1, Athira B. Nair4 To cite this article: S. Md. Iqbal, A. Gopal, P.E. Sankaranarayanan & Athira B. Nair (2015): Classification of Selected Citrus Fruits based on Colour using Machine Vision System, International Journal of Food Properties,  DOI: International Journal of Food PropertiesVolume 19, Issue 2, February 2016, pages 272-288         
2015 "Authentication of Leaf Image Using Image Processing Technique" ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences -.VOL. 10, NO. 9, MAY 2015. ISSN 1819-6608- pp -4287-4201

Parents and Copyrights

  • Patent titled “Non-destructive method for testing the viability of individual cotton seed using NIR Spectroscopy “ was filed with Application No.3060DEL 2014
  • As a project leader, transferred the technology on “Paper Formation Analyser”.
  • As an alternate project leader involved in the transfer of the technology on   
  • “Electronic weighing based fruit
  • sorting system” to M/s.Stay Fresh, Navi Mumbai.
  • “X-ray imaging based mango
  • sorting system” to M/s.Proteck Circuits & Systems Pvt. Ltd.  Chennai.

PhD Guidance

  • Recognized as Supervisor for giving guidance to Ph.D programs by Sathyabhama University, Chennai.
  • Mr.C.Kumaravelu, Principal Scientist, CEERI Chennai for his topic on “Exploratory Multivariate Data Analysis with application in Agro food processing industries.”
  • Mrs.T.Vijayashree, Lecturer, Sathyabhama  University, for her topic on “Studies on Authetication and Standardization of selected medicinal plants leaf using image processing Techniques”.
  • Mrs.Anne Frank Joe, Lecturer, Sathyabhama  University, for her topic on “ Calssifications of Wheat grains using Infrared spectroscophy”.
  • Mrs.Rajalakshmi, Lecturer, Sathyabhama  University, for her topic on “A study on adulteration of Honey using spectroscopic techniques”.
  • Mr.S.Md.Iqbal, Senior Principal scientist, CEERI Chennai for his topic on “ Studies on Design & Development of machine vision system for automatic inspection of citrus fruits.”
  • Nominated as expert member of (DAC) of Mr.J.Suriya Prakash of CSIR-CEERI Chennai pursuing Ph.D in ACSIR, of CEERI Pilani
  • Nominated as expert member of (DAC) of Mrs. NIrmala of CSIR-CEERI Chennai pursuing Ph.D in ACSIR, of CEERI Pilani.

Contributions to Book

  • Contributed to a chapter in a book  Design, Development and Construction of a Stationary Weighing Mechanism for Handling Citrus Fruits using Maltese Cross Principle" -  S.Md.Iqbal & A.Gopal, Advanced Engineering Research and Applications (AERA). - Chapter Code : 1033(B) -Page No. : 175-188

PHD and PG Thesis

  • In capacity as External Examiner conducted Viva –voce exam to one Ph.D student at NIT, Trichy
  • In capacity as Indian examiner submitted evaluation report on Ph.D thesis on “Methodological analysis and classification of electrocardiograph signals using continuous wavelet transform “-GITAM University, Vizag
  • External examiner of Ph.D thesis on “Enhancement of bandwidth and isolation parameters of microstrip antennas and dielectric resonators antennas for MIMO systems – JNTU, Hyderabad.
  • External examiner of Ph.D thesis on “Automatic image segmentation approach for textures with applications to medical images “- JNTU, KAKINADA.
  • In capacity as External Examiner conducted VIVA-VOCE examination of Ph.D candidate of GEETHAM University, VIZAG on 29-8-2013.
  • In capacity as External Examiner nominated as examiner to conduct VIVA-VOCE examination of Ph.D candidate of JNTU, University KAKINADA on 19th December 2013.
  • In capacity as External examiner evaluated  Ph.D thesis “ Bandwidth efficient human centered online document access system using compound image framework” & Conducted  Viva –Voce exam of Diwakar, Dept of ECE of SRM University, Chennai on 19th May 2014

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