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AUTHOR’S PUBLICATIONS

International Journal publications:

1. Basavaraj S. Anami, Suvarna Nandyal, Govardhan A., A Text Based

Approach to Content Based Information Retrieval for Indian

Medicinal Plants, International Journal of Physical Science, Vol. 3,

No.11, 2008, pp. 264-274.

2. Basavaraj S. Anami, Suvarna S. Nandyal, A. Govardhan,

A Combined Color, Texture and Edge Features Based Approach for

Identification and Classification of Indian Medicinal Plants,

International Journal of Computer Applications, (IJCA) ,(0975-8887),

Publisher: Foundation of computer science, USA. New York, Vol. 6,

No.12, 2010, pp. 45-51.

3. Basavaraj S. Anami, Suvarna Nandyal, A. Govardhan, P.S.

Hiremath, Aspect Ratio Based Identification and Classification of

Medicinal Plants in Indian Context, CiiT International Journal of

Digital Image Processing, Vol 3, No. 11, 2011, pp. 698-704.

4. B.S. Anami, S.S. Nandyal, and A. Govardhan, Suitability of

Segmentation Techniques for Recognition of Medicinal Plants in the

Indian Context, Journal of Medicinal and Spice plants, Vol.16, No.

3, 2011, pp. 124-134.

5. Suvarna S. Nandyal, Basavaraj S. Anami, A. Govardhan and

P.S.Hiremath, A Method for Identification and Classification of

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Medicinal Plants’ Images Based on Level Set Segmentation and

SVM Classification, International Journal of Computational Vision

and Robotics, Inderscience Publisher, Vol. 3, Nos. 1/2, 2012,

pp.96-114.

6. Basavaraj S. Anami, Suvarna S. Nandyal, Govardhan A, Color and

Edge Histograms Based Medicinal Plants' Image Retrieval,

International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing

(IJIGSP),Vol. 4, No. 8, 2012, pp.24-35.

7. Basavaraj S. Anami, Suvarna S. Nandyal, Govardhan A, Base and

Apex Angles and Margin Types Based Identification and

Classification from Medicinal Plants' Leaves Images, International

Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, Inderscience

Publisher, Volume 3, No. 3, 2013,pp. 197-224.

Papers Communicated

1. Basavaraj S. Anami, Suvarna S. Nandyal, Govardhan A,

Identification and Classification of Medicinal Plants Images Using

Texture and Color features, International Journal of Applied pattern

Recognition, (Communicated)

Conference publications:

1. Basavaraj S. Anami, Suvarna S. Nandyal, and Govardhan A.,

Suitability of Shape and Texture Features in Retrieval of

Medicinal Plants’ Images in Indian Context, Proceedings of

International Conference on Machine learning and Computing,

Vol.2 Feb 26-28, ,Singapore, 2011, pp.560-567.