B R Vatsala, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Teaching and Research Interest areas are Internet of Things, Computer Architecture, Compiler Design, Microprocessors, Embedded Systems and Computer Networks. Presented papers in Conferences and published papers in International Journals. Awarded with Elite Certificate with gold medal printed on it for scoring 90% in NPTEL online Course on “Introduction to Internet of Things”.
EDUCATION
Mtech in Computer Networks and Engineering
Persuing PhD in the area of Internet of Things
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Internet of Things, Computer Networks, Machine Learning
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Scopus Publications
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Scopus Publications
A modular approach to polyphonic music transcription using source separation and harmonic-gated pitch tracking Rashmi M.R., B.R. Vatsala, Vijay C.P., Harshitha H.S., Mahima Shripad Hegde, Abhishek Manohar Bilagi Journal of Integrated Science and Technology, 2026 Automatic music transcription (AMT) is still a major challenge in music information retrieval. Polyphonic audio is a mix of several overlapping frequencies, making it challenging for the usual monophonic pitch estimators. Therefore, models like CREPE perform well on single voice audio. But when they encounter polyphonic mixes or low SNR signals, they perform poorly. This paper addresses the stated problem with a modular hybrid framework to make AMT more robust. It uses neural source separation along with a dual-branch feature-guided gating mechanism. The pipeline begins with demixing the polyphonic audio into different constituent stems vocal, bass and other instruments. This is achieved using Demucs a state-of-the-art source separation model. These stems simultaneously pass through two branches one after another, with one branch being a pitch-tracking branch that runs torchcrepe to get candidate F0 contours, while the other pulls out a voicing mask from high-resolution Mel-spectrograms and chroma-energy features. The fusion of pitch estimates from torchcrepe equipped branch with voicing mask from the other branch helps eliminate false activations like background noise. Also, since all the stems go through the above steps, ultimately, we obtain the MIDI representations of all the instruments and voices involved in the audio. This approach is tested on Annotated-VocalSet and Vocadito datasets and found that there is significant reduction on false alarms caused by noise and a boost in raw pitch accuracy resulting in refined multi-track MIDI representation.
FixNGo: A Platform for on-Demand Local Home Services Padmavati K, B R Vatsala, Niranjan Anant Bhat, Srinidhi V Proceedings of IEEE International Conference for Women in Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship Icwite 2025, 2025 Connecting users with reliable local service providers is one of the challenges in the rapidly changing digital landscape of today. This paper introduces FixNGo, a compre- hensive platform that connects service seekers and providers by an innovative location-based approach. The system uses real- time geolocation, secure authentication mechanisms, and deep learning-based facial recognition for secure service provider authentication, leveraging models such as VGG-Face, ArcFace, and Facenet to create a robust trust framework within the platform to create a trusted service ecosystem. We implement a dual-interface architecture that utilizes React.js and Django, powered by Redis-driven real time communication. Our bench- marking demonstrates the system's efficiency in handling multiple concurrent users, maintaining response times below two seconds. The use of face recognition-based provider verification proves to be 95% accurate, ensuring a high level of security for the platform and its users.
Credit Card Fake Revealing Analysis and Prediction of Algorithms 14th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2023, 2023
Priority based flow control protocol for internet of things built on light fidelity Belathuru Ramanna Vatsala, Vidyaraj Chitradurga International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022 Excessive usage of Internet by most of the applications that use internet of things (IoT) has resulted in need for high bandwidth network. Light fidelity (LiFi) is one such network having bandwidth in terms of GigaHertz, but LiFi has a limited propagation range hence it can be deployed only in the local area. When IoT nodes are connected using LiFi network in the local area they start pushing large data to the cloud there by arising need for flow control. Some of the IoT applications such as patient monitoring systems and nuclear systems, generate critical data. The protocol for flow control in this case should be based on priority of data since critical data with high priority have to be transmitted first. We develop a flow control protocol named priority based flow control protocol (PFCP) by providing priority to flows that carry critical data especially in IoT system that use LiFi network. We evaluate performance of different transmission control protocol (TCP) variants and modify TCP variant that yields maximum goodput according to the priority based protocol developed and demonstrate that flows that carry critical data are given priority compared to non-prioritized flows
A modular approach to polyphonic music transcription using source separation and harmonic-gated pitch tracking MR Rashmi, BR Vatsala, CP Vijay, HS Harshitha, MS Hegde, AM Bilagi Journal of Integrated Science and Technology 14 (5), 1582-1582 , 2026 2026
FixNGo: a Platform for on-Demand Local Home Services K Padmavati, BR Vatsala, NA Bhat, V Srinidhi 2025 IEEE International Conference for Women in Innovation, Technology … , 2025 2025
Hypercomplex Neural Network Based Elderly Activity Recognition For Intelligent Healthcare Systems AK Rashmi M R, B R Vatsala, Veena M, Mayura D Tapkire, C K Vanamala, Shruthi R International Journal of Environmental Sciences 11 (7), 2069 - 2079 , 2025 2025
Prioritizing flows for internet of things built on visible light communication BR Vatsala, C Vidyaraj, MR Rashmi International Journal of Information Technology 16 (8), 4821-4832 , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING AKP Rashmi M R, B R Vatsala, Sharath Chandra H S, Ishika YMER 23 (11), 785-791 , 2024 2024
CRIME ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING DCVR Thanushree G, Bindhushree SR, Pooja B, Sandhya HS, Dr. Vatsala BR International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology … , 2023 2023
Credit Card Fake Revealing Analysis and Prediction of Algorithms BRV Sushma M V 14th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and … , 2023 2023
WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM USING IOT VBR Sahana R, Sneha K, Syeda Heena Kausar, Dr. C Vidya Raj International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology … , 2022 2022
Priority based flow control protocol for internet of things built on light fidelity BR Vatsala, V Chitradurga International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 12 (4 … , 2022 2022
Performance Evaluation of TCP Variants for IoT Built on Visible Light Communication BR Vatsala, C Vidya Raj ICDSMLA 2020: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data … , 2021 2021 Citations: 3
IOT Based Traffic Management System DCVR Shashank S, Kiran P, Nischay D, Vinay KuVinay Kumar M, B R Vatsala International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science … , 2021 2021 Citations: 17
E-Voting Made Simple and Secure using Blockchain BRV Apoorva S Yaligar , Guruprasad Veerannavaru, Harshitha , Pruthvi M Patil ... International Journal of Engineering, Science and Computing 11 (7), 28421 … , 2021 2021
Design and actualization of Blockchain and IoT based Logistics system DCV Amrutha Y M , Divya D P , K Sujitha , Prathana P R , B R Vatsala International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication … , 2021 2021
Indoor Navigation and Product Recognition for Blind People Assisted Shopping DCV R. Sriniketan , Shrikara Hathwar. K. S , Vadiraj , B. R. Vatsala International Journal of Engineering Science and Computing 10 (8), 27192-27196 , 2020 2020
Crop Yield Prediction and Fertilizer Recommendation DCVR Varshini Naresh, Mrs.Vatsala.B.R International Journal for Research in Engineering Application & Management … , 2020 2020 Citations: 9
Development of Human Computer Interface for Visually Challenge BRV Sharadhi R, Vidya Raj C International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering … , 2020 2020
Use of XML to Accelerate and Automate Software Development CVRBRV Apoorv Sachan International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering … , 2020 2020
Performance Analysis of Internet of Things using Visible Light Communication DCVR B R Vatsala International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering … , 2019 2019
Forest Fire Detection using Wireless Sensor Network MVBR Anjali Konathala, Naveena Malapati, Shrinidhi Kulkarni, D.Swetha Reddy International Journal for Research in Engineering Application & Managemen 5 … , 2019 2019
The Smart Parking System BRV Koushal U, Pramukh P , Preetham K R International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology 6 (4), 4112-4115 , 2019 2019
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
IOT Based Traffic Management System DCVR Shashank S, Kiran P, Nischay D, Vinay KuVinay Kumar M, B R Vatsala International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science … , 2021 2021 Citations: 17
Crop Yield Prediction and Fertilizer Recommendation DCVR Varshini Naresh, Mrs.Vatsala.B.R International Journal for Research in Engineering Application & Management … , 2020 2020 Citations: 9
Analysis of Smart Applications using Internet of Things BR Vatsala, C Vidyaraj International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication … , 2019 2019 Citations: 5
Prioritizing flows for internet of things built on visible light communication BR Vatsala, C Vidyaraj, MR Rashmi International Journal of Information Technology 16 (8), 4821-4832 , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
Performance Evaluation of TCP Variants for IoT Built on Visible Light Communication BR Vatsala, C Vidya Raj ICDSMLA 2020: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data … , 2021 2021 Citations: 3
“Internet of Things: Usage of Li-Fi and Need for Flow Control Protocol” DCVR Vatsala B R International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and … , 2014 2014 Citations: 3
CPU load–based countermeasure technique for intelligent DoS attack targeting firewalls BR Vatsala, C Vidya Raj Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology … , 2013 2013 Citations: 2
A modular approach to polyphonic music transcription using source separation and harmonic-gated pitch tracking MR Rashmi, BR Vatsala, CP Vijay, HS Harshitha, MS Hegde, AM Bilagi Journal of Integrated Science and Technology 14 (5), 1582-1582 , 2026 2026
FixNGo: a Platform for on-Demand Local Home Services K Padmavati, BR Vatsala, NA Bhat, V Srinidhi 2025 IEEE International Conference for Women in Innovation, Technology … , 2025 2025
Hypercomplex Neural Network Based Elderly Activity Recognition For Intelligent Healthcare Systems AK Rashmi M R, B R Vatsala, Veena M, Mayura D Tapkire, C K Vanamala, Shruthi R International Journal of Environmental Sciences 11 (7), 2069 - 2079 , 2025 2025
TRAFFIC SIGN DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING AKP Rashmi M R, B R Vatsala, Sharath Chandra H S, Ishika YMER 23 (11), 785-791 , 2024 2024
CRIME ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING DCVR Thanushree G, Bindhushree SR, Pooja B, Sandhya HS, Dr. Vatsala BR International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology … , 2023 2023
Credit Card Fake Revealing Analysis and Prediction of Algorithms BRV Sushma M V 14th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and … , 2023 2023
WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM USING IOT VBR Sahana R, Sneha K, Syeda Heena Kausar, Dr. C Vidya Raj International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology … , 2022 2022
Priority based flow control protocol for internet of things built on light fidelity BR Vatsala, V Chitradurga International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 12 (4 … , 2022 2022
E-Voting Made Simple and Secure using Blockchain BRV Apoorva S Yaligar , Guruprasad Veerannavaru, Harshitha , Pruthvi M Patil ... International Journal of Engineering, Science and Computing 11 (7), 28421 … , 2021 2021
Design and actualization of Blockchain and IoT based Logistics system DCV Amrutha Y M , Divya D P , K Sujitha , Prathana P R , B R Vatsala International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication … , 2021 2021
Indoor Navigation and Product Recognition for Blind People Assisted Shopping DCV R. Sriniketan , Shrikara Hathwar. K. S , Vadiraj , B. R. Vatsala International Journal of Engineering Science and Computing 10 (8), 27192-27196 , 2020 2020
Development of Human Computer Interface for Visually Challenge BRV Sharadhi R, Vidya Raj C International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering … , 2020 2020
Use of XML to Accelerate and Automate Software Development CVRBRV Apoorv Sachan International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering … , 2020 2020