Dr Padmavathi Ganapathi is the Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed to be University), Coimbatore since 2007. She has 32 years of teaching experience and 18 years of research experience. Her areas of interest include, Cyber Security, Wireless Communication and Real Time Systems. She has executed funded projects worth 230.568 lakhs Sponsored by AICTE, UGC, DRDO and DST. Supervised 19 scholars at Ph.D level, she has more than 200 publications in Prestigious conferences and peer-reviewed journals. She is the life members of various professional bodies like CSI, ISTE, ISCA, WSEAS, AACE and AICW. Reviewer for many IEEE Conferences and Journals. She has visited many countries for technical deliberations.
EDUCATION
M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cyber Security, Wireless Communications, Real Time Systems
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Scopus Publications
ADAPTIVE FEATURE EXTRACTION FRAMEWORK FOR ROBUST FACE ANTI-SPOOFING WITH CROSS-DOMAIN GENERALIZATION G PADMAVATHI KARTHIKA S Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 2026 Face spoofing detection is crucial for the security of facial recognition systems; however, many existing methods struggle to generalize across varying acquisition conditions such as changes in lighting, camera angles, and multiple types of spoofing attempts. To address this challenge, this work proposes a novel feature extraction framework that combines three advanced components: Adaptive Kernel Generator (AKG), Discrete Style Assembly (DSA), and Adaptive Style Transfer (AST). AKG dynamically adjusts feature extraction based on instance-specific characteristics, enhancing sensitivity to subtle variations in spoofing attacks. DSA categorizes input samples into distinct style categories, enabling synthesis of style-specific features that are resilient to different presentation attack instruments (PAIs) and environmental conditions. AST further refines feature representations by adaptively transferring stylistic information from reference images, ensuring consistency and accuracy across diverse scenarios. The framework is built upon a modified ResNet-18 backbone optimized for single-channel face inputs, serving as the initial feature extractor before enhancement by the AKG, DSA, and AST modules. The model is evaluated on Replay-Attack, SiW-Mv2, and OULU-NPU datasets, each offering unique variations in spoofing scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms a baseline ResNet-18 model, achieving up to 94% accuracy in cross-dataset testing, highlighting its effectiveness and improved generalization performance in real-world face spoofing detection. Unlike conventional face anti-spoofing methods that rely on fixed feature extractors or classifier-level adaptation, this work introduces a style-aware, feature-level adaptation strategy that improves cross-domain generalization without requiring target-domain data.
Adaptive Intrusion Detection System for Modern Networks using Deep Learning Technique 16th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2025, 2025
Password Strength Checker using Machine Learning Techniques 16th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2025, 2025
An intelligent obfuscated mobile malware detection using deep supervised learning algorithms Padmavathi Ganapathi, Roshni Arumugam, Shanmugapriya Dhathathri Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 2024 Obfuscated mobile malware (OMM) is a malicious software in mobile that hides to avoid detection and annihilation. These types of malwares are thorny to identify due to their inevitable nature. Deep learning (DL) algorithms are the most desirable to detect obfuscated malware based on the ‘n’ number of iterations with adjustable weights and neurons. This study investigates the accurate detection of OMM using significant DL algorithms such as multi-layer perceptron (MLP), self-organizing maps (SOM), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, auto encoders (AE), and convolutional neural network (CNN) based on appropriate parameter tuning. The dataset taken for the study is CICMalMem2022 that contains 58,596 samples with 57 features which is basically designed for OMM detection. The dataset comprises Spyware, Ransomware, Trojan horse, and Benign. The DL models are evaluated based on performance metrics such as precision, recall, accuracy, training accuracy, test accuracy, validation accuracy, training loss, validation loss and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Based on the experimental evaluation, the study reveals that LSTM outperforms with 100% accuracy and MLP achieves 99.9% accuracy in detecting and classifying the OMM using deep supervised learning (SL) mechanism.
Encrypted Access Mapping in a Distinctly Routed Optimized Immune System to Prevent DoS Attack Variants in VANET Architecture Rama Mercy. S.,, G. Padmavathi International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security, 2024 The use of vehicle ad hoc networks (VANET) is increasing, VANET is a network in which two or more vehicles communicate with each other. The VANET architecture is vulnerable to various attacks, such as DoS and DDoS attacks hence various strategies were previously employed to combat these attacks, but the presence of end-to-end transparency and N-to-1 mapping of different IP addresses create failure in the blockage and not able to determine the twelve variants of DDoS attacks hence a novel technique, Encrypted Access Hex-tuple Mapping Attack detection was proposed, which uses triple random hyperbolic encryption, which performs triple random encoding to encrypt traffic signals and obtains the public key by plotting random values in hyperbola to strengthen the access control in the middlebox and Deep auto sparse impasse NN is used to detect twelve variant DDoS attacks in the VANET architecture. Moreover, to provide immunity against attack, the existing approach uses various artificial immune systems to prevent DDoS attacks but the selection of positive and negative clusters generates too many indicator packets. Hence a novel technique, Stable Automatic Optimized Cache Routing proposed, which uses a Deep trust factorization NN to detect irrational nodes without requiring prior negotiation about local outliner factor and direct evidence by automatically extracting trust factors of each node to manage the packet flows and detecting transmission of dangerous malware files in the network to prevent various types of hybrid DDoS attacks at VANET architecture. The proposed model is implemented in NS-3 to detect and prevent hybrid DDoS attacks.
Enhancing Zero-Day Attack Prediction a Hybrid Game Theory Approach with Neural Networks International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 2024
Evaluation of Selected Supervised Machine Learning Models for Phishing Website Detection 15th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2024, 2024
Detection of Obfuscated Malware using Ensemble Learning Techniques 15th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2024, 2024
A Stacked Ensemble Model to Detect Network Intrusions 15th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2024, 2024
Cloud Insider Threat Detection using Deep Learning Models D. Shanmugapriya, C. J. Dhanya, S. Asha, G. Padmavathi, D. Nethra Pingala Suthisini Proceedings of the 18th Indiacom 2024 11th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development Indiacom 2024, 2024
Strategic-level Framework with Combined Feature Engineering, Bio-inspired Optimization and ML for Detecting DDos Flooding Attacks in Cloud 14th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2023, 2023
Hybrid Ensemble based Feature Engineering for Detecting Direct DDOS Flooding Attack in Cloud 14th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2023, 2023
Detection of Iris Template Attacks using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods Proceedings of the 17th Indiacom 2023 10th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development Indiacom 2023, 2023
A survey on various intrusion detection system tools and methods in cloud computing Proceedings of the 2019 6th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development Indiacom 2019, 2019
Technological impact on higher education-challenges and opportunities from the perception of two important segments International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 2018
Detection of illegal traffic pattern using hybrid improved CART and multiple extreme learning machine approach International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security, 2017
Advanced random Time Queue Blocking with traffic prediction for defense of low-rate DoS attacks against application servers International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security, 2017
Ensuring security on mobile device data with two phase RSA algorithm over cloud storage Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 2015
A improved pca basedzero crossing feature extraction for real-timebiometric Iris authentication inlow power resource constrained mobile devices International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 2015
Enhanced decoy based moving target defense mechanism with improved quality of service to handle cyber attacks in wireless networks International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 2014
Performance analysis of non linear filtering algorithms for underwater images Proceedings of the 2nd Wseas International Conference on Sensors and Signals Sensig 09 Visualization Imaging and Simulation Vis 09 Materials Science Materials 09, 2009
Performance evaluation of the various edge detectors and filters for the noisy IR images Proceedings of the 2nd Wseas International Conference on Sensors and Signals Sensig 09 Visualization Imaging and Simulation Vis 09 Materials Science Materials 09, 2009
A reliable secure multicast key distribution scheme for mobile adhoc networks World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology, 2009
Security analysis of password hardened multimodal biometric fuzzy vault World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology, 2009
ENHANCING CYBER DEFENSE AGAINST ZERO-DAY ATTACKS USING ENSEMBLE NEURAL NETWORKS PG Swathy Akshaya International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) 17 (4 … , 2025 2025
Password Strength Checker using Machine Learning Techniques GVG Padmavathi Grenze International Journal of Engineering and Technology 11 (2), 13429-13436 , 2025 2025
Adaptive Intrusion Detection System for Modern Networks using Deep Learning Technique KPSG Padmavathi Grenze International Journal of Engineering and Technology 11 (2), 13556-13564 , 2025 2025
Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning Models for their suitability in Flyrock Type Prediction induced by Mine Blasting G Padmavathi, DZA Hasbollah, ET Mohamad, A Roshni, R Bhatawdekar, ... EPJ Web of Conferences 343, 05013 , 2025 2025
ResNet50-based deep convolutional neural network for zero-day attack prediction and detection PG Akshaya, Swathy International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Exploration 12 … , 2025 2025 Citations: 4
Face Anti-Spoofing Approach Using Randomized Gamma Correction Based Data Augmentation Technique S Karthika, G Padmavathi, R Bhuvaneshwari International Conference on Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics, 124-140 , 2024 2024
Enhancing FGSM Attacks with Genetic Algorithms for Robust Adversarial Examples in Remote Sensing Image Classification Systems P Hemashree, G Padmavathi International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information … , 2024 2024 Citations: 2
Enhancing Face Spoofing Detection Via CNN Model Integration with Normalized Features S Karthika, G Padmavathi, R Bhuvaneshwari, G Samyuktha International Conference on Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies … , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Augmenting Cyber Defense Counter To Zero-Day Attacks Through Predictive Analysis-A Fusion Methodology Assimilating Game Theory and RESNet Inspired Optimization Techniques S Akshaya, P Ganapathi International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security 16 … , 2024 2024 Citations: 2
An intelligent obfuscated mobile malware detection using deep supervised learning algorithms P Ganapathi, R Arumugam, S Dhathathri Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 13 (4), 2604-2612 , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Resilience in Remote Sensing Image Classification: Evaluating Deep Learning Models Against Adversarial Attacks P Hemashree, G Padmavathi 2024 15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking … , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
Encrypted Access Mapping in a Distinctly Routed Optimized Immune System to Prevent DoS Attack Variants in VANET Architecture G Padmavathi International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security (IJCNIS … , 2024 2024
Cloud insider threat detection using deep learning models D Shanmugapriya, CJ Dhanya, S Asha, G Padmavathi, DNP Suthisini 2024 11th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global … , 2024 2024 Citations: 9
Performance Analysis of Cyberbullying Threats in Social Media using Machine Learning Techniques DNP Suthisini, JJ Merlien, D Shanmugapriya, G Padmavathi, A Roshni 2024 11th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global … , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
Detecting cross-site scripting attack using machine learning algorithms S Karthika, G Padmavathi, A Roshni, S Varshini 2024 11th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global … , 2024 2024 Citations: 4
A Stacked Ensemble Model to Detect Network Intrusions S Sneha, A Roshni, G Padmavathi Grenze International Journal of Engineering & Technology (GIJET) 10 , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Detection of Obfuscated Malware using Ensemble Learning Techniques. S Kiruthika, A Roshni, G Padmavathi Grenze International Journal of Engineering & Technology (GIJET) 10 , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Evaluation of Selected Supervised Machine Learning Models for Phishing Website Detection. K Bhuvaneswari, A Roshni, G Padmavathi Grenze International Journal of Engineering & Technology (GIJET) 10 , 2024 2024
Intensity-Chromaticity-Luminance (ICL) Based Technique for Face Spoofing Detection S Karthika, G Padmavathi International Conference on Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics, 199-214 , 2023 2023
Panthera Leo Optimized Multilayer Feed Forward Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Model for Cloud M Kalaivani, G Padmavathi SN Computer Science 4 (6), 800 , 2023 2023 Citations: 1
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
A survey of attacks, security mechanisms and challenges in wireless sensor networks DG Padmavathi, M Shanmugapriya International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS … , 2009 2009 Citations: 724
A Survey on various Cyber Attacks and their Classification GP M Uma International Journal of Network Security 15 (6), 391-397 , 2013 2013 Citations: 379
A survey on resource allocation strategies in cloud computing PG Vinothina V, Sridaran R International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 3 (6 … , 2012 2012 Citations: 258
A survey of biometric keystroke dynamics: Approaches, security and challenges D Shanmugapriya, G Padmavathi International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security 5 (1 … , 2009 2009 Citations: 162
Comparison of filters used for underwater image pre-processing G Padmavathi, P Subashini, MM Kumar, SK Thakur International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security 10 (1), 58-65 , 2010 2010 Citations: 130
A Study on Vehicle Detection and Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks G Padmavathi, D Shanmugapriya, M Kalaivani Wireless Sensor Network 2 (2), 173-185 , 2010 2010 Citations: 125
Non linear Image segmentation using fuzzy c means clustering method with thresholding for underwater images G Padmavathi, MM Muthukumar, MSK Thakur International Journal of Computer Science Issues 7 (3), 35-40 , 2010 2010 Citations: 60
Mobile Device Data Security: A Cryptographic Approach by Outsourcing Mobile Data to Cloud M Sujithra, G Padmavathi, S Narayanan Elsevier-Procedia Computer Science 47, 480-485 , 2015 2015 Citations: 53
Mobile device security: A survey on mobile device threats, vulnerabilities and their defensive mechanism M Sujithra, G Padmavathi International Journal of Computer Applications 56 (14), 24-29 , 2012 2012 Citations: 49
Enhanced Image Fusion Algorithm Using Laplacian Pyramid and Spatial frequency Based Wavelet Algorithm GP N. Indhumadhi International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering(TM) 1 (5), 298-303 , 2011 2011 Citations: 44
Security analysis of password hardened multimodal biometric fuzzy vault VS Meenakshi, G Padmavathi Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 56, 312-320 , 2009 2009 Citations: 43
A Comparative Study and Performance Evaluation of Reactive Quality of service Routing Protocols in Mobile Adhoc Networks M Uma, G Padmavathi Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 6 (2), 223-229 , 2009 2009 Citations: 42
Taxonomy of security attacks and risk assessment of cloud computing MS Akshaya, G Padmavathi Advances in big data and cloud computing, 37-59 , 2018 2018 Citations: 41
An Efficient Feature Selection Technique for User Authentication using Keystroke Dynamics D Shanmugapriya, G Padmavathi IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security 11 (10 … , 2011 2011 Citations: 38
Malicious insider threat detection using variation of sampling methods for anomaly detection in cloud environment PG Asha S, Shanmugapriya D Computers and Electrical Engineering 105, 108519 , 2023 2023 Citations: 36
A survey on various security threats and classification of malware attacks, vulnerabilities and detection techniques GP Divya, S International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (TIJCSA) 2 (04), 66-72 , 2013 2013 Citations: 34
Classification and performance of AQM-based schemes for congestion avoidance K Chitra, G Padamavathi International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security 8 (1 … , 2010 2010 Citations: 34
Handbook of Research on Machine and Deep Learning Applications for Cyber Security P Ganapathi, D Shanmugapriya IGI Global, ISBN13: 9781522596110|ISBN10: 1522596119|EISBN13: 9781522596134 … , 2019 2019 Citations: 28
Security Analysis of Hardened Retina Based Fuzzy Vault VS Meenakshi, G Padmavathi IEEE - International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologies in … , 2009 2009 Citations: 28
Performance analysis of Non Linear Filtering Algorithms for underwater images DG Padmavathi, DP Subashini, MMM Kumar, SK Thakur International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS … , 2009 2009 Citations: 26