Ayesha Choudhary

Ayesha Choudhary
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre: 
School of Computer & Systems Sciences
Room No: 
215
Off. Phone: 
011-26704776
Email: 
ayeshac@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage: 
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications: 
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, March 2011. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Thesis Title: Automated Analysis of Surveillance Videos
M.Tech., Computer Applications, December 2001. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
M.Sc. Mathematics, May 2000. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
B.A. (Honors) Mathematics, July 1998. Delhi University, New Delhi, India 
Areas of Interest/Specialization: 

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Digital Image Processing, Linear Algebra, Optimization

Experience: 
1. November 2013 - till date. Assistant Professor, School of Computer and System Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 
2. January 2011 – August 2013. Position: Research Associate, IRD, IIT Delhi, Project Title: "Immersive Environments for Tele-operations",Funding Agency: BARC, India.
3. April 2009 - December 2010. Position: Project Scientist, IRD, IIT Delhi. Project Title: "Visual Enhancement, Manipulation and Re-targetting of Videos", Funding Agency: Naval Research Board, India.
4. October 2008 - March 2009. Position: Project Scientist, IRD, IIT Delhi. Project Title: "TCS Media Lab at IIT Delhi (Visual Surveillance)". Funding Agency: Tata Consultancy Services (Research), India.
5. February 2002 - August 2002. Position: Associate, Technology, Employer: Sapient Corporation Pvt. Ltd. 
Awards & Honours: 

Represented IIT Delhi in Japan as part of the JENESYS 2008 contingent visiting Japan in December 2008.

International Collaboration/Consultancy: 

N/A 

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5): 

 

* “Distributed Framework for Composite Event Recognition in a Calibrated Pan-Tilt Camera Network”, Ayesha Choudhary, Santanu Chaudhury and Subhashis Banerjee. In Proceedings of the Seventh Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Chennai, December 2010.

* “Distributed Calibration of a Pan-Tilt Camera Network using Multi-layered Belief Propagation”, Ayesha Choudhary, Gaurav Sharma, Santanu Chaudhury and Subhashis Banerjee. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Camera Networks, in conjuntion with the Twenty third IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), San Francisco, USA, June 2010.

* “A Framework for Analysis of Surveillance Videos”, Ayesha Choudhary, Santanu Chaudhury and Subhashis Banerjee. In Proceedings of the Sixth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2008). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, pages 344-351, Bhubhaneshwar, India, December 2008. 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3): 

Book Chapter:†Clustering for Multi-perspective Video Analytics: A Soft Computing based Approac?, Ayesha Choudhary, Santanu Chaudhury and Subhashis Banerjee. (Eds. Shankar K. Pal, Alfredo Petrosino and Lucia Maddalena) published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Talor & Francis Group, January 2012. 

Patents (if any): 
Title: Technology for Multi-Perspective Video Analysis
Application No.: 1034/DEL/2008
Publication Date: 30/10/2009
Journal No.: 44/2009
Name of Inventors: Santanu Chaudhury, Ayesha Choudhary and Subhashis Banerjee