Ayesha Choudhary


Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Email: ayesha AT cse.iitd.ernet.in
Thesis Title: "Automated Analysis of Surveillance Videos"
Advisors: Prof. Subhashis Banerjee and Prof. Santanu Chaudhury


Research Interests

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Linear Algebra, Computer Graphics


Publications

  1. " Discovering Activities and Their Temporal Significance", Ayesha Choudhary, Tanveer A. Faruquie, Subhashis Banerjee and Santanu Chaudhury. In Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Confernece on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, Beijing, China, September 2012.

  2. Book Chapter "Clustering for Multi-perspective Video Analytics: A Soft Computing based Approach", 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.

  3. "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. (pdf)

  4. "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. (pdf)

  5. "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. (pdf)

  6. "Unusual Activity Analysis using Video Epitomes and pLSA", Ayesha Choudhary, Manish Pal, Subhashis Banerjee and Santanu Chaudhury. In Proceedings of the Sixth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2008). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, pages 390-397, Bhubhaneshwar, India.(pdf)

  7. "Unusual Activity Analysis in Video Sequences", Ayesha Choudhary, Santanu Chaudhury and Subhashis Banerjee. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC 2007). A. An, J. Stefanowski, S. Ramanna, C. J. Butz, W. Pedrycz, and G. Wang, Eds. Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4482. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pages 443-450, Toronto, Canada, May 2007. (pdf)


Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, March 2011.
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
M.Tech., Computer Applicationsg, 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


Work Experience

  1. January 2011 - To Present
    Position: Research Associate
    Project Title: "Immersive Environments for Tele-operations"
    Project P.I.: Prof. Prem Kumar Kalra
    Funding Agency: BARC, India.

  2. April 2009 - December 2010
    Position: Project Scientist
    Project Title: "Visual Enhancement, Manipulation and Re-targetting of Videos"
    Project P.I.: Prof. Subhashis Banerjee
    Funding Agency: Naval Research Board, India.

  3. October 2008 - March 2009
    Position: Project Scientist
    Project Title: "TCS Media Lab at IIT Delhi (Visual Surveillance)"
    Project P.I.: Prof. Subhashis Banerjee
    Funding Agency: Tata Consultancy Services (Research), India.

  4. February 2002 - August 2002
    Position: Associate, Technology
    Employer: Sapient Corporation Pvt. Ltd.