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Ayesha Choudhary

Ayesha Choudhary

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

 

* “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

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 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.