Sruti Das Choudhury
Sruti Das Choudhury
Research Assistant ProfessorPosition responsibilities
- Teaching (20%): “Computer Vision” (CSCE 473/873) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Research (30%): Conduct research improving existing and developing new innovative algorithms for computer vision based plant phenotyping research using suite of imaging modalities, e.g. visible, fluorescent, infrared, near infrared and hyperspectral; participate in transdisciplinary research pertaining to plant phenotyping.
- Scholary service and creative activity (50%): Lead the plant phenotyping software development using OpenCV, C++ and Matlab; dataset creation tailored to specific computer vision challenges with proper description and direction of use.
Post-doctoral experience
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A
- Early Career Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, U.K.
Teaching qualification
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Completed 2-year teaching qualification course entitled “Post Graduate Award: Introduction to Academic and Professional Practice” at the University of Warwick, U.K., 2013.
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D., School of Engineering, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- M.Tech., Computer Science and Application, University of Calcutta, India
- B.Tech., Information Technology, West Bengal University of Technology, India
Areas of Research
- Computer vision based plant phenotyping
- Human identification based on gait analysis
- Medical image processing
Teaching Experiences
- Lecturer in the Department of Information Technology in “Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management”, INDIA (8th September, 2005 - 30th September, 2010).
- In-charge of Bachelor of Computer Application in Nopany Institute of Management Studies, INDIA (Aug. 2006-Sept. 2007).
- Laboratory Demonstrator in the School of Engineering, University of Warwick, U.K. (2010-2013).
PhD Supervision
Uiversity: University of Calcutta, INDIA
Thesis title: Biomedical image processing for automated diagnosis of cancerous cell detection from digital X-Ray/CT images.
Role: Joint Supervisor
Honors and Awards
- 2017 Honorable mention, outstanding postdoctoral researcher, UNL, USA.
- 2016 Early Career Researchers Travel Award by Big Data Midwest Hub located at UIUC, USA.
- 2014 Insitutte of Advenced Study Early Career Research Fellowship, University of Warwick, U.K.
- 2013 Awarded EPSRC grant as the principl investigator of the interdisciplinary research project: "Smart Surveillance System: Multimodal Biometrics for Security and Law Enforcement".
- 2010 Awarded Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship and Engineering Bursary for PHD study.
- 2009 Secured first class first position in M.Tech (gold medallist).
Selected Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
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S. D. Choudhury, and T. Tjahjadi. 2016. Clothing and Carrying Condition Invariant Gait Recognition using Rotation Forest. Pattern Recognition Letters. 80:1-7.
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S. D. Choudhury, and T. Tjahjadi. 2015. Robust View-Invariant Multiscale Gait Recognition. Pattern Recognition. 48:798–811.
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S. D. Choudhury, and T. Tjahjadi. 2013. Gait Recognition Based on Shape and Motion Analysis of Silhouette Contour. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 117:1770-1785.
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S. D. Choudhury, and T. Tjahjadi. 2012. Silhouette-Based Gait Recognition using Procrustes Shape Analysis and Elliptic Fourier Descriptors. Pattern Recognition. 52(4):B82-B92.