Subhasis Chaudhuri Explained

Subhasis Chaudhuri
Birth Date:1963 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Bahutali, West Bengal, India
Known For:Studies on Computer vision

Subhasis Chaudhuri (born 1963) is an Indian electrical engineer and former director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay). He is a former K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay.[1] [2] He is known for his pioneering studies on computer vision[3] and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the National Academy of Sciences, India,[4] Indian Academy of Sciences,[5] and Indian National Science Academy.[6] He is also a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,[7] and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.[8] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004 for his contributions to Engineering Sciences.[9]

Biography

Subhasis Chaudhuri, born on 1 March 1963 at Bahutali, a small village in Murshidabad district, West Bengal to Santa and Nihar Kumar Chaudhuri, earned his graduate degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985.[10] Moving to Canada, he obtained a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in 1987 and joined the University of California, San Diego for his doctoral studies from where he secured a PhD in 1990.[11] He returned to India the same year and started his career at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay as an assistant professor.[12] He was promoted as an associate professor in 1994 and as a professor in 1998 and in 2005, he became the head of the department of electrical engineering, a post he held till 2008.[13] During this period, he had three sabbaticals abroad; as a visiting professor at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1996) and at University of Paris XI (2002–03)[14] and as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Technical University of Munich (May–June 2007).[15] He served as director of IIT Bombay from April 2019 to April 2024 [16] and holds the K. N. Bajaj Chair.

Chaudhuri is married and the couple has two children. The family lives in Powai, a suburb of Mumbai.

Legacy

Chaudhuri's work have been mainly in the areas of pattern recognition, image processing, and computer vision. He is known to have developed a number of techniques including a methodology for acquiring super-resolved depth map from defocus and is one of the pioneers of researches in motion-free super-resolution. His work covered the fields of motion estimation, restoration, computational photography and biomedical image analysis which has applications in cytology, microscopy, material science, biomedical science and pharmaceutics. Computational haptics is another area of his researches. He has developed several new methodologies and holds US and Indian patents for a number of them.[17] [18] He has documented his researches by way of several articles;[19] Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online article repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them.[20] [21] Besides, he has co-authored six books viz. Motion-Free Super-Resolution,[22] Hyperspectral Image Fusion,[23] Blind Image Deconvolution: Methods and Convergence,[24] Depth From Defocus: A Real Aperture Imaging Approach,[25] Video Analysis and Repackaging for Distance Education[26] and Ambulation Analysis in Wearable ECG[27] and edited two more, Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society: An IFIP TC9 (Computers and Society) Handbook[28] and Super-Resolution Imaging.[29]

Chaudhuri sat in the editorial boards of several journals including International Journal of Computer Vision of Springer, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and IET Computer Vision of Institution of Engineering and Technology. He chaired a program at the 2005 edition of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) at Beijing and served as the program chair of Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) held in 2006 at Mumbai; he also co-chaired the 2002 edition of ICVGIP.[30] He has delivered invited or plenary speeches in several conferences including the Fifth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG) held in December 2015 at Patna and has been involved in external teaching programs of IIT Bombay[31] and other institutions.[32] [33] He serves as a member of the Council of the Indian National Science Academy,[34] the Publications Committee of International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications (RAHA 2016)[35] and the Advisory Council of the Information Technology Research Academy.[36] As the Dean of International Relations of IIT Bombay, he has been involved in inter-institutional cooperations;[37] spearheading the IITB's efforts to open an off-campus in New York[38] [39] and the establishment of cooperation with International Cooperation Between the Advanced Institute of Manufacturing With High-Tech Innovations (AIM-HI), Taiwan count among them.[40]

Patents

Visual Object Tracking With Scale and Orientation AdaptationA methodology for tracking objects in a video by segmenting an object in a video and tracking the location of each segments. The method has applications in remote sensing, surveillance and monitoring, and military.[41]
Image Object Tracking and Segmentation Using Active ContoursA method of segmentation of video images involving identification of object contours and segmenting contours using an estimation of weighted length of contour segments.[42]
Device and Method for Automatically recreating a Content Preserving and Compression Efficient Lecture VideoA video lesson, which involves merging of video and audio data captured by several fixed cameras placed in the lecture room, requires intense manual labor for converting it into a video lecture. Chaudhuri's method provides recreation of a lecture by automatic merging of the video and audio content by preserving content and compression efficiency. The system eliminates redundant and unstructured data streams.[43]
System for creating a capsule representation of an instructional videoThis method involves generation of a compressed video capsule of a lecture by recognizing activities and segmenting them based on the parameters of talking head, writing hand and slideshow using Hidden Markov model. The process separates the content frames of writing hand and slideshow from the non-content frames of talking head and a capsule is generated by selecting suitable content and non-content frames.[44]
System and method for fusing imagesThe method involves identification and segregation of images into plurality of sets and fusing the sets into a fused image. Several such fused images are fused again to generate the desired fused image.[45]

Awards and honors

Chaudhuri received the Shri Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award of the Physical Research Laboratory in 2011,[46] followed by the Prof. S. V. C. Aiya Memorial Award of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, the same year.[47] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2004.[48] The Prof. H.H. Mathur Excellence in Research Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay reached him in 2007[49] and he received the G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research from the K. K. Birla Foundation in 2010.[50] A year later, he was awarded the 2011 NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award.[51]

Chaudhuri has received three major research fellowships in his career; starting with Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 2003,[52] followed by the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship in 2007 and J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2008. The year 2003 brought him two more honors viz. the elected fellowships of the National Academy of Sciences, India.[53] and Indian National Academy of Engineering.[54] Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 2005 and he became a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2011. In 2012, he received the elected fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy.[55]

Selected bibliography

Authored books

Book: Subhasis Chaudhuri. Amit Bhardwaj. Kinesthetic Perception- A Machine Learning Approach. 2017. Springer, NY, ISBN 978-981-10-6692-4.

Edited books

Articles

See also

External links

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri on IITB . 2017 . IIT Bombay.
  2. Web site: Chaudhuri's Home Page on IITB . 2017 . Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bomba.
  3. Web site: Brief Profile of the Awardee . 2017 . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
  4. Web site: NASI fellows . 2016 . National Academy of Sciences, India.
  5. Web site: Fellow profile . 2016 . Indian Academy of Sciences.
  6. Web site: Indian fellow . 2016 . Indian National Science Academy.
  7. Web site: IEEE Fellows Directory . 2016 . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  8. Web site: INAE fellows . https://web.archive.org/web/20150403030936/http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ . dead . 3 April 2015 . 2016 . Indian National Academy of Engineers .
  9. Web site: View Bhatnagar Awardees . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize . 2016 . 12 November 2016.
  10. Web site: Speakers . 2017 . Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology.
  11. Web site: Faculty profile . 2017 . Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay.
  12. Web site: Subhasis Chaudhuri on PRL . 2017 . Physical Research Laboratory.
  13. Web site: Chaudhuri on RIT . 2017 . Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology.
  14. Web site: Biography on IIT Patna . 2017 . IIT Patna.
  15. Web site: Visitors . 2017 . Technical University of Munich.
  16. Web site: Biography on NCC . 2017 . National Conference on Communications.
  17. Web site: Listing on Justia . 2017 . Justia Patetnts.
  18. Web site: Listing on Patent Docs . 2017 . Patent Encyclopedia.
  19. Web site: Browse by Fellow . 2016 . Indian Academy of Sciences.
  20. Web site: On Google Scholar . 2016 . Google Scholar.
  21. Web site: On ResearchGate . 2016 .
  22. Book: Subhasis Chaudhuri. Joshi Manjunath. Motion-Free Super-Resolution. 20 June 2006. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-0-387-25908-6.
  23. Book: Subhasis Chaudhuri. Ketan Kotwal. Hyperspectral Image Fusion. 25 May 2013. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-1-4614-7470-8.
  24. Book: Subhasis Chaudhuri. Rajbabu Velmurugan. Renu Rameshan. Blind Image Deconvolution: Methods and Convergence. 22 September 2014. Springer. 978-3-319-10485-0.
  25. Book: Subhasis Chaudhuri. A.N. Rajagopalan. Depth From Defocus: A Real Aperture Imaging Approach. 6 December 2012. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-1-4612-1490-8.
  26. Book: A. Ranjith Ram. Subhasis Chaudhuri. Video Analysis and Repackaging for Distance Education. 14 July 2012. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-1-4614-3837-3.
  27. Book: Subhasis Chaudhuri. Tanmay D. Pawar. Siddhartha Duttagupta. Ambulation Analysis in Wearable ECG. 3 May 2010. Springer US. 978-1-4419-0725-7.
  28. Book: Subhasis Chaudhuri. Manjunath V. Joshi. Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society: An IFIP TC9 (Computers and Society) Handbook. 9 June 2005. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-387-25587-3.
  29. Book: Subhasis Chaudhuri. Super-Resolution Imaging. 18 April 2006. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-0-306-47004-2.
  30. Web site: Program Co-Chairs . 2017 . Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing.
  31. Web site: Egomotion Estimation and Mapping in a Stereo Camera Setup . 2017 . IIT Bombay.
  32. Web site: What is meant by aliasing and how it can be avoided? . 2017 . Video-co-learn.
  33. Web site: Blind De-ghosting for Automatic Multi-exposure Compositing . 28 October 2009 . ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.
  34. Web site: Present Council . 2017 . Indian National Science Academy.
  35. Web site: Publications Committee . 2017 . International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications.
  36. Web site: Advisory Council . 2017 . Information Technology Research Academy.
  37. Web site: IIT Bombay Professors Visit Houston, Seek Tie-Ups With UH, Rice . 7 November 2012 . India Herald.
  38. Web site: Mumbai's IIT Seeks New York Campus . 14 February 2011 . The Wall Street Jpournal.
  39. Web site: Guest Visits to UoM . 2017 . University of Moratuwa.
  40. Web site: New Milestone of International Cooperation Between the Advanced Institute of Manufacturing With High-Tech Innovations (AIM-HI) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay . 2017 . Marketwired.
  41. Web site: Visual Object Tracking With Scale and Orientation Adaptation . V. Srikrishnan, Tadinada Nagaraj, Subhasis Chaudhuri . 16 June 2011 . US Patent . Patent No. 8335348.
  42. Web site: Image Object Tracking and Segmentation Using Active Contours . V. Srikrishnan, Subhasis Chaudhuri . 15 July 2014 . US Patent . Patent No. 8781160.
  43. Web site: Device and Method for Automatically recreating a Content Preserving and Compression Efficient Lecture Video . Subhasis Chaudhuri, Aladukkam Ram Ranjith, Trupti Narendra Thete . 20 August 2013 . US Patent . Patent No. 8515258.
  44. Web site: System for creating a capsule representation of an instructional video . Subhasis Chaudhuri, A. Ranjith Ram . 1 December 2015 . US Patent . Patent No. 9202141.
  45. Web site: System and method for fusing images . Subhasis . Chaudhuri . Ketan . Kotwal . Shanmuganathan . Raman . 11 November 2014 . US Patent . Patent No. 8884989.
  46. Web site: PRL honours scientists with awards . 11 November 2003 . Times of India.
  47. Web site: IETE Prof. S. V. C. Aiya Memorial Award . 2013 . Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers.
  48. Web site: Engineering Sciences . 2016 . Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211647/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Engineering_SCIENCES.htm . 2015-09-23 .
  49. Web site: Prof. H.H. Mathur Excellence in Research Award . 2017 . Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre, IIT Bombay.
  50. Web site: G. D. Birla Award . 26 May 2011 . Jagran Josh.
  51. Web site: NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award . 2017 . National Academy of Sciences, India.
  52. Web site: Swarna Jayanthi Fellowship . 2016 . Department of Science and Technology.
  53. Web site: NASI Year Book 2015 . 2016 . National Academy of Sciences, India.
  54. Web site: Chaudhuri on INAE . 2017 . Indian National Academy of Engineering.
  55. Web site: INSA Year Book 2016 . 2016 . Indian National Science Academy.

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