Chetan J

Center for Visual Information Technology

chetan@research.iiit.ac.in
International Institute of Information Technology
+91 - 9492344665.
Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500032, INDIA
http://researchweb.iiit.ac.in/˜chetan

Objective

My objective is to work in the field of Machine learning and Computer vision and apply my academic experience to
solve the real-world problems. I want to work in an organization where my skills are put to best use.

Education

B.Tech and M.S., Computer Science and Engineering

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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad CGPA: 7.68
– Master of Science (by Research) (2008-2009)
Specialization: Image processing, Computer vision and Machine Learning.
Dissertation Topic: Optimization and recognition in vision.
Advisor: Dr. C. V. Jawahar.
– Bachelor of Technology (2004 - 2008)
Senior Secondary
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Prathiba College, Vizag (Percentage:95%) May 2004
Secondary
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Saraswathi Vidya Vihar (SSC), Visakhapatnam (Percentage:82%) May 2002

Experience

• Research Assistant, CVIT, May 2008 - till date.

• System administrator for Computational cluster of CVIT research lab, July 2007 - till date.
• Research Internship, Honeywell Ltd., Bangalore, May - July 2007.
• Internship, Digital Library of India, IIIT-H. May - July 2006.

Publications

• Chetan J., Madhava Krishna and C. V. Jawahar, Outdoor Terrain Classification using Single Camera
• Visesh Chari, Anil Nelakanti, Chetan Jakkoju and C. V. Jawahar, Piecewise Planar Reconstruction
using Convex Optimization. In Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision , China 2009.
• Chetan Jakkoju, Sreekanth Vempati, B. Rakesh Babu, Vamshi Ambati and C. V. Jawahar, Book Reader
Interface: Image Processing Issues. In Proceedings of International Conference on Universal Digital
Libraries, Alexandria, Eygpt, Nov 2006.

MS Thesis, Advisor: Dr.C.V.Jawahar

Optimization and Geometry in Computer Vision

Broad Objective : The broad objective of this work is to develop algorithms for solving a class of problems in
computer vision based on convex optimization and Machine learning.
The problems of interest primarily fall in the broad area of
• Piece-wise planar reconstruction.
 • Terrain recognition for mobile robots.
• Layer extraction and its applications.

Project Experience

Research and Major projects

Layer extraction using simple motion features Technology:Matlab, C++, Oops

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Adivsor:C.V.Jawahar,Madhava Krishna
– This is on-going research project, our goal is to extract different layers in a given video, we formulate the
problem in a supervised manner. The motivation comes from the image-segmentation problem in
computer vision, where the transition from unsupervised segmentation to super-vised segmentation is
seen.
Outdoor Terrain Classification using Single Camera Technology:Matlab, C++
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Adivsor:C.V.Jawahar,Madhava Krishna
– Terrain classification in real world situations, where we deal with the video recorded by a camera
attached to the moving vehicle. Most of the existing methods use costly lasers or vibration sensors to
perform terrain classification. We propose an algorithm which is purely based on a single monocular
camera, we have also built an annotated database for this problem on which the proposed methods is
extensively tested. As compared to the base algorithms which use color and texture features and their
combination with various classifiers such as SVM and Random Forests, using our algorithm we achieve a
gain of 10% in accuracy on our own dataset and other publicly available datasets.
Planar Scene Modeling from Quasiconvex Subproblems Technology:Matlab
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Adivsor:C.V.Jawahar
– 3D Reconstruction of the world approximating surroundings by planes and to reconstruct each of the
planes and recover the camera positions using Convex Optimization. Existing methods based on SVD
being sensitive to noise and outliers. We formulate the problem in a quasi-convex iterative method,
which is more robust than existing Bundle-adjustment methods. Results show that our method is more
resilience to noise.
Fast Pose Invariant Face Recognition Technology: OpenCV, Visual Studio 2008
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Adivsor:C.V.Jawahar
– Any practical face-recognition algorithm suffers from two basic problems, they are variation of pose and
huge illumination changes. In this project, we developed a machine learning based fast pose-invariant
face recognition algorithm, which normalizes the effect of pose by detecting the pose of the face and we
use Local Binary Patterns (LBP) as features which are inherently robust to illumination changes along
with Self Quotient Operation on image to normalize the illumination effects.
Face Recognition Technology:Matlab
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Adivsor:C.V.Jawahar
– Involves independent study of state-of-the-art Face recognition algorithms along with experiments
several databases (YALE).
Human full body tracking Technology:C++, Oops
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At Honeywell
– Implemented the basic protopype of the paper by Bo Wu and Ram Nevatia, which was published in
CVPR 2007.
Building Tiff Plug-in for Firefox and image-server-daemon for DLI Technology: C, Qt, AJAX, Python
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Adivsor:C.V.Jawahar
– The aim of this project is to build a tiff plug-in which enables firefox to view tiff images and building
image-server-daemon which is capable of serving images of different formats and resolutions to end users
of DLI intelligently. This was successfully deployed in DLI
 Road detection in SAR images Technology: Image processing, Matlab
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Adivsor:K. S. Rajan
– Aerial Video based mapping is an alternative method at getting spatial information, without the rigours
of aerial Photogrammetric methods. In this project, the effort will be to develop the algorithms for
creating linearly linked images out of the captured video and extracting referenced linear features from
it.
Video Google for News Videos Technology: Image processing, Computer vision, Machine Learning, etc.,
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Advisor: C.V. Jawahar
– Implementation of Video Google for news videos, which involves retrieving the most relevant
frames/shots which contain the user selected object from an image. Motivation comes from the search
engine by Google for Text, here we deal with videos. (A team project of size 18)
Cross Lingual Search Engine (Hindi-English) Technology: Information extraction, Python and Nutch
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Advisor: Vasudev varma
– Given a query in hindi( an Indian language ) we convert the query to a meaningful English query and
then retrieve set of indexed documents.
Cell phone theft recovery Technology: Symbian C++, Carbide
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Advisor: Vishal Garg
– Developed a application for mobile phone called cell-phone-theft-recover, When ever the SIM card of the
mobile is changed, the cell automatically sends a message to the pre-specified cell number. By which the
location of the cell can be recoverd.

Minor Projects

Modelling a Indian Train, Tetris Game etc.,

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Computer Graphics Dec-2006
Image Morphing
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Digital Image Processing May-2006
Simple Bash shell and Chat program using PIPES
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Operating Systems May-2005

Courses Pursued

Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Digital Image Processing,
Information Extraction and Retrieval, Spatial Informatics, Operations research, Convex optimization(Independent
study), Geometric Vision(Independent study), Graph Theory, Linear Programming, Software Engineering,
Computer Networks, Database Management Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Compilers, Principles of
Programming Languages, Theory of Computation, C Programming, Data Structures, Computer Organization,
Operating Systems, Signals and Systems.

Skillset

Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, Windows 2003/XP, Win-ME

Programming Languages: GNU/C, GNU/C++,PHP
Scripting Languages: Shell, Python, Matlab
Libraries/API’s: Qt, OpenCV
Graphics libraries/API’s: openGL, glut
Programming Environments : Vim, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Other Tools: LATEX, XFIG, ImageMagick, MS Office,Adobe Photoshop.

Academic Achievements
 • Recipient of the Prathiba Scholarship in the year 2004 for academic excellence. Government of Andhra
Pradesh.
• Secured All India rank 2243 in AIEEE 2004. ( Approx among 5 lakh students ).
• Secured a State rank 719 in EAMCET 2004. ( Approx among 1 lakh students ).

MISC

• Assisted a research project in IIIT-Hyderabad for a MS student, whose work is on estimating pose of the face.
Which was also kept for demo in R & D show case 2007 (Research and development showcase at IIIT-H).
• Attended Workshop on Computer Vision ,WCV2008, workshop on computer vision held at IIIT Hyderabad
• Attended The Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing ,ICVGIP 2008.
• TechVista, Microsoft Research India’s annual research symposium, held in Chennai, India (Oct. 2008).
• Volunteer for “Muskaan” foundation that provides educational support for the children of economically under
privileged families.
• Volunteer for Workshop on Excitement of Research & R&D Showcase 2006 held at IIIT Hyderabad.

Interests

Academic: Machine learning, Computer Vision, Image and video processing.

Extra-academic: Photography, Health and Fitness, Human Psychology.
Sports: Cycling, Table-tennis and Chess
Arts: Interested in Fine arts, photography, video-grapy and making logos.

Reference

Dr. C.V. Jawahar +91 40 23001969/79 Ext: 148

Professor, IIIT-Hyderabad, India. http://www.iiit.net/people/faculty/jawahar
Dr. Madhava Krishna +91 40 66531000 Ext: 1269
Professor, IIIT-Hyderabad, India. http://www.iiit.net/people/faculty/mkrishna