Jay Chaudhari

Jay Nareshbhai Chaudhari

Visvesvaraya Research Scholar · IIIT Vadodara

Jay Nareshbhai Chaudhari is a Visvesvaraya Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Vadodara, working on Computer Vision & Edge AI. He holds a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (Automatic Control & Robotics) from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Beyond his research, he is an avid half marathon runner and enjoys playing the ukulele and singing Gujarati folk songs.

Research Interests
Surveillance Computer Vision Edge AI Model Compression Real-Time Systems

Awards & Achievements

Research & Experience

Person Retrieval in Video Surveillance
Research Fellow · Aug 2022 – Jul 2025 · Ahmedabad University, India
Funding: Gujarat Council on Science & Technology, Govt. of Gujarat  |  PI: Prof. Mehul Raval  |  Co-PI: Prof. Pawaan Sharma
  • Designed and developed two comprehensive person retrieval systems:
    • Single Query Discrete Framework: Developed novel CorPAR model — reduced parameters by 1.8–27% vs. SOTA with 1.63–8.07% F1 improvement. Achieved 22 FPS real-time on Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX via quantization & pruning.
    • Multi-Query Discrete Framework: Designed DensePAR + Siamese network; applied SVD tensor decomposition achieving 20 FPS on edge device.
    • Natural Language Queries: Designed and deployed a Transformer-based retrieval system for natural language queries.
  • Developed AnnoTool — a Python GUI for annotating images and videos for object detection tasks.
  • Developed QDP Studio — a unified model compression framework integrating quantization, pruning, decomposition, and knowledge distillation.
  • Conducted hands-on tutorial sessions and mentored undergraduate students in computer vision, ML, and edge AI. GitHub: Tutorials
Identification of Free-Ranging Mugger Crocodiles via UAV Imagery
2023 – 2025 · Ahmedabad University, India
PI: Prof. Ratna Ghosal  |  Co-PI: Prof. Mehul S Raval
  • Developed a two-stage deep learning system for individual mugger identification from UAV-captured data.
  • Addressed challenges of scale variability, viewpoints, occlusions, and background clutter.
  • Investigated system performance across data from two different seasons.
  • Outperformed existing baselines by 4%.
Sleep Stage Classification
2021 – 2022 · Masters Dissertation · MS University of Baroda
  • Developed a classification framework using Random Forest and Gradient Boosting Classifiers. GitHub: SSC
  • Applied wavelet decomposition (Coiflet, Daubechies, Biorthogonal) for EEG feature extraction.
  • Achieved 91% classification accuracy using Hjorth parameters.

Publications

Journal Articles
arXiv · 2025

M. Vitek et al. including J. Chaudhari, "Privacy-enhancing Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition: SSBC 2025," arXiv:2508.10737.

IEEE Access · 2025

J. N. Chaudhari, H. Galiyawala, P. Sharma, P. Shukla, M. S. Raval, "Onboard Person Retrieval System With Model Compression: A Case Study on Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX," IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 8257–8269.

IEEE Access · 2023

J. N. Chaudhari, H. Galiyawala, M. Kuribayashi, P. Sharma, M. S. Raval, "Designing Practical End-to-End System for Soft Biometric-Based Person Retrieval From Surveillance Videos," IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 133640–133657.

Conference Proceedings
IEEE VTC · 2023

H. Tripathi, J. N. Chaudhari, H. Galiyawala, P. Sharma, M. S. Raval, "Integrating Datasets with Discrete and Natural Language Annotations for Person Retrieval," IEEE VTC2023-Fall, Hong Kong, pp. 1–5.

Springer · ICRTE 2021

J. N. Chaudhari, H. S. Dhiman, P. Suthar, K. Manjunath, "Wavelet Transform-Based Comparative Analysis of Wind Speed Forecasting Techniques," Renewable Energy Optimization, Planning and Control, Springer Singapore, pp. 121–128.

Patent
Published · 2019 · Application No. 201821048029
Method and System for Natural Air Ventilation and Temperature Control for Vehicle

Inventors: Manish Kumar, Piyush Baldha, Jay Chaudhari, Sumit Upadhyay, Krunal Patel, Dr. Dipankar Deb  |  Published: 06/09/2019. Innovated a copper duct-based natural air ventilation system with water flow for temperature control in vehicles, enhancing passenger comfort and energy efficiency.

Services

I offer a range of academic and professional services to students, institutions, and organisations working in AI, computer vision, and related fields.

Hands-on Lab Sessions

Practical, project-based sessions on ML, deep learning, computer vision, and Edge AI — tailored for university students and researchers.

Mentorship

One-on-one guidance for students navigating research careers, thesis projects, publication writing, and PhD applications in AI/ML.

Talks & Lectures

Invited talks on surveillance systems, model compression, biometric recognition, and real-time AI at the edge.

Consultancy

Technical consultancy for organisations seeking to deploy AI-powered surveillance or edge-optimised vision pipelines in production.

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Get in Touch

Professional Services

Peer Review

Conferences

WACV 2026 AISTATS 2026 IJCNN 2025 BMVC 2024 CVMI 2024 AISTATS 2025 ECCV 2024 (WiCV Workshop)

Journals

IEEE Access IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society
Resource Person — Hands-on Sessions
Volunteering & Committees
Workshops, Summer Schools & Courses Attended
Feb 2025Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA Python, NVIDIA DLI
Feb 2025Building Real-Time Video AI Applications, NVIDIA DLI
Jul 2024Certificate Program on IoT and Autonomous Systems, IIIT Sricity, India
Jul 2023Summer School on AI and Computer Vision & ML, CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad
Jan 2023Winter School on Deep Learning, ISI Kolkata, India

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