Vandit Gajjar

Vandit Gajjar

vanditjyotindra.gajjar@student.adelaide.edu.au | vandit.research@gmail.com

I am a Cloud Engineer at PwC Australia. I did my master's in Computing and Innovation at The University of Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia. I hold a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from L. D. College of Engineering.

In the past, I have worked with Mehul S. Raval and Hiren Galiyawala on “Description Based Person Identification in Unconstrained Surveillance”.

My / / / can be found here.

News

I am excited to announce that I will be joining PwC Australia as a Cloud Engineer in Salesforce Practice.
I will serve as a reviewer for the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) - 2022.
I will serve as a reviewer for Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - 2022.
I will serve as a Program Committee member for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) - 2022.
I will serve as a reviewer for the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) - 2022.
I will serve as a reviewer for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) - 2021.
I will serve as a reviewer for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) - 2021.
I will serve as a reviewer for International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) - 2021.
I recieved the acknowledgment from Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV) - 2020 as an Outstanding Reviewer and Emergency Reviewer.

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About

My research is in the field of Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Cognitive Vision. Certain questions have led me to this research such as:

How human vision works to recognize object/object category with less number of samples?

What makes human vision so effective?

What can we learn from the human vision?

Thus intending to find the answers, I do research and develop methods for how to use Cognitive and Computer Vision to benefit each other. I have been also working on understanding vision from person’s perspective, such topics include:

Person identification based on the provided description in extremely dense scenes.

Human Detection, Pose Estimation and Tracking in surveillance vision.

Person Retrieval in Video Surveillance using Semantic Description.

Therefore in the Past, I have spent time at Ahmedabad University, Meditab Software Inc., Kansas State University, and GTU Robocon Team, where I worked with Hiren Galiyawala, Kenil Shah, Yash Khandhediya, Dwight Day, Kim Fowler and Raj Hakani on several projects.

For the last two years, I have worked to address the underrepresentation of undergraduates in the field of Computer Vision and have motivated undergraduates in the computing field. To this end, I and my colleague have co-founded Computer Vision Group – LDCE, which focuses on increasing undergraduates knowledge and participation in Computer Vision and Deep Learning Research.

In my free time, I use Twitter the most and sometimes I also use Instagram to post some of my travel photographs.

Publications

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PeR-ViS: Person Retrieval in Video Surveillance using Semantic Description
Parshwa Shah, Arpit Garg, Vandit Gajjar
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVw) - The 3rd International Workshop on Human Activity Detection in multi-camera, Continuous, long-duration Video (HADCV'21), 2021 (Oral)

CVF Open Access Version / Project Page / Oral Presentation / Slides / ArXiv / Bibtex / Reviews WACVw 2021 / Reviews WACV 2021 (Reject) / Reviews WACV 2020 - Round 1 (Reject) / Reviews WACV 2020 - Round 2 (Reject) / Reviews ICCV 2019 (Reject)

@InProceedings{Shah_2021_WACV,
    author    = {Shah, Parshwa and Garg, Arpit and Gajjar, Vandit},
    title     = {PeR-ViS: Person Retrieval in Video Surveillance Using Semantic Description},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    month     = {January},
    year      = {2021},
    pages     = {41-50}
}

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SAF- BAGE: Salient Approach for Facial Soft-Biometric Classification - Age, Gender, and Facial Expression
Ayesha Gurnani*, Kenil Shah*, Vandit Gajjar*, Viraj Mavani*, Yash Khandhediya*
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2019 (Oral) and Invited long-talk at Workshop on Demographic Variations in Performance of Biometric Algorithms in conjunction with IEEE WACV 2019.
* Authors are listed alphabetically and have contributed equally.

IEEE Proceeding / Oral Presentation / Slides / Poster / ArXiv / Bibtex / Reviews WACV 2019 / Reviews CVPRw - AMFG 2018 (Reject)

@InProceedings{Gurnani_2019_WACV,
author = {Gurnani, Ayesha and Shah, Kenil and Gajjar, Vandit and Mavani, Viraj and Khandhediya, Yash},
title = {SAF-BAGE: Salient Approach for Facial Soft-Biometric Classification - Age, Gender, and Facial Expression},
booktitle = {The IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision(WACV)},
month = {January},
year = {2019}}

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Person Retrieval in Surveillance Video using Height, Color and Gender
Hiren Galiyawala, Kenil Shah, Vandit Gajjar, Mehul S. Raval
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance(AVSS) - Semantic Person Retrieval in Surveillance using Soft Biometrics Challenge, 2018 (Oral)

IEEE Proceeding / Oral Presentation / Code / Slides / ArXiv / Bibtex / Reviews

@InProceedings{Galiyawala_2018_AVSS,
author = {Galiyawala, Hiren and Shah, Kenil and Gajjar, Vandit and Raval Mehul S.},
title = {Person Retrieval in Surveillance Video using Height, Color and Gender},
booktitle = {The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance(AVSS)},
month = {November},
year = {2018}}

Third in Semantic Person Retrieval Challenge.

Media Coverage

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ViS-HuD: Using Visual Saliency to Improve Human Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks
Vandit Gajjar*, Yash Khandhediya*, Ayesha Gurnani, Viraj Mavani, Mehul S. Raval
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Mutual Benefits of Cognitive and Computer Vision Workshop (CVPRw) , 2018 (Poster)
* Authors contributed equally

CVF Open Access Version / IEEE Proceeding / Poster / ArXiv / Bibtex / Reviews

@InProceedings{Gajjar_2018_CVPR_Workshops,
author = {Gajjar, Vandit and Khandhediya, Yash and Gurnani, Ayesha and Mavani, Viraj and Raval, Mehul S.},
title = {ViS-HuD: Using Visual Saliency to Improve Human Detection With Convolutional Neural Networks},
booktitle = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
month = {June},
year = {2018}}

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2^B3^C: 2 Box 3 Crop of Facial Image for Gender Classification with Convolutional Networks
Vandit Gajjar

Arxiv / Bibtex / Reviews

@article{Gurnani20182^B3^C,
Author    = {Vandit Gajjar},
Title     = {2^B3^C: 2 Box 3 Crop of Facial Image for Gender Classification with Convolutional Networks},
Journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02181},
Year      = {2018}}

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Human Detection and Tracking for Video Surveillance: A Cognitive Science Approach
Vandit Gajjar, Ayesha Gurnani, Yash Khandhediya
International Conference on Computer Vision - Mutual Benefits of Cognitive and Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVw) , 2017 (Poster)

CVF Open Access Version / IEEE Proceeding / Poster / Arxiv / Bibtex

@InProceedings{Gajjar_2017_ICCV,
author = {Gajjar, Vandit and Gurnani, Ayesha and Khandhediya, Yash},
title = {Human Detection and Tracking for Video Surveillance: A Cognitive Science Approach},
booktitle = {The IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops},
month = {Oct},
year = {2017}}

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Flower Categorization using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Ayesha Gurnani, Viraj Mavani, Vandit Gajjar, Yash Khandhediya

Arxiv / Bibtex

@article{Gurnani2017Flower,
Author    = {Ayesha Gurnani and Viraj Mavani and Vandit Gajjar and Yash Khandhediya},
Title     = {Flower Categorization using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks},
Journal   = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03763},
Year      = {2017}}

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Hand Gesture Real Time Paint Tool - Box
Vandit Gajjar, Viraj Mavani, Ayesha Gurnani
IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI) , 2017 (Spotlight)

IEEE Proceeding / Bibtex

@article{Gajjar2017Hand,
Author    = {Vandit Gajjar and Viraj Mavani and Ayesha Gurnani},
Title     = {Hand Gesture Real Time Paint Tool - Box},
Journal   = {IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering},
Year      = {2017}}

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Human Detection for Night Surveillance using Adaptive Background Subtracted Image
Yash Khandhediya, Karishma Sav, Vandit Gajjar
National Conference on Advances in Computer Science Engineering & Technology (NCACSET) , 2017 (Oral)

Arxiv / Bibtex

@article{Khandhediya2017Human_Background,
Author    = {Yash Khandhediya and Karishma Sav and Vandit Gajjar},
Title     = {Human Detection for Night Surveillance using Adaptive Background Subtracted Image},
Journal   = {IJSRD - National Conference on Advances in Computer Science Engineering & Technology},
Year      = {2017}}

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