Praveen Choppala
Please Note
This person can no longer be contacted through the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
I have now moved to UNSW Australia. Please refer here for up-to-date information.
I can be contacted at praveen.b.choppala@gmail.com
I obtained my PhD on the 11th December 2014. My PhD study was supported by Callaghan Innovation (formerly Industrial Research Limited) Science Scholarship. My thesis can be found at: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10063/3676/thesis.pdf?sequence=2
I am also continuing my research along with my former supervisors Associate Professor Paul Teal and Dr Marcus Frean, on several aspects of Bayesian inference -- Bayesian multiple target tracking using phased sensor arrays, particle filtering methods, particle filter parallelisation and random finite set filtering. The focus of our work is the effective detection and tracking of multiple (many) targets in high noise environments. Some results of our work can be found at http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Groups/CSP/PublicationExtras
Publications:
[1] Praveen B. Choppala, "Bayesian multiple target tracking," PhD Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014.
[2] Praveen B. Choppala, Paul D. Teal, Marcus R. Frean, “Adapting the multi-Bernoulli filter to phased array observations using MUSIC as pseudo-likelihood,” in Proc. Information Fusion, July, 2014 (Salamanca, Spain).
[3] Praveen B. Choppala, Paul D. Teal, Marcus R. Frean, “Particle filter parallelisation using random network based resampling,” in Proc. Information Fusion, July, 2014 (Salamanca, Spain).
[4] Praveen B. Choppala, Marcus R. Frean, Paul D. Teal, “Soft systematic resampling for accurate posterior approximation and increased information retention in particle filtering,” in Proc. IEEE Int'l. Workshop Statistical Signal Process. June, 2014 (Gold Coast, Australia). Simulation videos and matlab code here
[5] Praveen B. Choppala, Paul D. Teal, Marcus R. Frean, “Soft resampling for improved information retention in particle filtering,” in Proc. IEEE Int'l. Conf. Acoust., Speech and Signal Process., May, 2013 (Vancouver, Canada).
[6] K. Kumar, P. Bhaskaran, Praveen B. Choppala , “A novel argument to use 8 bit media processor for low power VLSI design,” in Proc. IAENG Int'l. MultiConf. Engineers and Computer Scientists, Vol 1, 2008 (Hong Kong). [7] GMV Prasad, Praveen B. Choppala, “Design of Eurocom A to V.35 converter,” in Proc. IETE & SEMCE Int'l. Conf. Bio-medical Electron. and Instrument., 2004 (Visakhapatnam, India). Technical talks: [1] "A variance based data visualisation technique for non-destructive testing," Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, December, 2014. [1] "Particle filter parallelisation using random network resampling," Communications and Signal Processing group, Victoria University of Wellington, February, 2014. [2] "Benefits of using MUSIC as a pseudo-likelihood in multi-target Bayesian filtering," Communications and Signal Processing group, Victoria University of Wellington, June, 2013. [3] "A soft resampler for particle filtering," Communications and Signal Processing group, Victoria University of Wellington, February, 2013. [4] "Track-before-detect particle filter," Communications and Signal Processing group, Victoria University of Wellington, August, 2012. [5] "Statistical modelling of fuzzy natural language statements for tracking applications," Communications and Signal Processing group, Victoria University of Wellington, March, 2012. [6] "Particle filter for target tracking," Communications and Signal Processing group, Victoria University of Wellington, September, 2011. Student conferences: [1] Praveen B. Choppala, “Soft resampling for particle filtering,” IEEE NZ central section post graduate student presentation, 2012. (Best presentation/paper award) [2] Praveen B. Choppala, "Coherent acoustics coding system," IETE & SEMCE, Conf. Electron. & Adv. TeleComm., Visakahapatnam, 2004. [3] Praveen B. Choppala, "Fuzzy based ECG pattern recognition,'' IETE Conf. Inf., Comm., Entertainment, Visakahapatnam, 2003. [4] Praveen B. Choppala, "BioRobotics in open heart surgery,'' IETE & SEMCE Conf., Adv. Comm., Visakahapatnam, 2002