Pradeep Rajiv

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E-mail: pradeepr@research.iiit.ac.in, pradeep.voldemort@gmail.com
Contact No: +91 9949643939
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Career Goals

Working in a Research environment and making substantial contributions in the field of Computer Vision and Algorithms inclusive of Graph Theory and make some useful contributions in the teaching field.

Education

  • MS by Research (CSE), IIIT-Hyderabad, (expected December, 2009);
  • B. Tech. (CSE), IIIT- Hyderabad, June 2008, CGPA 8.31.
  • Ratna Junior College, Hyderabad, May 2004, 90%.

Work Experience

  • Research Assistant, CVIT, sept 2007 - till date.
    Project: Online Hand Writing Recognition for Telugu Language.
  • Research Assistant, CVIT, May 2008 - Feb 2009 .
    Project: Study on 3D reconstruction of specular surfaces .
  • Research Assistant, CVIT, Feb 2009 - till date .
    Project: PTM Synthesis From Single Images For Photo Realistic Rendering .
  • Teaching Assistant, Spring 2008 .
    Course:Graph Theory For Computer Scientists.

Academic Achievements

  • Figured in the Dean's List for Academic Excellence in the following semesters: Monsoon 2007, Spring 2008.
  • Secured All India rank 2251 out of 4,00,000 applicants in AIEEE 2004.
  • Recipient of Pratibha scholarship award from the govt. of Andhra Pradesh.

Conferences and Workshops Attended

  • ACCV 2006 on Computer Vision held in Hyderabad in January 2006
  • TechVista, Microsoft Research India's annual research symposium, held in Chennai, India (Oct. 2008).
  • The first Indo-Israel Workshop on Computer Vision (WCV 2008), held in Hyderabad, India (Feb. 2008).
  • Attended several local seminars and workshops which focus on the latest updates in Web technology and Entrepreneurship.

MS Thesis

PTM Synthesis From Single Images For Photo Realistic Rendering
(Advisor: Dr. Anoop Namboodiri )
Objective : To realistically render an object under different illumination conditions by PTM modeling ,given its image or geometric structure. The objective has been a continuously evolving one and right now progressing in the direction of image based constraint.


Major Projects

  • Implementation of a Paper on Improved Adaptive Background Mixture Model for Real- time Tracking with Shadow Detection
    Advisors: Dr. Anoop Namboodiri
    (Honours Project, CVIT, IIIT-H.)(Team of size 2)
    Abstract : The Aim was to implement the paper by P. KaewTraKulPong and R. Bowden on Real-time segmentation of moving regions in image sequences and shadow detection.
    Technology Used : Matlab

  • Family of homographies governing a planar constrained motion
    Advisors: Dr. Anoop Namboodiri
    (Honours Project, CVIT, IIIT-H.)(Team of size 2)
    Abstract : The aim was to study the constraints governing the motion of an object in a plane
    . -This can minimize the number of correspondences required to relate 2 views of it.This has been extended further to suit the application of inspection for safety appliances in Moving Rail cars.
    Technology Used : Matlab

  • Video Google
    Advisors: Dr.C.V.Jawahar
    (Course Project, Computer Vision, IIIT-H.)(Team of size 19)
    Abstract : We implemented Video Google, a google approach to video search and retrieval, the famous Sivic and Andrew Zisserman work.
    Technology Used : Matlab

  • Query Focused Summarization of Multiple Documents
    Advisors: Dr.Vasudeva Varma
    (Course Project,Information Extraction and Information Retrieval , IIIT-H.)(Team of size 3)
    Abstract : The Aim was to summarize multiple documents with focus on a set of queries. We proposed and implemented two ways to enhance the query focused score of a sentence.
    Technology Used : Java

  • Online Hand Writing Recognition for Telugu Language.
    Advisors: Dr. Anoop Namboodiri
    (Project, CVIT, IIIT-H.)
    Abstract : The aim is Development of an Engine to recognize the telugu text in an online process.Recognition of online handwriting in Indian languages has special significance, as it can form an effective mechanism of data input, as opposed to keyboards that needs multiple keystrokes and control sequences to input many characters.
    -This is a project envisaged on a grand scale for many indian languages by the OHWR consortium compromising some of the premier research institutes based in India and IIIT being one of them.I am part of the group in CVIT which works on developing recognition engine for Telugu.
    Technology Used : Matlab,Cpp,QT

  • Detection of Linear Roads From Aerial Images(Still going on).
    Advisors: Dr.KS.Rajan
    (Project, Spatial Informatics Lab, IIIT-H.)
    Abstract : Objective of this project is detection of linear roads from aerial images using image based approaches.
    -Detection of Linear Structures mainly roads from images has been quite an interesting area of research from quite sometime.Our work is mainly concerned with extraction of linear features from aerial images employing canny edge detection algorithm and further filtering them for roads segments using heuristics.Our recent work has been in the direction of implementing this algorithm on an Image pyramid for better results.
    Technology Used : Matlab

Other Projects

  • Simulated bash shell in Linux done as part of Operating Systems course ( Monsoon 2005 )
  • Built Tetris Game and Simulated Train done as part of Computer Graphics ( Spring 2006 )
  • Simulation of Binary Search on Large set of Records done as part of Database Management Systems ( Spring 2006 )


Skillset

  • Programming Languages  : - C, C++, Lex & Yacc
  • Operating Systems  : - GNU/Linux, Windows 95/98/2000/XP.
  • Scripting Languages  : - Python, Shell, Matlab.
  • Web Languages  : - HTML, XML, CGI, PHP.
  • Libraries  : - Qt, OpenGL, Socket Programming
  • Tools  : - MySQL/MSSQL, MS Office

Advanced Courses Taken

Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Digital Image Processing, Graph Theory, Database Management and systems, Information Extraction and Retrieval, Theory of Computation, Spatial Informatics, Operational Research, Linear Programming,Numerical Analysis

Academic Interests

Computer Vision, Image Processing,Computer Graphics, Data Structures, Algorithms, Graph Theory.I frequently solve the algorithm problems on Uva Online Judge

Extra Curriculur

  • I represented by University in South Zone Inter University Cricket Tournament.
  • Organised DbugtheCbug contest as part of Felicity.07.

General Interests

  • programming and solving the questions on Uva Online Judge.
  • Playing and watching cricket.
  • Reading Fiction and Biographies of Interest.
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