Works
List of cool projects, presentations and talks.
Projects
- Large-scale Robust Video Action Recognition
Columbia University, New York- Extracted dense trajectory features (HOG, HOF, MBH) for human action recognition in videos captured in realistic unconstrained environments.
- Proposed spatio-temporal covariance descriptors on the computed dense trajectories to fuse correlated features and create a low-dimensional feature representation.
- Predicting Visual Aesthetics in Face Photos
Columbia University, New York- Utilized photographic compositional features and rules to develop an algorithmic approach to quantify aesthetic quality of photos containing faces.
- Built SVM classifiers to score face photos similar to human aesthetics judgement predictions.
- Linking Internet and Broadcast TV News
Columbia University, New York- Explored automatic speech transcription and other natural language processing (NLP) techniques for robust internet and broadcast TV news video linking.
- Evaluated the approach on NewsRover live database of Youtube and broadcast videos and proposed further improvements.
- MapMyNews: Aggregated World News Visualization
Columbia University, New York- Built a web application that combined interactive maps with rich content to develop intuitive yet appealing news geo-visualizations.
- Supported browsing large database of news stories aggregated from multiple websites and presented as story maps.
- Scene Text Detection in Natural Images
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru- Developed algorithms to segment foreground text from word images in the ICDAR 2003 Robust Reading Competition Word Dataset.
- Proposed algorithms for localizing text regions in natural scene images from the ICDAR 2003 Dataset.