Jan 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• 1. Leading the Photo Editor Team for development of AI Based Photo Editing Solutions namely AI Shadow Removal & AI Interactive Segmentation
• 2. Led the team for design, development and commercialization of the AI Shadow Removal Solution which includes development of 3 AI Models namely Shadow Evaluator, Mask Extractor and Shadow Removal along with Data Strategy
• 3. Led and co-worked with team for commercialization of AI interactive segmentation engine to select the object (uses either Touch Based or Contour Based interface) that need to be erased as part of Object Eraser Use case
• 4. Led the team for augmentation of training data for Shadow Removal Solution using Synthetic Data Generation techniques
• 5. Led the team to develop advanced editing engines using Deep Learning Based Solutions targeted for next flagship devices
• 6. Directly responsible as a technical lead and architect to design the engines and optimization of the same for embedded devices
• 7. Contributed towards proposals, patents and roadmap for Photo Editor DL based engines

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• 1. Leading the AR engine team for development of vision engines to enable AR and TOF based applications
• 2. Led and co-worked with team for development of fully automated AR based human height measurement solution by driving the in-house development of AI based foot detection engine
• 3. Led a TOF task force to conduct detailed study of the TOF sensor, its capabilities and limitations and presented a consolidated proposal for TOF depth enhancements, TOF based AR and 3D applications
• 4. Directly responsible for project management of two commercialized solutions namely Quick Measure and AR Doodle in Samsung Flagship devices
• 5. Contributed to 2D shape detection engine development for Quick Measure feature in Samsung devices. Co-worked with team to develop hybrid approach for rectangle detection and novel confidence measure for ellipse detection enhancements

Apr 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• 1. Co-worked with Samsung Research America team for successful commercialization of HiFi Still and HiFi Video Zoom solutions using OpenVX based Vision SDK in Samsung Flagship devices
• 2. Directly responsible for development of Vision SDK using OpenVX framework to enable heterogeneous acceleration of the multi frame solutions such as Low Light Shot, Super Resolution Zoom
• 3. Led the team for development, integration, porting and validation of the 3D scan application on the FPGA platform of IVA, an imaging and vision co-processor
• 4. Provided support for integration of Face recognition applications and enhancements to enable Face Unlock and Face Tagging features

Feb 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• 1. Contributed as part of 2-member team in regards to planning, execution and feature development of Pyramid Lucas Kanade Tracker based Sparse Optical Flow algorithm on TI’s VAYU platform using TI’s proprietary vector core processor.
• 2. Directly responsible for planning, execution and feature development of slice based support at android framework level and integration of static frame insertion feature on OMAP4 platform based on android ICS release.
• 3. Porting of the dual independent display feature to the latest android ICS SW deliverables for OMAP4 platforms. Responsible for addressing the critical development issues on the customer platform.
• 4 Responsible for bring up of first OMAP5432 based customer platform which includes LCD panel bring up and to ensure kernel stability.
• 5. Solving various critical system issues from varied customers that span across various
• domains of OMAP4 on both android and generic Linux software releases.
• 6. Conduct customer training sessions on OMAP4 hardware and software architecture.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• 1. Responsible for planning, execution, design and development of multiple display support for video on OMAP4 based platforms using android gingerbread software release deliverables.
• 2. Design and development of imaging and vision algorithms on TI’s OMAP4 based hardware accelerators.
• 3. Design and development of face prioritized continuous auto focus algorithm on Xena platform.

Sep 2002 – May 2006 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• 1. Assisted instructors in conducting both graduate and undergraduate courses and labs.
• 2. Took initiative to revise the labs, prepared new problem sets and quizzes to help students in understanding the concepts and strengthen their programming skills.
• 3. Conducted practice sessions to train the new teaching assistants for the undergraduate labs.

May 2002 – Dec 2007 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• 1. Development of new predictive and relational zoom tracking algorithms for digital still cameras. Real-time implementation of zoom tracking on TI DM320 platform.
• 2. Development of auto-focus (AF) algorithms for digital still cameras. Real-time implementation of multiple-window AF on TI DM270 and DM320 platforms. Implemented and tested various AF algorithms on TI DM310 platform.
• 3. The above research effort has been sponsored by the Imaging and Audio Business Unit of Texas Instruments, Inc.

May 2001 – Dec 2001 · 7 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• 1. Bandwidth provisioning and network survivability in optical networks.
• 2. Implemented preplanned weighted restoration techniques for network survivability using MPLS and OSPF on the network simulator ns-2.