Varun Nasery

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EDUCATION:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles Aug. 2011 – Dec. 2012

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (Multimedia and Creative Technologies ) GPA: 4.0/4

Coursework: Digital Image Processing, Multimedia Systems Design, Speech Recognition for Multimedia, Multimedia

Data Compression, Advanced Digital Signal Processing Design (Theory and Lab), Computer Graphics

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India Aug. 2007- May 2011

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering GPA: 8.19/10.00

SKILLS:

Engineering Tools and platforms –Visual C++ Studio, MATLAB, OpenCV, OpenGL, Code Composer Studio, LabVIEW.

Programming Languages – C, C++, Python, HTML.

Operating Systems – Windows, Linux

Multimedia Standards- MPEG, JPEG, H.264

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Summer Project Trainee Summer 2010

Global Logic, Nagpur, India

Started work on the project ‘Indoor positioning using video surveillance infrastructure’ under the Global

Academic Program of Global Logic Inc.

Performed an extensive literature survey of the existing machine vision based systems that can be employed for

this purpose and employed a number plate reading based system in MATLAB.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

Title: Video Summarization Fall 2011

Designed a mechanism to extract the main scenes from a given video to produce an easily interpreted synopsis.

Performed analysis of various shots in Java on the basis of the color, motion and audio levels of the shots and

then a metric was developed to choose the most important shots.

Title: Indoor positioning using video surveillance infrastructure May 2010 – May 2011

Continued the Global Logic sponsored project as the senior year thesis project

Designed a barcode based system in OpenCV for localization of people/objects in an indoor environment.

The barcodes are read by cameras and 3D pose estimation of the barcode is performed for localizing the object.

Title: Optical Character Recognition (O.C.R.) Fall 2011

Developed an O.C.R. system for a set of given characters using a decision tree based approach trained to read

both digits and alphabets and applied it to the real world problem of car number plate recognition.

Title: Texture classification and segmentation Fall 2011

Implemented k-nearest neighbors and k-means clustering algorithms for classification and segmentation of

various texture templates using Laws’ microstructures.

Title: Isolated Digit Recognition using Hidden Markov Model

Implemented an isolated digit recognition system in MATLAB using Kevin Murphy’s Hidden Markov Model

(H.M.M.) toolbox. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and their first and second order differences

were used as features for the training and testing system.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES:

All India Rank 17 in Mathematics Talent Search Examination conducted by A.M.T.I. in 2007

Awarded the prestigious National Talent Search Scholarship by the H.R.Devpt. Ministry of, Govt. of India.

Grader for the course Multimedia Systems Design in the Spring 2012 semester.

Having a keen interest and skills in Digital Photography and editing in last 4 years.

Volunteered as a teacher for ‘Friends For Care’, an NGO in India, that serves to uplift the underprivileged

children.

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