Adarsh P. Kowdle

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http://chenlab.ece.cornell.edu/people/adarsh/

OBJECTIVE: FULL-TIME R&D POSITION IN COMPUTER VISION, MACHINE LEARNING AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING

EDUCATION CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY JANUARY 2009 MAY 2013 (EXPECTED)

PhD Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering (GPA: 4.0)

Thesis: Putting the user in the loop for image based modeling

Thesis committee: Tsuhan Chen (Advisor), Anthony Reeves, Noah Snavely,

Ashutosh Saxena, Richard Szeliski

Interests: Computer vision, machine learning

Focus: Interactive computer vision algorithms, Image based modeling

RV COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Bangalore, India JULY 2004 MAY 2007

B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering (First Class with Distinction: 86%)

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE MICROSOFT RESEARCH, Redmond, WA MAY 2011 AUGUST 2011

Research Intern, Interactive Visual Media Group

KODAK RESEARCH LABS, Rochester, NY MAY 2010 AUGUST 2010

Research Intern, 3D Team

ITTIAM SYSTEMS, Bangalore, India JULY 2007 JULY 2008

Engineer, Video Technology: QoS Team

ITTIAM SYSTEMS, Bangalore, India JAN 2007 MAY 2007

Intern, Video Technology: QoS Team.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo and Tsuhan Chen. Interactive Co-

segmentation of Objects in Image Collections", SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, 2011.

JOURNAL PAPERS

Congcong Li, Adarsh Kowdle, Ashutosh Saxena and Tsuhan Chen. Towards Holistic Scene

Understanding: Feedback Enabled Cascaded Classification Models", IEEE Transactions on

Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2012

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo and Tsuhan Chen. Interactively Co-

segmenting Topically Related Images with Intelligent Scribble Guidance", International Journal of

Computer Vision (IJCV), 2011

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS

Adarsh Kowdle and Tsuhan Chen. Learning to Segment a Video to Clips Based on Scene and

Camera Motion", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012

Adarsh Kowdle, Sudipta Sinha and Richard Szeliski. Multiple View Object Cosegmentation

using Appearance and Stereo Cues", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV),

2012 (Oral presentation)

Adarsh Kowdle, Andrew Gallagher and Tsuhan Chen. Combining Monocular Geometric Cues

with Traditional Stereo Cues for Consumer Camera Stereo", Workshop on Unsolved Problems in

Optical Flow and Stereo Estimation, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012

Adarsh Kowdle, Noah Snavely and Tsuhan Chen. Recovering Depth of a Dynamic Scene using

Real World Motion Prior", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2012 (Oral

presentation Best Student Paper Award)

Adarsh Kowdle, Yao-Jen Chang, Andrew Gallagher and Tsuhan Chen. Active Learning for

Piecewise Planar 3D Reconstruction", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011

(Oral presentation)

Adarsh Kowdle, Yao-Jen Chang, Dhruv Batra and Tsuhan Chen. Scribble Based Interactive 3D

Adarsh P. Kowdle

316 Highland Rd, Apt A314, The Villager, Ithaca, NY-14850 abqluk@r.postjobfree.com Cell Phone: 412-***-****

http://chenlab.ece.cornell.edu/people/adarsh/

Reconstruction via Scene Co-segmentation", International Conference on Image Processing

(ICIP), 2011 (Oral presentation).

Congcong Li, Adarsh Kowdle, Ashutosh Saxena and Tsuhan Chen. Feedback Enabled

Cascaded Classification Models for Scene Understanding", Neural Information Processing

Systems (NIPS), 2010

Adarsh Kowdle, Dhruv Batra, Wen-Chao Chen and Tsuhan Chen. iModel: Interactive Co-

segmentation for Object of Interest 3D Modeling", Workshop on Reconstruction and Modeling of

Large-Scale 3D Virtual Environments, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010

Adarsh Kowdle*, Congcong Li*, Ashutosh Saxena and Tsuhan Chen. "A generic model to

compose vision modules for holistic scene understanding", Workshop on Parts and Attributes,

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010. [*indicates equal contribution].

Adarsh Kowdle, Kuo-Wei Chang, and Tsuhan Chen. "Video Categorization using Object of

Interest Detection", International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo and Tsuhan Chen. "iCoseg: Interactive Co-

segmentation with Intelligent Scribble Guidance", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

(CVPR), 2010

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh and Tsuhan Chen. Cutout Search: Putting a Name to

the Picture . IEEE workshop on Internet Vision (CVPR), 2009.

Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Adarsh Kowdle, Tsuhan Chen and Jiebo Luo. Seed Image Selection

in Interactive Cosegmentation, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2009

TECHNICAL

REPORTS

Adarsh Kowdle, Zhaoyin Jia. Online Structured Learning for Obstacle Avoidance . Spring 2010

Adarsh Kowdle and Kamil Bojanczyk. Brain MRI Classification using Expectation Maximization .

Spring 2009

Adarsh Kowdle. Parallel Implementation of RANSAC using OpenMP . Spring 2009

Adarsh Kowdle, Yao-Jen Chang and Tsuhan Chen. Structure and Motion Recovery using Visual

SLAM . Fall 2008

Adarsh Kowdle, Mukta Gore and Utsav Prabhu. Background Subtraction and Foreground

Classification for Outdoor Video Surveillance . Fall 2008

Adarsh Kowdle, Deepak A. R, Diwakar. R and Karthik. R. Implementation of a Voice-Based

Biometric System, Undergraduate Thesis, Fall 2007

DEMOS

Adarsh Kowdle, Haochen Liu, ShaoYou Hsu, Jason Lew, Charvi Puri, Dhruv Batra, Tsuhan

Chen. iModel: Object of Interest 3D Modeling via Interactive Co-segmentation on a Mobile

Device . Demo session at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Kevin Tang, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo and Tsuhan Chen. Interactive

Cosegmentation by Touch . Demo session at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

2009

MENTORED

PROJECTS

Shuai Yuan. Image Based Room Schedule Retrieval System . MEng Project, 2012

ShaoYou Hsu and Haochen Liu. iModel: Object of Interest 3D Modeling on a Mobile Device .

MEng Project, 2012

Sukhada Pendse and Xiaochen He. Sketch2Image Search . MEng Project, 2012

Ling-Wei Lee. 2D to 3D Video Conversion for Static Scenes and Horizontal Camera Translation .

MEng Project, 2011 (Co-advised by Yao-Jen Chang)

Anandram Sundar. 3D Interface for Google Sketchup using a Kinect Sensor . MEng Project,

2011

Jason Lew. iOS Application to Perform Interactive Cosegmentation . MEng Project, 2010

Kevin Tang. iScribble: A java-based tool to accept user scribbles for interactive vision

applications . Undergraduate Thesis, 2009 (Co-advised by Dhruv Batra)

Adarsh P. Kowdle

316 Highland Rd, Apt A314, The Villager, Ithaca, NY-14850 abqluk@r.postjobfree.com Cell Phone: 412-***-****

http://chenlab.ece.cornell.edu/people/adarsh/

PROGRAMMING

EXPERIENCE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: MATLAB, C/C++

PDSP: TMS320C54XX, C67XX, C64X+ (DAVINCI) (USED ACTIVELY AT ITTIAM SYSTEMS)

TEACHING

Teaching assistant for Computer Vision (CS 6670) at Cornell University

Instructor: Noah Snavely FALL 2009

LEADERSHIP

Advisory council, Cornell India Association 2012 - 2013

President, Cornell India Association 2011 - 2012

Vice-President, ECE-Graduate Organization, Cornell University 2011 - 2012

President, ECE-Graduate Organization, Cornell University 2010 - 2011

Treasurer, Cornell India Association 2010 - 2011

VP Logistics, Cornell India Association 2009 - 2010

Student Secretary, RVCE IEEE Chapter 2006 - 2007

National Service Scheme 2004 - 2007

CCC-International Conference, Bangalore, India NOVEMBER 2006

o Organizing committee: International conference on Computer, Communication & Controls

HONORS

Cornell McMullen Fellowship 2009 - Present

Cognizant, Best Outstanding Student Award (during undergraduate studies) JULY 2007

Infineon Technologies Ltd, Scholarship APRIL 2006

International Award for Young People APRIL 2000

o Attained the Bronze Standard of the International award for Young people

OTHER

ACTIVITIES

Part of the Cornell Badminton Team since 2011

Passionate about music - played the keyboard and harmonica as part of several music

groups during undergraduate and graduate studies

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