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Adarsh P. Kowdle
*** ******** **, *** ****, The Villager, Ithaca, NY-14850 *****@*******.*** Cell Phone: 412-***-****
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 *****@*******.*** 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 *****@*******.*** 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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