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Deepak Dwarakanath

PhD Student
Mobile: +4740021800
E-mail: deepakd@simula.no
Affiliations: Simula School of Research and Innovation AS Media

Current work:

 

Traditional camera calibration has always been using a calibration object to determine the camera parameters, which are useful for 3D reconstruction and free view rendering applications. In certain interactive multimedia applications and live networked performances, it is desirable to perform calibration without using any calibration object. Depending on the camera motion, it is also desirable to have recalibration quite often. With such motivational applications, we plan to develop a 'Marker-less Feature based Camera (Re)calibration Scheme'.

 

 

Research Topic

 

Topic: 3D Video Processing for Mixed Reality Art Performances

Project: VERDIONE

Supervisors:

  1. Alexander Eichhorn
  2. Carsten Griwodz
  3. Pål Halvorsen 

Summary:

The World Opera Consortium envisions a creation of a mixed-reality distributed stage for opera performances, where artists - real and virtual (artists who are physically at remote location) are performing together apparently on one stage. Artists include both singers and musicians who would interact will their peers who are virtually projected on the stage. Such interactions pose a hard requirement on the quality of service of the system, which projects the virtual video images captured in a remote location. For artists and audience to have a realistic experience of the whole performance, requirement of high quality video and a robust 3D video in real-time would suffice.

This idea of distributed stage performances has motivated the beginning of Verdione – Virtually Enhanced Real-life synchronizeD Interaction – ON the Edge project, to build a platform for such interactions between people around the world and to allow them feel that they are co-located. To meet the challenge of the world opera consortium, Verdione address problems in transmitting information from remote places to a virtual stage in terms of audio, visual information, user interface and display.

This PhD topic focuses on the visual information part of the Verdione project, which involves the following:

  • 3D video acquisition

  • 3D video processing 

  • 3D modeling & representation

  • 3D reconstruction & rendering

 

Previous Experience:

  1. Motorola Mobile A/S - Sr. Software Engineer

  2. Aalborg University - Research Assistant

  3. Aalborg International School - Academic teacher

  4. University of Miami - Tutor

 

Educational Background:

  1. Master of Science (Signal & Information Processing for Communication) - Aalborg Univeristy

  2. Exchange Program (Computer and Electrical Engineering) - Univeristy of Miami

  3. Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication Engineering) - Bangalore Unviersity

 

Research Interests:

  • Image, Video and Speech Processing

  • Computer Vision -3D Multiview Geometry

  • Computer Graphics - 3D rendering systems

 

Research Visits:

 

  • Summer Internship (15 June - 14 Sept, 2010)

     Institute for Infocomm Research

     Singapore

       

 
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