Surya Prabhakaran

About Me

Hi, I’m Surya, M.Sc. Informatics student at the Technische Universität München, My interests lie in the field of Deep Learning and Computer Vision. I’ve worked on several Computer Vision projects and have hands-on experience and knowledge in various Deep Learning Architectures. I’m looking forward to implementing Deep Learning in various fields such as Medical, Self Driving vehicles, Security, etc.. Extremely interested in working on 2D/3D generative models, 2D/3D image segmentation, 2D/3D object detection and 3D Reconstruction.

Projects

Inverse Rendering using NERF

  • Worked on the NVDIFFRECMC(CVPR,22) architecture by NVIDIA.
  • Developed a Neural BRDF model for optimizing the material part.
  • Improved denoising significantly using a diffusion-based model.

Stereo Reconstruction

  • Performed Stereo Reconstruction on the KITTI Stereo 2015 dataset.
  • Implemented Block Matching, Semi Global Matching for generating the disparity maps and also used SIFT, SURF and ORB for keypoint matching, triangulation and generation of point clouds.

Computer Pointer Controller

  • Developed the application using Intel Distribution of the OpenVINO Toolkit.
  • This app control the movement of mouse pointer by the direction of eyes and also estimates pose of the head.
  • This app takes video as input(video file or camera) and then estimates the gaze of the user’s eyes and change the mouse pointer position accordingly.

Smart queuing System

  • Developed the application using Intel Distribution of the OpenVINO Toolkit.
  • This app detects and counts the number of people in a particular queue and redirects them to a less congested queue.
  • Worked on Intel DevCloud to implement the project on several hardwares[CPU, IGPU, VPU(NCS2),FPGA].

People Counter App

  • Developed the application using Intel Distribution of the OpenVINO Toolkit.
  • This app calculates:-
    • the number of people in the frame
    • time spent by those people in the frame
    • the total number of people counted

      and sends this data to a MQTT server.

Non-Proliferative Diabetc Retinopathy Detection

  • Performed multi-class classification for the dectection of Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy.
  • Implemented Inception Network(V1-V4,ResNetV1 and ResNetV2).
  • Achieved an accuracy of 93.78% on the test set.

Knee MRI Super-Resolution

  • Performed Super-Resolution on Knee-Magnetic Resonance Images.
  • Implemented LapSRN, SRGAN and SRCNN to perform Super-Resolution.
  • Achieved an SSIM of 0.9887 on the test set.

Experience

Blickfeld

AI Work Student

December 2022 - Present

  • Performed 3D Object Detection on Kitti 3D Object Detection velodyne dataset by implementing Pointpillars architecture on the OpenPCDet framework.
  • Worked on end-to-end model deployment.

Tata Consultancy Services

System Engineer

August 2020 - March 2022

  • Worked as a full-stack developer for Citi Bank client. Developed an API for their Best Buy partner.
  • Deployed contents in Ford, Lincoln and Costco partners as a part of Pony and Costco Decommissioning projects.

Dept. of Translational Medicine and Research, SRM Medical College

Research Intern

August 2019 - August 2020

  • Collected real-life Knee MRI data, cleaned the data and used image processing techniques to make the data trainable.
  • Developed a novel loss function for the same which provided better results and submitted a paper on the same which got accepted at the EMBC 2020 conference.

SPARC, SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Research Intern

June 2019 - June 2019

  • Worked on a Research project proposed by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, collaborated with University of California, Davis.
  • Developed a classifier to predict non-proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy.
  • Implemented several state-of-the-art deep learning architectures for Image Classification

Alpha Cloud Labs

Research Intern

December 2018 - December 2018

  • Worked on video text- recognition using Tesseract-OCR, OpenCV and Deep Learning.

Education

Technische Universität München

M. Sc. Informatics

2022 - Present

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering

2016 - 2020

CGPA:- 8.78

Publications