Hi,
I am an Undergrad student at IIIT-H <http://iiit.ac.in/>, India. I
wanted to take part in GSoC 2014 and was searching for projects which
interests me. For the past year, I have been using Qt in my B. Tech
project. I have worked on CUDA during my internship at CERN.
About my projects:
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Error Detection and Error Correction for Indian Languages -
Statistical models for error detection and correction is not
suitable for Indian Languages as huge corpus is not available
for them. A system based on the idea that errors and mistakes
follows a pattern is being designed. It is a learning system
which dynamically implements a weighted distance. Tools Used:
C++, SRILM, Java, Crawler4j
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Book Reader for Blind - Working to develop a system which will
help blind people read books, in their local language, using a
scanner. It involves interactive GUI development, image
processing, and mobile app development. Tools Used: C++, Qt,
Android SDK
*
Optimization and Parallelization of AliRoot (during CERN
internship)- AliRoot is ALICE’s offline simulation tool. The
project was to do memory and performance optimization using
various tools and scripts developed under this project. The
project also involved working on CUDA-based parallel version of
Hough Transform used for track reconstruction. Tools Used:
Valgrind, CUDA, Python, C++
*
Triggers and Reactors using DataPath - Using DataPath, Amazon’s
own technology, implemented and deployed triggers on their
databases. It involved learning a completely different
technology with minimal resources. This was done during
internship at Amazon.com. It also involved maintaining team’s
section of pipeline. Tools Used: Java and many Amazon’s internal
tools & technologies
*
Reverse Image Search Engine - The idea of the project is to
build an Image-based Search Engine which can retrieve images
similar to the query image. Images are represented in form of
visual words extracted using different scale and rotation
invariant features. An Inverted index is created for faster
retrieval. Tools Used: Matlab, Image Processing Libraries
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*Graphics API Design - *Developed an OpenGL like graphics API
having Graphics pipeline functions from modeling, viewing to
viewport clipping.
*
*Image Processing - *Implemented Image Processing Algorithms
like Edge Detection, Template Matching, Image Compression,
Histogram Algorithms, etc. using Matlab and C++.
*
*Implemented - *Carrom game, Spider Shooting game and a 3D
Rail/Station model with 6 degree camera using OpenGL
My complete Skill Set:
GNU/C++, Java, CUDA, Erlang, Scheme, Python, Basic Shell (Bash),
AliRoot, MySQL, MS-Access, Web2py, HTML/XHTML, PHP, Javascript(basic),
Drupal, CSS, Socket Programming, JSP, HTML5, CSS 3, Matlab, Octave,
Qt, Android SDK, OpenGL, Glade, Pthreads, OpenMP, OpenCV.
As you can see from my work that my interests extend to various
topics. I don't want to miss out a project where I could have
contributed more. Hence, I ask for help to discuss and form a proposal
which can be beneficial to me as well. I generally include a new
technology in every project I work. Hoping to do the same this time also.
* Thanks,
Karan Poddar
*200901059, IIIT-H
+91-9030735037