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General Information

Full Name Achleshwar Luthra
Date of Birth 4th May 2000
Languages English, Hindi, Punjabi

Education

  • December, 2023
    Master of Science in Computer Vision
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • May, 2022
    Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Honors)
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Experience

  • Feb 2024 - Present
    Research Engineer, Graphics Rendering
    Futurewei Technologies Inc. (Huawei R&D), Santa Clara, CA, USA
    • Building a CUDA-based Path Tracer in Python and Triton
    • Also, exploring generalized neural radiance fields for 3D Scene Understanding
  • May - August, 2023
    Graphics Research Intern
    Futurewei Technologies Inc. (Huawei R&D), Santa Clara, CA, USA
    • Identified limitations in the existing research on modelling motion using implicit representations such as NeRF and proposed Deblur-NSFF, a method that can perform novel space-time synthesis from videos subject to motion blur or out-of-focus blur
    • Achieved an improvement of 4.3%, and 12.8%, in PSNR and SSIM respectively, and a decrease of 28.12% in LPIPS value on modified NVIDIA Dynamic Scenes Dataset, and submitted our work to WACV 2024
  • February - December, 2021
    Bachelor's Thesis (mentor- Prof. Narendra Ahuja)
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
    • Extracted 3D models of pigs from videos using self-supervised learning, neural mesh renderer, and re-projection loss
    • Synthesized a dataset that included segmentation masks to complement re-projection loss-based training algorithm
    • Delivered results on pig tracking and pig 2D pose-estimation, contributing to a CVPRW 2021 ORAL paper on multi-view tracking
  • January - March, 2021
    Research Intern (mentor- Prof. Jitendra Malik)
    University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
    • Evaluated algorithms such as MeshRCNN, 3D-R2N2, Occupancy Networks, and GenRe for single-view 3D reconstruction of inanimate objects on a novel dataset - Amazon-Berkeley Objects dataset
    • Executed preprocessing and benchmarking experiments on ABO dataset, which was accepted to CVPR 2022
  • October - December, 2020
    Research Intern
    CSIR-CEERI Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India
    • Explored Inflated 3D ConvNets and Temporal Segment Networks for the task of Fall Detection.
    • Designed a compressive sensing framework to obtain compressed measurements of video sequences as spatio-temporal input.
    • Implemented two reconstruction architectures using densely connected neural networks and Convolutional Neural Network (ReconNet), to retrieve original images from compressed measurements.

Academic Interests

  • 3D Computer Vision
    • Neural Scene Representation
    • 3D Scene Understanding
    • 3D Reconstruction
  • 2D Computer Vision
    • Image Restoration (Deblurring, Denoising, Super-Resolution)