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General Information
Full Name | Achleshwar Luthra |
Date of Birth | 4th May 2000 |
Languages | English, Hindi, Punjabi |
Education
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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3D Computer Vision
- Neural Scene Representation
- 3D Scene Understanding
- 3D Reconstruction
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2D Computer Vision
- Image Restoration (Deblurring, Denoising, Super-Resolution)