Aravind Sundaresan

Professional

• Computer Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
• Summer Intern, Honda Research Institute, Mountain View, CA.
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
• Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Automation Research, College Park, MD.
• Software Engineer, Multimedia, Sasken Communication Technologies, Bangalore, Karnataka.
• B.E. Electrical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan.

Research areas

My research interests lie in the broad areas of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing. Some of the applications I have dabbled in include human pose estimation, surveillance and vision for robotic navigation.

Human pose estimation and surveillance

• Sentient People monitoring system
• Markerless motion capture from multiple cameras
• Human Identification at a distance

Vision for robot navigation

• Leaving Flatland: Real-time scene modeling for 3D path planning
• LAGR: Learning Adapted to Ground Robots