Aravind Sundaresan

• Computer Scientist, SRI International
• Ex-graduate student
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Centre for Automation Research
• UM Institute of Advanced Computer Studies
• University of Maryland
• GnuPG public key
• Contact address

I am a Computer Scientist in the Perception group at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA. I obtained my PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland and my dissertation research was on markerless motion capture using computer vision techniques [Download dissertation]. Our motion capture algorithm won the outstanding invention award for 2006 presented by the Office of Technology Commercialization in the Information Science category for 2006. I was a graduate research assistant at the Centre for Automation Research and University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies for a long time. My adviser was Prof. Rama Chellappa. I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India in May 2000. I worked at Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd., Bangalore in the Multimedia group from July 2000 until July 2001.

The web site is mainly organized in two parts, my home page, and my personal page. Feel free to explore the content, which is sizeable and varied, if not interesting. If you are looking for something useful, you should probably head for the tools page or the free software page.

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