experience

* Research Intern – CVMLP Lab

[Apr 2021 - Present]

Advisor: Dhruv Batra

Studying the impact of noise in indoor localization on learnt scene memory representations and downstream question answering performance of embodied assistants.

• Episodic Memory Question Answering
  Samyak Datta, Sameer Dharur, Vincent Cartillier, Ruta Desai, Mukul Khanna, Dhruv Batra and Devi Parikh

  Accepted at CVPR 2022!

Research Fellow – Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad

[Jan 2020 - Mar 2021]

Advisor: Prof. K. Madhava Krishna

Worked on building facade plane segmentation and surface normal estimation for 3D reconstruction from drone-view images using deep learning and geometrical methods.

Research Intern – Vision Lab, IIT Gandhinagar

[Feb 2019 - Jan 2020]

Advisor: Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman

Worked on HDR image reconstruction from single exposure LDR image (sequences) using Deep Learning, and HDRSloMo: Deep Weakly-Supervised High Frame-rate HDR Video Generation (manuscript in progress).

Technical Writer and Editor – ScoutAPM

[Oct 2019 - Present]

Manager: Hayley Keith

Writing and editing software, web development content for ScoutAPM’s blog.

Google Summer of Code ‘19 – Open Robotics

[May 2019 - Sep 2019]

Advisor: Jose Luis Rivero

Created a documentation index and a corresponding entry suggestion-tool for open-source robotic simulation software Gazebo as a part of GSoC 2019.

Software Developer – SRM Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

[Sep 2017 - May 2019]

Advisor: Prof. Annapurani Panaiyappan

• Developed the vehicle’s software stack, including it’s control and navigation systems and image processing modules using ROS.
• Also developed an underwater simulation environment using ROS and Unity-3D for testing.