Ishan Misra
All our knowledge has it's origins in our perceptions - Leonardo Da Vinci
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Background
- I am currently a Masters student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. My adviser is Professor Martial Hebert.
- I received my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIIT-Hyderabad, India. I was an Honors student at the Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) under the guidance of Professor P. J. Narayanan.
Research
My research is rooted in the field of Computer Vision. For now, it is broadly centered around object recognition and scene understanding. In the past I have worked in the areas of Parallel Computing and Operating Systems.
Publications
- Ishan Misra, Abhinav Shrivastava, Martial Hebert : HoG and Spatial Convolution on SIMD Architecture CMU Tech Report XXX, 2013
- Sankalp Khare, Ishan Misra, Venkatesh Choppella : Using Org-mode and Subversion for Managing and Publishing Content in Computer Science Courses in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E), 2012
- Aditya Deshpande, Ishan Misra, P J Narayanan : Hybrid Implementation of Error Diffusion Dithering in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), 2011
Experience
- INRIA/Ecole Centrale Paris (2012) : I was an intern under Professor Iasonas Kokkinos working as a part of the INRIA Galen team. My project focused on using Shading cues to estimate surface depth. The dataset comprised of uncalibrated images in unknown general illumination. Our final formulation used combination of intrinsic images, and a new variational formulation of "minimum surface area, fixed volume surfaces" (Zhang et. al. CVPR, 2011) respecting constraints given by surface normals as obtained by Basri et. al. (CVPR, 2001).
- Course Designer for ITWS-2 (2012) : I was a course designer under Professor Venkatesh Choppella for a freshman course which covered OOP, shell scripting, networking, python and a working knowledge of the GNU/Linux system.
- Yale University (2011) : I worked as a part of the Dedis group under Professor Bryan Ford. My project involved developing memory management, paging and threading schemes for the Determinator Operating System (a deterministic parallel OS).
Open Source Projects
I am the lead developer for
- esvmTestCPP : A C++ implementation of the Exemplar SVM testing pipeline. It includes SIMD optimized code for computing Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features and performing spatial convolution.
I have also contributed to
- Determinator OS : A deterministic parallel operating system developed at Yale University.
Curriculum Vitae
A copy (updated on Jan 2013) is available here. Contact me for a more recent version.
Other Interests
In my free time (the amount of which keeps decimating each year) I try to juggle between singing, clicking pictures, thinking about life, customizing my Emacs, writing and dabbling in new languages. My taste in music can be generally classified as rock. The bands I listen to are AC/DC, Def Leppard, Pearl Jam, Creed, Default, Daughtry etc.