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Personal Details

NameAppu Shaji
NationalityIndian
Date of BirthMay 31 , 1981
Place of BirthThiruvananthapuram, India.

Education

Jan 2009 - present Post-Doc
Computer Vision Lab
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua
Jul 2003- 2009 Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering)
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
CPI: 7.96/10
Research Area: Computer Vision
Advisor: Prof. Sharat Chandran
Feb 2007- Aug 2007 Visiting Scholar
Digital Perception Lab
Electrical and Computer System Engineering
Monash University, VIC, Australia
Advisor: Prof. David Suter
Jun 1999 - May 2003: B. Tech. (Computer Engineering)
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Percentage: 74%
Thesis: Refreshable Tactile Display

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Computer Graphics.

Publications

  1. Appu Shaji, Lorenzo Torresani, Aydin Varol and Pascal Fua Simultaneous Point Matching and 3D Defromable Surface Reconstruction In the proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Patter Recognition, 2010 [ pdf - 9.2MB ]
  2. Aydin Varol, Appu Shaji, Mathieu Salzmann and Pascal Fua Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Locally Textured Surfaces Technical Report 155200, EPFL, November 2010 [pdf]
  3. Radhakrishna Achanta, Appu Shaji, Kevin Smith, Aurelien Lucchi, Pascal Fua and Sabine Susstrunk SLIC Superpixels Technical Report 149300, EPFL, June 2010 [pdf][Project Page]
  4. Radhakrishna Achanta, Appu Shaji, Pascal Fua and Sabine Susstrunk Image Summaries using Database Saliency In the proceedings of ACM Siggraph Asia, Poster, 2009 [pdf][Movie]
  5. Appu Shaji, Sharat Chandran and David Suter Manifold Optimisation for Motion FactorisationTo appear in the proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2008 [pdf - 840K]
  6. Appu Shaji and Sharat Chandran Riemannian Manifold Optimisation for Non-rigid Structure from Motion Proceedings of IEEE CVPR workshop, NORDIA 2008, Anchorage [pdf - 300K]
  7. Appu Shaji, Behjat Siddiquie, Sharat Chandran and David Suter Human Pose Extraction from Moncoular Videos using Non-rigid Factorization Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, 2007 [pdf- 2.2MB]
  8. Ameya Vaidya, Appu Shaji and Sharat Chandran Vision-Based Posing of 3D Virtual Actors Proceedings of Asian Conference of Computer Vision, IIIT Hyderbad, 2006 [pdf - 351KB]
  9. Vishal Mammania, Appu Shaji and Sharat Chandran, Markerless Motion Capture from Monocular Videos Proceedings of Fourth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, ISI Calcutta, Dec 2004 [pdf -297KB]

Skill Set

  • Programming Languages : C/C++
  • Scripting Languages : HTML, XHTML, Javascript, CSS, Python, PHP
  • Software Tools: Matlab, Octave
  • Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Mac OS X

Honours and Awards

  1. Recipient of Philips Fellowship Award for the year 2007-2008
  2. Awarded the Endeavour Research Fellowship Award, 2007 from DEST, Australian Government
  3. Achieved 97.05 percentile in GATE 2003, the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering in stream Computer Science and Engineering.

Teaching Assistantship

  • Fall 2006 & Fall 2007: TA, CS663 Digital Image Processing
  • Fall 2004 & Fall 2005: Senior TA, CS101 Computer Programming and Utilization
  • Spring 2004: TA, CS 475 Open GL based basic graphics

Work Experience

July 2003 - present System Administrator, Vision and Graphics Lab, Computer Science and Engg Dept, IIT Bombay
Jan 2003-Jun 2003 MA College of Engineering, Kothamangalam, Kerala
Designation: Guest Lecturer

Professional Activities and Organizational Experience

  1. Organization volunteer for ICVGIP-2004.
  2. Organization volunteer for WCVGIP-2004.
  3. Operations, ACM Inter Collgeiate Programming Contest, IIT Bombay Site
  4. Volunteer CVPR 2008

Contact Address

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Powai, Mumbai, 400 076, India
Tel: +91-22-2576 4709
Email: appu [at] cse . iitb . ac . in
Url: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/appu/

References

Prof. Sharat Chandran
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Powai
Mumbai 400 076 India
E-Mail: sharat [at] cse . iitb . ac . in
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