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Nikhil Rasiwasia Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail code ???? EBU 1, Room 5512 La Jolla, CA 92093-0409 nikux at ucsd.edu Phone: (858) 336-3105

Nikhil is currently pursuing his Graduate studies at Statistical Visual Computing Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), U.P, India. in 2005. He has a passion for Images and loves to play with various artistic - Photography, Graphic Design, Animation - and technical - Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Image Processing - aspects of it. His research interests are in the confluence Computer Vision-Machine Learning and Computer Vision-Computer Graphics. At present he is working on learning the semantics of the images.
Resume:
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Publications:
Journal Articles	Nikhil Rasiwasia and Nuno Vasconcelos, "Bridging the Semantic Gap: Query by Semantic Example". In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 9(5), pp. 923-938, August 2007
Other Publications	Nikhil Rasiwasia and Nuno Vasconcelos, "Name removed to preserve anonymitiy". Submitted to Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver 2008
	Nikhil Rasiwasia and Nuno Vasconcelos, "Image Retrieval using Query by Contextual Example". To Appear in ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Vancouver, 2008
	Nikhil Rasiwasia and Nuno Vasconcelos, "A Systematic Study of the role of Context on Image Classification". To Appear in International conference on Image Processing, San Diego, Oct 2008
	Nikhil Rasiwasia and Nuno Vasconcelos, "Scene Classification with Low-dimensional Semantic Spaces and Weak Supervision". In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 1-6, Anchorage, June 2008
	Nikhil Rasiwasia and Nuno Vasconcelos, "A study of Query by Semantic Example". In 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia, pp. 1-8, Anchorage, June 2008
	Nikhil Rasiwasia, Pedro J Moreno and Nuno Vasconcelos, "Query by Semantic Example". In International conference on Image and Video Retrieval, LNCS 4071, pp. 51-60, Phoenix, 2006
	Nikhil Rasiwasia and K. S. Venkatesh, "The Avatar: 3D Face Recognition from two orthogonal pictures with application to facial makeover". Technical Report, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, May 2005
Past Projects: (Details) (all results/reports)
	Semantic Image Recognition Graduate Studies Project (Sept 2005 - Present) with Prof. Nuno Vasconcelos, UCSD Surveillance Video Entertainment Network  (http://deprogramming.us/ai/) Freelance Project (May 2005 - Aug 2005) with Amy Alexander, Dept Of Visual Arts, UCSD Results The Avatar - Virtual 3-D Facial Makeover B-Tech final year research project (Aug 2004 - April 2004) under Prof K S Venkatesh, IITK Results and Report Gesture Recognition and Real Time Robust Tracking of Human Hand Summer Internship (May - July 2004) at Fondazione Graphitech, University of Trento, (TN) Italy Mid Term Presentation Age Invariant Face Recognition Course Project (Aug - present) under Prof R M K Sinha, IITK Results and Report Reducing blocking artifacts in Jpeg Images Course Project (Aug - Nov 2004) under Prof Sumana Gupta, IITK Report 3-D Animation for a Shoe Advertisement Professional Project (Dec 2003 - April 2004) under Prof Rajiv Shekhar, Head SIIC, IITK Results
Selected Art Works:
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