Brief Biography

 

 Ramesh Raskar joined MERL as a Research Scientist in 2000 after his doctoral research at U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he developed a framework for projector based displays. His work spans a range of topics in computer vision and graphics including projective geometry, non-photorealistic rendering and intelligent user interfaces. He has developed algorithms for image projection on planar, non-planar and quadric curved surfaces that simplify constraints on conventional displays and has proposed Shader Lamps, a new approach for projector-based augmented reality. Current projects include composite RFID (RFIG), multi-flash non-photorealistic camera for depth edge detection, locale-aware mobile projectors, high dynamic range video, image fusion for context enhancement and quadric transfer methods for multi-projector curved screen displays.

Dr. Raskar received the Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology R&D Award 2003, Global Indus Technovator Award 2003, instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators on the globe, Mitsubishi Electric Valuable Invention Award 2004 and TR100 Award, Technology Review's 100 Top Young Innovators Under 35, 2004. His papers have appeared in SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, IEEE Visualization, CVPR and many other graphics and vision conferences. He has taught courses and has served as a member of international program committees at major conferences. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

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Work Experience
Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL-CRL) Aug 2000 - Present
Projective Geometry, Intelligent user interfaces, Nonphotorealistic Rendering, Video-based animation
Webpage: MERL-CRL
Summer Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology June - Sept 1999
Projective Geometry, Image Based Rendering
Mentor: Leonard McMillan
Summer Research Assistant, Microsoft Research Graphics Group, May - Sept 1998
Image Based Rendering and Non-photorealistic Rendering
Mentors: Michael Cohen, Rick Szeliski
Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science UNC, May 1996 - May 2000
Large simulation environments, Real time depth extraction, rendering and projection using distributed computing 
Advisors: Prof Henry Fuchs, Greg Welch
Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science U of Iowa, Iowa City, August 1993 - August 1995
Algorithms for Human motion analysis using UPenn's JACK animation package 
Advisor: Prof Margaret Fleck
Programmer, Tandem Computers Cupertino, California, Oct 1992 - August 1993
Software auto-maintenance tools for X.500 based products
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. Computer Science(Aug 1995 May 2000) (Computer Graphics and Computer Vision)
Dissertation title : Projector as the Dual of a Camera
University of Iowa, Iowa City 
M.S. Computer Science (Aug 1993- May 1995) (Computer Vision)
Govt. College of Engineering, Pune, India 
B.S. Electronics and Telecommunication (Aug 1987- July 1991) (Robotics)
NasikRoad College, NasikRoad, Maharashtra 
HSC (July 1985- March 1987) (Electronics)
Purushottam English School, NasikRoad, Maharashtra 
SSC (June 1979- May 1985)
Navin Marathi Shala, NasikRoad, Maharashtra 
Nusati Majaa (June 1975- May 1979)

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