Kothapalli Vignesh

k.vignesh@iitg.ernet.in | +91-9085738422 | www.linkedin.com/in/kvignesh1420/

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
IIT GUWAHATI INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | RESEARCH INTERN
Assam, India Prof. A.G.Ramakrishnan | May 2017 – July 2017 | Bangalore, India
August 2014 - Present • Improved the spatial resolution of tamil document images for accurate optical
Major in Electronics and character recognition using deep neural networks.
Communication Engineering • An improvement of 140% in the character level OCR accuracy was achieved.
GPA: 8.01 / 10.0
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI | RESEARCH INTERN
NARAYANA ACADEMY Prof. M.Hanmandlu | May 2016 – July 2016 | Delhi, India
Hyderabad, India
• Formulated a new adaptive edge detection algorithm for images using fractional
April 2012 - June 2014
derivatives and information sets.
Senior Secondary
percentage: 97.9 • Applied fuzzification, intensification and non-maximal suppression algorithms on
the fractional gradient maps of the input image to obtain its edges.

RESEARCH
INTERESTS
PROJECTS
Deep Learning FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION AND ANALYSIS
Machine Learning Prof. Rafi Ahamed | Ongoing | IIT Guwahati
Image Processing Developing an emotion classifier, employing local binary patterns, Histogram of Oriented
Computer Vision Gradients, Convolutional Neural Networks and LSTM networks as feature extractors.

ABNORMAL ACTIVITY DETECTION ON PETS DATASET

COURSEWORK
UNDERGRADUATE
Pattern Recognition and Machine
Learning
Digital Signal Processing
Image Processing
Image and Video Processing
Signals Systems and Networks
Probability and Random Processes
Information Theory
Error Control Codes
Multivariable Calculus
Prof. Amit Sethi | Feb 2017 - April 2017 | IIT Guwahati
A CNN and bidirectional LSTM based feature extractor was integrated with a temporal
averaging based SVM to classify events in videos.
VIDEO CLASSIFICATION USING TWO STREAM CNN
Prof. Amit Sethi | Jan 2017 - Feb 2017 | IIT Guwahati
Used two parallel CNNs which exploited the static features from individual frames and
motion features from the optical flow patterns for classifying videos.
SPEAKER TRANSITION DETECTION
Prof. Prithwijit Guha | Nov 2016 | IIT Guwahati
Performed K-means clustering, bhattacharya coefficient analysis on the features of the
wavelet transformed input audio and detected the speaker transition points.

SKILLS HAND GESTURE RECOGNITION BASED VIRTUAL TOUCHPAD

PROGRAMMING Electronics Club | Mar 2016 | IIT Guwahati
Languages Developed a hand gesture controlled mouse pointer to replace faulty touchpads / mouses
C • C++ • Python in computers, by performing morphological operations on real time image data.
Application Software/Libraries
MATLAB • OpenCV • Tensorflow
•Theano • Keras PUBLICATIONS
Operating Systems Ram Krishna Pandey, K.Vignesh, A.G.Ramakrishnan, Chandrahasa B;Document Image
Windows • Linux (Ubuntu) Super Resolution for Improved Readability and OCR Performance; under review in the
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

ACHIEVEMENTS Vignesh Kothapalli, Gaurav Yadav, and Amit Sethi. ”Abnormal Event Detection on
ACADEMIC BMTT-PETS 2017 Surveillance Challenge.” Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Meritorius student award 2011-12 Workshops (CVPRW), 2017 IEEE Conference on. IEEE, 2017.
IIT-JEE Mains rank-493/1.5 mil
IIT-JEE Advanced rank-1420/0.15 mil Shaveta Arora, Vignesh Kothapalli, Madasu Hanmandlu, Gaurav Gupta; Information Sets
for Edge Detection; accepted at the Encyclopedia of Image Processing, Taylor and Francis