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I am a PhD student working as an “Early Stage Researcher (ESR)” for the BBfor2 project at the University of Twente. My PhD research is being supervised by: Dr. Ir. R.N.J. Veldhuis (UT), Dr. Ir. L.J. Spreeuwers (UT) and Prof Hugo Van hamme (KUL). I am funded by the European Commission (EC) as a Marie Curie Fellow for the BBfor2 project. More details are in my PhD research page.
I completed MSc in Computer Science (by research) in Oct. 2010 from the University of York (UK). My MSc research was supervised by Dr. William Smith. In 2009, I received the European Research and Educational Collaboration with Asia – EURECA scholarship to pursue MSc. in Computer Science (by research) at the University of York (UK). EURECA is a project funded by the Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window (EMECW) of the European Commission. More details are in my MSc research page.
My research interests include:
- Face Recognition (for forensics and biometrics)
- Bio-inspired Computer Vision
- Face Shape and Reflectance Modelling
- Psychology and Neuro Psychology of Face Perception
- Real Time Markerless Facial Geometry Capture
In addition to computer programming and hacking, I also enjoy to apply Mathematics for solving real world problems and I admire the wonderful landscape created by Mathematicians. I started loving Mathematics after going through video lectures of Prof. Strang (OCW) and Prof. Boyd (SEE).
Sometimes, I get bored with my research and these are the times when I enjoy getting involved in hobby electronics, photography and contributing to open source ecosystem. Since my childhood, I have explored the wonderful world of hobby electronics. I love to hack electronic devices to make them do what they were not intended for. I also like the concept of Software Defined Radio (SDR) and would love to see a software like gnuradio for Computer Vision (maybe gnuvision). I plan to build EEG capture device and record my brain’s activity during sleep. I sleep more than 8 hours a day and would love to know what my brain does when I am asleep (have been fascinated by the film Inception and Matrix).
I also have a passion for photography and I still dream of becoming a journalist. I am a strong supporter of Open Source ecosystem and I use alias thelinuxmaniac for all my contributions to open source projects.
