Session: Computer Vision for Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality
The objective of the talk "CV for AR/VR" is to give a broad overview of the role of computer vision in Augumented Reality and Virtual Reality. Various E-Commerce industries are paving ways towards mass adoption of AR and VR technologies to add the real-time visual effects to their products to provide better customer experience, improve brand perception and improve sales. Participants will learn the basic concepts of the technologies and the tools involved. The talk will focus on how Computer vision and virtual reality work together to build a system for achieving sophisticated interactive content.
Bio
Tilottama Goswami has received a BE degree with Honors in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur; and a MS degree in Computer Science (High Distinction) from Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. She was awarded a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hyderabad. Presently, Dr Goswami is Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India. She has overall 23 years of experience in academia, research, and IT industry. Her research interests are computer vision, machine learning, and image processing. She has been granted an Australian patent for her research work. Dr Goswami has been conferred with Distinguished Scientist Award by IJIEMR-Elsevier SSRN, Vijayawada, India. She is also a recipient of the Women Researcher Award, awarded by the REST Society for Research International, India. Dr. Goswami is the recipient of University Grants Commission-Basic Scientific Research (UGC-BSR) Fellowship (under the Government of India). She has been awarded the Star Team Award for developing efficient software for GeoMedia (GIS), leading to complete customer satisfaction at Hexagon (Intergraph), Hyderabad. She is Editorial Board Member of two international journals and has contributed editorial articles, chapters in scopus indexed books.
Dr Goswami is an IEEE Senior Member in IEEE CIS/GRSS Chapter Hyderabad Section. She is presently serving as Chairperson of ACM Hyderabad Deccan Professional Chapter and has also served as ACM-W Chair. Dr Goswami is an active researcher and contributes to society by delivering workshops and guest lectures, participating as technical program committee, tutorial chair, and reviewer in international conferences and journals. She has delivered more than 20 invited talks in the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms, statistical methods, computer vision, color image processing. Dr Goswami has been convener for international events such as Distinguished Lecture Series, AI Webinar Series, Workshops and Conclaves. Dr Goswami actively maintains her industry engagement through industry exchange program and project consultancy on applications of AI in various problem domains.