My Work

Slashdot has an article about nissan and microsoft trying to integrate their next technologies together. The nissans' new concept car would come equiped with an Xbox 360. When the car is parked, you can just bring up the flip LCD monitor and play the game 'Project Gotham Racing 3' by controling the real steering, accelerator etc. Hmm.. one question.. why use the LCD instead of trying to project something on the front glass??, I think it would be a really good experience for the gamer if there were some provision for projecting the video output onto the front glass. "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/28/microsoft_nissan_urge/" I have been looking at the review i got from NCC and was wondering.. does blender really have such good api support which would allow simple python scripts to create depthmaps etc. So just to clarify that and find out if any work has been done so far for using blender in Computer Vision. To my surprise found some work related to getting c...

I've been waiting for a job so that i could go home.. and enjoy.. Nvidia is good enough for me.. and so i wanted to go home.. but the deadline for first week in Jan has put me in a dilema. I dont' want to seem like an a$$ in front of my prof asking him if i could go home just when he sent me info regarding the deadline and helped me out with the job. I've decided to wait till the ACCV thing gets over.. we (myself and bama) realized that Nvidia pune is a recent aquisition of PCA or some company like that... not sure if we are doing the right thing by getting there. We sent a mail to the director nvidia pune to find out more about the work they do. I was trying to meet my prof all day.. to talk to him about the progress, but he was quite busy with some guests and meetings. I really want to complete my Masters as soon as possible. I hope my prof would help me do that. Yesterday gave a party to my juniors in CVIT at Chutneys' the food was really good and we really had a lot...

21-12-06 I meet my placement officer at the main building, to my surprise, she remembered my name.. not only that she knew that i was waiting for Nvidia :) Deshaw was on campus that day... Nvidia was supposed to give a preplacement talk and conduct their test. Nvidia did not arrive.. so some more misery preparing for the exam and the interview. 22-12-06 Nvidia comes to campus, conducts written test, Test was conducted twice (due to delay in the arrival of the question sheets and answersheets). During the test we were specifically asked not to write anything on the question paper and that we would be disqualified for doing so, but due to exitement and carelessness i had accidentally written on the question paper.. i really thougth i would be disqualified. The final list of the candidates who got selected for the interview was sent to us through an e-mail. I could not find my name in the list.. (which was quite surprising coz we were informed that the cutoff was just 10marks out of 40)...

Ncc2006 paper rejected and the comments were awesome.. did not know how to react to them (oops sry there was only one comment). I guess i was too stupid to assume that it would be accepted. I guess this and my B grade in CV had something to do with my bad performance the other day at Sarnoff's interview. Still thinking about the great loss.. i could not concentrate on anything.. could not talk to my parents coz i knew it was a gross mistake to let go of sarnoff chance. I did not have anything to cheer me up.. Tejo to the rescue.. the came along to my lab as usual.. and started bugging me asking why i did not submit my resume to "Dhruva" well thought it was not a bad idea and decided to go for it.. and sent my resume to them. They seemed impressed with :) I was shortlisted for the interview. The contact person informed that he would like to know when i was completing my course. I informed him about the same and he responded asking me to remind him after im' done with m...

Sarnoff is a company which works in the areas of Object tracking etc. Essentially all their products are based on computer vision. I made it as a dream option because we were informed that they are looking for vision students exclusively. With my bleak knowledge at Computer Vision i was sure i would not be able to make it even through the written test (which by the way was a test asking basics of vision). Thirteen of the graduating students (including me) went to attend the test. The people from sarnoff were surprised to see such less turnup, they were expecting around 40 people. So we wrote the test and (which started about 1 and half hours late due to their delayed arrival), and wandered away to the hostel. None of us had any hopes about qualifying the written test due to the obvious fact that we were not sure if we knew CV :). The results were out and we were shocked to see that twelve of us were shortlisted for the interviews. We went back to the main building. I had to wait for t...

With fading confidence due to losses at Adobe and Google, and the feeling of guilt about not attending the Tcs test have created a lot of presure on my mind. Really had to break free of all the anxaiety. Felt like i was going to land up without any job in hand and be on the road.. really needed something for boosting my moral. I decided to attend the IBMs' test on 10/12/2005, the test was fairly simple.. i was expecting to get through for ISL( software labs ) but could not find my name in that list... i was really disappointed about the outcome. Kirti kiran was really supportive at this point.. he kept assuring me that i would be in for some list. Any way i ended up in the short list for AMS (global services). I was really disappointed about it.. but then.. my pop called up and asked me not to bother about it and to attend the interview. Sounded great to me.. This was my first interview ever for a job so thought i might as well take a shot at it. I was quite confident.. but was...

A little progress in the editor tool, networks tutorial about the IIIt's network. Played quake with spiter bot, warcraft vs normal(orcs) lost and then realized that ive' got to attack without break which lead me towinning again :). Finally had a bath after 2 days..?? nah.. dont' remember...created presentation for networks tutorial. Should work on editor..!!! reading mails is taking much of my time. Check out this website.. this guy did an awsome job with zbrush and maya http://www.3dadam.com/resume.php found it from 3dtotal.com its' a wonderful site for getting hold of new work by many artists and ofcourse many cg movies as well. Sech gave me a wonderful advice rather few words of wisdom regarding my mad love for creating games by foregoing the work im' supposed to do.. so im' kinda more stable than before :) by the way.. the words go like.. "GREAT.. I TOO WANT TO DO A LOT OF MATH AND READ A LOT OF PAPERS WITHOUT HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE OCR BUT THEN THIS ...

It was like a whole gaming day today.played all quake for about 1.30hrs early in the evening... and then Tiger calls me up and says that he is on campus and invited me to play WC i accepted the invitation.. i was very eager to play warcraft. So we started off with the boring games against the computers. Then i proposed that we play 1v1.. tiger and i played against each other.. and he defeated me badly.. i did not know what i was doing.. i was wasting time in the game and all that.. any way the fun part was when we began playing the 2v2 :) me + tiger vs 2 more.. those games rocked one tower rush, one normal army rush, and then finally against sham and mouli i went and destroyed his farms :)) it was really fun to play. And finally when i was about the leave to hostel i wanted to give one last try to that py2exe thing and why the hell does it have to bug me so much. So came to cvit and started working on it. Guess what.. could not do anything about it :( still the same problem. Then all...

Journel of Graphics tools is my next target :) have to write a journel paper explaining the tool ive' developed. The most frustrating part is that i have to change the code again for supporting other file formats like povray, point to point correspondence etc. Still have to get started with my thesis work, did not work much on that yet. Lessons learnt from pyweek... features of game engine are not important.. only the game play is important. The code need not be generic, it has to be playable. the only things that matter are looks and fun of the game. Will have to forget about pyweek soon and start concentrating on my work. It's not like i was the least in the lot... :) at least im' in the top 10 entries.. :) there were about 120 or so entries at the beginning of the contest.. then finally it was 25 teams which actually could submit something.... 7th position out of 25 is not that bad :)

The result from pyweek is out finally. It is kinda funny way of judging.. the games... its' ok that peer entrants will be rating the game.. infact this is a very good idea.. but then.. there is no compulsory rule that every entrant should rate all the others i think that really effects the outcome of the results... any way i lost in this game programming competetion... funny coz.. i thought we did the most we could do .... used python to its limits.. actually python is not meant to be used for fps games and all but we did all kinds' of damn' optimizations and got a reasonable fps....seems like python users dont' like fps games. I know people might think that im' writing such remarks just because i did not manage to get any position in the competetion.. well they are right. I don't think i will be participating in any of the game designing competetions any more.. its' kinda painful to see my games going down to some silly lame ass 2D games. Life just isnt...

Today was the most exiting day. Completed coding for pyweek1 a game designing contest. Created a FPS in python using pygame and pyOpenGL :)) it was very alarming to me at first, but then.. python proved to be faster than i thought it actually is. We could actually get around 120fps in the game. The ncc paper deadline is 5th sep and im' not even ready with the final 5 pages :( i dont' know what to put in the refs and not sure what to do.. just editing what ever prof told me. Hope ill' send my first paper. Swamy adviced me to make a website for my games and send prof a mail telling him about my latest advances. Im' really not sure if my prof would like this. But iv'e decided ill' do it, after ive' got nothing to loose in it. Just showing him what i have been doing besides thesis work.

The game development has slogged a bit since the college has begun. PJN asked me to read about some latest developments in the field of animation rather than the old basics, which by the way he only suggested me to read in the first place. So could finally complete reading the paper. The game related stuff have not moved at the pace i expected them to move but then ive' been searching the net for the MD2 models that could be used in the game. Could find some models but i wanted to make some changes to the models for which i could not find a good editor. The editors i relied on so much turned out to be crap on XP so have been trying for a new editor... downloaded k3d seemed to be a decently good software.. but could not get it running on FC4 due to some problem in the gcc 4.0 compiler. MilkShape3D the software i thought would solve my problems ended up putting me deep in to trouble.. could not find an appropriate crack for the software. Decided ill' go with the models i already ...

I've sucessfully completed reading the first paper related to animation... Principles of Traditional animation applied to 3D animation. The paper mostly explains how the animations should be so that they are appealing to the audience. It does mention about some of the spline based techniques and the problems associated with spline based keyframe animation softwares. Finally put in some of the ideas about the game i want to write on the paper :) have to start and see how it goes.

Completed what ever pjn has asked me to create..the damn dataset..have to prepare for the reading list. I hope this is the end of the data set generation toolkit. Worked the whole morning on creating new homepage. A good looking webpage again.. thanks to oswd.org i could manage to create a good home page, and change the look of the aweful cvit portal.

Finally had to write code for importing the Md2 objects into editor which i completed sucessfully but the problem with scaling.. now iv'e got to write the code for scaling the objects. The terrain is finally kinda complete but im' still not sure about what im' going to do next.. to develop adrian further or to start off with writing a new game.. there are the questions haunting me right now.

Finally completed the texturing of the terrain after much struggle. Could not have been possible without kedar's help :) Did a bouncing ball scene pjn asked me to do it. Lot of confusion about rendring depthmaps (editor was not storing the depthmaps properly). Have to start working on terrain generation. Integrating Md2 into the editor.

Lots of ideas are flashing up in my mind unable to concentrate on anything. Have to complete this new game as soon as possible. Searched lot about quake2bots could not find unreal tournament models file format. useful q2botlinks http://www.planetquake.com/jinx/ http://www.planetquake.com/pandemonium/ completed the automatic texture generation doesnt' look impressive have to do some thing about the texture. Pjn asked me to create some good depth maps, so using md2 again for animation :)

could not stop myself from playing age. Did not write the texture generation program. Read about the Animation basics from sigraph site.

Finally got the light effect to work with the terrain :) thoguth i would never be able to do it. Still have to work about texturing the terrain. Resolution: Should do this when i get time instead of playing games.

The struggle between the good and evil continues as i try to help my good side win the battle. I've been trying very hard to stop playing games and really start working on my thesis and project. Pjn is out of station and the gamers are loose on the campus.. its' really very hard to control myself and prevent myself from playing games :( Met venki and visu today.. they came to meet us at college and went out for dinner and i went to bed early..:)

The struggle of the good over evil has started... and im' trying hard to make the good win. Its' kinda holiday time.. pjn is out of station and age players and cz players are rocking the campus every hour and im' struggling to keep myself on the track of doing work. Just as i thought i was sucessful i recieved a phone call from Venki. He came to campus for the first time after he has started living with visu and co. So had to go to meet him. Had fun talking to visu and venki and then they took off to have dinner @ RB. I was all alone... thought i should go to sleep and that's what i did. :)

Just another day in the lab i was struggling to read as usual.. unable to take the heat of reading the Research papers i started redesigning my webpage, checking my emails in the mean while. I saw a mail from pjn which said "AWAY" i was confused by the subject name. Any way i just clicked on it and read the mail and was exited to know that pjn was going out of station for nearly 10 to 15 days.. but the exitement did not last long.. the next lines in the message were regarding some kinda reading requirement for the Ms/R students. I have to prepare a list of papers that i've got to read :(( i asked pjn about the same, he asked me to prepare a list of 50 papers from which he would select about 15 to 10 papers which would have to be read in detail in a systematic manner which he mentioned in the mail. So i started to search for more papers related to animation and computer graphics.I could not continue it any more.. i was being pinged by the ideas of changing my home page.. ...

First of all today early in the morning @ 8.45 i recieve a phone call from home asking me if i had completed all my exams.. ;) how weird is that.. it was my sister.. she got a dream about me failing in something and was showing the cards about it to my dad and there was my dad's car number on it. I told here that it should have been my driving license test :). So i sleep on.. enjoying the loss of my driving license exam which by the way i never was at.. and woke up at 12.30 .. my usual wakeup time. Came to lab and asked PJN if i could go home tomorrow.. he thought that i had decieded to go home tomorrow and said "Y ARE YOU TELLING ME SO LATE??" .. well i did not understand that he did not understand that i was asking him if i could go home tomorrow. Any how i said ill' be home for about a week to 10 days. He seemed happy with that :)) .. he said that i had to start working as soon as i return ( oh ya.. lets' see about that ). Mean while.. i recieved a mail from ...

Im' woke up at 12 again.. and felt sorry for myself that im' unable to do any thing with my life and time and more over.. started feeling that sashi is kinda taking advantage of me by making me do all the stuff he wants' for his paper and not even telling about it to pjn. I think that really sux. hmm well now im' playing quake, cricket etc.. and just having fun not even completing the work i'm supposed to do. The raytracing stuff is still stuck where it was a week ago.I've got the RA ship form signed though, hope i get 6k atleast for the summer RA :) played quake with dupi, nutt, venki and i dont' know who. Seems like end of day to me :)

Tried a stupid strategy for waking up early and sleeping early .. turns out that im' a complete idiot to have tried that... :( my attempt to do a night out failed and woke up at 1.40pm :(( any way could not take it any more.. had to do something about it.. so ate in the mess as a punishment.. and then started writing this post in the lab. Ive' been wasting lot of time since 4 days.. did nothing but play and play.. waking up at 11.00am , having lunch.. then by the time i could realize.. i was playing cricket @ 4.30.. then since im' tired.. i just sit in venki's room which by the way is free now coz.. cheddi and venki both are out of station. And the worst thing is that ive' been trying to play age and quake.. but could not find anybody to play :( thats' the biggest funniest part.. not being able to find a partner for playing games.. that sux. Well that's the whole problem since 4 days.. hope ill' do better from now on...

Met my prof today to discuss about the damn project.. guess what.. he asks me to modify the raytracing algorithm to get the depth information for each and every pixel. of the image.. :((

Well i thought i should have my blog space so that i can keep track of where im' loosing all my precious time :) and.. the other reson is many of my friends had one.. so thought i should too :D