Adarsh Kowdle
I am an Engineering Director on Google's Augmented Reality team leading the efforts around geometric and human perception, working on end-to-end solutions from research to product at the intersection of real-time computer vision, geometric/human sensing and applied machine learning such as ARCore Depth API, Relightables. Previously at Google, I was the Hardware/Systems Lead for uDepth: real-time active depth sensing on Pixel 4 that powers Face Unlock and computational photography use cases such as bokeh. My areas of interest are computer vision and machine learning with a focus on real-time applications.
Previously, I was a Senior Scientist and part of the founding team at perceptiveIO, where I developed computer vision and machine learning algorithms for 3D sensing, visual recognition and human-computer interaction. Prior to this, I spent 3 years at Microsoft as a Senior SDE / Researcher in the Applied Vision and Imaging Team at Microsoft, where I worked on Surface Hub among other projects. I also worked with the Interactive 3D Technologies group at Microsoft Research at Redmond for 6 months on projects such as Holoportation.
I graduated with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in July 2013. I was advised by Prof. Tsuhan Chen. My thesis focus was on interactive computer vision algorithms and image based modeling; putting the user in the loop intelligently by leveraging the power of the automatic algorithm.
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Rapsai: Accelerating Machine Learning Prototyping of Multimedia Applications through Visual Programming
Na Li
Jing Jin
Michelle Carney
Scott Joseph Miles
Maria Kleiner
Xiuxiu Yuan
Anuva Kulkarni
Xingyu “Bruce” Liu
Ahmed K Sabie
Abhishek Kar
Ping Yu
Ram Iyengar
Alex Olwal
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM
Experiencing Visual Blocks for ML: Visual Prototyping of AI Pipelines
Na Li
Jing Jin
Michelle Carney
Jun Jiang
Xiuxiu Yuan
Kristen Wright
Mark Sherwood
Jason Mayes
Lin Chen
Jingtao Zhou
Zhongyi Zhou
Ping Yu
Ram Iyengar
Alex Olwal
ACM (2023) (to appear)
Experiencing Rapid Prototyping of Machine Learning Based Multimedia Applications in Rapsai
Na Li
Jing Jin
Michelle Carney
Xiuxiu Yuan
Ping Yu
Ram Iyengar
Alex Olwal
CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 448:1-4
DepthLab: Real-time 3D Interaction with Depth Maps for Mobile Augmented Reality
Maksym Dzitsiuk
Luca Prasso
Ivo Duarte
Jason Dourgarian
Joao Afonso
Jose Pascoal
Josh Gladstone
Nuno Moura e Silva Cruces
Shahram Izadi
Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM (2020), pp. 829-843
Experiencing Real-time 3D Interaction with Depth Maps for Mobile Augmented Reality in DepthLab
Maksym Dzitsiuk
Luca Prasso
Ivo Duarte
Jason Dourgarian
Joao Afonso
Jose Pascoal
Josh Gladstone
Nuno Moura e Silva Cruces
Shahram Izadi
Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos
Adjunct Publication of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM (2020), pp. 108-110
The Relightables: Volumetric Performance Capture of Humans with Realistic Relighting
Kaiwen Guo
Peter Lincoln
Philip Davidson
Xueming Yu
Matt Whalen
Geoff Harvey
Jason Dourgarian
Danhang Tang
Anastasia Tkach
Emily Cooper
Mingsong Dou
Graham Fyffe
Christoph Rhemann
Jonathan Taylor
Paul Debevec
Shahram Izadi
SIGGRAPH Asia (2019) (to appear)
Deep Reflectance Fields - High-Quality Facial Reflectance Field Inference from Color Gradient Illumination
Abhi Meka
Christian Haene
Michael Zollhöfer
Graham Fyffe
Xueming Yu
Jason Dourgarian
Peter Denny
Sofien Bouaziz
Peter Lincoln
Matt Whalen
Geoff Harvey
Jonathan Taylor
Shahram Izadi
Paul Debevec
Christian Theobalt
Julien Valentin
Christoph Rhemann
SIGGRAPH (2019)
Depth from motion for smartphone AR
Julien Valentin
Neal Wadhwa
Max Dzitsiuk
Michael John Schoenberg
Vivek Verma
Ambrus Csaszar
Ivan Dryanovski
Joao Afonso
Jose Pascoal
Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos
Mira Angela Leung
Mirko Schmidt
Sameh Khamis
Vladimir Tankovich
Shahram Izadi
Christoph Rhemann
ACM Transactions on Graphics (2018)
LookinGood: Enhancing Performance Capture with Real-Time Neural Re-Rendering
Ricardo Martin Brualla
Shuoran Yang
Pavel Pidlypenskyi
Jonathan Taylor
Julien Valentin
Sameh Khamis
Philip Davidson
Anastasia Tkach
Peter Lincoln
Christoph Rhemann
Dan Goldman
Cem Keskin
Steve Seitz
Shahram Izadi
SIGGRAPH Asia (2018)
Real-time Compression and Streaming of 4D Performances
Danhang Tang
Mingsong Dou
Peter Lincoln
Philip Davidson
Kaiwen Guo
Jonathan Taylor
Cem Keskin
Sofien Bouaziz
Shahram Izadi
ACM Transaction of Graphics (2018)
