Prof. Sumantra Dutta Roy is a B.E. (Computer Engineering) from D.I.T., Delhi (1993), and completed his M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, I.I.T. Delhi, in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He started his career in teaching and research in the Department of Electrical Engineering at I.I.T. Bombay, where he worked from 2001 to early 2007 as an Assistant Professor. From 2007 to 2018, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at I.I.T. Delhi. Since 2018, he has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at I.I.T. Delhi. He is a recepient of 2004 INAE Young Engineer Award (Indian National Academy of Engineering), and the 2004 - 05 BOYSCAST Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has been an Associate Editor of the Pattern Recognition Letters since 2011. His research interests are in Computer Vision and Image Analysis, Video and Image Coding, Biometrics, Music Information Retrieval, and Medical Informatics.
Abstract of the Talk:The talk is aimed at a popular lecture on some developments in the field of computer vision in the millenium. The talk will focus on non-machine learning-based developments, as well as some based on machine learning. The talk will try to touch on new sensors, single view metrology, large-scale reconstructions, ego-centric video analysis, and deep fakes .