2015
Karunya Tota
I am currently a Sophomore pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I was initially interested in participating in a REU program after completing a Research - Design & Data course at UIUC. I was also intrigued by the idea of exploring the area of Computer Vision and learning how to implement Machine Learning concepts. This summer, I am working on the 'Counting in Dense Crowds using Deep Features' project under the guidance of my mentor, Dr. Haroon Idrees. The overall goal of this project is to be able to generate a count for the number of people in an image of a dense crowd. Our main method involves taking a crowd dataset and extracting features from it using a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) and then training a support vector machine (SVM). We are also working on encoding fisher vectors using dense SIFT features extracted from the dataset and training another SVM. Furthermore, we will also explore other options to improve the performance of our counting algorithm (i.e. horizontal line estimation or by using the size of humans to infer density. For more information, check out my presentations below!
Weekly Presentations
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