Daily CVPR - Monday

CVPR Daily: Where do you study, Tanushri? Tanushri Chakravorty: I study in Polytechnic in Montreal, and I am a PhD student. CVPR Daily: What is your work about? Tanushri: My work is about object tracking and video sequences. Basically, it means that if you want to track a person or an object of interest, you really want to see how it is moving in the subsequent video frames. CVPR Daily: What is new about this work? Tanushri: The thing which is new about this work is that since it’s my objective to do model-free tracking, the algorithm which I’ve designed can be used to track any type of objects, not necessarily specific objects like faces, or let’s say a bird, or let’s say a dog. So it can only be used on a variety of generic objects. CVPR Daily: That means that you can imagine immediate practical applications of this work. Tanushri: Exactly! The practical application lies in visual surveillance. Then there is face recognition. There are plenty of applications… traffic surveillance, counting of objects, motion trajectory prediction, etc. CVPR Daily: Can you tell our readers what kind of algorithms you use to make this work? 6 CVPR Daily: Monday Presentation Tanushri Chakravorty