Vijay Kadakkal

Bio

I'm a graduate student in Electrical Engineering, majoring Controls and Robotics at George Mason University. I graduated in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India in 2004.

Courses >>

Spring 2005
- ECE 521 - Modern Systems Theory, Dr. Gerald Cook
  - Extras
- ECE 528 - Introduction to Random Processes, Dr. Janos Gertler
  - TA - Christopher A. St. Jean
  - Extras

Summer 2005
- ECE 542 - Computer Network Architectures and Protocols, Dr. Shih Chun Chang

Fall 2005
- ECE 699 - Mobile Robotics, Navigation and Remote Sensing, Dr. Gerald Cook
  - Extras/Projects
- ECE 720 - Multivariable Control, Dr. Guy Beale
  - Extras/Projects
- MATH 689 - Linear Programming, Dr. Ariela Sofer
  - Projects

Spring 2006
- ECE 722 - Kalman Filtering, Dr. Andre Manitius
  - Extras/Projects
- OR 644 - Nonlinear Programming, Dr. Ariela Sofer
  - Projects

Research >>

Working on implementing SIFT - Scale Invariant Feature Transforms, an image feature extraction algorithm developed by Dr. David Lowe, UBC, Canada.
Download David Lowe's IJCV paper(2004), which explains the algorithm in detail. The paper also defines values for various parameters found emperically, which can be of great help in implementing the algorithm.
At a later stage, to use this information and map stereo images, for SLAM(Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping).

Links - "Stuff inside"

Gallery [motion] - my humble animation deskbench !
Gallery [static] - Photographs !
Resume
Downloads - (an automatically generated list from Flashget)
My undergrad Mini Project
Blog

Links - "General"

AnandTech : the ultimate in hardware analysis !
Dimensionz - An online community for the 2000-2004 batch of AE&I students at CET, India
Esprit- screenshots of a CD for my undergrad classmates

Friends

Amateur ornithologist/lepidopterist/photographer ...
... thats Satya. Jump to his presence on the web.
Rajesh Ravi, Chandu Kamisetty - my friends @ GMU