Sourav Garg
- Research Affiliate
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- QUT
- 2019 - 2020
Sourav is a robotic-vision enthusiast. His research spans computer vision, robotics and deep learning, motivated by practical applications that involve a moving camera. He pioneered research in the twin challenge of visual place recognition that requires dealing with scene appearance and camera viewpoint simultaneously. His award-winning research and PhD thesis proposed novel ways of robot localization based on visual semantics, inspired by humans. He is always keen on exploring research problems related to scene understanding and robot navigation, particularly those revolving around effective representation and matching of visual information.
Sourav’s thesis received Executive Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Thesis Award and his research published in International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) won the SAGE QUT HDR Student Publication Prize. He was deemed a Distinguished Talent by the Department of Home Affairs, Australia for his research and achievements in robotics as a future-focused technology sector. As an active researcher, he regularly publishes in top-tier conferences and journals including IJRR, RSS, ECCV, RA-L, ICRA and IROS, with majority of his research accompanying open-source code releases. He has presented his research at various international conferences across 7 different countries and has delivered invited talks at notable venues. His research has also been covered by numerous social media platforms including Brisbane Times, Engineers Australia Create Magazine, Tech Xplore and official media outlets of ARC, ACRV and QUT.
Currently appointed as Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR), Sourav’s past research experience includes working with various government organisations, conducting collaborative research involving several educational institutes, handling various robotics setups: indoor robots for office and retail spaces, drones for delivery and autonomous cars fitted with a suite of sensors. He received his PhD from QUT in 2019 while being a part of the Centre and is currently associated with the Centre as a Research Affiliate.
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