Viswa Subramanian Sekar, a final-year BE (computer science and engineering) student of PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, looks forward to pursuing a career in research. Three weeks ago, she bagged the National Award for the ‘Best BTech project in Engineering 2013’ from Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and the Government of Punjab for her work on efficient storage of medical images on cloud. “As someone who hails from a family of doctors, I felt I should do some research based on medical images,” says Viswa. “Cloud computing is a cost-efficient technique. I have also created an image compression technique that reduces the image size and also ensures that quality of the image does not get affected.” She began her work in 2012. Viswa has also attended various national and international conferences. The research was also published in Elsevier, a reputed international magazine for science and technology this year. She was also the only UG student to attend the Elsevier international conference held in June.
Presently, she is working on her final-year project, which is about creating a virtual mirror interactive dressing room. “I was inspired to take up the project when I saw the video on the same topic by CISCO. Also, interactivity using gestures is the next-gen technology and so is augmented reality,” she explains. In Viswa’s project, the customer can virtually try out the dress on himself/herself. Also, the sizes could be altered. “The software kinect (used to create the virtual mirror) is very expensive if installed on the system. My idea is to make the virtual mirror available to people at their homes. The project is ready but there is still scope for improvements,” she says.
In future, Viswa intends to pursue her PhD in computer vision and wishes to pursue her master’s in Germany. But for a start, she is all set to go to Technical University of Munich in Germany (her dream university) for an internship spanning over a month-and-a-half at the end of this year.
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