Abhishek Thakur
Postgraduate Student
Pilani, Rajasthan, India
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Top SchoolAbhishek Thakur is a postgraduate software systems student and researcher with 8 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of electronics, robotics, embedded systems, and deep learning. Based in Pilani, he combines hardware-savvy electrical engineering roots with Python-centric computer vision and AI work, having shipped prototypes and collaborative projects in humanoids and control systems. He has contributed to notable open-source tooling—extending PyImageSearch's imutils to support Dlib facial landmark detection and hardening its video processing—demonstrating practical impact on widely used CV utilities. Driven by a blend of curiosity and persistence, he specializes in integrating open-source building blocks to invent new robotics and AI workflows.
8 years of coding experience
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 7.2, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 7.2 at Himachal Pradesh University
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (14)
computer-vision10
dlib10
opencv10
python10
image-processing9
numpy9
stream6
android-studio6
socket6
channel6
ffmpeg6
android6
youtube6
image6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PyImageSearch/imutils
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
A series of convenience functions to make basic image processing operations such as translation, rotation, resizing, skeletonization, and displaying Matplotlib images easier with OpenCV and Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily contributed to the `imutils` library by adding support for Dlib's 5-point facial landmark detector. Their work involved creating new files and modifying existing ones related to facial landmark detection and alignment. They also addressed a bug related to file end handling in the video processing component of the library. These changes indicate a focus on extending the library's capabilities in computer vision and improving its robustness.
pythonrotationtranslationconvenience-functionsimage-stitching
abhiTronix/TBB_Raspberry_pi
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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