Kripasindhu Sarkar - Research Scientist at Google

Kripasindhu Sarkar

Research Scientist at Google

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Kripasindhu Sarkar is a research scientist at Google with 14 years of experience focused on photorealistic AR/VR and controllable digital humans, combining deep learning, neural rendering, and 3D representations to generate lifelike media from minimal data. He holds a PhD in Computer Vision from the University of Kaiserslautern and has a strong research track record from roles at MPI Saarbrücken and DFKI, bridging academic rigor with production-minded engineering. His work spans human pose and gesture estimation, GAN-based rendering, and AR methods, emphasizing single-image-driven synthesis and full controllability of pose, shape, and appearance. An accomplished contributor to open-source tooling, he enhanced the visualization module of the widely used Point Cloud Library (PCL) by adding the PCLPlotter and plotting utilities, reflecting a practical bent for visualization and demos. Based in Zurich, he pairs deep theoretical insight with hands-on system-building across research and industry, pursuing indistinguishable-from-reality digital media.

13 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision at University of Kaiserslautern

Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Github Skills (8)

pcl10

computer-vision10

point-cloud-library10

visualization10

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

visualizations10

point-cloud10

Programming languages (4)

C++CHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

PointCloudLibrary/pcl

Jun 2012 - Sep 2012

Point Cloud Library (PCL)

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:26 commits in 3 months

Contributions summary:Kripasindhu primarily contributed to the `visualization` module of the Point Cloud Library (PCL). They added the `PCLPlotter` class, which includes functionalities to plot various types of data, such as polynomial and rational functions, and histograms. Furthermore, the user integrated features to plot 2D primitives and added functions for window control and data manipulation related to plots and figures. They also implemented a demo and made corrections.

cpppoint-cloud-libraryc-plus-pluscomputer-visionpcl-library

krips89/opendetection_docs

Jun 2015 - Mar 2021

Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months

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