Internship in Computer Vision and 3D Reconstruction

Hola Folks, hope you are doing well. Recently I got an internship opportunity to intern with ESSI Integrated technologies in the research and development wing. It was a great opportunity as I was working on something which I enjoy which is machine learning and computer vision. It was a great experience as I was working on the 3D reconstruction problem which has a real-world use case. Internship plays a major role in shaping the future of students in the corporate world.

About the Company

ESSI Integrated Technologies Pvt. Ltd is a leading player in the Total Security Solutions space. Our turnkey projects are implemented and maintained in government institutions, power stations, industrial plants, research centers, military premises, embassies, airports, banks etc.

Company Size — 201–500

Specialties — Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, Video Surveillance and Analytics, Personnel Access Control (RFID, Biometrics), Emergency Secure Communication System, Under-vehicle Surveillance, Automatic License Plate Reader, Secure Parking Management, Document Management System, Integrated Command and Control System, Fire Control, Vehicular Access Control, Red Light Violation Detection, Adaptive Traffic Control System, Operator Training/Capacity Building, Visitor Management System, Machine Learning, and Fleet Management.

Working at ESSI Technologies

Working at ESSI gave me exposure to various things about working in the corporate world. Some of them were —

● Working in a big organization and understanding their working pipeline.

● Agile Manifestos

● Working with different teams other than software and understanding how things are done in an organization.

● Implementing research papers and getting a different approach out of them

● Concepts of Computer Vision and deep learning.

Introduction

Computer Vision is one of the popular fields in computer science and research. With the advancements of high end cameras and technology, there are various things that can be done in this field such as self-driving cars, data collection from drones, and converting them to 3D models.

It has also a large use case in the field of robotics and automation. Computer Vision helps to derive relevant information from digital images and videos and take actions based on the data collected. It can also be used in security cameras for designing intusion detection system and face detection softwares.

ESSI Integrated Technologies is working on one such use case of computer vision which is stereo vision. Collecting the stereo data and converting it into 3D Models. It can help us solve various issues like converting the data received from drones into a 3D model which can be used for constructing the outlook or structure for any building.

The aim of this project is to design a 3D reconstruction pipeline which can take stereo data as input and provide a 3D reconstructed model and which can be used in the industry.

Conclusion

We have successfully created 3D mdel for the images provided in the dataset and benchmarked some algorithms which can be used in 3D reconstruction. We have also tweaked different parameters and found ways for accurate disparity map generation.

It was great working in on a live project which can be implemented in real world and has diversified use cases.