Rahul Budhiraja is seeking a master's program to further his research interests in augmented reality. He has a B.Tech in information technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology with research experience including augmented reality applications for military and education. His skills include C++, OpenGL and experience with augmented reality, computer vision and human computer interaction projects. He provides three academic references and one industrial reference.

1. Rahul Budhiraja
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Information Pitampura New Delhi Mail: rahulbudhiraja@ieee.org
India-110034 WWW: rahulbudhiraja.com
Objective A Prospective Master’s Student who wishes to Pursue his Research interests in a
Renowned Research Lab which utilizes and enhances his skills in solving challenging
problems
Education Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad,India
B.Tech, Information Technology, July 2010
- CGPI: 8.3/10
- Thesis Topic: Tracking the Tracker : Investigating Tracking Methods in Aug-
mented Reality from Fiducial Markers to Markerless Tracking Techniques.
Advisor: Dr.Shekhar Verma
Area of Study: Augmented Reality, Computer Vision
MES Indian School, Doha,Qatar
All India Senior School Certificate Examination,March 2006
Central Board of Secondary Education
Percentage Obtained:92%
All India Secondary School Examination,March 2004
Central Board of Secondary Education
Percentage Obtained:85%
Research Research Assistant February 2009 to February 2010
Experience Keio-NUS CUTE Center,Interactive and Digital Media Institute
National University of Singapore
- Augmented Reality in Military Applications (in Collaboration with Ministry of
Defence,Singapore)
Research Assistant December 2009 to February 2010
Signal,Image and Language Processing Lab
Indian Institute of Information Technology
- A Preliminary Investigation of Augmented Reality Applications in Universities
Research Student July 2009 to November 2009
Robita Lab
Indian Institute of Information Technology
- RoboCAM-A Multiclient Video Conferencing Tool
Research Student January 2009 to May 2009
Patent Referral Center,
Indian Institute of Information Technology
- M2P:Many to PPT
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2. Research Augmented Reality,Computer Vision,Human Computer Interaction,User Interface De-
Interests sign,Computational Photography
Conference Budhiraja.R,Verma.S,Pandey.A P-SCAR:A Presentation System for Classrooms using
Publications Augmented Reality Proceedings of NICOGRAPH International:May 2010,Singapore.
Rahul Budhiraja, Shekhar Verma, and Arunanshu Pandey.Designing interactive pre-
sentation systems for classrooms. in Proceedings of the 28th Annual International
Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2010 S˜o Paulo, Brazil, Septem-
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ber 26-29, 2010 pages: 259-260.
Other Budhiraja,Rahul Tracking the Tracker: Investigating Tracking Methods in Aug-
Publications mented Reality from Fiducial Markers to Markerless Tracking Techniques. Bachelor
thesis, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad India, 2010.
RoboCAM A Multiclient Video Conferencing Tool (Software Copyright Pending)
Selected Tracking System:An alternative approach
Projects
Some of the most successful AR tracking systems are those based on a combination of
structure from motion (SFM) and SLAM approaches, that both model and localize at
the same time. Our method, uses model building technology of Bundler to create vari-
ous 3D maps of the environment. These 3D maps are then used for AR localization over
a wide area. I worked on the Tracking and Rendering part of the project to implement
our pose estimation algorithm and rendering both 3D and 2D Augmentations with the
help of the system.
Advisor: Prof Adrian David Cheok, Prof Gerhard Roth [Feb’10 to Dec’10 ]
Training Editor:An AR Authoring System
Another module of our project was to create an AR Authoring system which could po-
sition objects in a Virtual World relative to a Map and these transformations would be
registered accurately with the Tracking System.For this application,we used Lib3DS to
load the .3DS model,TinyXML to store & transmit the XML Stream,OpenGL to build
the GUI and LibSDL to place the textures on the 3DS Models.The Maps were created
offline and stored in the PLY format.
Advisor: Prof Adrian David Cheok, Prof Gerhard Roth [Dec’10 to Feb’11 ]
P-SCAR:A Presentation System for Classrooms using Augmented Reality
In this project,we developed a presentation system for classrooms in which the teacher
could give interactive presentations to students present within the classroom and those
at home .At the teacher’s end ,the teacher controls the flow of the presentation by means
of Speech and Hand Gestures and accordingly these events are reflected onto the stu-
dents application.The Entire Presentation is divided into sessions such as Teaching,Q
& A etc. which are managed by the system.
Advisor: Prof.Shekhar Verma [Dec’09 to Mar’10 ]
A Prelim Investigation of Augmented Reality Applications in Universities
In this project,we had to demonstrate the use of Marker Based AR in building simple
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3. interactive applications useful for a university.Possible Applications could be useful to
either the faculty,staff or even university visitors .The Applications developed included
a Business Card for staff,An Interactive 3D Viewer to show to visitors and Display-
ing 3D Objects on Markers as a supplement to classroom presentations(for courses like
Computer Graphics and Image Processing).
Advisor: Prof.Shekhar Verma [Nov’09 to Jan’10 ]
Further details of my projects can be found here
Freelance AR Related
Activities
• Developed an Augmented Reality Application using FLARToolkit for a student of
Advertising and Multimedia in the University of Kairouan,Tunisia.
• Built a Framework to dynamically link AR Markers and Collada Objects using a
SQL Database for a student of North Sumatara University,Indonesia.
• Collaborated with a Uruguayan Video Producer and Web Artist to showcase his
work using AR Markers.Work involved creating a Framework to showcase his videos
on AR Markers and provide facility to easily add/delete videos and markers.
• Developed a FLARToolkit Application for a student of Universidade Potiguar,Brazil
to illustrate the usage of FLARToolkit .The Client had experience of creating AR-
Toolkit appplications and wanted a sample application using Actionscript for devel-
oping web-based AR applications.
• Created a FLARToolkit application for a Smash Magazine personnel to demonstrate
the usage of Augmented Reality in giving Interactive Presentations.
Visual FX
• Developed a Promotional Video for Aphelion(IV) ,a track from The Palatin Project.
Worked with an Electronic Music Composer to use raw footage from a Temperate
Rainforest to create the video using Visual FX Software.
Technical Languages: C, C++, SQL, HTML, XML,VB.NET,ASP.NET,ActionScript,Matlab,
Skills OpenGL,L TEX,Bash Script,PHP
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Platforms:SuSE 8.1 to 10.0, Windows 98/NT/XP/Vista,Ubuntu 9.1 to 10.10,Android
Software Experience
IDEs:Adobe Flash CS4,Oracle 9i,Visual Studio,Eclipse,GNU Emacs
3D Rendering: Poser Pro 7,Blender
Video Editing: Cyberlink Power Director, Adobe After Effects CS3
Sound Editing: Adobe Soundbooth CS3,Adobe Audition CS3
Image Editing: Adobe Photoshop CS4,Corel Paintshop Pro 8
Honors and - Runner-Up(Phase I), Topcoder-Alcatel Lucent 100 Apps in 100 days
Awards
- Meritorious Student Award ,in recognition for Outstanding Academic perfor-
mance,2006.
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4. - Principal’s Honors List-2003
- Sixth Position.Gulf Chemistry Olympiad
- Best IT Project,MES Computer Science Department 2003.
Positions of - Associate Member:IEEE
Responsibility
- Alumni Member:ACM IIITA Chapter and North India SIGCHI Chapter
- Head Prefect,MES Indian School(April 2005 - March 2006)
- Assistant Head Prefect,MES Indian School(April 2004 - March 2005)
- Lead Designer ,Effervescence Promotional Video Team (Jan08 -May08).
- Member.Accommodation Committee of the 2nd Science Conclave 2009,IIITA
- Student-Industry Contact for Campus Placements.
- Chief Co-ordinator Gamers Asylum: Counterstrike event in Effervescence MM8
Industrial Tata Consultancy Services, Gurgaon,Haryana India
Experience
Product Demonstrations Designer May 2008 to July 2008
• Developed demonstrational videos for four Multimedia Applications of the IP
Multimedia Subsystem(IMS) group of the Wireless Telecom Applications De-
partment.
• These Videos will supplement their Live Demonstrations at International Tele-
com Product Expos.
The Sports Campus.com
Research Analyst December 2009 to January 2010
• Research and Compile in-depth articles and sports Trivia.
References Dr. Adrian Cheok (e-mail: adriancheok@mixedrealitylab.org)
• Professor
Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University
• Associate Professor,
Interactive and Digital Media Institute, National University of Singapore
Dr. Cheok was the PI in our Project with the Ministry of Defence and is the director
of the CUTE Center.
Dr. Gerhard Roth (e-mail: gerhardroth@rogers.com; phone: (613)993-1219)
• Adjunct Research Professor
School of Computer Science, Carleton Univesity
Dr. Roth is a Co-PI who designed and supervised my work during the development
of our Tracking and Rendering System and gave me useful education and advice on
Augmented Reality and Computer Vision
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5. Dr. Shekhar Verma (e-mail: sverma@iiita.ac.in)
• Associate Professor, Signal,Image and Language Processing Lab
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Dr. Verma was my bachelor thesis advisor and supervised my work at the SILP Lab
Dr. Hideaki Nii (e-mail: nii@mixedrealitylab.org)
• Research fellow, Keio-NUS CUTE Center
Interactive and Digital Media Institute,National University of Singapore
Dr. Nii is a co-PI for the MINDEF project and supervised my work in developing
an application for the CBRE group during the MINDEF Singapore Project
Dr. R.C Tripathi (e-mail: rct@iiita.ac.in)
• Professor,Dean (R&D)
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Dr.Tripathi has been my supervisor for two of my projects at the Patent Referral
Center in my University
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