Bio

Hi, I am Pulkit Gera (पुलकित गेरा). I like to explore the unknown. I am an Applied Scientist Intern at Flawless AI working with Dr Akin Caliskan, Dr Bindita Chaudhary and Dr Ye Yu. I work on developing solutions for face performance transfer for different target audio. I have developed solutions for different stages of compositing process.

Professional

I pursued B.Tech+MS in the field of Computer Vision and Graphics at CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad under Prof P.J Narayanan and Prof. Jean-François Lalonde. My MS thesis is titled “Casual Scene Capture and Editing for AR/VR Application”. I pursued an independent study with Prof Vasudeva Verma and Dr Balaji Vasan Srinivasan on transformer based approach to multi-modal news summarization. Additionally, I have worked with fantastic researchers such as Dr. Aakash K.T, Dr. Dhawal Sirikonda and Dr. Mohammed Reza Karimi.

I worked as a Research Intern at MPI-INF, Saarbrücken under the tutelage of Dr. Christian Theobalt. We developed a framework that can perform real-time, free-view relighting of human avatars under arbitrary environment illuminations. This involved setting up a state-of-the-art Lightstage and curating the comprehensive HumanOLAT dataset. The HumanOLAT dataset, the first of its kind, consists of 70 captures of people under 331 OLAT conditions from 40 views

Personal

I love watching sports. I follow football because of Wayne Rooney, cricket because of Yuvraj Singh, tennis because of Rafael Nadal and F1 because of Sebastian Vettel.

I love traveling. Kudle Beach, Gokarna and Baratang Island, Andamans are some of the most ethereal places I have been to. You can win my heart by bringing me Hyderabadi Dum Biryani. I enjoy watching TV Series and Anime. The Office(US) and Nichijou are my recommendations for comedy shows. Breaking Bad and Attack on Titan in my unbiased opinion are the greatest fictional shows of all time.