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 am just a kid from Delhi who loves doing cool things. I find travelling cool and have been fortunate to experience some beautiful places and cities in Europe and India. I find cultures cool and hence I try to experience as many as I can in terms of art, food and music. I find sports cool and follow Manchester Utd, Cricket, Tennis and F1. I love watching TV Series and movies. Breaking Bad and Attack on Titan in my unbiased opinion are the greatest fictional shows of all time. My professional background is also a culmination of things I find cool. I love dancing Salsa and Bachata.