Bio

Hi, I am Pulkit Gera (पुलकित गेरा). I like to explore the unknown.
I am a Research Intern at MPI-INF, Saarbrücken. I am working at 4D and Quantum Vision group under the tutelage of Prof. Vladislav Golyanik and Prof. 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.

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 Aakash K.T, Dhawal Sirikonda and Mohammed Reza Karimi.

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.