Jerrin Bright
Doctoral Student, Systems Design Engineering
Vision and Image Processing Lab, University of Waterloo
Office: 2038B, East Campus 4 (EC4) Building
Bio: My research focuses on understanding and interacting with the dynamic, 3D world around us, with a particular emphasis on human behavior.
By combining computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning, I'm exploring how to capture, perceive, and understand the 4D world
from what we can see in 2D images and videos. My goal is to develop systems that can learn priors about the 4D world from visual data,
enabling us to build more realistic and interactive virtual environments centered around human activity.
Currently, I am a doctoral student at the
Vision & Image Processing Lab under the supervision of
Dr. John S Zelek. I'm jointly working with the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB) towards developing robust
monocular 3D human modeling solutions for quantitative analysis of baseball players to improve player performance, enable better strategic decisions, and
aid in injury prevention.
My research interests also include puck localization for ice-hockey, unique player identification in low-resolution broadcast videos,
player action recognition, human pose estimation and 3D scene recovery using monocular images.
Previously, I have explored diverse research topics including SLAM for UAVs, visual odometry, camera calibration, and mechanical designing and simulations
for ground vehicles, UAVs and VTOLs. Beyond academia, I am an avid cricket and chess enthusiast who also enjoys travelling, ice-skating and cycling.
Some of the interesting project video demos I have worked in the past can be seen here: PROJECT DEMOS.
A page for all my achievements: WALL OF CERTIFICATES.
Core Interests:
- 4D Realistic Avatars
- 3D Human Modeling
- Autonomous Navigation
Education
University of Waterloo - Ontario, Canada
Supervisor: Dr. John S Zelek.
Courses: Computational Vision.
University of Waterloo - Ontario, Canada
Supervisor: Dr. John S Zelek.
Courses: Probabilistic Machine Learning, Graphical Deep Learning, Advanced Image Processing, Statistical Image Processing.
Vellore Institute of Technology - Chennai, India
Supervisor: Dr. Arockia Selvakumar.
Courses: Mechatronics System Design, Machine Drawing, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Complex Variables and Partial Differential Equations, Problem Solving and Object Oriented Programming.
Thesis
Experience
Baltimore Orioles Maryland, USA
Sports Analysis and Pose Estimation Research
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab
McMaster University Hamilton, Canada
Robotics and Manufacturing Automation Lab
Yuan-Ze University Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Speech and Image Processing Lab
Notable Achievements
Scholarships
- International Doctoral Student Award, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- MITACS Accelerate International Award, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- International Master’s Award of Excellence, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- Graduate Research Studentship, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- MITACS Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship, MITACS Canada.
Honors and Awards
- Best Paper Award (Computer Vision), Conference on Robots and Vision, 2024.
- Outstanding Paper Award, RIACT International Conference, 2020.
- Best Outgoing Student- Robotics Club, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
- Technical Program Member, 7th International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia 2024.
- Best Club Award- Robotics Club, University Day 2021, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
- Co-Founder and Team Lead, Atom Robotics- An intelligent robotics and space exploration team @ VIT University, India.
- Top 7 Internationally, CVSports Soccer Jersey Number Recognition Challenge, CVPR 2023.
- Top 10 Internationally, International Planetary Aerial Systems Challenge 2021, Mars Society South Asia.
- Top 15 Internationally, International Rover Design Challenge 2021, Mars Society South Asia.
- Winner in 15+ Robotics Competitions, Held in various Techfests in universities around India.
- Runner‑up, IEEE Hackathon on Autonomous Drone Applications, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
- Best Club Award- National Service Scheme, University Day 2022, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
Reviewer Experience
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
- Conference on Vision and Intelligent Systems (CVIS)
- Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports - ACM Workshop (MMSports)
- Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology - IEEE (TCSVT)
- International Conference on Computer Technology and Information Science (CTIS)
- Image and Vision Computing Journal - Sciencedirect (IMAVIS)
- The Journal of Supercomputing - SpringerLink