Siddharth Deokar

Address Info

Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota,Duluth
320 Heller Hall
1114 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812

E-mail: deoka001@d.umn.edu

Research

• Snow Rendering for Interactive Snowplow Simulation
  I am developing an interactive virtual environment of snowing conditions using OpenGL and OpenGL Shading Language for programming high end GPUs. The snowing conditions obstruct the human's visual system's ability to accurately perceive speed and motion of a snowplow, resulting in the potential for rear end collisions. This simulation will be used to test and determine optimal color and lighting configurations for actual snowplows in snowing or foggy conditions, which will have a very large impact in that lives can be saved.Click here for details

• Some Useful Links
  • OpenGL
  • NeHe Tutorials
  • OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)

Academics

• Needles in Gigastack
  Developed a parallel program to find the most interesting terms from a large corpus of text using the TF*IDF measure.The project is implemented in C using the Message Passing Interface for parallel programming and is designed to take advantage of multiple processors.

• Virtual Cricket - Batting Tutor
  I have developed an immersive virtual learning environment for a batsman in C++ and Open Scene Graph. The interactive simulation provides different testing conditions for the batsman to practice using a Head Mounted Display where the user actions are tracked by LEDs and cameras.

• Weighted K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithms(Solving the Curse of Dimensionality Problem)