Ramesh Raskar

algorithmslive · Engineering

In the current pandemic, testing continues to be the most important tool for monitoring and curbing the disease spread and early identification of the disease to perform health-related interventions like quarantine, contact tracing and etc. Therefore, the ability to verify the testing status is pertinent as public places prepare to safely open. Rec...

Building telescope enclosures is vital for setting up any optical observatory. An enclosure was constructed in remote hilly terrain to provide shelter to India’s largest 3.6 m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT). Primarily, the enclosure was built to protect the telescope from tough weather conditions and provide optimum space for performing various...

In this early draft, we present an end to end decentralized protocol for the secure and privacy preserving workflow of vaccination, vaccination status verification, and adverse reactions or symptoms reporting. The proposed system improves the efficiency, privacy, equity and effectiveness of the existing manual system while remaining inter-operable...

UNSTRUCTURED In this work, we present an end to end decentralized protocol for the secure and privacy preserving workflow of vaccination, vaccination status verification, and adverse reactions or symptoms reporting. The proposed system improves the efficiency, privacy, equity and effectiveness of the existing manual system while remaining inter-ope...

In the current pandemic, testing continues to be the most important tool for monitoring and curbing the disease spread and early identification of the disease to perform health-related interventions like quarantine, contact tracing and etc. Therefore, the ability to verify the testing status is pertinent as public places prepare to safely open. Rec...

Covid, Risk stratification, Contact Tracing, Risk, Testing

In this work we propose using WiFi signals recorded on the phone for performing digital contact tracing. The approach works by scanning the access point information on the device and storing it for future purposes of privacy preserving digital contact tracing. We make our approach resilient to different practical scenarios by configuring a device t...

Contact tracing requires a strong understanding of the context of a user, and location provides the most ideal context for any infection encounter. Although Bluetooth technology gives a good insight into the proximity aspect of an encounter, it does not provide any location context related to it which helps making better decisions. Using the ideas...

Contact tracing is a very powerful method to implement and enforce social distancing to avoid spreading of infectious diseases. The traditional approach of contact tracing is time consuming, manpower intensive, dangerous and prone to error due to fatigue or lack of skill. Due to this there is an emergence of mobile based applications for contact tr...

A 3.6-m, f/9 optical telescope is planned to be installed at Devasthal, India (Latitude:29° 21' 40'' N, Longitude: 79° 41' 04'' E, Altitude: 2450 m above msl). The telescope has Cassegrain focus and alt-azimuth mount. The design of the telescope enclosure and the auxiliary building includes a fixed base enclosure, a telescope pier, a rotating dome...

ering MERL, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Special features such as ridges, valleys and silhouettes, of a polygonal scene are usually displayed by explicitly identifying and then rendering `edges' for the corresponding geometry. The candidate edges are identified using the connectivity information, which requires preprocessing of the data. We pr...

We show a technique to capture ultrafast movies of light in motion and synthesize physically valid visualizations. The effective exposure time for each frame is under two picoseconds (ps). Capturing a 2D video with this time resolution is highly challenging, given the extermely low SNR associated with a picosecond exposure time, as well as the abse...