Hi, I'm Shasvat Desai

I am currently working as a Senior Computer Vision Scientist at the Intelligent Retail Lab (IRL), Walmart. At IRL , I am working on developing algorithms to better understand what’s happening inside the store through an array of sensors, cameras, and processors. Previously, I was a Computer Vision Scientist at Orbital Insight. At Orbital Insight, I worked at an intersection of Product Development and Applied Research using Satellite Images. My primary focus was been on solving computer vision problems in the domain of object detection in multispectral imagery, super-resolution, semi-supervised learning, GANs, etc

Before working at Orbital Insight, I was a Masters' student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where I specialized in Machine Learning and Computer Vision.

In my free time, I enjoy hiking, photography, dancing, and playing the piano.

News

  • May 2022: Started working as a Senior Computer Vision Scientist at the Intelligent Retail Lab, Walmart, Hoboken, NJ

  • April 2022: New blog post on my work on Transporter Erector Vehicles (TELs) at Orbital Insight.

  • November 2021: New blog post on my work on Ship Detection at Orbital Insight.

  • October 2021: Our paper titled Active Learning for Improved Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in Satellite Images got accepted to the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2022, to be held at Waikoloa, Hawaii | Preprint

  • June 2019: Started working as a Computer Vision Scientist at Orbital Insight, Boston, MA

  • Spring 2019: Graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • April 2019: Our paper Pedestrian Detection in Thermal Images using Saliency Maps accepted to the IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum at CVPR, 2019 (Long Beach, California) | Spotlight Talk Video | PDF

  • Summer 2018: Received the DAAD RISE Professional Fellowship to pursue an internship at Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany

  • Fall 2017: Started a Masters program in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  • Spring 2017: Graduated from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai, India with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering

Get in touch at shasvat.desai@gmail. com