Sri Anumakonda

I'm an autonomous vehicle researcher building in the intersection between computer vision and self-driving cars.

Current: studying robotics @cmu, member @Masason Foundation, creating SLAM-based systems for long-term data association. updates coming soon!

Prev slam research @ut austin and @tks.world where I worked with Shell, the United Nations, and Instacart. Also am one of the youngest certified self-driving car engineers in the world, was featured on Udacity for the work I'm doing.

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Research

My primary research interests are in the field of autonomous vehicles and robotics, more specifically towards computer vision for vision-based autonomy. You can find some of my projects in this space below. This is just an overview of the work I'm doing. For a full list, please check my Github.

clean-usnob DebateZero: The Future of Debate Analysis - HACKCMU 2024 OVERALL WINNER
October 2024
Github

Used spectral analysis, landmark detection, mathematical modelling, and eye tracking to gain insights on debates and identify misinformation and bias.

clean-usnob CUDA-Optimized Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Vehicles
February 2023 - May 2023
Github

Leveraging CUDA + OpenCV + PyTorch's C++ API (LibTorch) using TorchScript to run semantic segmentation at the highest FPS possible

clean-usnob Creating Autonomous Vehicles with Deep-Q Networks
January 2022 - February 2022
RL Article / Tweet

Leveraged Reinforcement Learning algorithms to help train a self-driving agent to drive in a highway environment [using discrete controls].

clean-usnob End2End Learning for Lateral Control
November 2021 - January 2022
Research Proposal / Tweet

Used Deep Convolutional Networks to control self-driving steering, read more than 60 papers in the space, and met some really smart people from the wayve.ai + comma.ai team!

clean-usnob DataGAN: Leveraging Synthetic Data for Self-Driving Vehicles
September 2021 - October 2021
Medium article / Github

Using DC-GANs to create synthetic data that can be used to train + validate the robustness of autonomous vehicles. End goal is to apply to extrapolate the data pool we have for adverse driving scenarios/any situations where limited data is available.

clean-usnob Convolutional-LSTMs for Lane Detection
July 2021 - August 2021
Project abstract / Github

Implemented this paper from scratch with just my knowledge of Python and stackoverflow. Focusing on managing spatio-temporal image data for successful training of lane detection. Lanes don't change every single frame, so why can't we take in a few input frames and be able to successfully predict lane lines? Note: Github repository is not up to date as I have been unable to locate some of the files as part of training but the ConvLSTM model and training loop is created (and formatted nicely!).

clean-usnob Building a self-driving car!
May 2021
Medium article / Certificate / Github

Used my knowledge throughout the Udacity Self-Driving Nanodegree [from perception and sensor fusion of LiDAR and radar sensors to polynomial trajectory generation] to create my capstone project; an autonomous vehicle capable of driving in simulation (using waypoitns). I built trajectory algorithms, localization algorithnms, and kalman filters to name a few of the projects I built!

clean-usnob Pairing Lane Detection with Object Detection
March 2021
Medium article / Github

Creating a custom lane detection pipeline w/ Gaussian Filters + Polynomial fitting along with object detection using sliding windows w/ SVMs with the use of pure Machine Learning.

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