Soumyadip “Roni” Sengupta
Assistant Professor
(177) Ph.D. 2019, Maryland. Computer vision & graphics, computational photography, 3D vision, inverse graphics, inverse rendering, democratizing VFX, next-gen video communication & content creation.
Contact
255 Sitterson Hall
919-590-6030 Phone
919-590-6105 Fax
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~ronisen
Biography
Soumyadip Sengupta is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the department, he was a postdoc affiliated with GRAIL (Graphics and Imaging Laboratory) at the University of Washington in Seattle. Before that, he received his doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interest lies at the intersection of computer vision and computer graphics, with a focus on solving inverse graphics problems for democratizing high-quality video production and editing. His work on background matting received Best Student Paper Honorable Mention at CVPR 2021 (Top 7 papers out of 1600 accepted) and has been adopted by various companies, e.g., Microsoft, Inter State Studio, etc.