Zeel Bhatt

I am an MS Robotics student at Arizona state university. I do research in machine learning with focus on 3D vision and robotics. My masters thesis is in learning based Visual Odometry. My research is driven by a more abstract interest in shape understanding at both the structural and semantic levels.

Technical Skills: C++, CUDA, Ceres, g2o, PyTorch, OpenCV, ROS/ROS2

Education

M.S., Robotics Arizona State University
B.Tech., Electronics and communication SRM University

LATEST CAREER UPDATE !!

I am very happy to share that we submitted our latest research topic to ICRA 2025!

LfM: Learning from Motion

A Self-Supervised approach for Learning based Visual Localization. It is a novel use of contrastive loss function for finding SE(3) pose of object.

Concepts: Epipolar geometry, Siamese networks,Contrastive loss,Optical Flow.

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Work Experience

Active Perception Group | Research Assistant

MS Thesis - Visual odometry using Contrastive Learning: designing a supervised contrastive regression loss for visual pose estimation. Transnational accuracy:0.76 cm. Rotational accuracy:1e-6 radians on KITTI dataset. Advisor Dr Yezhou Yang

Packizon | Computer Vision Intern

Developed an RGBD camera-based, highly accurate (<0.02m error) box-dimensioning system for a mid-size warehouses and applied convex optimization techniques to maximize trucking efficiency by optimizing cargo volume and delivery address arrangement, saving up to 5 trips, equivalent to approximately $1000 per day.

RRC | Robotics Research Engineer

Performed semantic segmentation of infrastructure objects in 3D point cloud data collected via vehicle-mounted LiDAR, achieving 92% IoU using a PointNet architecture trained on the Waymo dataset to track 6D object poses.

Flytbase | Robotics Engineer

• Contributed to Warehouse drone automation team by deploying various Perception and Mapping algorithms. • Integrated Particle Filter, EKF, and YOLO semantic segmentation into PX4 autopilot.

Projects

SLAM mission and autonomous landing

slamProj

Crreating a 3D pointmap of a rocky mountain using ORB-SLAM. while autonomously navigating and landing on the mocing rover using optical flow (Concepts: ORB-SLAM, ROS, Gazebo Simulation, Optical flow) View Code

Learning to Localize : Contrastive approach for visual localization

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A Self-Supervised approach for Learning based Visual Localization. It is a novel use of contrastive loss funtion for finding SE(3) pose of object View Code

Bundle Adjustment using C++ Ceres Library

blendingProj See blog-post I have written a detail article about Camera calinration and bundle Adjustment View Code

Image signal processing

fourierProj Implementation of low-pass filter, high-pass filter on the images, Phase swapping of two images See blog-post

Image generation - multiresolution blending

blendingProj

Generation of Gaussian pyramid and Laplcian pyramid as a basic encoder decoder model

Adeversarial generative networks

Project Implemented a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) model for image generation as described in Goodfellow’s paper, showcasing proficiency in deep learning and computer vision. (Implementation of Min-Max adversarial loss funtion) View Code

LQR Controller to balance the inverted pendulmn

Project Name Balancing an inverted pendulum by programming an LQR controller. Design of a controller by checking observabilty matrix, kalman filtering, and finally checking the controllability of the designed system. View Code

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Blog-posts

Image Fourier Transform

Publication

IROS 2018 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8594129 M. Harikrishnan Nair, T. Ghanshyam Singh, G. Chourasia, A. Das, A. Shrivastava and Z. S. Bhatt, “Flamen 7 DOF robotic Arm to Manipulate a Spanish Fan,” 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, pp. 4152-4157, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594129.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8991313 Chourasia, Gunjan, et al. “7-dof robotic manipulator for autonomous segregation using transfer learning.” 2019 6th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom). IEEE, 2019.