Harish is a second-year Master of Applied Science (M.ASc) student in the Vision and Image Processing Lab, affiliated with the Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) department at the University of Waterloo. He works with the Sports Analytics and Research Group (SARG), co-supervised by Dr. David Clausi and Dr. John Zelek.

Harish is associated with Stathletes, where he focuses on Machine Learning for game automation and analytics. His specific graduate research includes multi-player tracking & re-identification, homography, action recognition, 2D & 3D pose estimation. Broadly, his research interests include novel neural network architectures (transformers, GNNs, VAEs), new learning paradigms (few-shot learning, test-time adaptation, self-supervised learning), and traditional CV techniques. Apart from research, he enjoys reading non-fiction, hiking, meditation, swimming, and marathons.

Publications:

1. Prakash, Harish, Jia Cheng Shang, Ken M. Nsiempba, Yuhao Chen, David A. Clausi, and John S. Zelek. “Multi Player Tracking in Ice Hockey with Homographic Projections.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.13397 (2024).
2. Bright, Jerrin, Bavesh Balaji, Harish Prakash, Yuhao Chen, David A. Clausi, and John Zelek. “Distribution and Depth-Aware Transformers for 3D Human Mesh Recovery.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09063 4, no. 6 (2024): 7.
3. Balaji, Bavesh, Jerrin Bright, Harish Prakash, Yuhao Chen, David A. Clausi, and John Zelek. “Jersey number recognition using keyframe identification from low-resolution broadcast videos.” In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, pp. 123-130. 2023.
4. Prakash, Harish, Yuhao Chen, Sirisha Rambhatla, David A. Clausi, and John Zelek. “VIP-HTD: A Public Benchmark for Multi-Player Tracking in Ice Hockey.” Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems 9, no. 1 (2023): 22-25.

Teaching Experience:

Harish has been a Teaching Assistant (TA) for the following 5 courses:

1. SYDE 121: Digital Computation, Fall 2024
2. MTE 140: Data Structures & Algorithms, Spring 2024
3. BME 122: Data Structures & Algorithms, Winter 2024
4. SYDE 292 & 292L: Circuits and Instrumentation, Fall 2023
5. SYDE 361 : Systems Design Methods, Spring 2023

Contact:

• Personal email: srinivas.harish27@gmail.com
• LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harish-prakash-21109415a/
• Personal Website: https://harshap-ai.github.io/
• Github: https://github.com/harshap-ai