Introduction to Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM)

Shrinivas Gadkari is a Design Engineering Group Director in the Compute Systems Group (CSG) of Cadence. He has been involved with algorithm implementation and processor architecture for multiple CSG products in the Vision and Communication space for more than 15 years. He has worked in India and the United States in the general area of DSP application development for over 25 years. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Amol Borkar is Product Marketing Director at Cadence. Since joining in 2018 as a senior product manager, he has led the development of many successful hardware and software products, including Tensilica’s latest Vision P1 DSP, targeted for ultra-low-power, always-on usages. Within Tensilica, he has been responsible for product management, marketing, partnerships and ecosystem growth for the Vision, ConnX and MathX families of DSPs. Previously, he was at Intel’s RealSense group, where he held various positions in engineering, product management and marketing and was responsible for the success of a number of RealSense’s 3D cameras. Before joining Intel, Borkar developed computer vision-based advanced driver-assistance algorithms for self-driving vehicles as part of this PhD thesis—work that resulted in numerous conference and journal publications and for which he received the Outstanding Researcher Award in 2011 from Georgia Tech’s Center for Signal and Image Processing.