Tarun Jain

Past

• Co-Founder and Director at FotoLink India Pvt. Ltd.
• Research Assistant at Centre for Visual Information Technology, IIIT Hyderabad, India

Education

• International Institute of Information Technology
• International Institute of Information Technology

Connections

79 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Tarun Jain’s Experience

• Co-Founder and Director

  FotoLink India Pvt. Ltd.

  (Telecommunications industry)

  June 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  Fotolink provides a platform to advertisers/publishers for adding interactivity to their print media. End users could pull multimedia content straight from the print advertisements/articles by means of a simple one-click process using their camera cell phones.

• Research Assistant

  Centre for Visual Information Technology, IIIT Hyderabad, India

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  May 2004 — May 2006 (2 years 1 month)

  Led the design and development of a distributed broadcast news video indexing system. Various features of the system - intelligent segmentation into scenes and stories, feature extraction and efficient indexing for IR, face video extraction for establishing hyper-links between videos, duplicate detection for advertisement removal, clustering of near-duplicate video clips for tracking stories of same theme across channels and time, innovative web interface enabling quick browsing and content based access to video content.

Tarun Jain’s Education

• International Institute of Information Technology

  M.S. by Research, Computer Science, 2005 — 2007

  ~ Dissertation in the area of Video Information Retrieval.
  ~ Fully sponsored Research Assistant.
  ~ Publications in reputed conferences.

• International Institute of Information Technology

  B.Tech. (Hons.), Computer Science & Engineering, 2001 — 2005

  ~ Placed in the Dean's List four times.
  ~ Teaching Assistant for courses - Data Structures & Algorithms, Advanced Problem Solving.
  ~ Elected to the 3 member Campus Life Council (part of Student Parliament)
  ~ Part of the core organizing committee of University's annual Cultural Festival.

Additional Information

Tarun Jain’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Tarun Jain’s Interests:

Sectors of my interest: - Retail - Education - Internet & Mobile - Media & Advertising

Tarun Jain’s Groups:

TiE Hyderabad, Barcamp Hyderabad

•    Venture Capital Syndicate member
•    Linking India member
•    ENTREPRENEURS-GET FUNDED member
•    YOUNG INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS member
•    Retail Industry Experts member
•    Angel Investor Group member
•    IIIT - Hyderabad Alumni member
•    Retail Management member
•    Startup Specialists member

Tarun Jain’s Contact Settings

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