Bhaumik Vaidya is an experienced computer vision engineer and mentor. He has worked extensively on OpenCV Library in solving computer vision problems. He is a University gold medalist in masters and is now doing a PhD in the acceleration of computer vision algorithms built using OpenCV and deep learning libraries on GPUs. He has a background in teaching and has guided many projects in computer vision and VLSI(Very-large-scale integration). He has worked in the VLSI domain previously as an ASIC verification engineer, so he has very good knowledge of hardware architectures also. He has published many research papers in reputable journals to his credit. He, along with his PhD mentor, has also received an NVIDIA Jetson TX1 embedded development platform as a research grant from NVIDIA.
"I would like to thank my parents and family for their immense support. I would especially like to thank Parth Vaghasiya, who has stood like a pillar with me, for his continuous love and support. I really appreciate and thank Umang Shah and Ayush Vyas for their help in the development of content for this book. I would like to thank my friends Nihit, Arpit, Chirag, Vyom, Anupam, Bhavin, and Karan for their constant motivation and encouragement. I would like to thank Jay, Rangat, Manan, Rutvik, Smit, Ankit, Yash, Prayag, Jenish, Darshan , Parantap, Saif, Sarth, Shrenik, Sanjeet, and Jeevraj, who have been very special to me for their love, motivation, and support. I would like to thank Dr. Chirag Paunwala, Prof. Vandana Shah, Ms. Jagruti Desai and Prof. Mustafa Surti for their continuous guidance and support.
I gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation and their donation of the Jetson TX1 GPU used for this book. I am incredibly grateful to Pooja Parvatkar, Alok Dhuri, and all the amazing people of Packt Publishing for taking their valuable time out to review this book in so much detail and for helping me during the development of the book.
To the memory of my grandmother, Urmilaben Vaidya, and to my family members, Vidyut Vaidya, Sandhya Vaidya, Bhartiben Joshi, Hardik Vaidya, and Parth Vaghasiya for their sacrifices, love, support, and inspiration."