Frame-Synchronous Hand Gesture Detection by Projected Winding Order

Gesture recognition on video is normally posed as classification: assign a label to each frame, then act on the label. That formulation is adequate for control, where a command may be obeyed several frames late without a user noticing, and inadequate for synchronisation, where an output must be aligned to the frame on which the gesture physically occurred. We take the synchronisation problem for a specific and common movement, the rotation of an open hand about its own long axis, and show that it admits an exact solution requiring no classifier, no training data and no calibration. Let s denote the normalised two-dimensional cross product of the two palm edges, taken at the wrist and the two outer knuckles, under the projection the camera already performs.

August 31, 2026 · 53 min · Amey Thakur

A Modular Zero-Shot Pipeline for Accident Detection, Localization, and Classification in Traffic Surveillance Video

Special thanks to Sarvesh Talele for his meaningful contributions, support, and wisdom that helped shape this work. Traffic cameras record the circumstances of a great many collisions, but methods that read those recordings automatically are usually trained on annotated footage from the same camera. This work asks what can be recovered without any labelled real-world data at all, using three independent modules and only pre-trained weights.

April 5, 2026 · 14 min · Amey Thakur

Zero-Shot Video Generation

Text2Video-Zero, from Picsart AI Research, turns a text-to-image diffusion model into a zero-shot video generator with no video training data at all. This write-up explains the method, the motion dynamics and cross-frame attention that keep a generated sequence coherent, and reports what the model produced when run, including where the results break down.

November 22, 2023 · 16 min · Amey Thakur

Generative Adversarial Networks

Special thanks to Mega Satish for her meaningful contributions, support, and wisdom that helped shape this work. Deep learning’s breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence has resulted in the creation of a slew of deep learning models. One of these is the Generative Adversarial Network, which has only recently emerged. The goal of GAN is to use unsupervised learning to analyse the distribution of data and create more accurate results.

August 27, 2021 · 34 min · Amey Thakur

Adversarial Open Domain Adaption Framework (AODA): Sketch-to-Photo Synthesis

Special thanks to Mega Satish for her meaningful contributions, support, and wisdom that helped shape this work. This paper aims to demonstrate the efficiency of the Adversarial Open Domain Adaption framework for sketch-to-photo synthesis. The unsupervised open domain adaption for generating realistic photos from a hand-drawn sketch is challenging as there is no such sketch of that class for training data.

July 28, 2021 · 20 min · Amey Thakur

White-Box Cartoonization: An Extended GAN Framework

Special thanks to Mega Satish and Hasan Rizvi for their meaningful contributions, support, and wisdom that helped shape this work. In the present study, we propose to implement a new framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process to extend an existing GAN framework and develop a white-box controllable image cartoonization, which can generate high-quality cartooned images/videos from real-world photos and videos.

July 9, 2021 · 16 min · Amey Thakur