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Prag Sharma
Prag Sharma
Biography
Biography
Dr. Prag Sharma is the Cluster Manager for the Clique Research Cluster Group based in CASL. Clique is a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Strategic Research Cluster focussed on graph and network analysis and visualisation. Research themes of flow, communities, anomalous structure and centrality are used to address issues in internet services, fraud detection and bioinformatics. Clique’s industry partners, in this joint initiative are IBM, Idiro Technologies and Norkom Technologies while their academic partners are UCD and DERI at NUI Galway along with collaborating academics around the world.
Dr. Sharma has a B.E. and PhD in Electronic Engineering from UCD, Dublin. His PhD research in the area of Digital Image Processing involved automatic detection of human faces in still image and video sequences. After completing his PhD, Prag joined Accenture, a leading management consulting, outsourcing and technology services provider. As a Business Consultant in the Global Management Consulting & Integrated Markets Group Prag worked with clients in both private and public sectors in a wide range of industries including technology, pharmaceutical and primary health care with companies such Dell, Pfizer, Microsoft and Health Service Executive. His key areas of experience incorporate strategy development, business process design, change management, shared services deployment, operating model development, gap analysis & capability definition, business case & implementation planning
Research
Post Graduate Research – Phd: A Framework for Face Detection in Still Images and Video Sequences
My research in the area of Digital Image Processing involved automatic detection of human faces in still image and video sequences. Three distinct areas were explored:
(a) Face detection databases and the lack of standardisation in the presentation of results,
(b) Face detection algorithms and the development of a novel facial feature-based approach,
(c) Face tracking in videophone sequences.
This research has led to the development of a published standard colour face image database (now in use by the international research community – visit http://dsp.ucd.ie/~prag/ for more information), a novel two-phase approach to face detection and the use of geodesic active contours for tracking faces in video sequences. It has also led to several publications.After completing my PhD, I joined Accenture, a leading management consulting, outsourcing and technology services provider as a Business Consultant.
