Zaid Tasneem

I'm a Ph.D. student at Rice University working under Prof. Ashok Veeraraghavan. I am workin on my dissertation, "Privacy-Aware Computational Cameras and Algorithms". I wrote my master's thesis on Adaptive Depth Sensing at University of Florida under Prof. Sanjeev Koppal.

I've also been a visiting researcher at MIT under Prof. Ramesh Raskar and research intern at NEC Labs America in Prof. Manmohan Chandraker's group. I started my academic journey as an undergrad at IIT Kanpur.

Research Interests: Computational Imaging/Photography, Privacy, Federated Learning, Robotics, 3D sensing, Deep Optics.

I'm actively looking for full-time R&D positions in industry or startups! Please get it in touch with potential opportunities.

Selected Publications
	DecentNeRFs: Decentralized Neural Radiance Fields Zaid Tasneem, Akshat Dave, Abhishek Singh, Kushagra Tiwary, Praneeth Vepakomma, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ramesh Raskar arxiv, 2024 project page Crowdsourced NeRFs at a global scale that prevents leakage of users' personal content
	Learning Phase Mask for Privacy-Preserving Passive Depth Estimation Zaid Tasneem, Giovanni Milione, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Xiang Yu, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Manmohan Chandraker, Francesco Pittaluga ECCV, 2022 project page / video / demo World's first privacy-preserving depth camera.
	Towards a MEMS-based Adaptive LIDAR Francesco Pittaluga* Zaid Tasneem, Justin Folden, Brevin Tilmon, Ayan Chakarabarti, Sanjeev Koppal 3DV, 2020* project page / video RGB guided adaptive depth sensing for MEMS LiDAR.
	Adaptive fovea for scanning depth sensors Zaid Tasneem, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Dingkang Wang, Huikai Xie, Karthik Dantu, Sanjeev Koppal IJRR, 2020 paper Foveating Depth Sensor on Mobile Robot
	Directionally Controlled TOF Ranging for Mobile Sensing Platforms Zaid Tasneem, Dingkang Wang, Huikai Xie, Sanjeev Koppal RSS, 2018 project page / video World's first adaptive depth sensor.
	An integrated forward-view 2-axis mems scanner for compact 3D LiDAR Dingkang Wang, Stephan Rojas, Alexander Shuping,Zaid Tasneem, Sanjeev Koppal, Huikai Xie IEEE NEMS, 2018 (Best Student Paper) paper Compact MEMS based LiDAR.

Patents
Fast foveation camera and controlling algorithms	2023
SJ Koppal, Z Tasneem, W Dingkang, H Xie, BJ Timon	US Patent 11,800,205
Learning privacy-preserving optics via adversarial training	2022
F Pittaluga, G Milione, X Yu, M Chandraker, YH Tsai, Z Tasneem	US Patent App. 17/412,704

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Selected Publications