Aadit Patel

Aadit Patel received a B.S. in aerospace engineering and an M.S. in computer science, both from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where his primary focuses included autonomous systems and reinforcement learning. He has several years of industry experience as a research engineer and data scientist, including at Boeing, Yahoo, and Flyr Labs. Currently, Aadit is a lead data scientist at The Not Company, where he works on custom deep learning architectures to generate novel plant-based foods.

projects by Aadit Patel

Human Pose Estimation with Deep Neural Networks

8 weeks · 8-10 hours per week · ADVANCED

Included with a Manning Online subscription

catalog / Data Science

In this liveProject, you’ll take on the role of a machine learning engineer working for a company developing augmented reality apps. These apps include games, virtual shopping assistants, and fitness coaches that need to be able to reliably recognize the shape of a human body. Your challenge is to create an application for human pose estimation: detecting a human body in an image and estimating its key points such as knees and elbows. To do this, you’ll build a convolutional neural network from scratch, training your model using Google Colab and your GPU. At the end of this liveProject, you’ll have completed an interactive demo application that uses a simple webcam to detect and predict human keypoints.