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Flipkart hires ex-Googler to work on image search feature

e-commerce portal Flipkart has roped in ex-Googler, Krishnendu Chaudhury as the Head of Image Sciences to strengthen its image search feature

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BANGALORE, INDIA: e-commerce portal Flipkart has roped in ex-Googler, Krishnendu Chaudhury as the Head of Image Sciences.
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This development comes after the recent addition of the 'image search' feature on Flipkart app.
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He will work closely with Head of Engineering, Peeyush Ranjan on computer vision and image processing technology to make shopping experience easier and faster.
His core area of focus will be in the area of Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for object recognition in images to enable computers to understand higher levels of abstractions.
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Prior to Flipkart, Chaudhury holds over 20 patents and has worked with the Machine Intelligence team of Google Research at Mountain View, Advanced Technology Group of Adobe Systems in San Jose.
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