E-commerce major Flipkart on Thursday announced the appointment of Krishnendu Chaudhury as the Head of Image Sciences. In this role, Chaudhury will work closely with Head of Engineering Peeyush Ranjan and will lead the charter of computer vision and image processing technology across Flipkart’s platforms, the company said in a statement. 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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