<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Sir,<br>Thank you for your prompt reply. <br></div>I have thought about it and am sure that I will be able to give enough time to this project. I have already got admission to the University and have taken the required tests. So i do not think there is much left to do. Moreover I will be going at the end of September/Beginning of October, when most of the coding should be already done.<br>
<br></div><div>I have seen some posts on the archives, however I will be referring to them again. <br><br></div><div>I have two research papers published in IEEE journals.<br>1. WICT-2012. You can get the paper from here.<br>
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/134881663/Bles-Version-II">http://www.scribd.com/doc/134881663/Bles-Version-II</a><br></div><div>2. the other has been sent for publication and will be coming out next month(in WorldComp 2013, Las Vegas)<br>
<br></div><div>Yours truly, <br>Gaurav Bhadra.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com" target="_blank">sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:09 PM, gaurav bhadra <<a href="mailto:gaurav.bhadra@gmail.com">gaurav.bhadra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am a final year student of St. Xavier's College, Kolkata pursuing B.Sc in<br>
> Computer Science. I will be finishing my bachelor's course in a few months<br>
> and will be pursuing my Master's degree from the University of Oxford. Since<br>
> my Master's course starts in October, I have a lot of free time now and<br>
> would like to take this opportunity to work on a project for Google Summer<br>
> Of Code.<br>
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</div>I hope you have thought long and hard about this. The relocation to a<br>
different city for studies is a bit of a time sink and, even though<br>
you foresee a lot of time on your hands, niggling logistics and other<br>
administrative aspects tend to soak them up.<br>
<br>
The above statement is not meant to discourage you - it is something I<br>
have seen again and again.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I would like to work on Printed Bangla OCR System. It is an interesting<br>
> topic and will be a nice challenge improving the performance of current<br>
> systems to above 98%! I will be submitting a detailed proposal by tomorrow<br>
> specifying how I have planned to implement it. I like the initiative taken<br>
> by <a href="http://Ankur.org.in" target="_blank">Ankur.org.in</a> and the ideology of the organization. Since my mother tongue<br>
> is Bangla, it gives me an added impetus to work on this project. Though my<br>
> project will mainly focus on implementing a Bangla OCR system, it should<br>
> provide a basic framework for other Indic languages.<br>
<br>
</div>While you work on your proposal, it would be nice if you can also<br>
catch up with the discussions on this list (using the archives) and<br>
check if all your doubts are clarified.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I have worked on related topics such as Image Processing and Pattern<br>
> Matching in MATLAB and Java. I am also proficient in SQL, C and C++.<br>
<br>
</div>Have you pushed any of your code into Github or, like repositories?<br>
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sankarshan mukhopadhyay<br>
<<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan</a>><br>
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