Humam Helfawi
Verified Expert in Engineering
Optimization Developer
Mersin, Akdeniz, Turkey
Toptal member since July 5, 2016
Humam is a developer with over eight years of experience. He loves taking on complex challenges and is interested in any project where math is translated into code, and the product being developed drives the future forward. Humam is passionate about a number of things, including modern C++, autonomous driving and piloting, 3D inspection, and heterogeneous computing.
Portfolio
Experience
- Optimization - 5 years
- C++ - 5 years
- OpenCV - 5 years
- 3D - 3 years
- ESP32 - 2 years
- Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM) - 2 years
- Drones - 1 year
- Robotics - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio, Linux, Windows, Python, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Image Processing
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed was a single-shot 3D structured light scanner.
Work Experience
Principal Computer Vision Engineer
Treo AI
- Developed a real-time golf analysis app for golf courses.
- Enabled real-time golf shot detection using a custom-made AI model.
- Built real-time, ball-accurate trajectory tracking from a single static camera.
- Optimized models and algorithms using CUDA and TensorRT.
- Transformed pose model distillation into YOLO pose.
Senior Computer Vision Engineer
Six2o Cricket
- Developed CV-based cricket game analysis and trajectory tracking.
- Enabled real-time high-performance detection and tracking using TensorRT.
- Used multiple ZedX cameras for 3D tracking simultaneously.
- Deployed the project on an edge device (NVIDIA AGX).
Senior Computer Vision Engineer
Freelancer
- Contributed to AI-based map track compressor and route optimization.
- Handled real-time document detection and tracking (iOS and cloud).
- Contributed to multiple-shot dental scan point-cloud registration.
- Developed skin lesion classification using the deep learning crowd counting model.
- Implemented hand-drawn sketch detection, segmentation, and classification.
Computer Vision Expert
Strong Analytics, LLC
- Developed a novel solution for horse localization from a PTZ camera.
- Enabled depth retrieval and 3D horse positioning using a 3D camera.
- Implemented panorama stitching of a horse race track using six cameras in near real-time.
- Contributed to markerless automatic PTZ camera calibration in real time.
- Enabled automatic simulation of cameras and lens attributes to cover a horse race track.
- Contributed to a simulation of an RFID system to track horses on the track in real time.
Research Engineer
Optecks, LLC
- Led the research and development of an autonomous drone SDK called Ottofly.
- Managed and built a single-shot, 3D, structured light scanner.
- Constructed an IoT application using ESP32, 8266, and Alexa.
- Designed novel solutions for robotics localization problems.
Research Engineer
IDscan Biometrics, Ltd.
- Created real-time document detection and tracking for smartphones.
- Extracted and authenticated IDs and passports' hologram patterns: visible, near-infrared, and ultraviolet IDs authentication.
- Made online image reconstruction from streaming feeds.
- Built real-time image registration for documents, which is used by multiple other modules.
- Enabled document text detection in complex backgrounds.
- Built C++ generic libraries for the proposed research.
- Created C# wrappers for C++ core libraries to provide an interface for the other modules.
- Wrote both detailed and abstract reports for research outcomes.
- Benchmarked state-of-the-art algorithms on specific platforms.
Experience
Training ANFIS Using the Enhanced Bees Algorithm and Least Squares Estimation
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Informatics Engineering
University of Aleppo - Aleppo, Syria
Skills
Libraries/APIs
OpenCV, PyTorch, Node.js
Tools
You Only Look Once (YOLO), GitHub, MATLAB, Visual Studio, Microsoft Access, TortoiseGit, TFS, GitLab, NVIDIA Jetson
Languages
C++, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), C, Python 3, Python, Visual Basic 6 (VB6), C#, Java, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, Delphi, Prolog
Frameworks
Boost, ASP.NET, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Paradigms
Synthetic Data Generation, Agile
Platforms
Windows, Linux, Java RTS, AWS IoT, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Web Services (AWS), NVIDIA CUDA, NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
Storage
SQL Server 2008
Other
Computer Vision, Robust Estimation, Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM), 3D, Stereoscopic Video, Clustering, Neural Networks, Neuro-Fuzzy, Object Detection, Fuzzy Logic, Image Registration, IoT Protocols, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Video Processing, Optimization, Robotics, Drones, Mathematics, Text Detection, Image Quality Assessment, Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Image Segmentation, MAVLink, ArduPilot, ESP32, ESP8266, SVMs, Microsoft 365, Tracking, 3D Vision, 3D Cameras, Video Stitching, Maps, NVIDIA TensorRT, Calibration, Multiprocessing, ONNX Runtime, 3D Pose Estimation, Pose Estimation
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