Judo detection @ IIT Madras

Pioneered a computer-vision system to track judo players — my first real applied AI.

A final-year sports-science internship at IIT Madras (with the Inspire Institute of Sport, Bellary). Coaches wanted to measure how long players spent in contact during throws, on a mat split into a grid of quadrants, each individually focusable from a coach's tablet. I was the first person assigned to it — built the initial infrastructure from zero, learned camera hardware from old low-level docs and computer vision from scratch, and left a foundation for the team to carry forward.