Our esteemed guests
Over the years CVIT has had the privilege of welcoming some of the renowned researchers from across the globe. They spent motivating days with us engaged in series of formal and informal interactions. There visits have had a visible impact on the research and the development of the lab as a whole.
List of Esteemed Guests
| Visitor Name | Affiliation | Date of Visit | Title / Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Abhishek Tripathi | Xerox Research Centre India | 02nd Nov, 2015 | Multi-view Learning using Statistical Dependence |
| Dr. Pawan Harish | EPFL, Switzerland | 02nd Nov, 2015 | Parallel Inverse Kinematics for Multi-Threaded Architectures |
| Dr. Manohar Paluri | Georgia Institute of Technology, USA | 30th Oct, 2015 | Artificial Intelligence Research @ Facebook |
| Prof. P.N. Rajesh Rao | University of Washington, USA | 18th Aug, 2015 | Brain-Computer Interfaces : Recent Advances and Future Applications |
| Dr. Vineet Gandhi | INRIA, France | 26th Feb, 2015 | Towards Automatic Video Production of Staged Performances |
| Mr. Soumith Chintala | Facebook AI Research Group, India | 18th Feb, 2015 | The current landscape of deep learning Trends and Challenges |
| Dr. Manik Varma | Microsoft Research India, India | 10th Feb, 2015 | New Paradigm for Ranking and Recommendation |
| Dr. Manmohan Chandraker | NEC Labs, USA | 11th Dec, 2014 | What Motion Reveals about Shape with Unkown Material Behaviour |
| Dr.B.S. Manjunath | University of California | 25th Sep, 2014 | Scalable Scientific Image Informatics |
| Dr.M. Pawan Kumar | Ecole Centrale Paris | 27th Aug, 2014 | Rounding-based Moves for Metric Labeling |
| Dr.Kaushik Mitra | University of Maryland | 24th Apr, 2014 | Signal Processing Meets Optics : Theory, Design and Interference for Computational Imaging |
| Dr.Nikhil Rasiwasia | Yahoo Labs, Bangalore | 1st Apr, 2014 | Cross-modal Retrieval: Retrieval Across Different Content Modalities |
| Dr.Srikumar Ramalingam | University of California | 10th Jan, 2014 | Lifting 3D Manhattan Lines from Single Image |
| Prof. Steven Seitz | University of Washington | 27th Dec, 2013 | A Trillion Photos |
| Prof. Venu Madhav Govindu | IISc., Bangalore | 15th Nov, 2013 | Higher-Order Grouping on the Grassmann Manifold |
| Mr. Varun Jampani | MPIIS-Tubingen | 13th Nov, 2013 | Inverting Computer Graphic Engines using Informed Samplers |
| Mr. K S Sesh Kumar | INRIA | 06th Aug, 2013 | Convex relaxations for learning bounded treewidth decomposable graphs |
| Prof. R Manmatha | University of Massachusetts | 19th Jun, 2013 | Briefly talk about my experience with doing a startup on instance matching in Computer Vision |
| Dr. Kiran Varanasi | Max Plank Institut fur Informatik | 26th Mar, 2013 | Capture and Statistical Modeling of Human Performances |
| Dr. Avinash Sharma | INRIA | 23rd Feb, 2013 | Representation, Segmentation and Matching of 3D Visual Shapes using Graph Laplacian and Heat-Hernel |
| Prof. Ramesh Raskar | MIT | 22nd Jan, 2013 | |
| Dr. Vineeth Balasubramanian | Arizona State University | 2nd Jan, 2013 | Machine Learning Methods towards Socio-Assistive Technologies for individuals with Visual Impairments |
| Mr. Omkar M Parkhi | Oxford University | 12th Dec, 2012 | On-the-fly Specific Person Retrieval / Particular Guide to Classification |
| Dr. M Pawan Kumar | Ecole Centrale Paris | 21st Nov, 2012 | |
| Dr. Santosh Kumar Divvala | University of Washington | 26th Sep, 2012 | Context and Subcategories for Sliding Window Object Recognition |
| Dr. Naren Datha, Dr. B. Ashok | MSR India | 10th Sep, 2012 | Rich Interactive Narratives (RIN) |
| Prof. Rama Chellappa | University of Maryland | 11th Sep, 2012 | Dictionary Learning for Computer Vision |
| Prof. Michael Werman | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 28th Feb, 2012 | |
| Dr. Niranjan Joshi | Oxford University | 07th Oct, 2011 | Intgelligent Histograms |
| Prof. Baba C Vemuri | University of Florida | 04th Oct, 2011 | Tracking on Matrix Manifolds |
| Dr. M. Pawan Kumar | Standford University | 04th Jan, 2010 | Self-Paced Learning for Specific-Class Semantic Segmentation |
| Dr. Karteek Alahari | INRIA | 23rd Nov, 2010 | Scene Understanding in an Energy Minimization Framework |
| Prof. Koichi Kise | Osaka Prefecture University | 19th Nov, 2010 | Image Retrieval and Recognition with Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search |
| Dr. Kiran Varanasi | INRIA | 13th Oct, 2010 | Spatio-temporal Modeling of Dynamic 3D Scenes |
| Prof. Jitendra Malik | UC Berkeley | 13th July, 2010 | Detecting and Segmenting People in Images |
| Dr. Marcin Marszalek | Oxford University | 29th Mar, 2010 | Past the Limits of Bag-of-features |
| Prof. Ram Nevatia | University of Southern California | 18th Feb, 2010 | Human Activity Recognition at Mid and Near Range from a Single Video Stream |
| Shri. Krithika Venkataramani | TCS Innovation Lab | 29th Jul, 2008 | Classifier set design for improved biometric authentication |
| Prof. Baba C Vemuri | University of Florida | 25th Jul, 2008 | |
| Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi | Columbia University | 15th Jul, 2008 | Representations of Visual Appearance for Computer Graphics and Vision |
| Dr. Chandan K Reddy | Wayne State University | 19th May, 2008 | Data Mining: Algorithms, Applications and Beyond |
| Dr. Vinay P Namboodiri | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | 17th Apr, 2008 | Use of diffusion in image restoration and depth estimationfrom defocused images |
| Prof. Shree Nayar | Columbia University | 03rd Feb, 2008 | |
| Prof. Vijaya Natarajan | IISc, Bangalore | 12th Dec, 2007 | Topologically Clean Distrance Fields |
| Mr. Sudipta Sinha | University of North California | 26th Apr, 2007 | Silhouettes for Calibration and Reconstruction from Multiple Views |
| Mr. Prasad Ram | 6th Apr, 2007 | ||
| Prof. J.K. Agarwal | University of Texas | 29th Mar, 2007 | Recognition of Human Activity and Object Interactions |
| Prof. Steve Seitz | University of Washington | 15th Feb, 2007 | |
| Prof. Andrew Zisserman | Oxford University | 28th Dec, 2006 | |
| Prof. Manmatha | University of Massachusets | 18th Dec, 2006 | Retrieving Handwritten Historical Manuscript Images : George Wachington's Manuscripts |
| Prof. Mark Nixon | University of Southampton | 25th Sep, 2006 | Fusing Noncontact Biometrics: Face, Gait and Ear |
| Prof. Prashant Buyyala | RThythm & Hues Studios | 09th Mar, 2006 | |
| Prof. PCP Bhat | Philips | 17th Feb, 2006 | |
| Mr. Raja Koduri | ATI Technologies | 04th Nov, 2005 | |
| Mr. Dasarath Gude | ATI Technologies | 04th Nov, 2005 | |
| Mr. Dasarath Gude | ATI Technologies | 01st Sep, 2005 | |
| Dr. Srinivas Gutta | Center for Parallel and Distributed Computation | ||
| Prof. Rama Chellappa | University of Maryland | ||
| Prof. Jitendra Malika | University of California | ||
| Prof. Shamuel Peleg | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | ||
| Shri. P. Anandan | Microsoft Research | ||
| Prof. Michal Irani | The Weizmann Institute of Science | ||
| Prof. Takeo Kanade | Carnegie Mellon University | ||
| Prof. Andrew Blake | Microsoft Research, Cambridge | ||
| Prof. Harry Shum | |||
| Prof. Bhagavathulu Vijaya Kumar | Carnegie Mellon University | ||
| Prof. Larry Davis | Institute for Advanced Computer Studies | ||
| Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi | University of Tokyo | ||
| Prof. Kentaro Toyama | Microsoft Research India |