Best Student Paper at ICDAR 2025: The Story Behind TexTAR

At ICDAR 2025, Rohan Kumar, B.Tech alumnus, and Jyothi Swaroopa Jinka, M.S. student — both working under the mentorship of  Prof. Ravi Kiran at CVIT — earned top honors at this premier international conference in document analysis and recognition by winning the Best Student Paper Award for their research on TexTAR – Textual Attribute Recognition in Multi-domain and Multi-lingual Document Images, held in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from 16 – 21 September.

We sat down with Rohan and Swaroopa to learn more about the journey behind the paper, the struggles, the teamwork, and what this recognition means for their future.

Researchers from CVIT Wins the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2025

Nashville, Tennessee – June 11, 2025

A cutting-edge research paper titled "Pseudo-labelling meets Label Smoothing for Noisy Partial Label Learning" won the Best Paper Award at the 12th Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC), a prestigious event held as part of the CVPR 2025 conference in Nashville.

Darshana Saravanan, a master's student at the Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), IIIT Hyderabad, whose paper, titled “Pseudo-labelling meets Label Smoothing for Noisy Partial Label Learning”, was co-authored with Dr. Naresh Manwani (ML Lab) and Dr. Vineet Gandhi (CVIT).

Special Education Symposium: Where AI Reads Lips and Tech Games Teach Math

A symposium curated by IIIT-Hyderabad brought together leading minds in special education and technology to explore how AI-driven tools and innovative tech solutions can address longstanding challenges in the education of children with disabilities. Hosted on June 12, 2025, by the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) and the Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society, the event marked a convergence of domain experts, policymakers, educators, therapists, NGOs, startups, and researchers.

From Small Steps to Big Leaps: The Inspiring Research Journey of Sindhu Hegde

In a candid and engaging conversation with CVIT, alumna Sindhu Hegde shared the remarkable journey that took her from a summer workshop in computer vision to a research lab at Oxford University. Her story is one of curiosity, resilience, and the quiet power of believing in oneself.

AI Advancements In The Mobility Space 

June 18, 2025

In many Asian countries with unconstrained road traffic conditions, driving violations such as not wearing helmets and triple-riding are the main cause of a large number of motorcycle accidents. Often, static cameras are not available on all the streets, and it is not economically viable. Many inside roads and crowded streets are far from the reach of these cameras.

A Journey Through Passion, Purpose, and Visualization

Dr. G. S. Raghavendra, a dedicated researcher and educator in the field of scientific data visualization, joined the Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) at IIIT Hyderabad with a clear purpose and strong motivation rooted in academic excellence. His path to academia has been shaped by deep passion, influential mentors, and a desire to inspire the next generation of thinkers.