News

• [Nov. 16, 2024] Prof. Venkatesh Babu joins the editorial board of TMLR.
• [Sep. 25,2024] We have a paper accepted in NeurIPS 2024 regular track. Congrats Abhipsa and Saswat!
• [Sep. 5, 2024] Our First TMLR paper accepted, Congrats Sravanti and Priyam!
• [Aug. 12, 2024] Sravanti defended her thesis today. Congrats Dr. Sravanti!
• [Aug. 12, 2024] Rishubh Parihar has been awarded Prof. Satish Dhawan Research Award 2024. Congrats Rishubh!
• [Aug. 8, 2024] Prof. Venkatesh will be serving as Area Chair for ICLR'25.
• [Jul. 1, 2024] We have two papers accepted in ECCV 2024, Congrats Rishubh, Sachidanand, Harsh Gupta, Sabariswaran and, Tejan!
• [Jun 10, 2024] Prof. Venkatesh Babu joins the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• [Feb. 30, 2024] Harsh Rangwani is selected for CVPR 2024 Doctoral Consortium, Congrats Harsh!
• [Feb. 27, 2024] We have 3 papers accepted in CVPR 2024, Congrats Sravanti, Harsh, Rishubh, Abhipsa, Ashish, Abhijnya, Saswat, Mayank, Pradipto, Lakshay, and Jogendra!
• [Jan. 17, 2024] Prof. Venkatesh will be serving as Area Chair for ECCV'24.
• [Jan. 16,2024] Grateful to be recognized as top cited chapter author by Springer Nature

• [Jan. 16,2024] We have a paper accepted in ICLR 2024 as a Spotlight presentation (top 5% paper). Congrats, Harsh, Shrinivas and Kunal!
• [Jan. 6, 2024] Congrats Dr. Jogendra for receiving the 2023 IKDD Doctoral Dissertation In Data Science Award - Runner up at CODS-COMADS 2024!
• [Jan. 1, 2024] Prof. Venkatesh elevated to AAAI Senior Member.
• [Dec. 30, 2023] Congrats Jogendra for receiving ACM India 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention award. [Link]
• [Aug. 15, 2023] Prof. Venkatesh will be serving as Area Chair for ICLR'24.
• [Jul. 14, 2023] We have 3 papers accepted in ICCV 2023, Congrats Abhipsa, Ankit, Sunandini, Ashish, Srinath, Harsh, Rishubh, Suvaansh, Akshay, and Jogendra!
• [Jul. 12, 2023] Prof. Venkatesh will be serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP) journal.
• [Jun. 20, 2023] Prof. Venkatesh will be serving as Area Chair for CVPR'24.
• [May. 19, 2023] Prof. Venkatesh will be serving as Area Chair for AAAI'24.
• [Apr. 4, 2023] Rishubh Parihar won the Best Presentation Award in the Visual Analytics track in the 14th EECS Symposium, 2023. Congrats, Rishubh!
• [Mar. 8, 2023] Will be serving as Area Chair for NeurIPS'23.
• [Feb. 27, 2023] We have 3 papers accepted in CVPR 2023, Congrats Abhipsa, Sravanti, Harsh, Tejan, Samyak, Lavish, Kartik, Priyam, and Pawan!
• [Jan. 21,2023] We have a paper accepted in ICLR 2023. Congrats Sravanti and Anshul! (This is a joint work with Google Research India.)
• [Dec. 13,2022] Will be serving as Area Chair for ICCV'23.
• [Oct. 18,2022] Will be serving as Area Chair for CVPR'23 and AISTATS'23.
• [Oct. 9, 2022] Congrats Harsh and Rishubh! for receiving Pratiksha trust travel grant for presenting the papers at ECCV and ACMMM.
• [Sep 15, 2022] We have 4 papers accepted in NeurIPS 2022, Congrats Jogendra, Sravanti, Harsh, Samyak, Srinivas, Mayank, Suvaansh, Akshay, Sumukh, and Hiran!
• [Jul 4, 2022] We have 6 papers accepted in ECCV 2022, Congrats Deepak, Jogendra, Sravanti, Harsh, Tejan, Rishubh, Suvaansh, Akshay, Samyak, Gaurang, Hiran, Naman, Susmit, Abhinav, Jimmy, Kaushal and Priyam!
• [Jun 30, 2022] We have a paper accepted in ACMMM 2022, Congrats Rishubh, Ankit and Tejan!
• [May 15, 2022] We have 2 papers accepted in ICML 2022, Congrats Jogendra, Harsh, Akshay, Suvaansh, Sumukh, Mayank, Arihant, Deepesh and Shreyas!
• [May 14, 2022] Will be serving as Area Chair for ACML 2022.
• [May 10, 2022] Jogendra will be presenting his work on Self-supervised Frameworks for 3D Human Pose Estimation as part of NAVER LABS Europe seminar series on May 12. More details
• [Apr. 13, 2022] Jogendra bags best presentation award at EECS Research Students' Symposium 2022 in Visual Analytics cluster. Congratulations Jogendra!
• [Mar. 11, 2022] Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu conferred with Prof. Satish Dhawan Young Engineers State Award 2019 [Details]
• [Mar. 2, 2022] We have 2 papers accepted in CVPR 2022, Congrats Jogendra, Sunandini, Sravanti, Siddharth and Pradyumna!
• [Feb. 12, 2022] Sravanti will be delivering a talk on "Efficient and Effective Adversarial Training" at TrustML Young Scientist seminar on 16 Feb. More details
• [Dec. 1, 2021] We have 2 papers accepted in AAAI 2022, Congrats Jogendra, Deepak, Akshay, Suvaansh and Abhinav!
• [Nov. 24, 2021] Our paper titled "Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Low Light RAW Image Enhancement" awarded as Best Student Paper - runners-up at BMVC 2021! Congrats Ram, Vishal, and Nihar!
• [Oct. 27, 2021] Ram successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congrats Dr. K. Ram Prabhakar!
• [Oct. 15, 2021] We have 1 paper accepted in BMVC 2021, Congrats Ram, Vishal, and Nihar!
• [Oct. 4, 2021] We have 1 paper accepted in WACV 2022, Congrats Tejan, Abhinav, Harsha, and Susmit!
• [Sep. 29, 2021] We have 3 papers accepted in NeurIPS 2021, Congrats Jogendra, Rakesh, Gaurang, Sravanti, Siddharth, Arya, Anirudh and Pradyumna!
• [Sept. 24, 2021] Jogendra awarded with the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship. Congratulations Jogendra!
• [Aug. 22, 2021] Our paper titled "Self-Gated Memory Recurrent Network for Efficient Scalable HDR Deghosting" is accepted in IEEE Trans. Computational Imaging (TCI). Congrats Ram and Susmit!
• [Jul. 23, 2021] We have 3 papers accepted in ICCV 2021, including one joint work with CMU and Verisk. Congrats Jogendra, Akshay, Amit, Harsh, Arihant, Sumukh, and Tejan!
• [Jul. 18, 2021] Will be serving as Area Chair for AAAI 2022.
• [June 25, 2021] Congrats Sravanti for receiving Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India (QIF) award!
• [May. 20, 2021] 3 VAL members (Sravanti, Konda Reddy and Venkatesh Babu) recognized as outstanding reviewers by CVPR-21. [Link]
• [May 13, 2021] We have a paper accepted in UAI 2021. Congrats Harsh and Konda Reddy!
• [Apr. 29,2021] Will be serving as Area Chair for CVPR 2022.
• [Apr. 15,2021] Deepak successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congrats Dr. Deepak Babu Sam!
• [Mar. 19, 2021] Recognized as outstanding reviewer for ICLR-2021. Thanks to VAL members helped in reviewing.
• [Mar. 1, 2021] We have a paper accepted in CVPR 2021. Congrats Ram, Gowtham and Susmit!
• [Feb. 19, 2021] Congrats Navaneet for receiving the NetApp Medal for Best MTech (Res) thesis, 2020.
• [Dec. 20,2020] Congrats Konda Reddy! for winning the prestigious IUPRAI-Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2018-19 at ICVGIP 2020.
• [Nov. 26,2020] Grateful for SERB Science and Technology Award for Research (SERB-STAR) in recognition of our research contributions.
• [Sep. 25,2020] We have two papers accepted in NeurIPS-2020. Congrats Gaurang, Sravanti, Arya, Naveen, Jogendra, Ambareesh and Durgesh!
• [Sep. 14,2020] Congrats Sravanti! for receiving Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning, 2020
• [Aug. 5,2020] Thankful to Verisk for the AI Faculty Research Award 2020
• [Jul. 21,2020] Congrats Reddy! for receiving the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award at SPCOM 2020
• [Jul. 3,2020] Our joint work with JHU-VIU lab on crowd counting accepted at ECCV 2020.
• [Jul. 3,2020] We have a total of 5 papers accepted in ECCV-2020. Congrats Ram, Jogendra, Deepak, Rakesh, Naveen, Ambareesh, Govind, Rahul, Susmit, Durgesh and Balraj!
• [Jun. 29,2020] Vivek successfully defended his Masters thesis today. Congrats Vivek!
• [Jun. 28,2020] Congrats Jogendra for receiving Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India (QIF) award!
• [Apr. 30,2020] Our lab received an unrestricted gift from Google in support of excellent research in academia. Congrats to all lab members!
• [Apr. 22,2020] Navaneet successfully defended his Masters thesis today. Congrats Navaneet!
• [Feb.25,2020] Congrats Ravi! for receiving Sir Vithal N Chandavarkar Memorial Medal for Ph.D Thesis.
• [Feb. 24,2020] We have a total of 6 papers accepted in CVPR-2020. Congrats Jogendra, Vivek, Sravanti, Navaneet, Ansu, Naveen, Siddharth, Rakesh, Ambareesh, Rahul, Arya, Gaurang and Shashank!
• [Feb. 10,2020] Our paper titled "Locate, Size and Count: Accurately Resolving People in Dense Crowds via Detection" is accepted in IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Congrats Deepak, Skand, Mukundha and Amogh!
• [Feb. 6,2020] Press coverage of our recent adversarial attack work (FDA). Click here for the report in Deccan Herald.
• [Dec. 28,2019] Congrats Sravanti for receiving Pratiksha Travel Grant for presenting paper at AAAI'20.
• [Dec. 11,2019] We have a total of 5 papers accepted in WACV-2020 (after 2nd round). Congrats Jogendra, Deepak, Surbhi, Himanshu, Priyanka, Rahul, Anirudh, Skand, Mukunda, Jay and Gaurav!
• [Nov. 29,2019] Congrats Jogendra! for receiving Google Travel Grant for presenting paper at AAAI'20.
• [Nov. 12, 2019] Our paper titled "Operator-in-the-Loop Deep Sequential Multi-camera Feature Fusion for Person Re-identification" is accepted in IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security. Congrats Navaneet, Ravi and Shashank!
• [Nov. 11,2019] We have 2 papers accepted in AAAI-2020. Congrats Jogendra, Sravanti, Siddharth, Gaurav, Rahul and Rakesh!
• [Sep. 17,2019] We have 3 papers accepted in WACV-2020. Congrats Jogendra, Deepak, Surbhi, Himanshu, Priyanka, Rahul, Anirudh, Skand and Mukunda!
• [Aug. 8,2019] Congrats Jogendra! for receiving Google Travel Grant for attending ICCV'19.
• [Jul. 23,2019] We have 3 papers accepted in ICCV-2019. Congrats Jogendra, Aditya, Vivek, Maharshi, Nishank and Dakshit!
• [Apr. 22,2019] We have a paper accepted in ICML-2019. Congrats Gaurav, Reddy and Vaisakh!
• [Feb. 14,2019] Konda Reddy Mopuri successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congrats Dr. Konda Reddy!
• [Jan. 15,2019] Congrats Jogendra! for receiving Wipro PhD fellowship.
• [Dec. 20,2018] Congrats Ravi! for receiving IUPRAI-Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2017-18 at ICVGIP 2018.
• [Dec. 11,2018] Congrats Deepak! for receiving Google Travel grant for attending AAAI'19.
• [Nov. 30,2018] Press coverage of our deep model for social (pictionary) game. Click here for the news report in The Times of India.
• [Nov. 01,2018] We have 3 papers accepted in AAAI-2019. Congrats Navaneet, Priyanka, Deepak, Jogendra and Maharshi!
• [Oct. 29, 2018] Our paper titled "CNN Fixations: An unraveling approach to visualize the discriminative image regions" is accepted in IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP). Congrats Reddy and Utsav!
• [Oct. 17,2018] Our paper titled "Pictionary-style word-guessing on hand-drawn object sketches: dataset, analysis and deep network models" is accepted in IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Congrats Ravi, Shiv and Trisha!
• [Oct. 05,2018] Press coverage of our work on adversarial attack on deep neural nets. Click here for the news report in The Economic Times.
• [Sep. 9,2018] VAL team (Haque, Shivang and Venkatesh Babu) won the 3DRMS Challenge for Synthetic Data (Cat A/B) held at ECCV 2018 workshops. Congrats Haque and Shivang! Click here for more details.
• [Aug. 9,2018] Congrats Vivek! for receiving Pratiksha Travel fellowship for attending ECCV'18.
• [July 20,2018] Ravi Kiran successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congrats Dr. Ravi!
• [July 18,2018] Our paper titled "Learning Representations with Strong Supervision for Image Search" received the BEST paper award at SPCOM-2018. Congrats Reddy and Vishal!
• [July 13,2018] Our paper titled "Generalizable Data-free Objective for Crafting Universal Adversarial Perturbations" is accepted in IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Congrats Reddy and Aditya!
• [July 3,2018] We have 2 papers accepted in ECCV-2018. Congrats Reddy, Phani and Vivek!
• [July 2,2018] We have a paper accepted in BMVC-2018. Congrats Navaneet, Priyanka and Mayank!
• [July 1,2018] We have a paper accepted in ACMMM-2018. Congrats Jogendra, Aditya and Rahul!
• [Apr. 11,2018] Congrats Reddy! for receiving prestigious D Nagarajachar Travel Grant for attending CVPR'18.
• [Apr 11,2018] We have 2 papers accepted in SPCOM-2018. Congrats Reddy, Vishal, Suraj and Akshay!
• [Apr. 6,2018] Congrats Deepak! for receiving Microsoft Research Travel Grant for attending CVPR'18.
• [March 21,2018] Congrats Jogendra! for receiving Google Travel Grant for attending CVPR'18.
• [February 19,2018] We have 3 papers accepted in CVPR-2018. Congrats Reddy, Jogendra, Deepak, Utsav, Utkarsh, Phani, Anuj and Neeraj!
• [Feb. 14,2018] Kruthiventi Srinivas (alumni, M.Sc (Engg)) has been awarded the Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal for the best M.Sc (Engg) thesis for the year 2016-17. Congrats Srinivas!
• [Dec. 7,2017] Congrats Ravi and Deepak for receiving Micorsoft Research India Travel Grant to present their work at AAAI'18, to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• [Nov. 7,2017] 2 papers accepted at AAAI'18, Congrats Ravi, Shiv, Trisha and Deepak!
• [Oct. 25,2017] 2 papers accepted at NCVPRIPG'17, Congrats Avishek!
• [Sept. 3,2017] Press Coverage of our CVPR'17 work on Crowd counting. Click here for the news report.
• [August 18,2017] Congrats Konda Reddy Mopuri! for receiving Pratiksha Travel Grant to present his paper at BMVC'17, going to be held at the Imperial College, London, UK.
• [August 16,2017] Congrats Ram Prabhakar! for receiving Micorsoft Research India Travel Grant to present his work at ICCV'17, to be held at Venice, Italy.
• [July 24,2017] Press Coverage of our work on Vehicle counting. Click here for the news report.
• [July 17,2017] Paper by Ram Prabhakar, Sai Srikar accepted at ICCV-2017.
• [July 2,2017] Paper by Ravi Kiran, Sahil, Isht and Abhijat accepted at ACMMM-2017.
• [July 1,2017] Paper by Konda Reddy Mopuri and Utsav Garg accepted at BMVC-2017.
• [June 20,2017] Congrats Deepak! for receiving Pratiksha Travel Grant for presenting paper at CVPR'17.
• [May 15,2017] Paper by Srinivas and K. Ayush accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) journal.
• [May 14,2017] Paper by Suraj Srinivas and Akshay Varun accepted for presentation at Embedded Vision CVPR Workshop-2017.
• [May 11,2017] Paper by Nithish accepted for presentation at NTIRE CVPR Workshop-2017.
• [March 15,2017] Congrats Ravi! for receiving Google Travel Support for presenting paper at CVPR'17.
• [February 28,2017] Paper by Konda Reddy Mopuri and Vishal Athreya accepted for oral presentation at ICME-2017.
• [February 28,2017] Paper by Akshay Varun and Suraj Srinivas accepted for oral presentation at ICME-2017.
• [February 27,2017] Paper by Shiv Surya and Deepak Babu Sam accepted at CVPR-2017.
• [February 27,2017] Paper by Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla and Gurumurthy Swaminathan accepted at CVPR-2017.
• [February 17,2017] Paper by Sovan Biswas accepted for publication at Neurocomputing journal.
• [February 13,2017] Paper by Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) journal.
• [February 4,2017] Book on Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis, containing a co-authored invited chapter, has been published by Elsevier.

• [October 10,2016] A total of 6 papers by Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Shiv Surya , Jogendra Nath Kundu, Lokesh Boominathan, Suraj Srinivas and Konda Reddy Mopuri have been accepted for presentation at ICVGIP 2016, Guwahati, India
• [September 18,2016] Press coverage of our work on crowd counting. Click here for the news report in Deccan Herald.
• [August 15,2016] Paper by Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla and Shanthakumar Venkatraman (IIT-H) accepted at ACCV 2016, Taipei, Taiwan.
• [July 15,2016] Paper by Suraj Srinivas accepted at BMVC 2016, York, UK.
• [June 27,2016] Our deep-learning model for predicting eye fixations -- DeepFix -- has been declared the winner of the LSUN 2016 Saliency Challenge, held in conjunction with CVPR 2016. The model is described in the paper by Kruthiventi Srinivas and Kumar Ayush.
• [June 25,2016] A total of 4 papers by Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Kruthiventi Srinivas, Shiv Surya , Jogendra Nath Kundu, Lokesh Boominathan have been accepted for presentation at ACMMM 2016, Amsterdam
• [June 20,2016] Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla has been awarded the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2016. His one-person-team proposal was one of the 4 proposals selected from 31 proposals across India.
• [April 29,2016] Nikita Prabhu has been awarded the best poster award for M.Sc. in EECS Research Students Symposium
• [March 30,2016] Avinash Ramakanth (alumni,M.Sc (Engg)) has been awarded the Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal for the best M.Sc (Engg) thesis for the year 2014-15
• [March 1,2016] Paper by Kruthiventi Srinivas, Jaley Dholakia and Vennela Gudisa accepted at CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, USA.
• [February 16,2016] Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla has been selected for TCS Ph.D. Fellowship Award, 2016
• [January 6-7,2016] Tutorial on Video Analytics and Deep Learning by Prof. Venkatesh Babu, Suraj Srinivas, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Srinivas Kruthiventi, Mopuri Konda Reddy and Nikita Prabhu at MSRIT, Bangalore
• [December 21,2015] Papers by Ram Prabhakar and Chintak Sheth accepted for presentation at IEEE ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China
• [December 10,2015] Our survey paper on Deep Convolutional Nets for Vision has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
• [October 7,2015] Expresso, our open-source software for GUI-based design and analysis system for Convolutional Neural Networks, has been accepted for the ICCV 2015 demo track.
• [August 29,2015] Paper by Nikita Prabhu accepted for poster presentation at ICCV 2015, Santiago, Chile
• [August 22,2015] Konda Reddy and Srininvas conducted a interactive workshop on Image Analytics using OpenCV at SKCET, Coimbatore, India.
• [August 12,2015] Invited talk by Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla and Mopuri Konda Reddy at IIIT-Bangalore
• [July 15,2015] Paper by R.Venkatesh Babu accepted in the Journal of Applied Soft Computing
• [July 14,2015] Press coverage of our work on Traffic Flow Analysis
• [July 6,2015] Paper by Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla accepted for oral presentation at ACMMM 2015, Brisbane, Australia
• [July 3,2015] Paper by Suraj Srinivas accepted for poster presentation at BMVC 2015
• [May 27,2015] Check out Expresso, a GUI tool created at VAL for designing, training and using deep learning frameworks.
• [April 30,2015] Papers by Srinivas Kruthiventi and Sai Srivatsa accepted for poster presentation at IEEE ICIP 2015, Montreal, Canada
• [April 14,2015] Paper by Mopuri Konda Reddy accepted for poster presentation at DeepVision 2015: workshop to be held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2015 (Thanks to Microsoft Research India for travel grant)
• [April 14,2015] Paper by Kruthiventi Srinivas accepted for oral presentation at GROW 2015: workshop to be held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2015 (Thanks to Microsoft Research India for travel grant)