We are honored to be recognized as the top AI research lab in India by CSRankings.org!. This achievement reflects years of dedicated research and innovation. Thanks to our brilliant students, research collaborators, and team members for their unwavering commitment and contributions.
[Jan. 17, 2025] Harsh defended his thesis today. Congrats, Dr. Harsh!
[Dec. 22, 2024] Congrats Dr. Sravanti for winning the prestigious IKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award in Data Science 2024!
[Dec. 16, 2024] Prof. Venkatesh will be serving as Area Chair for ICCV'25 and ICML'25
[Dec. 15, 2024] Congrats Dr. Jogendra! and Dr. Sravanti! for winning the prestigious IUPRAI-Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2023 and 2024 at ICVGIP 2024.
[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. 22, 2024] Congrats, Abhipsa, for winning the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India (QIF) award!
[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!
[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.
[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!
[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.
[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)