Anurag Mittal

Professor
Computer Science and Engg. Dept
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, India

 

 

email: amittal 'at' cse 'dot' iitm 'dot' ac 'dot' in
Office: BSB 368, IIT Madras, Chennai, India - 600036. 

Ph: +91(44) 2257-4372 (O)
      +91(44) 2257-4352 (Fax)

I am currently a professor in the Computer Science and Engg. dept. at IIT Madras heading the Computer Vision Lab.  Prior to this, from 2002-2005, I was a Research Scientist at the Real-Time Vision and Modeling Department at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ.  I completed my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in Dec 2002.  Before that, I completed an MS from Cornell University in 2000 and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1997.

My research interests are in all areas of Computer Vision, with special interest in combining geometric and statistical inference techniques to build robust Computer Vision systems. This often involves consideration of illumination- and other invariants to build systems robust to different variations in the data and their statistical analysis (credit due to V. Ramesh at Siemens here).

I also have significant interest in shape as an important cue for Image Understanding and several of my recent works have developed both theoretical and practical systems for shape-based detection, matching and retrieval. Most recently, we developed the shape-based CoMaL point detector, matcher and tracker that significantly improves upon the Harris/KLT at the object boundaries.

More recently, we have been working on Convolutional Neural Networks and in particular, their applications to various Computer Vision Problems. Some of our recent works include analysis and algorithms for zero/low-shot scenarios in different Computer Vision tasks such as image classification. These often involve an interplay between text and image data, and some of the latest techniques for image understanding and generation such as VAEs and GANs. 

News:

Area Editor: Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2013- 

Area Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 

Area Chair: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020, 2022 

Area Chair: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022 

Area Chair: Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2018, 2022 

Note:

I am not taking any new research scholars currently.


Publications:

Link to Google Scholar page 

Link to DBLP page 


(Past) Advisors and Mentors:

Prof Larry Davis (U. of Maryland)

Prof. Nikos Paragios (Ecole Centrale, Paris)

Prof. Vishwanathan Ramesh< (J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Prof. Dan Huttenlocher (Cornell University)

Friends:

Motilal Agrawal (SRI)

Students (Past and Present):

PhD

Sreyasee Das Bhattacharya (2013)

Raj Gupta (2015)

Prashanth (2010-) 

Arulkumar (2015-) 

Gowthaman (2017-) 

Vikram Singh (2015-) 

Ashish Mishra (2015-) 

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