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DHRUV BATRA

CURRENT POSITION

Assistant Professor Jan 2012 Present

Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Graphical Models, Combinatorial Optimization

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University May 2010

Thesis: On Graph-Structured Discrete Labelling Problems in Computer Vision: Learning, Inference and Applications.

Committee: Tsuhan Chen (Advisor), Carlos Guestrin, Martial Hebert, Jose Moura, Rahul Sukthankar, Ramin Zabih

M.S., Carnegie Mellon University December 2006

Project Supervisor: Martial Hebert

B.Tech, Institute of Technology, Benaras Hindu University, India May 2005

PAST POSITIONS

Research Assistant Professor Sep 2010 Dec 2012

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Visiting Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA May Aug 2012

Host: Carlos Guestrin

Visiting Scientist, CSAIL Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA March May 2011

Host: Bill Freeman

Intern, Microsoft Research Lab Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Summer 2010

Mentors: Sebastian Nowozin and Pushmeet Kohli

Visiting Student, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Spring 2009 Spring 2010

Mentors: Tsuhan Chen, Cornell University

Intern, Kodak Research, Rochester, NY Summer 2008

Mentor: Jiebo Luo, Eastman Kodak; now Professor at University of Rochester

Intern, Intel Research Lab, Pittsburgh, PA Summer 2007

Mentor: Rahul Sukthankar, Intel; (Adjunct) Faculty, Robotics Institute, CMU

Intern, Intel Research Lab, Pittsburgh, PA Summer 2006

Mentor: Bart Nabbe, Intel; (Adjunct) Faculty, Robotics Institute, CMU

Research Assistant, Vision and Mobile Robotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 - Fall 2006

Mentor: Martial Hebert, Professor, Robotics Institute, CMU

Intern, R&D Group, Electronics Division, Minda Huf Technologies Lmt., Delhi, India Summer 2005

Project: Developing a Fingerprint Lock for Automobile Security

Intern, Multimedia and Internet Technology Lab, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India Summer 2004

Mentor: Santanu Chaudhury, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor ECE 4984/5984 Intro to Machine Learning & Perception, Spring 2013

Co-Instructor (Instructor: Nati Srebro), TTIC 31070 Convex Optimization, Spring 2012

Guest Lecturer TTIC 31020 Intro to Statistical Machine Learning, Fall 2010

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructor: Carlos Guestrin) CMU 10708 Probabilistic Graphical Models, Fall 2008

STUDENTS AND INTERNS SUPERVISED

Graduate Interns and Collaborators

Abner Guzm n Rivera, Ph.D. student at UIUC (Advisor: Rob Rutenbar)

Payman Yadollahpour, Ph.D. student at TTIC (Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich)

Daozheng Chen, Ph.D. student at University of Maryland (Advisor: David Jacobs)

Kun Duan, Ph.D. student at Indiana University (Advisor: David Crandall)

M.S. Projects

Jason Lew, Cornell University

Andrew Mui, Cornell University

Undergraduate Interns and Projects

Tanmay Verma, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Charvi Puri, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Kevin Tang, Cornell University (now at Stanford University)

PUBLICATIONS / PATENTS / DEMOS / TALKS

Publications

Multiple Choice Learning: Learning to Produce Multiple Structured Outputs.

Abner Guzman-Rivera, Dhruv Batra, Pushmeet Kohli.

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2012.

Diverse M-Best Solutions in Markov Random Fields.

Dhruv Batra, Payman Yadollahpour, Abner Guzman-Rivera, Greg Shakhnarovich.

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2012.

An Efficient Message-Passing Algorithm for the M-Best MAP Problem.

Dhruv Batra.

The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2012.

MaxFlow Revisited: An Empirical Comparison of Maxflow Algorithms for Dense Vision Problems.

Tanmay Verma, Dhruv Batra.

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2012.

A Multi-layer Composite Model for Human Pose Estimation

Kun Duan, Dhruv Batra, David J. Crandall.

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2012.

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Dhruv Batra, Ashutosh Saxena.

Learning the Right Model: Efficient Max-Margin Learning in Laplacian CRFs.

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012.

Payman Yadollahpour, Dhruv Batra, Greg Shakhnarovich.

M-Best Modes: Diverse M-Best Solutions in MRFs.

Workshop on Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning (DISCML), NIPS 2011.

Daozheng Chen, Dhruv Batra, William T. Freeman, Micah K. Johnson.

Group Norm for Learning Latent Structural SVMs.

Workshop on Optimization in Machine Learning (OPT), NIPS 2011.

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo, and Tsuhan Chen.

Interactive Co-segmentation of Objects in Image Collections

SpringerBriefs in Computer Science 2011.

Dhruv Batra, Greg Shakhnarovich.

Similarity Sensitive Nonlinear Embeddings.

Workshop on Kernels and Distances for Computer Vision,

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011.

Daniel Tarlow, Dhruv Batra, Pushmeet Kohli, Vladimir Kolmogorov.

Dynamic Tree Block Coordinate Descent.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2011.

Dhruv Batra, Pushmeet Kohli.

Making the Right Moves: Guiding Alpha-Expansion using Local Primal-Dual Gaps.

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.

Andrew Gallagher, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh.

Inference for Order Reduction in Markov Random Fields.

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.

Dhruv Batra, Sebastian Nowozin, Pushmeet Kohli.

Tighter Relaxations for MAP-MRF Inference: A Local Primal-Dual Gap based Separation Algorithm.

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2011.

Adarsh Kowdle, Yao-Jen Chen, Dhruv Batra, Tsuhan Chen.

Scribble Based Interactive 3D Reconstruction via Scene Co-segmentation.

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2011.

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo, Tsuhan Chen.

Interactively Co-segmenting Topically Related Images with Intelligent Scribble Guidance.

International Journal of Computer Vision, 2011.

Adarsh Kowdle, Dhruv Batra, Wen-Chao Chen, Tsuhan Chen.

iModel: Interactive Co-segmentation for Object of Interest 3D Modeling.

Workshop on Reconstruction and Modeling of Large-Scale 3D Virtual Environments,

European Conference on Computer Vision, 2010 (ECCV '10).

Dhruv Batra, Andrew Gallagher, Devi Parikh, and Tsuhan Chen.

Beyond trees: MRF Inference via Outer-Planar Decomposition.

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010.

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Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo, and Tsuhan Chen.

iCoseg: Interactive Co-segmentation with Intelligent Scribble Guidance.

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010.

Dhruv Batra, Tsuhan Chen.

Dynamic Planar-Cuts: Efficient Computation of Min-Marginals for Outer-Planar Models.

Workshop on Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning (DISCML), NIPS 2009.

Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Adarsh Kowdle, Tsuhan Chen.

Seed Image Selection in Interactive Cosegmentation.

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2009.

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Tsuhan Chen.

Cutout-Search: Putting a name to the Picture.

Workshop on Internet Vision, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009.

Dhruv Batra, Rahul Sukthankar and Tsuhan Chen.

Semi-Supervised Clustering via Learnt Codeword Distances.

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2008.

Dhruv Batra, Rahul Sukthankar and Tsuhan Chen.

Learning Class-Specific Affinities for Image Labelling.

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2008.

Dhruv Batra, Tsuhan Chen, and Rahul Sukthankar.

Space-Time Shapelets for Action Recognition.

Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC) 2008, IEEE Winter Vision Meetings.

Dhruv Batra, Bart Nabbe, and Martial Hebert.

An Alternative Formulation for the Five Point Relative Pose Problem.

IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC) 2007.

Dhruv Batra, Girish Singhal, and Santanu Chaudhury.

Gabor Filter based Fingerprint Classification using Support Vector Machines.

IEEE India Annual Conference (INDICON) 2004.

Patent

Jiebo Luo, Dhruv Batra, Andrew Gallagher.

Method for Generating Object Cutout for Topically Related Photographs.

Filed to USPTO in January 2009.

Demo

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Kevin Tang, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo, Tsuhan Chen.

Interactive Cosegmentation by Touch.

Demo at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009.

Talks (Other than Conference Presentations)

Hedging Against Uncertainty via Multiple Diverse Solutions

@ IST Austria Symposium on Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Oct 2012.

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Structured-Output Models for Computer Vision

@ Google Research Tech Talk, Apr 2012.

@ University of Minnesota CSE Colloquium, Apr 2012.

@ Virginia Tech ECE Colloquium, Apr 2012.

@ Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL), Apr 2012.

@ Adobe Creative Technologies Lab Seattle, Feb 2012.

@ Microsoft Research Redmond, Feb 2012.

@ Michigan State University CSE Colloquium, Feb 2012.

@ Washington University in St. Louis CSE Colloquium, Feb 2012.

The M-Best Mode Problem

@ Midwest Vision Workshop, UIUC, Sep 2012.

@ Carnegie Mellon University VASC Seminar, May 2012.

@ Carnegie Mellon University Select Lab, May 2012.

@ University of California Berkeley Vision Seminar, Jan 2012.

Focused Inference and the M-Best Mode Problem

@ University of California Santa Barbara CS/ECE Colloquium, Jan 2012.

@ University of California San Diego AI Seminar, Jan 2012.

@ University of California Irvine ICS, Jan 2012.

Focused Inference with Local Primal-Dual Gaps

@ Cornell University CS Dept. Vision Seminar, Oct 2011.

@ Invited Talk at the Workshop on Inference in Graphical Models with Structured Potentials at CVPR, Jun 2011.

@ Brown University Computer Science Colloquium, May 2011.

@ Midwest Computer Vision Workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 2011.

On Graph-Structured Discrete Labelling Problems in Computer Vision.

@ HP Labs Paulo Alto, Jun 2010.

@ UIUC CS Department, Jun 2010.

@ TTIC-Colloquium, May 2010.

@ Georgia Tech, May 2010.

@ UT-Austin CS Colloquium, May 2010.

@ MIT CSAIL, Apr 2010.

@ University of Georgia CS Colloquium, Apr 2010.

Beyond Trees: MRF Inference via Outer-Planar Decomposition (OPD).

@ Carnegie Mellon University VASC Seminar, Mar 2010.

@ Illinois Vision Meet, TTIC, Dec 2009.

@ Toyota Technical Institute Chicago, Dec 2009.

@ Microsoft Research Redmond, Dec 2009.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Organizer:

PAMI Special Issue on Higher Order Graphical Models in Computer Vision: Modelling, Inference & Learning.

Guest Editors: Karteek Alahari, Dhruv Batra, Srikumar Ramalingam, Nikos Paragios, Rich Zemel.

Workshop on Higher-Order Models and Global Constraints at ECCV 2012.

Jointly with Karteek Alahari, Srikumar Ramalingam, Nikos Paragios, Rich Zemel.

Workshop on Supervised Large-Scale Learning of Similarity at NIPS 2011.

Jointly with Greg Shakhnarovich, Brian Kulis and Kilian Weinberger.

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Program Committee Member:

Computer Vision Conferences: ICCV (2009,2011), ECCV (2010,2012), CVPR (2011, 2012, 2013), EMMCVPR (2011),

Machine Learning Conferences: ICML (2012, 2013), IJCAI (2011), NIPS (2011, 2012), UAI (2012),

Workshop on Optimization in Machine Learning at NIPS 2010.

Workshop on Parts and Attributes at ECCV 2012.

Reviewer for Journals:

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)

Image and Vision Computing

HONOURS AND INTERESTS

Honours:

Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering Dean s Fellowship 2007.

Chairman, IEEE Student Chapter, IT-BHU (2004-05)

IT-BHU squash team member (2004-05)

Other Interests:

Squash Competed in the Pittsburgh Squash Racquets Association (PSRA) Box League.

Long Distance Running Ran the Ithaca Half Marathon 2010, Chicago Half-Marathon 2011, Chicago Marathon 2011.

Fluent in English, Hindi; (basic) Punjabi. Studied (but unfortunately no longer fluent in) Sanskrit (6 yrs), Spanish (2 yrs)

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