Debolena Basak
Ph.D. Student
Artificial Intelligence
IIT Hyderabad
debolena07@gmail.com
ai20resch11003@iith.ac.in
About Me
Hi! I am a research scholar in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). As part of the Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) Lab, I conduct my research under the supervision of Dr. Maunendra Sankar Desarkar and Dr. Srijith P.K. My current research work focuses at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, specifically working with Large Vision Language Models.
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs)
Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)
News
Excited to join as a Research PhD Intern at Adobe Research, Bangalore! [June 2, 2025]
Honoured with the Research Excellence Award at IIT Hyderabad on 17th Foundation Day! [April 2, 2025]
Presented our paper at WACV 2025 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Had a wonderful experience at the conference and United States! [March 2, 2025]
Happy to share that I have been selected for the WACV 2025 travel award, consisting of paper registration fee waiver and a travel grant of 1500 USD!
Happy to share that our paper - "Aerial Mirage: Unmasking Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models", has been accepted to WACV 2025 (round 1, acceptance rate 12.1%).
Delivered an Oral Presentation of our paper at PAKDD 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan. Had an amazing experience at the conference and Taiwan!
Poster presentation at TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad.
Pleased to share that our paper titled "Transformer based Multitask Learning for Image Captioning and Object Detection" has been accepted for Oral presentation at PAKDD 2024!
Participated in IndoML 2023 at IIT Bombay. It was a wonderful experience to meet talented Indian researchers from all around the globe!
Served as a student volunteer for the prestigious ACML 2022 conference.
Publications
Aerial Mirage: Unmasking Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models
Debolena Basak, Soham Bhatt, Sahith Kanduri, and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025. [Accepted]
Transformer based Multitask Learning for Image Captioning and Object Detection
Debolena Basak, P.K. Srijith, and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2024)