Dr. Shankar Gangisetty
Applied Research Scientist
CVIT| IHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad
India
Applied Research Scientist
CVIT| IHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad
India
Dr. Shankar Gangisetty is an Applied Research Scientist at CVIT and IHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad, focusing on mobility and driving technologies for enhancing road and driver safety in Indian conditions. He completed his postdoctoral research under Prof. C.V. Jawahar at IIIT Hyderabad and previously served as a Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, KLE Technological University, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University and a Master’s from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal.
Dr. Shankar Gangisetty has published extensively in Computer Vision, Machine/Deep Learning, Multimodal Learning, Mobility/Driving, MLLM, and Data Science. His Ph.D. focused on 3D Data Representation and Geometric Processing, with real-world applications in the 3D reconstruction of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as the Hampi Temples in Karnataka. He served as Co-PI on multiple DST-funded projects, including cultural and underwater heritage reconstruction and an Indian driving simulator. He has also mentored industry-collaborative projects with INSZoom Pvt. Ltd.
He has been recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer at BMVC 2024, received the Piazzaversary award for impactful online teaching in 2019, and was awarded the SERB International Travel Grant to attend BMVC 2019. He also received the Best Doctoral Symposium Award at ICVGIP 2016, IIT Guwahati.
His current research focuses on human-centric multimodal driving video understanding, driver behavior reasoning and modeling, simulation of driving conditions, place recognition, and scene segmentation for autonomous driving.
Complete list of publications: DBLP, Google Scholar
Aug 2025 - Presented invited talk at Research Summit Egocentric Perception (RSEP'25), Meta
July 2025 - Development of DriveRight an Intelligent Driving Education System
June 2025 - Paper got accepted at ICCV'25
May 2025 - Presented paper at ICRA'25
April 2025 - Development of Gaze-based Driver Attention System
March 2025 - R&D Showcase @ IIIT-H
Feb 2025 - Paper got accepted at CVPR'25
Jan 2025 - Paper got accepted at ICRA'25
Dec 2024 - Technology development of Driving Simulator Platform
Nov 2024 - Outstanding Reviewer, BMVC 2024
Oct 2024 - Presented paper at IROS'24
Sept 2024 - Presented paper at ECCV'24
Aug 2024 - Driving Simulator Program CFP shortlisting and selection
July 2024 - Paper got accepted at ECCV'24
June 2024 - Paper got accepted at IROS'24
March 2024 - R&D Showcase @ IIIT Hyderabad
Feb 2024 - Driving Simulator CFP
Dec 2023 - Organized Symposium on Simulator Platform for Safe Driving
Nov 2023 - Driving Simulator Program Proposal Sanctioned, IHub-Data, DST
Aug 2023 - Organising a month-long online mode of 7th Summer School on AI'23
July 2023 - Organised a week-long offline mode of 7th Summer School on AI'23, CVIT, IIIT-Hyd
June 2023 - CVPR'23 O-DRUM (i) Making the V in TextVQA Matter and (ii) Weakly Supervised VQA Generation
April 2023 - Two papers on V-L models accepted @ CVPRW'23
Nov 2022 - Joined CVIT | IHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad
Aug 2022 - ViewPoint (Open-Set) 3DOR published in CAG Journal.
Feb 2022 - FloodNet paper published in Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal.
Jan 2022 - Research Assistant Positions (Closed)
Dec 2021 - Our work in Vision India @ ICVGIP 2021
Dec 2021 - Organizing Workshop on Digital Heritage (WDH) @ ICVGIP 2021
Nov 2021 - IEEE BigData Challenge First and Third Prize Student Winners
Sept 2021 - ICDAR 2021 (Oral) Presentation Video of OLRA
July 2021 - Underwater image restoration paper published in SIViP
July 2021 - Research Assistant 01 position open
May 2021 - TextVQG paper got accepted in ICDAR (preprint shortly)
May 2021 - ShvasAarogya project for capturing vocal data.
Jan 2021 - PIG-Net paper published in CAG Journal
Dec 2020 - ACCV Workshop Paper Presentation
Oct 2020 - Presented research papers and hot of the press @ CoCoNet'20
Sept 2020 - Presented SHREC 2020 Track research paper @ EG 3DOR 2020
Jan 2020 - Attended IHSE 2020
Dec 2019 - Organized NCVPRIPG 2019 conference
Oct 2019 - Organizing NCVPRIPG 2019 conference from Dec 22 - 24, 2019.
Sept 2019 - Presented a research paper @ BMVC'19, Cardiff, UK
Sept 2019 - Received Travel Grant from SERB, DST, GoI for attending BMVC'19.