Anbumani Subramanian

Notable Contributions

• • 2024: Project iRASTE - applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Road Safety [India wins global GovTech Award for iRASTE - Video]

  • 2018: India Driving Dataset (IDD) - Open dataset for AD/AI/ML in unstructured-driving conditions [Video]

  • 2010: Depth cameras - hand-pose & human-pose recognition, gestural interaction in AR/video conferencing

  • 2006: Omni-directional (360°) camera-based vision system for the world's first autonomous boat

Expertise & Technical Interest

• • Applied AI, Generative AI, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

  • Autonomous Driving, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Geo-spatial Data Analysis, Spectral Imaging

Career

• • 2025-       Senior Research Consultant, INAI - Applied AI Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad

  • 2020-25   Principal Engineer - AI Software Solutions, Intel

  • 2021-24   Mobility Lead, INAI - Applied AI Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad

  • 2013-20   Lead Architect, Intel

  • 2010-13   Senior Research Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Labs

  • 2006-10   Research Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Labs

  • 2005-06   Postdoctoral Associate, Virginia Tech

  • 2001        Member of Technical Staff (Intern), Rockwell Scientific

  • 1999-2005  Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech

  • 1996-99   Software Engineer, IBM 

Education

• • 2005:  Ph.D. (EE) Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

  • 2001:  M.S. (EE)   Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

  • 1996:  B.E. (EEE)  Bharathiar University (Coimbatore Institute of Technology), Coimbatore, India

Patents

• • 10 

Publications

Complete list of publications in CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, BMVC, WACV, ICRA, IROS, ICMI, ICPR

Professional Service

• • Adjunct Faculty, IIIT Hyderabad (2024 -)

  • Co-chair, AutoNUE workshops - ECCV 2018, ICCV 2019, CVPR 2021

  • Co-organizer - International & National Data Challenges

    • INAI Data Analytics Challenge on Road Safety, CTRG 2023 

    • Categorizing Missing Traffic Signs from Contextual Cues (C4MTS), NCVPRIPG 2023

    • IDD Challenges: International - ECCV 2018, ICCV 2019, CVPR 2021  National - NCVPRIPG 2019, Intel Unnati Grand Challenge 2023

  • Co-instructor, Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Road Safety and Traffic Engineering, CTRG 2023 

  • Invited technial talks - IISc SPCOM 2020, WSTAS 2021, ITSIVUE @ IV 2021, IEEE ICVES 2024

Awards & Honors

• 2022: Distinguished Alumni of 1996, Coimbatore Institute of Technology

• 2005: Outstanding Research Achievement, Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Virginia Tech

• 2005, 2001: Honorable Distinction for Innovation in Research, Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Virginia Tech - 2005 (PhD) & 2001 (MS)

• 1996: Best Outgoing Student, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Post-doctoral and Graduate Research

        Past (pre-2007) research work at Virginia Tech on archived webpage

Volunteering & Interests

  IEEE - Senior Member (2010), Computer Society - Bangalore Chapter Executive Committee  (2008-2010)

      Project Madurai - an open, volunteer-driven eLibrary, like Project Gutenberg, for Tamil, since 1998

 Tae Kwon Do (Moo Duk Kwan) - First Degree Black Belt 

 Kalarippayattu

Past research at Virginia Tech (2006)                       Really old homepage (1999)