My lab carries out fascinating research at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.  We develop Neuro-Inspired AI models that can learn efficiently from multiple tasks.

Research topics include:


Papers 

The Effectiveness of Random Forgetting for Robust Generalization

V.Ramkumar, B.Zonooz*, E.Arani*

12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2024)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Conserve-Update-Revise to Cure Generalization and Robustness Trade-off in Adversarial Training

S.Gowda, B.Zonooz*, E.Arani*

12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2024)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Dual Cognitive Architecture: Incorporating Biases and Multi-Memory Systems for Lifelong Learning

S.Gowda, B.Zonooz*, E.Arani*

Transactions of Machine Learning Research (TMLR, 2023)

[paper][code][short video][dataset]


Continual Learning of Unsupervised Monocular Depth from Videos

H.Chawla, A.Varma, E.Arani*, B.Zonooz*

IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV, 2024)

[paper] [code] [short video]


TriRE: A Multi-Mechanism Learning Paradigm for Continual Knowledge Retention and Promotion

P.Vijayan, P.Bhat, B.Zonooz*, E.Arani*

Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]


BiRT: Bio-inspired Replay in Vision Transformers for Continual Learning

K.Jeeveswaran, P.Bhat, B.Zonooz*, E.Arani*

40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]

MTSL: Multi-Task Structural Learning using Local Task Similarity induced Neuron Creation and Removal

N.Gurulingan, B.Zonooz*, E.Arani*

40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]

A Study of Biologically Plausible Neural Network: the Role and Interactions of Brain-Inspired Mechanisms in Continual Learning

F.Sarfraz*, E.Arani*, B.Zonooz

Transactions of Machine Learning Research (TMLR, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]

Learn, Unlearn and Relearn: An Online Learning Paradigm for Deep Neural Networks

V.Ramkumar, E.Arani*, B.Zonooz*

Transactions of Machine Learning Research (TMLR, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]

Task-Aware Information Routing from Common Representation Space in Lifelong Learning

Prashant Bhat, Bahram Zonooz*, Elahe Arani*

11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]

Error Sensitivity Modulation based Experience Replay: Mitigating Abrupt Representation Drift in Continual Learning

Fahad Sarfraz*, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz

11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]


LSFSL: Leveraging Shape Information in Few-shot Learning

D.Chakravarthi Padmanabhan, S.Gowda, E.Arani*, B.Zonooz*

Workshop on Learning with Limited Labelled Data (CVPR, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]

Image Masking for Robust Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

Hemang Chawla, Kishaan Jeeveswaran, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz*

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]

Sparse Coding in a Dual Memory System for Lifelong Learning

Fahad Sarfraz*, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz

Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, 2023) (Oral)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Dynamically Modular and Sparse General Continual Learning

Arnav Varma, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz*

18th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP, 2023)

[paper] [code] [short video]

A Comprehensive Study of Real-Time Object Detection Networks Across Multiple Domains: A Survey

Elahe Arani*, Shruthi Gowda*, Ratnajit Mukherjee, Omar Magdy, Senthilkumar Sockalingam Kathiresan, Bahram Zonooz

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR , August 2022) 

Certifications: Survey

[paper] [short video]


Adversarial Attacks on Monocular Pose Estimation

Hemang Chawla, Arnav Verma, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz*

The 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)

[paper] [code] [short video]


SYNERgy between SYNaptic consolidation and Experience Replay for general continual learning

Fahad Sarfraz*, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz

Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents  (CoLLAs, 2022).

[paper] [code] [short video]


Task Agnostic Representation Consolidation: a Self-supervised based Continual Learning Approach

Prashant Bhat, Bahram Zonooz*, Elahe Arani*

Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs, 2022)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Curbing Task Interference using Representation Similarity-Guided Multi-Task Feature Sharings

Naresh Kumar Gurulingan, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz*

Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs, 2022)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Differencing based Self-supervised pretraining for Scene Change Detection

Vijaya Raghavan T Ramkumar, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz*

Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs, 2022)

[paper] [code] [short video]


InBiaseD: Inductive Bias Distillation to Improve Generalization and Robustness through Shape-awareness

Shruthi Gowda, Bahram Zonooz*, Elahe Arani*

Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs, 2022)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Consistency is the key to further mitigating catastrophic forgetting in continual learning

Prashant Bhat, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz 

Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs, 2022)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Learning Fast, Learning Slow: A General Continual Learning Method based on Complementary Learning System

Elahe Arani*, Fahad Sarfraz*, Bahram Zonooz

Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2022)

[paper] [code] [short video]


A Comprehensive Study of Vision Transformers on Dense Prediction Tasks

Kishaan Jeeveswaran, Senthil Kathiresan, Aarnav Varma, Omar Magdy, Bahram Zonooz, Elahe Arani

17th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP, 2022).

[paper] [short video]


Transformers in Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation with Unknown Camera Intrinsics

Arnav Verma*, Hemang Chawla*, Bahram Zonooz, Elahe Arani

17th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP, 2022).

[paper] [short video]


Does Thermal data make the detection systems more reliable?

Shruthi Gowda, Bahram Zonooz, Elahe Arani

Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving (NeurIPS,2021)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Self-Supervised Pretraining for Scene Change Detection

Vijaya Ramkumar, Prashant Bhat, Elahe Arani, Bahram zonooz

Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving (NeurIPS, 2021)

[paper] [code] [short video]


UniNet:A Unified Scene Understanding Network and Exploring Multi-Task Relationships through the Lens of Adversarial Attacks

Naresh Kumar Gurulingan*, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz

DeepMTL workshop (ICCV, 2021)

[paper] [short video]


Improving the efficiency of transformers for resource-constrained devices

Hamid Tabani, Ajay Balasubramaniam, Shabbir Marzban, Elahe Arani, Bahram Zonooz

(Oral) Euromicro DSD/SEAA 2021

[paper]


Highlighting the Importance of Reducing Research Bias and Carbon Emissions in CNNs

Ahmad Badar, Aarnav Varma, Adrian Staniec, Mahmood Gamal, Omar Magdy, Haris Iqbal, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz*,

20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxAI, 2021)

[paper]


AI Driven Road Maintenance Inspection", Intelligent Transport System and Services

Ratnajit Mukherjee, Haris Iqbal, Shabbir Marzban, Ahamd Badar, Terry Brouns, Shruthi Gowda, Elahe Arani, Bahram Zonooz, 

ITS world congress, 2021

[paper]


Challenges and Obstacles Towards Deploying Deep Learning Models on Mobile Devices

Hamid Tabani*, Ajay Balasubramaniam*, Elahe Arani, BahramZonooz 

[paper]


Distill on the Go: Online knowledge distillation in self-supervised

Prashant Bhat, Elahe Arani, and Bahram Zonooz

(Spotlight) Learning from Limited or Imperfect Data (L2ID) Workshop (CVPR, 2021)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Perceptual Loss for Robust Unsupervised Homography Estimation

Daniel Koguciuk, Elahe Arani, Bahram Zonooz 

Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond Workshop (CVPR, 2021)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Multimodal Scale Consistency and Awareness for Monocular Self-Supervised Depth and Ego-Motion Estimation

Hemang Chawla*, Arnav Verma*, Elahe Arani, Bahram Zonooz

(Oral) IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, 2021)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Noise as a Resource for Learning in Knowledge Distillation

Elahe Arani*, Fahad Sarfraz*, Bahram Zonooz

IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV,2021)

[paper] [short video]


Noisy Concurrent Training for Efficient Learning under Label Noise

Fahad Sarfraz*, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz

IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV, 2021)

[paper] [code] [short video]


RGPNet: A Real-Time General Purpose Semantic Segmentation

Elahe Arani*, ShabbirMarzban*, Andrei Pata, Bahram Zonooz

IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV,2021)

[paper] [short video]


Practical Auto-Calibration for Spatial Scene-Understanding from Crowdsourced Dashcamera Videos

Hemang Chawla, Matti Jukola, Shabbir Marzban, Elaghe Arani, Bahram Zonooz

16th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP, 2021)

[paper] [short video]


Adversarial Concurrent Training: Optimizing Robustness and Accuracy Trade-off of Deep Neural Networks

Elahe Arani*, Fahad Sarfraz*, Bahram Zonooz

 31st British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC, 2020)

[paper] [code] [short video]


Crowdsourced 3D Mapping:A Combined Multi-View Geometry and Self-Supervised Learning Approach

Hemang Chawla, Matti Jukola, Terry Brouns, Elahe Arani, Bahram Zonooz

(Oral)International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS, 2020)

[paper] [short video]


Knowledge Distillation Beyond Model Compression

Fahad Sarfraz*, Elahe Arani*, Bahram Zonooz,

25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR, 2020)

[paper] [short video]


Monocular Vision based Crowdsourced 3D Traffic Sign Positioning with Unknown Camera Intrinsics and Distortion Coefficients

Hemang Chawla, Matti Jukola, Elahe Arani, Bahram Zonooz 

IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC, 2020)

[paper] [short video]


Changes in Sound Localization Performance of Single-Sided Deaf Listeners after Visual Feedback Training in Azimuth

Bahram Zonooz, John Van Opstal

[paper]


Differential adaptation in azimuth and elevation to acute monaural spatial hearing after training with visual feedback

Bahram Zonooz, John Van Opstal

 eNeuro (2019)

[paper]


Spectral weighting underlies perceived sound elevation

Bahram Zonooz, Elahe Arani, Knrad Kording, Remco Aalbers, Tansu Celikel, John Van Opstal

Nature Scientific Reports (2019)

[paper


Learning to localise weakly-informative sound spectra with and without feedback

Bahram Zonooz, Elahe Arani, John Van Opstal

Nature Scientific Reports (2018)

[paper]


Patents

 40+ patent applications