I am Latha Pemula, an Applied Scientist at AWS AILabs. I am one of the founding team members responsible for launching AWS Lookout for Vision service. My research interests include Anomaly Detection, Fewshot learning, Representation Learning, Domain Generalization. Before Amazon, I completed my Masters at Virginia Tech under the guidance of Dr. Dhruv Batra and Dr. Devi Parikh. I had a chance to work under the guidance of Dr. Lei Zhang during my internship at Microsoft Research. My masters thesis and my internship focused on fewshot classification. I completed my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras(IITM) in 2010.
Anomaly Detection
Domain Generalization
Few-shot Classification
[CVPR 2025] Organized VAND 3.0 workshop at CVPR 2025 successfully!
[CVPR 2025] Our RobustAD paper got accepted at VAND Workshop!
[CVPR 2024] Organized VAND 2.0 workshop at CVPR 2024 successfully!
[WACV 2024] I will be presenting a keynote at the Automated Spatial And Temporal Anomaly Detection workshop at WACV 2024
[MICCAI 2023] I will be presenting a keynote at OOD workshop at MICCAI!
[CVPR 2023] Organized VAND workshop at CVPR 2022 successfully!
[ECCV 2022] Our work Spot-the-difference got accepted!
[AWARD] Our intern Karsten got EMVA Young Professional Award for his Patchcore work!
[CVPR 2022] Our work PatchCore got accepted!
[Launch] AWS Lookout For Vision launches to general public: Bloomberg News Article!
Robust AD: A Real World Benchmark Dataset For Robustness in Industrial Anomaly Detection
We introduce a new anomaly detection benchmark dataset: RobustAD, which has 4442 We images, across 3 use cases, 9 defect types and 6 real-world distribution shift
We also introduce a novel metric: Average Relative Drop (ARD), for measuring model robustness and perform benchmark of RobustAD against SOTA models across various tasks: supervised, unsupervised, and zero-shot detection
Latha Pemula, Dongqing Zhang and Onkar Dabeer, AWS AI Computer Vision
VAND Workshop, CVPR, 2025
Towards Total Recall in Industrial Anomaly Detection
We develop PatchCore - an anomaly detection method for visual product inspection, which is scalable, fast, extremely accurate, interpretable and usable without expert knowledge. Using Coreset Memories, PatchCore has retained the state-of-the-art for more than a year now.
Karsten Roth, Latha Pemula, Joaquin Zepeda, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Thomas Brox, Peter Gehler
CVPR, 2022
Spot-the-Difference Self-Supervised Pre-training for Anomaly Detection and Segmentation
We release the Visual Anomaly(VisA) Dataset consisting of 10,821 high-resolution color images (9,621 normal and 1,200 anomalous samples) covering 12 objects in 3 domains, making it the largest industrial anomaly detection dataset to date. We also introduce a new self-supervised learning method for ImageNet pre-training to improve anomaly detection and segmentation in 1-class and 2-class 5/10/high shot training setups.
ECCV, 2022
Lowshot Visual Recognition
To solve the lowshot visual recognition problem, we use a related dataset with sufficient number of samples per class to learn representations using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). This CNN is used to extract features of the lowshot samples and learn a classifer . During representation learning, we enforce the learnt representations to obey certain property by using a custom loss function. We believe that when the lowshot samples obey this property the classifcation step becomes easier. We show that the proposed solution performs better than the softmax classifer by a good margin.
Masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2022
We introduce learned attention models into the radio machine learning domain for the task of modulation recognition by leveraging spatial transformer networks and introducing new radio domain appropriate transformations. Using this architecture we are able to outperform our prior results in accuracy vs signal to noise ratio against an identical system without attention, however we believe such an attention model has implication far beyond the task of modulation recognition
ASILOMAR, 2016
Community Service
Reviewer for CVPR 22/23, ECCV 22, ICCV 23, TPAMI 23, WACV 22