Projects & Awards

Projects:

  • Project lead from IIT Tirupati for the collaborative project with UiA, NTNU, NORCE, NITGoa, IIT Tirupati, IIT Palakkad, and IIT Indore faculty on Indo-Norwegian Collaboration in Intelligent Offshore Mechatronics Systems, (INMOST), Nov 2020-24. Funded by The Research Council of Norway.

  • Awarded Research based Consultancy Project, “Computer Vision based Fruit Dimension measurement” funded by VeGrow Pvt. Ltd. during August 2021-2022.

  • Co-PI for the SERB Core Research Grant (CRG) for the Project titled "Smart manufacturing platform for the hybrid tandom wire arc additive manufacturing processes” for the years 2021-23. PI: Dr. V Kiran, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Tirupati.

  • Awarded new faculty initiation & seed grant for the project on “Image & Video Analytics using Deep Learning” at IIT Tirupati, during 2017-20.

  • Principle investigator (PI) for “Video analysis, Tracking and object identification from PSLV C36 Video” 2016.

  • Principle investigator (PI) for “Object based high resolution (optical) image analysis for land slide and land use land cover classification” project, NRSC-IIST collaborative project, duration: Feb. 2015-2017. Co-PI: Dr. Tapas (NRSC), Dr. Rama Rao (IIST), Dr. Deepak (IIST).

  • Co-PI for the project on “Developing a VR model for disaster simulation”, NRSC-IIST collaborative project, duration: Feb. 2015-2017. PI: Dr. Deepak M.


Awards:

2020

Bala Suraj, B. Tech, Electrical Engineering has got INAE award for his project and Thesis work on "ALTO: Adversarial Learning for Tracking Objects" .

2018

Litu Rout, B.Tech Avionics, IIST has got INAE award for his Project and Thesis work on "Boosting Visual Object Tracking performance

using a stack of Machine Learning algorithms" (jointly guided with Dr. Deepak M, IIST).

Anupama Arun, B.Tech Avionics, IIST has got INAE award for his Project and Thesis work on "CS based MRI reconstruction" (jointly guided with Dr. Sheeba R, IIST).

2017

Pallavi Venugopal, M.Tech Avionics, IIST has got INAE award for her Project and Thesis work on "Computationally Efficient Deep Tracker: Faster MDNet" (jointly guided with Dr. Deepak M, IIST).

2016

Sumitra K, B.Tech Avionics, IIST has got INAE award for her Project and Thesis work on "Tracker lever Fusion for Robust Visual Tracking " (jointly guided with Dr. Deepak M, IIST).

2015

Madan R, M.Tech Avionics, IIST has got INAE award for his Project and Thesis work on "Integrated Filter for Robust Visual Tracking " (jointly guided with Dr. Deepak M, IIST).