Students

Awards to Students

● Joshitha R (PhD): Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) recipient 2021, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Madras

● Aditya Sanjiv Kanade (MS by Research): 

   Selected by KR-IR Award Committee for Institute Research Award (2022-2023), IIT Madras 

● Rohit Choudhary (MS by Research): 

   Selected by KR-IR Award Committee for Institute Research Award (2023-2024), IIT Madras 

● Abhishek Singh 

   Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

   Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala

● Joshitha R  

   Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras   

   (Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) recipient 2021)

● Sally Khaidem

   Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras   

● Aditya Sanjiv Kanade

   Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

   Jointly with Prof. M. Manivannan - Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras     

   Title: Movement Quality Assessment of At-Home Physical Rehabilitation Sessions: An AI Based Approach

● Rohit Choudhary

   Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras 

   Advanced Deep Learning based Schemes for Stereo Depth Estimation and Low-light Image Enhancement

2024-2025 

● Abhishek Singh 

   Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

   Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala

   Title:  An Ultra-Lightweight Visual Privacy Protection System for Deep Optical Light field Imaging 

    Applications

Capstone BTech Students

2023-2024

● Robustness and Generalisability of Deepfake Detection: A study with NeRF

   CPG 75 - Samvid Verma, Garvit Garg, Raghav Sharma, Gyan Singh, Armanjeet Singh

● Multimodal Deepfake Detector for Gan and Diffusion Based Models

   CPG 20 - Rheanca Razdan, Khushboo Gupta, Navya Ghildiyal, Saanvi Anand, Swasti 

● Biologically Inspired Deepfake Detector

   CPG 19 -  Bhoomika Vrati, Tejas Sood, Veni Tiwari, Sidhanbir Singh Sachdeva, Kushagra Chandra Agarwal

● Multimodal Liveness Detection

   CPG 27 - Mohammed Ayesha Sami, Kirat Kaurrai, Varshitha Pentu, Arnavjot Kaur, Pragya Gupta

BTech Students

2020-21

● Cheerla Susanth 

    Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras

    BTP Thesis Title: Deep High Dimensional Bilateral Neural Networks for Edge-Inference & Depth Super-resolution  

● Meenal Sanjay Kamalakar

    Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras 

    BTP Thesis Title: A Novel Compression Scheme Based On Hybrid Tucker-Vector Quantization via Tensor Sketching for Static &

                                 Dynamic Light Fields Acquired Through Coded Aperture Camera

2019-2020

● TNV Vineet 

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

    BTP Thesis Title: An Integrated Learning Approach for Foveated Rendering & Novel View Synthesis from Sparse RGB-D Light 

                                 Fields

    Former with Microsoft, Currently pursuing PhD from University of California San Diego 

Dual Degree/MTech Students

2022-2023

● T Harshith Reddy 

    Dept. of Engineering Design, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis: Unsupervised Approach for Extreme Low Light Image Enhancement

● Mohit Kushwah 

    Dept. of Biological Sciences, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis: Robust Depth Estimation using Light field Data

● Sankarnarayanan B 

    Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis: Depth Estimation using Event Cameras

● Subeer Nayak

    Dept. of Biotechnology, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis: A Self-Supervised Framework for Assessing Physical Rehabilitation Exercises

2021-2022

● Uma T V

    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras

    Interdisciplinary Dual Degree MTech in Data Science

    DDP Thesis: Monocular to Stereo Transfer Learning Approach for Robust Depth Estimation

● Mamata Lingappa Vaddodagi 

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis: A Deep Learning Approach for Light Field Steganography

● Hari Shankar S. J.

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis: AI-Driven Approaches for for Neuro-Rehabilitation

2020-2021

● Nikitha Varma Sunchu and P Sai Shankar Pavan Srinivas

   Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

   DDP Thesis Title: Vision Based Navigation Using DRL Techniques

   Jointly with Prof. V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy

● Pradeep G

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis Title: A Flexible Coding Scheme for Light Field Displays with Stacked Multiplicative Layers

● Prateek Soni

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis Title: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network GSDP-GridNet for Geometric & Semantic Consistent Depth Prediction 

                                    for 3D Ken Burns Synthesis from a Single Image  

● Rohit Kangila 

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis Title: FC3D-ResUnet: A 3D Fully Convolutional Residual Neural Network for Robust Depth Prediction from 

                                                            Monocular Images

● Mohammed Khandwawala

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

    DDP Thesis Title: Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Edge-Aware Domain Transform Image Processing & Computer Vision 

                                  Application

● Mahajan Madhurima Shrikant

    Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials engineering, IIT Madras

    Jointly with Prof. Satyesh Kumar Yadav

    DDP Thesis Title: Microstructure Classification of Ultra High Steel Carbon through SVM-based Learning Algorithms

● Kadvekar Rohit Tushar

   Dept. of Mechnical Engineering, IIT Madras

   DDP Thesis Title:  

   Novel Deep Learning Frameworks Based On High-Dimensional Bilateral Grids For Smooth and Edge Consistent Depth Estimation 

   of Monocular and Stereo Multi-Exposure Images

● Raghu Veer Tatineni 

   Dept. of Mechnical Engineering, IIT Madras

   DDP Thesis Title:  Bilateral Grid Based Dense CRF Model for Latent-space Encodings and Multi-View Stereo Depth Estimation 

● Rithvik Anil

   Dept. of  Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras

   DDP Thesis Title: Two-Tower Convolutional Neural Network Towards Robust Stereo Depth Estimation  

   Currently with Jaguar Land Rover

●  Hayat Ali

     Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

     MTP Thesis Title:  Light Field Streaming & Compression Algorithms Based On Fourier Disparity Layer Transmission Using 

                                    Hybrid Tensor Decomposition via Sketching 

     Currently with Intel

●  Banothu Naveen Kumar

     Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

     MTP Thesis Title:   DeepBGCRFDisp-ResNet: An Integrated Deep Residual Network Based on Bilateral 3D Grid with Dense CRF 

                                     model for Disparity Estimation and Refinement for High Quality View Synthesis 

●  Sricharan Veggalam

     Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

     MTP Thesis Title:  BGDisp-ResNet: A Robust Disparity Estimation and View Synthesis Pipeline Integrating Bilateral 3D Grid 

                                    Features in Deep Residual Networks for Light Field Cameras

2019-2020

● Avinash P 

     Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras

     DDP Thesis Title: 3D Reconstruction using Deep Learning for AR & VR Applications

     Currently with Microsoft

● Santosh Kumar 

      Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

      DDP Thesis Title: Matrix-Tensor Methods for Display Independent 3D Video Processing & Analysis

      Currently with Samsung India

2023-2024

● Akshay Dharmaraj C

    EE, IIT Madras

    Project Topic: Burst Image Restoration and Enhancement

● Shivanshu Shekhar

    EE, IIT Madras

    Project Topic: Event Reconstruction via Diffusion Models

2022-2023

● Devaganthan. S . S. 

   EE, IIT Madras

   Project Topic: Unsupervised Extreme Low Light Enhancement

● Laraib Hassan

   EE, IIT Madras

   Project Topic: Compression of Dynamic Light Field

2020-2021

● Navaneeth Biju

   ME, IIT Madras

● Pranav Sharma

   ED, IIT Madras  

● Nikitha Varma Sunchu and P Sai Shankar Pavan Srinivas

   EE, IIT Madras

● G Pradeep 

   EE, IIT Madras

● Anugyan Das 

   EE, IIT Madras

● Uma T V 

   ME, IIT Madras    

● Sivasubramaniyan Sivanandan

   EE, IIT Madras 

2019-2020

●  Makham Uday Kiran

    EE, IIT Madras

●  Smruti Patro 

    Dual Degree, EE IIT Madras 

●  Prakhar Thakuria 

    BTech, EE IIT Madras

●  Chandraditya Ashwin V 

    BTech, EE IIT Madras

●  Aditya Wadaskar 

    Dual Degree, EE IIT Madras

    Currently pursuing PhD from University of California, Los Angeles 

2020-2021

●  Abheesht Sharma 

    MSc Mathematics & BE Computer Science

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

2019-2020

● Sanchi Bhaware 

   BTech CSE, IIIT Nagpur

● Mugdha Kutarekar 

   BTech ECE, IIIT Nagpur

● Ritu Sulam 

   BTech ECE, IIIT Nagpur

● Susatya Sinha 

   BTech ECE, IIIT Nagpur

● Arathi B 

   BTech EEE, NIT Tiruchirappalli

● Vankam Vidyasree 

   BTech ECE, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies

   IIIT RKV, RGUKT, Andhra Pradesh

2020-2021

● G Sowmiyanarayanan 

   BTech EEE, Anna University

2019-2020

● Gowtham Ragavan 

   ME Applied Electronics 

   Kongu Engineering College, Erode

   Affiliated from Anna University