Sairam V C Rebbapragada

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT Hyderabad. I am fortunate to be a part of the Machine Learning and Vision group supervised by Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian.

Research Interests

• Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Tiny Object detection, Aerial Object Detection

Brief objectives of my Research work in PhD:

In recent years, drones have showcased their exceptional adaptability in a multitude of sectors, spanning from agriculture, military operations, and search-and-rescue missions to firefighting, aerial photography, and essential deliveries. The growing demand for drones has ignited extensive research efforts focused on augmenting their vision capabilities, with a particular emphasis on object detection.

The application of computer vision to drones presents a complex array of challenges, including severe size imbalances, detection of minuscule objects, managing motion and instability, constraints posed by limited computational resources, real-time processing requirements, dealing with occlusions and perspective distortions, handling inaccuracies in data annotation, ensuring generalization across diverse environmental conditions, and addressing pivotal privacy and ethical considerations.

In the pursuit of my Ph.D., I am dedicated to methodically tackling these multifaceted challenges. My research endeavors to enhance the vision capabilities of drones, paving the way for more effective and ethical deployment in a broad range of applications.

Hobbies:

I enjoy playing badminton, volleyball, table tennis, and carroms in my free time. Cooking is also one of my favorite pastimes. Additionally, I have a talent for whistling songs and playing the cajon.

News

• [Feb. 2024] Participating in Google Research Week 2024
• [Jan. 2024] Happy to share that our paper on Drone-to-Drone Detection using Vision Transformer Networks is accepted for presentation at ICRA 2024.
• [Mar. 2023] Our work titled ‘Do Models see Corruption as we see? An Item Response Theory based study in Computer Vision’ is accepted in PML4DC at ICLR 2023.
• [Jan. 2023] Attending Google Research Week’23 provided an incredible opportunity to meet and learn from some of the most brilliant minds in the field.
• [Dec. 2022] As a student volunteer for the esteemed ACML’22 conference, I had the privilege of interacting with an incredibly talented group of individuals from all around the world.
• [Aug. 2022] Happy to share that our paper on tackling the severe size imbalance in aerial object datasets got accepted in WACV 2023
• [Nov. 2020] Honoured to be awarded with a gold medal for academic excellence in Computer Science at IIIT, Tiruchirappalli

Publications

Services

Research venues attended:

• [Jan. 2023] Google Research week 2023
• [Dec. 2022] Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML) 2022