Collaborators:

I have been fortunate to work with some really smart folks:

Daniel (Danny) Tarlow
Vladimir Kolmogorov
Sebastian Nowozin
Pushmeet Kohli
Andrew Gallagher
Adarsh Kowdle
Devi Parikh
Jiebo Luo
Rahul Sukthankar
Tsuhan Chen
Bart Nabbe
Martial Hebert

Papers:

Daniel Tarlow, Dhruv Batra, Pushmeet Kohli, Vladimir Kolmogorov.
Dynamic Tree-Block Coordinate Descent.
International Conference on Machine Learning 2011 (ICML '11).
[ pdf soon ]

Dhruv Batra, Pushmeet Kohli.
Making the Right Moves: Guiding Alpha-Expansion using Local Primal-Dual Gaps
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2011 (CVPR '11).
[ pdf ]

Andrew Gallagher, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh.
Inference for Order Reduction in Markov Random Fields.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2011 (CVPR '11).
[ pdf ]

Dhruv Batra, Sebastian Nowozin, Pushmeet Kohli.
Tighter Relaxations for MAP-MRF Inference:
A Local Primal-Dual Gap based Separation Algorithm.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2011 (AISTATS '11).
[ pdf ]

Adarsh Kowdle, Yao-Jen Chen, Dhruv Batra, Tsuhan Chen.
Scribble Based Interactive 3D Reconstruction via Scene Co-segmentation.
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2011 (ICIP '11).
[ pdf ]
Oral Presentation.

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo, Tsuhan Chen.
Interactively Co-segmentating Topically Related Images with Intelligent Scribble Guidance.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2011.
[ Springer Page | Preprint pdf | project page ]
03/2011: Among top downloaded articles from IJCV in the last 30 days.

Adarsh Kowdle, Dhruv Batra, Wen-Chao Chen, Tsuhan Chen.
iModel: Interactive Co-segmentation for Object of Interest 3D Modeling.
Workshop on Reconstruction and Modeling of Large-Scale 3D Virtual Environments,
European Conference on Computer Vision, 2010 (ECCV '10).
[ pdf ]

Dhruv Batra, Andrew Gallagher, Devi Parikh, Tsuhan Chen.
Beyond Trees: MRF Inference via Outer-Planar Decomposition.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2010 (CVPR '10).
[ pdf ]

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo, Tsuhan Chen.
iCoseg: Interactive Co-segmentation with Intelligent Scribble Guidance.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2010 (CVPR '10).
[ pdf | project page ]

Dhruv Batra, Tsuhan Chen.
Dynamic Planar-Cuts: Efficient Computation of Min-Marginals for Outer-Planar Models.
Workshop on Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning (DISCML), NIPS 2009.
[ pdf ]

Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Adarsh Kowdle, Tsuhan Chen, Jiebo Luo.
Seed Image Selection in Interactive Cosegmentation.
International Conference on Image Processing 2009 (ICIP '09).
[ pdf | project page ]

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Tsuhan Chen.
Cutout-Search: Putting a name to the Picture.
Workshop on Internet Vision, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009 (CVPR '09).
[ pdf ]

Dhruv Batra, Rahul Sukthankar, Tsuhan Chen.
Semi-Supervised Clustering via Learnt Codeword Distances.
British Machine Vision Conference 2008 (BMVC '08).
[ pdf ]

Dhruv Batra, Rahul Sukthankar, Tsuhan Chen.
Learning Class-Specific Affinities for Image Labelling.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2008 (CVPR '08).
[ pdf | project page ]

Dhruv Batra, Tsuhan Chen, Rahul Sukthankar.
Space-Time Shapelets for Action Recognition.
Workshop on Motion and Video Computing 2008 (WMVC '08), IEEE Winter Vision Meetings.
[ pdf | project page ]

Dhruv Batra, Bart Nabbe, Martial Hebert.
An Alternative Formulation for the Five Point Relative Pose Problem.
IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing 2007 (WMVC '07).
[ pdf | project page ]

Dhruv Batra, Girish Singhal, Santanu Chaudhury.
Gabor Filter based Fingerprint Classification using Support Vector Machines.
IEEE India Annual Conference 2004 (INDICON '04).

Thesis:

Dhruv Batra
On Graph-Structured Discrete Labelling Problems in Computer Vision: Learning, Inference and Applications.
Carnegie Mellon University, 2010.
[ pdf ]

Patent:

Jiebo Luo, Dhruv Batra, Andrew Gallagher.
Method for Generating Object Cutout for Topically Related Photographs.
Filed to USPTO in January 2009.
[ website ]

Demos:

Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Kevin Tang, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo, Tsuhan Chen.
Interactive Cosegmentation by Touch.
Demo session at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009 (CVPR '09).
[ project page ]

Talks

On Graph-Structured Discrete Labelling Problems in Computer Vision
@ HP Labs, June 2010.
@ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2010.
@ TTI-Chicago Colloquium, May 2010.
@ Georgia Tech, May 2010.
@ University of Texas-Autin CS Colloquium, May 2010.
@ CSAIL, MIT, Apr 2010.
@ University of Georgia, CS Colloquim, Aprl 2010.



Beyond Trees: MRF Inference via Outer-Planar Decomposition
@ CMU VASC Seminar, Mar 2010.
@ TTI-Chicago Colloquium, Dec 2009.
@ Illinois Vision Meet, Dec 2009.
@ Microsoft Research Redmond, Dec 2009.
[ webpage ]

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Technical Reports:

Dhruv Batra, Rahul Sukthankar, Tsuhan Chen.
Learning Class-Specific Affinities for Image Labelling.
Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report: AMP08-01.
[ pdf | project page | amp tech reports ]

Unpublished:

Dhiraj Goel, Dhruv Batra.
Predicting User Preference for Movies using Netflix Database.
[ pdf | project page ]

Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra.
CRFs for Image Classification.
[ pdf | project page ]

Dhruv Batra, Gunhee Kim, Alyosha Efros (Team: AP06_Batra).
The Pascal Visual Object Classes Challenge 2006 (VOC2006) Results.
[ pdf | project page | challenge homepage | online results ]