Research Interests:

Machine Learning

• Graphical Models
• Bayesian Methods
• Combinatorial Optimization

Computer Vision

• Image Labelling
• Interactive Segmentation

Past Projects:

Learning Class-Specific Affinities for Image Labelling


Dhruv Batra, Rahul Sukthankar, Tsuhan Chen

Keywords:
Learning non-parametric class-specific affinities, Parameter learning in CRFs, Joint segmentation and recognition of object classes, Supervised segmentation

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Space-Time Shapelets for Action Recognition


Dhruv Batra, Tsuhan Chen, Rahul Sukthankar

Keywords:
Action Recognition, Mid-level spatio-temporal features, bag-of-words

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An Alternative Formulation for the Five Point Relative Pose Problem

Dhruv Batra, Bart Nabbe, Martial Hebert

Keywords:
Epipolar matrix estimation, minimal correspondences, Quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP)

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Predicting User Preference for Movies using Netflix Database

Dhiraj Goel, Dhruv Batra

Keywords:
Using a distribution over genres as a representation of users, clustering users in genre space, Collaborative filtering


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Conditional Random Fields for Image Classification

Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra

Keywords:
CRFs, DRFs, MRSC, Loopy BP

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PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge 2006

Dhruv Batra, Gunhee Kim

Keywords:
Feature correspondence, Image classification


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Object Recognition by Geometrically Consistent Correspondences

Dhruv Batra, Gunhee Kim, Martial Hebert

Keywords:
Spectral relaxations for feature correspondences, sparse eigenvector computation, Boost Library package

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