Dhruv Batra's Homepage

Dhruv Batra
Research Assistant Professor
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)

Email:
username -at- domain.edu
(where username = dbatra
domain = ttic)

Office: Room 417
Phone: 773-834-2622

Mailing Address:
6045 S. Kenwood Ave
Chicago IL 60637

News:

09/2011: I co-organized the NIPS 2011 Workshop on Supervised Similarity Learning, with Greg Shakhnarovich, Brian Kulis and Kilian Weinberger.

03/2011: From March-May this year, I am a Visiting Scientist at CSAIL, MIT, collaborating with Bill Freeman.

03/2011: iCoseg among top downloaded articles from IJCV in the last 30 days.
[ Springer Page | Preprint pdf | Project Page ]

About Me

I am a Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located in the campus of University of Chicago.

I recieved my Ph.D. in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was supervised by Tsuhan Chen. From spring 2009 till summer 2010, I was a visiting student at Cornell University following my advisor's move.

My research interests include machine learning and computer vision -- MAP inference in MRFs, max-margin methods, co-segmentation in multiple images, and interactive 3D modelling. I am also interested in applications of combinatorial optimization algorithms to learning and vision tasks.

In past, I have held visiting positions at:

• CSAIL, MIT, Spring 2011, Visiting Scientist collaborating with Bill Freeman
• Microsoft Research Lab Cambridge, Summer 2010, Research Intern with Sebastian Nowzin and Pushmeet Kohli
• Kodak Research Lab, Summer 2008, Research Intern with Jiebo Luo
• Intel Research Pittsburgh, Summer 2007, Research Intern with Rahul Sukthankar
• Intel Research Pittsburgh, Summer 2006, Research Intern with Bart Nabbe

I received my master's degree from CMU in 2006, during which I worked with Martial Hebert from the Robotics Institute.

Students Supervised

Graduate Interns and Collaborators

• Abner Guzman Rivera, Ph.D. Advisor: Rob Rutenbar, UIUC
  
• Payman Yadollahpour, Ph.D. Advisor: Greg Shakhnarovich, TTIC
  
• Daozheng Chen, Fall 2011, Ph.D. Advisor: David Jacobs, University of Maryland
  
• Kun Duan, Summer 2011, Ph.D. Advisor: David Crandall, Indiana University

Masters Project Supervised

• Jason Lew, Cornell University
  
• Andrew Mui, Cornell University

Undergraduate Interns

• Tanmay Verma, IIIT-Delhi
  
• Charvi Puri, IIIT-Delhi
  

Select Publications (All Publications)

NEW Payman Yadollahpour, Dhruv Batra, Greg Shakhnarovich.
M-Best Modes: Diverse M-Best Solutions in MRFs.
Workshop on Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning,
Neural Information Processing Systems 2011 (NIPS '11).
[ pdf ]

NEW Daozheng Chen, Dhruv Batra, Bill Freeman, Micah K. Johnson.
Group Norm for Learning Latent Structural SVMs..
Workshop on Optimization in Machine Learning,
Neural Information Processing Systems 2011 (NIPS '11).
[ pdf ]

NEW Dhruv Batra, Greg Shakhnarovich.
Similarity Sensitive Nonlinear Embeddings.
Workshop on Kernels and Distances for Computer Vision,
International Conference on Computer Vision 2011 (ICCV '11).
[ pdf ]

NEW Dhruv Batra, Adarsh Kowdle, Devi Parikh, Jiebo Luo, Tsuhan Chen.
Interactive Co-segmentation of Objects in Image Collections.
SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, 2011.
[ Springer Page | project page ]
Mini-Book.
[I recommend reading the IJCV '11 preprint since Amazon charges $32 for this version.]

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

NEW 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 ]

NEW 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 ]

NEW 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 ]

NEW 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.

NEW 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 ]