PhD. Student

ECE Department
Carnegie Mellon


My AMP Website:
http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/people/Dhruv/


Email:
batradhruv@domain.edu
(where 'domain' = 'cmu')


Office (Cornell): 112 Ward Lab
Office (CMU): HH D-Level C-7


Mailing Address:
HH 1111, Department of ECE,
Carnegie Mellon University,
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh,
PA 15213-3890

About Me

Update:

Starting Spring 2009 I am a visiting student at Cornell University following my advisor's new appointment.


I am a 3rd year PhD student in the ECE department at Carnegie Mellon University. I'm supervised by Tsuhan Chen and am a member of his Advanced Multimedia Processing Lab. In past, I have collaborated with Jiebo Luo (Kodak Research Lab) and Rahul Sukthankar (Intel Research Pittsburgh).

My research interests are computer vision and machine learning; more specifically, learning and inference in CRFs. I am also interested in applications of combinatorial optimization algorithms to learning and vision tasks.

In Fall 2008 I was the teaching assistant for 10-708 Probabilistic Graphical Models, taught by Carlos Guestrin.

I received my master's degree from CMU in 2006, during which I worked with Martial Hebert from the Robotics Institute. Before joining CMU, I earned a B.Tech from the Institute of Technology, Benaras Hindu University. As an undergrad, I spent a summer working with Santanu Chaudhury, in the Multimedia Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Select Publications (All Publications)

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.
Internartional Conference on Image Processing 2009 (ICIP '09).
[ pdf ]

Personal Notes:

Kodak Momemt?

With professional photographers and "colour technicians" on their payroll, Kodak ensures that all employees get that perfect picture (like the one above). Thank you Kodak!

Aknowledgement (for this website):

They say that imitation is the best form of flattery. I'm hoping Andrew Stein agrees. Candid admission: a large number of design choices for this website were, ahem, inspired by his webpage.