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
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UPDATE: I have moved and will soon stop updating this page. Please visit
http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dbatra/


News:


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 computer vision and machine learning -- 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 interned at Intel Research Pittsburgh (with Rahul Sukthankar), at Kodak Research Lab (with Jiebo Luo) and at Microsoft Research Lab Cambridge (with Sebastian Nowzin and Pushmeet Kohli).

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


Select Publications (All Publications)


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 ]



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