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Research

My current interest is in the intersection of Signal Processing with Deep learning and Computer vision.

Students

SPAI Group's Vision: As a young citizen of India, armed with technology, knowledge and love for my nation, I realize, small aim is a crime. -- A P J Abdul Kalam, People's President AND Science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. -- John Bardeen, Nobel Prize in both 1956 and 1972.

Masters

  1. Johaan George (B-Tech, Naval Engineering, Joined - Jan 2024)

  2. Amara Datta (MSc, Mathematics and Computing, Joined - Aug 2023)
    Mid-Sem Report / Mid-Sem Slides [Chanakya Fellowship Award 2024], Incoming Senior Data Scientist, MakeMyTrip.

Interns

  1. Shamik Bhattacharjee (IIT Kharagpur, Joined - Feb 2024)

  2. Swaralipi Datta (IIT Kharagpur, Joined - Feb 2024)

  3. Anushree Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur, Joined - Feb 2024)

  4. Bibhabasu Debnath (IIT Kharagpur, Joined - Feb 2024)

Vacancies

I am actively looking for PhD and Masters (MS/MTP) students to work with me. Self motivated, Ambitious and Keen students with a research aptitude towards signal processing, image processing, computer vision, and applied mathematics are welcome to join our SPAI group. We closely follow this philosophy: please read this. If you are interested, please apply through the IIT Kharagpur PG admissions process, specifying Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence among your preferred departments/centres and listing me as a potential supervisor.

Regarding internships, I see it as an integration of classroom knowledge and theory (studied in the first few years in UG) with practical application and skills (gained doing intership). For the same reason, sorry that I may not be able to entertain first/second year UG students.

The prospective students are encouraged to visit my group for two weeks to get a good understanding about my group, our working style, and to make an optimal decision based on bilateral matching.

LoR policy: Truth be told, my letter of reccommendation does not have much value; so your depth and breadth of research should reflect your ambition!

Representative publications (For codes, please send us a mail mentioning the portion.)
Barriers to Computer Vision Applications in Pig Production Facilities
Jiangong Li, Angela R Green-Miller, Xiaodan Hu, Ana Lucic, Mahesh Mohan M. R., Ryan N Dilger, Isabella CFS Condotta, Brian Aldridge, John M Hart, Narendra Ahuja
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2022
paper

A systematic analysis of computer vision applications specific to commercial pig management.

Fast Motion Deblurring of IR Images
Nisha Varghese, Mahesh Mohan M. R., and A. N. Rajagopalan
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2022
paper

Motion deblurring for IR cameras mounted on a high steering-rate gimbal system (processed in real time).

Deep Dynamic Scene Dlurring for Unconstrained Dual-lens Cameras
Mahesh Mohan M. R., G K Nithin, and A. N. Rajagopalan
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , 2021
paper / bib

A Deep Learning approach for motion deblurring for dual-lens cameras to address incoherent views, ill-posedness, and adaptive scale.

Motion Deblurring Methodolgies: Going Beyond Conventional Cameras
Mahesh Mohan M. R.. Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. A. N. Rajagopalan
Ph.D. thesis in IIT Madras
dissertation / slides / bib

Motion deblurring for Rolling shutter cameras, Light field cameras, and Unconstrained Dual-lens cameras.

Unconstrained Motion Deblurring for Dual-lens Cameras
Mahesh Mohan M. R., Sharath Girish, and A. N. Rajagopalan
ICCV, 2019   (Oral Presentation)
paper / slides / poster / bib

Motion deblurring for dual-lens cameras possess an ill-posedness, which calls for a prior for depth-consistent deblurring.

Divide and Conquer for Full-resolution Light Field Deblurring
Mahesh Mohan M. R. and A. N. Rajagopalan
CVPR, 2018
paper/ slides / poster / bib

Full-resolution light field deblurring can be divided into independent subtasks, wherein a single task reinforces other tasks.

Occlusion-Aware Rolling Shutter Rectification of 3D Scenes
Subeesh Vasu , Mahesh Mohan M. R., and A. N. Rajagopalan
CVPR, 2018
paper / poster / bib

A method for the scenario of a fast moving camera wherein rolling shutter distortions results in intra-frame occlusions.

Going Unconstrained with Rolling Shutter Deblurring
Mahesh Mohan M. R., A. N. Rajagopalan , and Guna Seetharaman
ICCV, 2017
paper / slides / poster / bib

How can we bridge today's ubiquitous rolling shutter cameras with the well-studied conventional cameras, pertaining to motion deblurring?

Deep Decoupling of Defocus and Motion blur for Dynamic Segmentation
Abhijith Punnapurath , Yogesh Balaji , Mahesh Mohan M. R., and A. N. Rajagopalan
ECCV, 2016
paper / poster / bib

Deep Learning is used to obtain the attributes of object motion and camera motion, which is then employed for segmenting moving object(s).

Miscellaneous
Noise-aware Detail Enhancement in Scanning Electron Microscope imagery.
Mahesh Mohan M. R., A. N. Rajagopalan and Raj Kuppa,
KLA-Tencor's Neoterix, 2018   (in use at KLA-Tencor)
abstract / (rest is proprietary of KLA-T; sorry.)

A fully-automatic denoising based on a convex prior on SEM images, which eradicate (difficult to infer or possibly erroneous) noise models.

A novel method of Medical Image Denoising using Bilateral and NLM filtering.
Mahesh Mohan M. R. and Sheeba V. S.,
ICACC, 2013   (Oral Presentation)
paper / technical report / slides / bib

Wavelet thresholding (Visushrink) is extended to Contourlet transform, in order to enhance the performance of bilateral and NLM filtering.

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Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas. When the solution is simpler, God is answering -- Einstein