ICDAR 2024 HWD

Ajoy Mondal is a post-doctoral fellow at CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad, India. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India 2018. He published more than 47 articles in the reputed journals and conferences. His research interests include document image processing,deep learning, machine learning, computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing. He has served as a viewer for several journals (e.g., IEEE Trans. on PAMI, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Applied Soft Computing) and previous conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, WACV, ICDAR, ICFHR, ICVGIP).

Vijay Mahadevan is Senior Manager of Applied Science at AWS AI Labs where he leads a team of scientists building the industry leading document understanding service Amazon Textract. Vijay and his team develop approaches based on deep learning and computer vision for OCR, table recognition, document question answering and other document understanding tasks. His research interests lie in document rectification, semi-supervised and self-supervised training of document understanding models, and large multimodal transformer based models for information extraction from documents. Vijay received his PhD from UC San Diego, and has held research positions at Qualcomm, Yahoo Labs and Uber.

R. Manmatha joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMASS in 1997 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, was a Research Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2006 and a a Research Associate Professor from 2006 to 2016 and an adjunct Professor since 2016. He co-founded SnapTell (a mobile image search company) in 2006 which was acquired by Amazon in 2009. Since 2013 he is a Principal Scientist with A9/Amazon.

Prof. C V Jawahar, IIIT, Hyderabad is Amazon Chair Professor at IIIT Hyderabad, and leads a research group that focuses on computer vision, machine learning and intelligent systems. Prior to joining IIIT Hyderabad, he has worked with the Center for AI and Robotics. His primary interest is a set of problems that overlap with vision, language, text and retrieval. In the past, he has served as achair for many national and international conferences such as program chair for ACCV, ICDAR, ICVGIP and WACV; Area chair for CVPR, ICCV, IJCAI, ACCV, AAAI; Workshop/Tutorial chairs for ACCV, ICVGIP, NCVPRIPG etc. He is an area editor of CVIU and an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on PAMI.