ICDAR 2024 RDTAG

Soumya Shamarao Jahagirdar is a Master’s by Research student at CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad. She completed her Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at KLE Technological University, Hubballi, India (2017-2021). She works on multi-modal learning, specifically vision and language problems.

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).

Yuheng (Carl) Ren , is currently a Director of Research Engineering in Reality Labs Research at Meta, previously known as Facebook Reality Labs. Before joining Meta, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Fyusion, Inc., a San Francisco-based startup company specializing in spatial photography. Prior to his time at Fyusion, Ren worked as a Postdoc research fellow in the Oxford Torr Vision Group with Professor Phil Torr. He completed his DPhil (equivalent to a Ph.D.) in the Active Vision Group at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Ian Reid and Professor David Murray. Ren’s academic journey began at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China, where he received a BSc in Computer Science.

Omkar M Parkhi is currently a Research Scientist in Reality Labs Research at Meta, previously known as Facebook Reality Labs before joining Meta, he worked as a Research Scientist at Zoox, Inc., a San Francisco based startup company working on self driving technology. Prior to his time at Zoox, Omkar worked as a Postdoc research fellow in Visual Geometry Group (VGG) with Prof. Andrew Zisserman. He completed his DPhil (equivalent to a Ph.D.) in the same lab under the supervision of Professor Andrew Zisserman and Professor Andrea Vedaldi. Before joining VGG, Omkar completed his Master’s in Computer Science from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India under the supervision of Prof C V Jawahar and Prof Andrew Zisserman.

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.