Lab for Video and Image Analysis – LFOVIA

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Welcome to the LFOVIA group page at IIT Hyderabad. We work on a variety of interesting problems in the area of image and video quality assessment, multimedia communication, and biomedical imaging.

Recent News

(19.10.2026) Recent PhD graduate Dr. Athira Krishnan receives Assistant Professor offer from IIIT Dharwad. Congratulations to Dr. Athira!
(06.10.2026) PhD scholar Athira successfully defended her thesis. Athira's next stop is at TCS R & I. Congratulations to Dr. Athira!
(06.10.2026) PhD scholar Athira's work on embodiment-agnostic navigation accepted to WiML Workshop at NeurIPS 2026. Congratulations to Athira!
(14.09.2026) Alumni update: Dr. Manasa K, the first PhD graduate from LFOVIA is now with eBay. Congrats to Dr. Manasa!
(14.09.2026) Alumni update: Dr. Parimala Kancharla is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT Mandi. Hearty congratulations to Dr. Parimala!
(14.09.2026) Alumni update: Dr. Parimala Kancharla and her student Satish Maurya are recipients of the Best Paper Award at SPCOM 2026. Hearty congratulations to Dr. Parimala and Satish!
(31.08.2026) PhD scholar Anuradha Uggi successfully defended her thesis today. Anuradha is headed to Qualcomm. Congratulations to Dr. Anuradha!
(24.08.2026) Alumni update: LFOVIA alum Dr. Appina Balasubramanyam has been promoted to Associate Professor at IIT Indore. This is a proud moment for LFOVIA.
(17.08.2026) Anuradha's work on test-time efficient representation learning for visual place recognition accepted to Signal Processing: Image Communication. Congratulations to Anuradha.
(31.07.2026) Anuradha's work on a new representation learning approach for visual place recognition accepted to TMLR. Congrats to Anuradha!
(22.07.2026) Ambarish's work on hybrid (Mamba + Attention) encoder design for multimodal tasks accepted to Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. Congratulations to Ambarish!
(11.07.2026) Collaborative work with Prof. Rajkumara Eerappa's group accepted to Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics. Congrats to Chinmay and Saniya!

Funding

We are grateful to the following funding agencies and corporations for supporting our current and past work: DRDO, Grand Challenges Canada, Honeywell, Intel, Invecas, LVPEI, MathWorks, MHRD, Qualcomm, Reliance Foundation Scholarships, TCS.