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

  • (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!

  • (10.06.2026) Athira's work on state-space models for pixel-guided embodied navigation accepted to TMLR. Congratulations to Athira!

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.