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

  • (31.08.2026) PhD scholar Anuradha Uggi successfully defended her thesis today. Anuradha is headed to Qualcomm. Congratulations to Dr. Anuradha!

  • (24.08.2026) Career 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!

  • (09.06.2026) Dr. Suresh Kumar Amalapuram's work on semi-supevised continual malware detection accepted to ACM Transactions on AI Security and Privacy. Congrats to Dr. Suresh!

  • (29.05.2026) Four papers accepted to SPCOM 2026. Congratulations to all the student and project engineer co-authors – Athira, Ambarish, Ankit, Rahul, Rithika, Sucharitha, Aman, Jay!

  • (06.05.2026) Career update: LFOVIA alum Dr. Sathya Veera Reddy Dendi recently started as a Senior Staff Engineer at NXP.

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.