Makarand Tapaswi
Hi! I am a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Wadhwani AI, a non-profit on using AI for Social Good, and an Assistant Professor at the Computer Vision group at IIIT Hyderabad, India.
At Wadhwani AI, we are developing AI solutions that create social impact. In particular, I work on several projects in education and MNCH (maternal, newborn, and child health).
At IIIT, I continue to work on projects at the intersection of video and language understanding, especially related to analyzing stories.
news [archives]
| Oct 2024 | Our paper on predicting a video’s memorability and exploration of where humans and models look while predicting memorability of a video is accepted to WACV 2025! arXiv This is our first collaboration with Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar’s cognitive science group that does interesting work on memory! |
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| Sep 2024 | Our paper on Major Entity Identification is accepted to EMNLP 2024! arXiv. |
| Sep 2024 | Happy to be serving as Area Chair for CVPR 2025! |
| Jun 2024 | Visiting Seattle for CVPR. Giving a talk at the workshop on What is Next in Video Understanding?, slides here. Also visiting Allen AI and happy to talk about our lab’s work at Apple and Amazon Prime Video. |
| Jun 2024 | Proud advisor moment. Haran was featured in RSIP vision’s CVPR Daily Friday edition magazine as an undergrad presenting a paper at CVPR! Congratulations Haran!! We have great students at IIIT Hyderabad and it is a pleasure to walk them through their first research experience! |
| Jun 2024 | Our work at Wadhwani AI on Newborn Anthropometry has received the best paper award at the CVPR workshop Computer Vision for Physiological Measurement. arXiv |
| Jun 2024 | Visited Bengaluru, happy to talk about our lab’s work at Adobe Research, Google DeepMind India, and CDS, IISc. Was super cool to meet folks at Sensara.tv and see their lovely work on video understanding in one platform! |
| Apr 2024 | Congrats to Aditya and Dhruv for successfully defending their theses and completing their MS by Research! Very proud to have them as my first (single-advisor) MS students. They not only have papers at CVPR, but have been instrumental in setting a fantastic lab culture! |
| Apr 2024 | Thank you Adobe Research for extending the research gift for 2024! |
| Feb 2024 | Two papers accepted to CVPR 2024! The first is on using recaps to predict TV episode story summaries arXiv, and the second is on identity-aware video captioning arXiv. |