Karteek Alahari Postdoctoral Fellow INRIA - WILLOW / Ecole Normale Superieure 23, avenue d'Italie CS 81321 75214 Paris Cedex 13, France TEL: +33 1 39 63 51 55 FAX: +33 1 39 63 55 75 . (AT) ens.fr http://www.di.ens.fr/~alahari EDUCATION Ph.D., Computing (July 2010) "Efficient Inference and Learning for Computer Vision Labelling Problems" Adviser: Prof. Philip H. S. Torr Oxford Brookes University, UK MS by Research, Computer Science (July 2005) "Modelling and Recognition of Dynamic Events in Video" Advisers: Prof. C. V. Jawahar, Prof. P. J. Narayanan International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India B. Tech. (Honours), Computer Science and Engineering (July 2004) International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India Ranked First in class of 144 students (CGPA: 9.86/10.00) AWARDS EPSRC Studentship (December 2005 - December 2008) IPAM UCLA Grant (February 2008) GE Foundation Scholar (2004 - 2005) - One of the 73 graduate students in India to have received this scholarship awarded by The GE Foundation Carnegie Mellon University Fellowship 2004 (declined) Dean's List I of Academic Excellence (2001 - 2004) - Awarded to the top 5% of the class. I received this award since its inception until the end of my undergraduate studies for 7 consecutive semesters. PUBLICATIONS A. Mishra, K. Alahari, and C. V. Jawahar, "Scene Text Recognition using Higher Order Language Priors" Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Sept 2012 (oral) A. Mishra, K. Alahari, and C. V. Jawahar, "Top-Down and Bottom-up Cues for Scene Text Recognition" Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2012 A. Mishra, K. Alahari, and C. V. Jawahar, "An MRF Model for Binarization of Natural Scene Text" Proc. IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Sept 2011 (Oral) M. Schmidt and K. Alahari, "Generalized Fast Approximate Energy Minimization via Graph Cuts: Alpha-Expansion Beta-Shrink Moves" Proc. Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), July 2011 J. Lezama, K. Alahari, J. Sivic, and I. Laptev, "Track to the Future: Spatio-temporal Video Segmentation with Long-range Motion Cues" Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2011 Karteek Alahari "Efficient Inference and Learning for Computer Vision Labelling Problems" Ph.D. Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, Jul 2010 L. Ladicky, P. Sturgess, K. Alahari, C. Russell, and P. H. S. Torr "What, Where & How Many? Combining Object Detectors and CRFs" Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (ECCV), Sep 2010 (Oral) K. Alahari, C. Russell, and P. H. S. Torr "Efficient Piecewise Learning for Conditional Random Fields" Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2010 K. Alahari, P. Kohli, and P. H. S. Torr "Dynamic Hybrid Algorithms for MAP Inference in Discrete MRFs" IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Oct 2010 P. Sturgess, K. Alahari, L. Ladicky, and P. H. S. Torr "Combining Appearance and Structure from Motion Features for Road Scene Understanding" Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Sep 2009 K. Alahari, P. Kohli, and P. H. S. Torr "Reduce, Reuse & Recycle: Efficiently Solving Multi-Label MRFs" Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2008 S. Ramalingam, P. Kohli, K. Alahari, and P. H. S. Torr "Exact Inference in Multi-label CRFs with Higher Order Cliques" Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2008 K. Alahari and C. V. Jawahar "Dynamic Events as Mixtures of Spatial and Temporal Features" Proc. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), LNCS 4338, Dec 2006 K. Alahari and C. V. Jawahar "Discriminative Actions for Recognising Events" Proc. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), LNCS 4338, Dec 2006 K. Alahari, S. L. Putrevu, and C. V. Jawahar "Learning Mixtures of Offline and Online features for Handwritten Stroke Recognition" Proc. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Aug 2006 K. Alahari, S. L. Putrevu, and C. V. Jawahar "Discriminant Substrokes for Online Handwriting Recognition" Proc. IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Aug 2005 (Oral) K. Alahari "Modelling and Recognition of Dynamic Events in Video" MS Thesis, IIIT, Hyderabad, Jul 2005 S. S. Ravi Kiran, K. Alahari, and C. V. Jawahar "Recognizing Human Activities from Constituent Actions" Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), Feb 2005 (Oral) K. Alahari, S. Kuthirummal, C. V. Jawahar, and P. J. Narayanan "Geometric and Stochastic Error Minimisation in Motion Tracking" Proc. Sixth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Jan 2004 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Ecole Normale Superieure & INRIA - WILLOW, Paris, France Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2010 - present) - Research in Computer Vision with Ivan Laptev, Josef Sivic, Jean Ponce in the WILLOW group (ENS/INRIA/CNRS UMR 8548). - Since 2011 I co-supervise a PhD student (Anand Mishra, Microsoft Research India PhD Fellowship winner 2012) based at IIIT, Hyderabad, India. - I collaborate with postdocs, students and interns at INRIA (Visesh Chari, Florent Couzini\'e-Devy, Jos\'e Lezama, Guillaume Seguin, Jian Sun). Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK Postdoctoral Research Assistant (part-time) (Apr - Aug 2010) Research Associate (part-time) (Dec 2008 - Mar 2009) Postgraduate Student Researcher (Nov 2005 - Jul 2010) - Research in Computer Vision with Philip Torr and other student collaborators in the Brookes Vision Group. Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Research Intern (May - Aug 2004) - Research in Computer Vision with my mentor Nebojsa Jojic in the Interactive Visual Media group. IIIT, Hyderabad, India Postgraduate Student Researcher (Sep 2004 - Jul 2005) Undergraduate Student Researcher (Jul 2002 - Apr 2004) - Research in Computer Vision with P. J. Narayanan and C. V. Jawahar in the Centre for Visual Information Technology. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Ecole Normale Superieure & INRIA - WILLOW, Paris, France Guest lecturer in Jean Ponce's Computer Vision course. (Sep 2010 - Aug 2012) IIIT, Hyderabad, India Full-day tutorial on Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision. (Dec 2009) Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK Co-ordinator and presenter for reading groups. (Jan 2006 - Aug 2010) IIIT, Hyderabad, India Teaching Assistant Maths II - Discrete Mathematics (C. N. Kaul) (Spring 2004) Computer Organization (P. J. Narayanan) (Spring 2002) - In-charge of conducting lectures, labs, and marking assignments and examination scripts of over 100 students. SOFTWARES & DATASETS RELEASED All the following are available on my website. IIIT 5K-Word Dataset 2012 SVT-CHAR: Annotated Character Dataset 2012 Alpha-expansion Beta-shrink Moves for Markov Random Fields 2011 Dataset for Vision Labelling Problems 2010 Efficient Solvers for Multi-Label MRFs 2009 INVITED TALKS Scene Understanding: What more can we do with videos and text? Robotics Research Group, University of Oxford, September 2012 An Efficient Energy Minimization Framework for Scene Understanding Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), USA, June 2011 Center for Machine Perception, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2011 Scene Understanding in an Energy Minimization Framework IIIT, Hyderabad, India, December 2010 ENS/INRIA - WILLOW, Paris, France, October 2010 Oxford Vision Workshop, Oxford, UK, July 2010 Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Boston, USA, June 2010 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2010 Ecole Centrale Paris, Chatenay-Malabry, France, April 2010 Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision IIIT, Hyderabad, India, December 2009 Reduce, Reuse & Recycle ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2009 Oxford-Willow Mini Vision Workshop, Oxford, UK, April 2008 EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS Carl Henrik Ek (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) C. V. Jawahar (IIIT Hyderabad, India) Simon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA - SIERRA, France) Srikumar Ramalingam (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA) Mark Schmidt (INRIA - SIERRA, France) Philip Torr (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Students: Anand Mishra (IIIT Hyderabad, India) Paul Sturgess (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ACADEMIC SERVICE Guest Co-editor - Journal: Special Issue on ``Higher Order Graphical Models in Computer Vision: Modelling, Inference \& Learning'' in Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Fall 2014 Program Committee Member - Conferences: Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Energy Min. Methods in Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR) International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) : Reviewer Online Learning for Classification Workshop (OLCV) Reviewer - Journals: Image and Vision Computing (IVC) IPSJ Trans. Computer Vision and Applications (CVA) The Visual Computer (TVC) International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (JRTIP) OTHER SERVICE Co-organizer of ECCV Workshop Oct 2012 ECCV Workshop on Higher-Order Models and Global Constraints in Computer Vision. Organiser of group seminars Sep 2010 - present I am responsible for organising regular invited talks and reading groups at ENS / INRIA - WILLOW. Grant report writer Apr 2011 - present I write and manage the quarterly and annual grant reports for the Quaero research programme funded by the OSEO. LANGUAGES English Fluent French Advanced Programming C, C++, Matlab, Perl REFERENCES Available upon request