Nikhil Akalwadi

I am Junior Research Fellow and Scholar at KLETech Center of Excellence in Visual Intelligence (CEVI) advised by Prof. Uma Mudenagudi and Ramesh Ashok Tabib where I work on 3D Human Modeling, Human Avatar Animation and Generation, Volumetric Capture. I also work on computer vision algorithms in areas like Low-Level Vision Systems, Underwater Image Restoration and Enhancement.

I completed my Bachelors in Electronics and Communication from KLE Technological University, Hubballi. I majorly worked on Low-Level Vision Systems and published in the area, advised by Prof Uma Mudenagudi, Prof. Ujwala Patil and Ramesh Ashok Tabib.

Primary Research Areas

My primary research areas include Volumetric Capture Systems, 3D Human Modeling, 3D Human Avatar Animation towards Game Asset Generation, Computer Vision (Underwater Image Restoration and Enhancement, Low-Level Vision, Multispectral Image Analysis).

Recent Updates !!!

• Oct 2024: Thrilled to announce that I will be part of the Program Committee for 2024 IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics (ICEI24).
• Sept 2024: Delighted to announce that we at KLETech CEVI STAR Lab are hosting Marine Vision Restoration Challenge at Maritime Computer Vision Initiative (MaCVi), WACV 2025. I will be actively participating in the challenge as a member of Program Committee.
• July 2024: Happy to announce, that I will be attending the 9th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG) 2024, at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Would be glad to meet you there!
• June 2024: Our work on Image Denoising titled "HNN: Hierarchical Noise-Deinterlace Net Towards Image Denoising" is now Published in the CVF Repository. (View publication here)
• May 2024: KLETech Center of Excellence in Visual Intelligence is Co-Organizing the 3D Vision Summer School @ IIIT Bangalore . I will be part of Volunteering Team for this event!!
• April 2024: arXiv Pre-Print Published titled NTIRE 2024 challenge on low light image enhancement: Methods and results @ NTIRE Challenges, CVPR 2024 (View Publication here)
• April 2024: arXiv Pre-Print Published titled The Ninth NTIRE 2024 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Report @ NTIRE Challenges, CVPR 2024 (View Publication here)
• April 2024: arXiv Pre-Print Published titled NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (4): Methods and Results @ NTIRE Challenges, CVPR 2024 (View Publication here)
• April 2024: Our work on Image denoising got Accepted in PBVS Workshop @ CVPR 2024 with paper title HNN: Hierarchical Noise-Deinterlace Net Towards Image Denoising.
• April 2024: Our work on Low-Light Image Enhancement got Accepted in as Poster @ WiCV Workshop, CVPR 2024 with paper title ViD: Vision in Dark.

Peer Review Activity

• IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics 2024
• Advances in Image Manipulation workshop and challenges (AIMWC) @ ECCV 2024
• AI for Visual Arts Workshop and Challenges (AI4VA) @ ECCV 2024
• Out Of Distribution Generalization in Computer Vision Workshop (OOD-CV) @ ECCV 2024
• Geometry-grounded Representation Learning and Generative Modeling Workshop @ ICML 2024
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2024
• Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) @ CVPR 2024
• Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) @ CVPR 2023
• Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) @ ICCV 2023

Publications

HNN: Hierarchical Noise-Deinterlace Net Towards Image Denoising
Amogh Joshi, Nikhil Akalwadi, Chinmayee Mandi, Chaitra Desai, Ramesh Ashok Tabib, Ujwala Patil, Uma Mudenagudi
The 20th Workshop on Perception Beyond Visible Spectrum (PBVS), CVPRW 2024 .
Project Page / Poster PDF / BibTex

ViD: Vision in Dark
Sampada Malagi, Amogh Joshi, Nikhil Akalwadi, Chaitra Desai, Ramesh Ashok Tabib, Ujwala Patil, Uma Mudenagudi
Women in Computer Vision (WiCV), CVPRW 2024 .
Poster PDF

LightNet: Generative Model for Enhancement of Low-Light Images
Chaitra Desai, Nikhil Akalwadi, Amogh Joshi, Sampada Malagi, Chinmayee Mandi, Ramesh Ashok Tabib, Ujwala Patil, Uma Mudenagudi
Women in Computer Vision (WiCV), ICCVW 2023 (Oral).
Project Page / Poster PDF / BibTex

MIPI 2023 Challenge on Nighttime Flare Removal: Methods and Results
..., Nikhil Akalwadi, Ankit Raichur, Vinod Patil, Allabakash G, Swaroop A, Amogh Joshi, Chaitra Desai, Ramesh Ashok Tabib, Ujwala Patil, Uma Mudenagudi, ...
Mobile Intelligent Photography & Imaging (MIPI), CVPR 2023.
Project Page / arXiv / BibTex

DeFlare-Net: Flare Detection and Removal Network
Allabakash Ghodesawar, Vinod Patil, Ankit Raichur, Swaroop Adrashyappanamath, Sampada Malagi, Nikhil Akalwadi, Chaitra Desai, Ramesh Ashok Tabib, Ujwala Patil & Uma Mudenagudi
Pattern Recognition and Marchine Intelligence PReMI 2023 (Oral)
Project Page / Video / BibTex

NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering
..., Chaitra Desai, Nikhil Akalwadi, Amogh Joshi, Chinmayee Mandi, Sampada Malagi, Akash Uppin, Sai Sudheer Reddy, Ramesh Ashok Tabib, Ujwala Patil, Uma Mudenagudi
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE), CVPR 2022
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