Dr. Lokender Tiwari, Ph.D.
I am a Research Scientist, I lead Visual Computing Group @ TCS Research, IIT-Delhi R&I Park. Prior to joining TCS Research, I worked at NEC Laboratories America, with Prof. Manmohan Chandraker, Dr. Quoc-Huy Tran, and Dr. Pan Ji on self-improving framework for SLAM. I received my PhD from IIIT-Delhi, with the Doctoral Dissertation Award. I was advised by Dr. Saket Anand and funded by prestegious Visvesvarya PhD fellowship. I am the recipient of Chancellor’s Gold Medal for academic excellence in B.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) 2008-2012.
- email : lokender [dot] tiwari [@] tcs [dot] com , lokender.work [@] gmail [dot] com
- Research Interests: I actively research in the following areas
- Geometric 3D Perception and Modelling
- Neural Physics Based Simulation and Synthesis
- Differentiable Graphics and Inverse Rendering
- Generative 3D Modeling and Synthesis
- Physics-Aware AR/VR/XR
- Robust and Reliable Deep Learning
News
- [2024] Co-organized 3D Vision Summer School 2024 and taught Text-to-3D Diffusion Models at IIIT-Bangalore
- [2024] Serving Workshop Co-Chair for the Connected Vehicles and Autonomous Driving Workshop at COMSNETS, 2024
- [2023] One US Patent on 3D Garment Draping on 3D Human Body has been granted .
- [2023] One paper accepted to CVPR, 2023, Deep Learning for Geometric Computing (Oral)
- [2022] One US Patent on Pseudo-RGBD SLAM and Depth Prediction has been granted .
- [2022] One paper accepted to IEEE WACV, 2023
- [2022] Serving Programm Committee Member for the AAAI, 2023
- [2022] One paper accepted to IEEE WACV, 2022
- [2021] 3D Virtual Garment Try-on (DeepDraper) accepted in the ICCV, 2021 Workshop
- [2021] Keynote talk on Robust Scene Understanding at the BITCON, 2021
- [2020] Self-improving SLAM and Depth Predictions accepted in ECCV 2020
- [2020] REGroup. A test time replacement of Softmax for robust predictions, Project Page
Invited Talks/Keynotes
- [May, 2024] Invited talk on Unboxing Deep Neural Networks using Information Theory at VIT- Vellore
- [Dec, 2023] Invited Guest Judge for the Project Showcase Event at Bennett University
- [Jan, 2023] Invited talk on Robust Scene Understanding at 43rd Kaggle Days Meetup Delhi-NCR
- [Nov, 2022] Invited talk on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Classical to Leaning Based) at IIT-Delhi hosted by Prof. Chetan Arora
- [Oct, 2022] Invited talk on Metaverse: Current and The Future, a Visual Computing Perspective at Sushant University
- [Oct, 2021] Keynote talk on Scene Understanding at BITCON 2021, BITS Durg
Awards
- Received Young Scientist Research Award, 2023.
- Received Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2021
- IEEE WACV 2018 Ph.D. Forum Award. Mentor: Prof. Terrance Boult
- Best Doctoral Symposium Award (3rd), ICVGIP'2016
- 2nd Prize, Poster Session, Research Showcase 2017 @ IIIT-Delhi
- IEEE Signal Processing Society, Travel Award to attend IEEE ICIP 2016
- Visvesvarya Ph.D. Fellowship award, Jul 2014- Dec 2019
- MHRD Graduate Fellowship, GATE (Top 4% in India), Jul 2012- Jun 2014
- Chancellor's Gold Medal for academic excellence in undergraduate B.Tech CSE., 2008-2012
Mentoring
- Thesis Mentoring
- Suraj Patni (MS Research AI) at IIT-Delhi with Prof. Chetan Arora
- now AI/ML engineer at Qualcomm
- Karan Tanwar (B.Tech and M.Tech CSE Dual Degree) at IIT-Delhi with Prof. Chetan Arora
- now SDE at Amazon
- Anish Madan (B.Tech CSAM) at IIIT-Delhi with Dr. Saket Anand
- now Research Fellow at Wadhwani AI
Professional Services (Programm Commitee Member and Reviewer)
- CVPR, ICCV, ICML, ICLR, WACV, ICME, AAAI-2023, COMSNETS-2023, CVIU, TCSVT, Elsevier Pattern Recognition, IEEE Access, IEEE Sensors