Dr. Lokender Tiwari, Ph.D.

I am a Research Scientist, I lead Visual Computing Group @ TCS Research. 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

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News

• [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

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Invited Talks/Keynotes

• [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

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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

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Mentoring

• Thesis Mentoring
• Suraj Patni (MS Research AI) at IIT-Delhi with Prof. Chetan Arora
• 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

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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