Sourav Garg

Assistant Professor

IIIT Hyderabad, India

Biography

My research spans robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. I have a keen interest and extensive experience in place recognition, localization, navigation, retrieval, and scene understanding.

If you are looking for internship/phd/postdoc positions or are interested in a collaboration, get in touch at <firstname.lastname>@iiit.ac.in

[2026] Assistant Prof at Robotics Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad, India.
[2023-25] Research Fellow [robot navigation] at AIML, Uni. Adelaide.
[2020-23] Research Fellow [localisation] at QCR, QUT.
[2016-19] PhD [place recognition & retrieval] at ACRV, QUT.
[2012-15] Robotics researcher [object detection & tracking] at TCS Research.

News

Feb 2025: 2x papers TANGO & Change Detection accepted to ICRA 2025.
Jan 2025: Invited speaker at RSS 2025 Workshop on Learned Robot Representations.
Dec 2024: Invited to serve as an Area Chair for ICCV 2025
Nov 2024: Paper To Ask or Not to Ask? accepted to WACV 2024.
Oct 2024: Invited Talk and Robot Demo at the Science Showcase 2024 organized by the Royal Society of South Australia and The Adelaide Club.
Oct 2024: Invited to chair 3x oral sessions on Semantic Scene Understanding at IROS 2024.
Sep 2024: Invited to serve as an Area Chair for CVPR 2025 ^{[Worldwide #1 Vision Conference, h5-index 440]}
Jul 2024: 2x Papers Revisit Anything and VLAD-BuFF accepted to ECCV 2024 ^{[Worldwide #2 Vision Conference, h5-index 238]}
Jun 2024: 2x Papers DiffPrompter and QuestMaps accepted to IROS 2024.
May 2024: Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer (Top 2% of 9872) ^{[Twitter post]} for CVPR 2024 ^{[Worldwide #1 Vision Conference, h5-index 422]}
Apr 2024: Invited to Chair 3 oral sessions (Localization/Navigation) at ICRA 2024 (Japan).
Apr 2024: New joint work QuestMaps accepted to CVPR 2024 Workshop OpenSun3D
Feb 2024: We won the 14th ITS Australia Excellence in Research and Development Award for industry research funded by Ford Motor Co.
Jan 2024: 3x Papers (RoboHop, AnyLoc, VPR Tutorial) accepted to ICRA 2024 ^{[Worldwide #1 Robotics Conference, h5-index 119]}
Jan 2024: Invited to serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2024 ^{[Worldwide #2 Robotics Conference, h5-index 78]}
Dec 2023: Journal article AnyLoc accepted to IEEE RA-L ^{[Worldwide #1 Robotics Journal, h5-index 106, Impact Factor: 5.2]}
Nov 2023: Invited to serve as an Area Chair for ECCV 2024 ^{[Worldwide #2 Vision Conference, h5-index 238]}
Oct 2023: Workshop paper RoboHop accepted to CoRL 2023 Workshop LEAP as Oral ^{[only 4 out of 26]}
Oct 2023: Organized a Workshop on Localization at IROS 2023 ^{[Worldwide #2 Robotics Conference, h5-index 78]}
Sep 2023: Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer ^{[Twitter post]} for ICCV 2023 ^{[Worldwide #3 Vision Conference, h5-index 228]}
Aug 2023: Conference paper SayPlan accepted to CoRL 2023 as Oral^{[6.6% accept rate (33 of 498)]}
Jun 2023: 2x Conference papers with Industry partner (Ford Motor Co.) accepted to IROS 2023 ^{[Worldwide #2 Robotics Conference, h5-index 78]}
May 2023: Journal paper VPR Tutorial accepted to IEEE RAM
Mar 2023: Conference paper DecDTW accepted to ICLR 2023 ^{[Worldwide #2 AI Conference, h5-index 303]}
Feb 2023: US Patent filed by Industry partner (Ford Motor Co.)
Jan 2023: Conference paper GDIP accepted to ICRA 2023 ^{[Worldwide #1 Robotics Conference, h5-index 119]}
Sep 2021: Conference paper SeqMatchNet accepted to CoRL 2021 as Oral^{[6.5% accept rate (26 of 400)]}
Jul 2021: Journal article HeapUtil accepted to IEEE RA-L^{[#1 Robotics Journal, IF:3.74]} and presented at IROS 2021
Jun 2021: Conference paper CIConv accepted to ICCV 2021
May 2021: Conference paper Where is your place? accepted to IJCAI Survey Track 2021
Apr 2021: Workshop paper SeqNetVLAD vs PointNetVLAD accepted to CVPR 3DVR Workshop
Mar 2021: Conference paper Patch-NetVLAD accepted to CVPR 2021^{[#1 AI Conf., #4 Overall]}
Feb 2021: Journal article SeqNet accepted to IEEE RA-L^{[#1 Robotics Journal, IF:3.74]} and presented at ICRA 2021^{[#1 Robotics Conf.]}

Recent Publications

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RoboHop: Segment-based Topological Map Representation for Open-World Visual Navigation

Sourav Garg, Krishan Rana, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Lachlan Mares, Niko Suenderhauf, Feras Dayoub, Ian Reid

Sayplan: Grounding large language models using 3d scene graphs for scalable robot task planning

Krishan Rana, Jesse Haviland, Sourav Garg, Jad Abou-Chakra, Ian Reid, Niko Suenderhauf

Vehicle localization

Ming Xu, Sourav Garg, Michael Milford, Punarjay Chakravarty, Shubham Shrivastava

Anyloc: Towards universal visual place recognition

Nikhil Keetha, Avneesh Mishra, Jay Karhade, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Sebastian Scherer, Madhava Krishna, Sourav Garg

Deep Declarative Dynamic Time Warping for End-to-End Learning of Alignment Paths

Ming Xu, Sourav Garg, Michael Milford, Stephen Gould

DiffPrompter: Differentiable Implicit Visual Prompts for Semantic-Segmentation in Adverse Conditions

Sanket Kalwar, Mihir Ungarala, Shruti Jain, Aaron Monis, Krishna Reddy Konda, Sourav Garg, K Madhava Krishna

DisPlacing Objects: Improving Dynamic Vehicle Detection via Visual Place Recognition under Adverse Conditions

Stephen Hausler, Sourav Garg, Punarjay Chakravarty, Shubham Shrivastava, Ankit Vora, Michael Milford

GDIP: gated differentiable image processing for object detection in adverse conditions

Sanket Kalwar, Dhruv Patel, Aakash Aanegola, Krishna Reddy Konda, Sourav Garg, K Madhava Krishna

Hierarchical Unsupervised Topological SLAM

Ayush Sharma, Yash Mehan, Pradyumna Dasu, Sourav Garg, Madhava Krishna

Locking On: Leveraging Dynamic Vehicle-Imposed Motion Constraints to Improve Visual Localization

Stephen Hausler, Sourav Garg, Punarjay Chakravarty, Shubham Shrivastava, Ankit Vora, Michael Milford

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