Vinod K Kurmi
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Office Address: 311B, AB4 (Therm Building), IISER Bhopal.

Phone No.: +91 755 269 2689

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I am an assistant professor at Dept. of DSE, IISER Bhopal.

Brief Bio: Before joining IISER Bhopal, I was a post-doc research fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium, worked with Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars and CVIT Hyderabad, worked with Prof. C.V. Jawahar respectively. I was a DAAD AI Post-Doc-Net Fellow.

I obtained my Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India under the supervision of Prof. Vinay P Namboodiri and Prof. K. S. Venkatesh. I was associated with the Delta Lab and Computer Vision Lab and was a TCS-Research fellow from 2015-2020. I completed my M.Tech in 2014 from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur under the supervision of Prof. K. S. Venkatesh. I graduated in 2012 from SGSITS Indore.

Research: My research areas are related to computer vision (CV), deep learning (DL), and machine learning (ML). Some of the active areas of research include:

  • Transfer learning (Domain adaptation, Incremental learning).
  • Fairness and bias-free learning.
  • Uncertainty in deep learning (Bayesian models).
  • Data generative models (GANs, VAEs, and Diffusion models).
  • Medical image processing.
  • 3D reconstructions, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR).
  • Speech and audio analysis.
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  News
  • Invited for a discussion on "AI and our Future" at Akashvani, Bhopal .
  • 3 Papers accepted in WACV-25.
  • Invited talk on 'AI on Radiantion Oncology' at ICRO Proadvance 2024 in PGIMER Chandigarh.
  • 'HetGP- Quantifying Uncertainty through Residuals' has been accepted at CIKM-24.
  • 'CosFairNet' has been accepted at BMVC-24.
  • Our work 'Few-shot Audio Class Incremental Learning' has been accepted at Interspeech-24.
  • Patent granted [Certificate].
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      Publications
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    Strategic Base Representation Learning via Feature Augmentations for Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
    Parinita Nema, Vinod K Kurmi
    IEEE Winter Conference of Applications on Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.

    abstract | webpage | ArXiv | code | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{nema_wacv25,
    Author = {Nema, Parinita 
    and Kurmi, Vinod },
    Title = {Strategic Base Representation
    Learning via Feature Augmentations for
    Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning},
    Booktitle = {WACV},
    Year   = {2025}
    }
    
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    Uncertainty and Energy based Loss Guided Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
    Rini Thakur, Vinod K Kurmi
    IEEE Winter Conference of Applications on Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.

    abstract | webpage | ArXiv | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{thakur_wacv25,
    Author = {Thakur, Rini 
    and Kurmi, Vinod },
    Title = {Uncertainty and Energy 
    based Loss Guided Semi-Supervised
    Semantic Segmentation},
    Booktitle = {WACV},
    Year   = {2025}
    }
    
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    Label Calibration in Source Free Domain Adaptation
    Shivangi Rai, Rini Thakur, Kunal Jangid, Vinod K Kurmi
    IEEE Winter Conference of Applications on Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.

    abstract | webpage | ArXiv | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{rai_wacv25,
    Author = {Rai Shivangi, 
    and Thakur, Rini
    and Jangid, Kunal
    and Kurmi, Vinod  },
    Title = {Label Calibration in
    Source Free Domain Adaptation},
    Booktitle = {WACV},
    Year   = {2025}
    }
    
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    CosFairNet:A Parameter-Space based Approach for Bias Free Learning
    Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi, Priyadarshini Kumari, Vinod K Kurmi
    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2024.

    abstract | webpage | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{rajeevbmvc24_abs,
    Author = {Dwivedi, Rajeev R
    and Kumari, Priyadarshini
    and Kurmi, Vinod  },
    Title = {CosFairNet:A Parameter-Space based
    Approach for Bias Free Learning},
    Booktitle = {BMVC},
    Year   = {2024}
    }
    
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    Towards Robust Few-shot Class Incremental Learning in Audio Classification using Contrastive Representation
    Riyansha Singh, Parinita Nema, Vinod K Kurmi
    Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2024.

    abstract | webpage | ArXiv | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{singh_intespeech24,
    Author = {Singh Riyansha, 
    and Nema, Parinita
    and Kurmi, Vinod  },
    Title = {Towards Robust Few-shot 
    Class Incremental Learning in Audio
    Classification using Contrastive Representation},
    Booktitle = {Interspeech},
    Year   = {2024}
    }
    
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    Quantifying Uncertainty in Neural Networks through Residuals
    Dalavai Udbhav Mallanna, Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi, Rini Smita Thakur, Vinod K Kurmi
    ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024.

    abstract | webpage | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{udbhav,
    Author = {Udbhav Mallanna,Dalavai 
    and Dwivedi, Rajeev R
    and Thakur, Rini S
    and Kurmi, Vinod  },
    Title = {Quantifying Uncertainty
    in Neural Networks through Residuals},
    Booktitle = {CIKM},
    Year   = {2024}
    }
    
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    Distilling Knowledge for Occlusion Robust Monocular 3D Face Reconstruction
    H. Tiwari, Vinod K Kurmi, Venkatesh K Subramanian, Yong-Sheng Chen
    Image and Vision Computing, (IMAVIS), 2023.

    abstract | pdf | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{hitika_ivc3,
    Author = {Tiwari, Hitika
    and Kurmi, Vinod K
    and  Subramanian,
    Venkatesh K and
    Chen, Yong Sheng },
    Title = {Distilling Knowledge
    for Occlusion Robust Monocular
    3D Face Reconstruction},
    Booktitle = {InterSpeech},
    Year   = {2022}
    }
    
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    Generalized Keyword Spotting using ASR embeddings
    Kirandevraj R, Vinod K Kurmi, Vinay P Namboodiri, C V Jawahar
    Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) 2022, Incheon Korea.

    abstract | pdf | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{kiran_inter22,
    Author = {R,Kiran.
    and Kurmi, Vinod K
    and Namboodiri, Vinay P
    and Jawhar, CV},
    Title = {Generalized Keyword
    Spotting using ASR embeddings},
    Booktitle = {InterSpeech},
    Year   = {2022}
    }
    
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    Gradient Based Activations for Accurate Bias-Free Learning
    Vinod K Kurmi*, Rishabh Sharma*, Yash Vardhan Sharma*, Vinay P Namboodiri (*equal contributions)
    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI), Vancouver BC, Canada, 2022.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | code |

    @inproceedings{kurmi_aaai22,
    Author = {Kurmi,Vinod K.
    and Sharma, Rishabh and
    Sharma, Yash Vardhan and
    Namboodiri, Vinay P},
    Title = {Gradient Based
    Activations for Accurate
    Bias-Free Learning},
    Booktitle = {AAAI},
    Year   = {2022}
    }
    
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    Occlusion Resistant Network for 3D Face Reconstruction
    H. Tiwari, Vinod K Kurmi, Venkatesh K Subramanian, Yong-Sheng Chen
    IEEE Winter Conference of Applications on Computer Vision (WACV), 2022.

    pdf | abstract | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{tiwati_wacv22,
    Author = {Tiwari, H.
    and Kurmi,Vinod Kumar
    and Venkatesh, KS and
    Chen,Yong-Sheng},
    Title = {Occlusion Resistant Network
     for 3D Face Reconstruction},
    Booktitle = {WACV},
    Year   = {2022}
    }
    
    
    
    
    
    
       
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    MUMC: Minimizing Uncertainty of Mixture of Cues
    Badri N Patro, Vinod K Kurmi, Sandeep Kumar, Vinay P Namboodiri
    Image and Vision Computing,(IMAVIS), 2021.

    pdf | abstract | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{patro_ivc_2,
    Author = {Patro, Badri Narayana
    and Kumar, Sandeep and Kurmi,
    Vinod Kumar and Namboodiri, Vinay},
    Title = {MUMC: Minimizing Uncertainty
    of Mixture of Cues},
    Booktitle = {Image and Vision 
    Computing,(IMAVIS)},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Exploring Dropout Discriminator for Domain Adaptation
    Vinod K Kurmi, Venkatesh K Subramanian, Vinay P Namboodiri
    NeuroComputing(Journal-Elsevier), 2021.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | code |

    @inproceedings{kurmi2021_idda_j,
    Author = {Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and K S ,
    Venaktesh and  Namboodiri, Vinay},
    Title = {Exploring Dropout 
    Discriminator for Domain Adaptation},
    Booktitle = {Neurocomputing},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Mitigating Uncertainty of Classifier for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
    Shanu Kumar, Vinod K Kurmi, Praphul Singh, Vinay P Namboodiri
    Preprint- arXiv, 2021.

    pdf | abstract | bibtex |

    @inproceedings{shanu,
    Author = {Kumar, Shanu and
    Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and Singh,
    Praphul and Namboodiri, Vinay P},
    Title = {Mitigating Uncertainty
     of Classifier for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation},
    Booktitle = {Preprint- arXiv},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
    sym

    Prb-GAN: A Probabilistic Framework for GAN Modelling
    Blessen George, Vinod K Kurmi,Vinay P Namboodiri
    Preprint- ArXiv, 2021.

    pdf | abstract | bibtex | code |

    @inproceedings{george2021prb,
      title={Prb-GAN: A Probabilistic
      Framework for GAN Modelling},
      author={George, Blessen and 
      Kurmi, Vinod K and Namboodiri, Vinay P},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.05241},
      year={2021}
    }
    
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    Sensor-invariant Fingerprint ROI SegmentationUsing Recurrent Adversarial Learning
    Indu Joshi, Ayush Utkarsh, Riya Kothari, Vinod K Kurmi, Antitza Dantcheva, Sumantra Dutta Roy, Prem Kumar Kalra
    International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2021.

    pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv |

    @inproceedings{joshi021_1,
    Author={Joshi, Indu and Kothari, Riya
     and Utkarsh, Ayush and Kurmi, Vinod K
     and Dantcheva,Antitza and Roy,
     Sumantra Dutta and Kalra, Prem Kumar},
    Title = {Sensor-invariant Fingerprint
    ROI SegmentationUsing Recurrent 
    Adversarial Learning},
    Booktitle = {IJCNN},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Data Uncertainty Guided Noise-awarePreprocessing Of Fingerprints
    Indu Joshi, Ayush Utkarsh, Riya Kothari, Vinod K Kurmi, Antitza Dantcheva, Sumantra Dutta Roy, Prem Kumar Kalra
    International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2021.

    pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv |

    @inproceedings{joshi021_2,
    Author={Joshi, Indu and Kothari, Riya
     and Utkarsh, Ayush and Kurmi, Vinod K
     and Dantcheva,Antitza and Roy,
     Sumantra Dutta and Kalra, Prem Kumar},
    Title = {Data Uncertainty Guided 
    Noise-awarePreprocessing Of Fingerprints},
    Booktitle = {IJCNN},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Informative Discriminator for Domain Adaptation
    Vinod K Kurmi, Venkatesh K Subramanian, Vinay P Namboodiri
    Image and Vision Computing,(IMAVIS), 2021.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | code |

    @inproceedings{kurmi2021_idda_j,
    Author = {Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and K S ,
    Venaktesh and  Namboodiri, Vinay},
    Title = {Informative Discriminator
     for Domain Adaptation},
    Booktitle = {Image and Vision Computing,(IMAVIS)},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Collaborative Learning to Generate Audio-Video Jointly
    Vinod K Kurmi, Vipul Bajaj, Badri N. Patro, Venkatesh K Subramanian, Vinay P. Namboodiri, Preethi Jyothi
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.(ICASSP), 2021.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | code |

    @inproceedings{kurmi2021_avg,
    Author = {Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and Bajaj, Vipul and Patro, Badri N and K S ,
    Venaktesh and  Namboodiri, Vinay and Jyothi, Preethi},
    Title = {Collaborative Learning to Generate Audio-Video Jointly},
    Booktitle = {ICASSP},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Domain Impression: A Source Data Free Domain Adaptation Method
    Vinod K Kurmi, Venkatesh K Subramanian, Vinay P Namboodiri
    IEEE Winter Conference of Applications on Computer Vision (WACV), 2021.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | code |

    @inproceedings{kurmi2021_sfda,
    Author = {Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and K S ,
    Venaktesh and  Namboodiri, Vinay},
    Title = {Domain Impression: A Source Data Free
    Domain Adaptation Method},
    Booktitle = {WACV},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Do not Forget to Attend to Uncertainty while Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting
    Vinod K Kurmi, Badri Narayana Patro, Venkatesh K Subramanian, Vinay P Namboodiri
    IEEE Winter Conference of Applications on Computer Vision (WACV), 2021.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | code |

    @inproceedings{kurmi2021_incre,
    Author = {Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and Patro, Badri Narayana
    and K S , Venaktesh and  Namboodiri, Vinay},
    Title = {Do not Forget to Attend to Uncertainty while
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting},
    Booktitle = {WACV},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Explainable Fingerprint ROI Segmentation Using Monte Carlo Dropout
    Indu Joshi, Ayush Utkarsh, Riya Kothari, Vinod K Kurmi, Antitza Dantcheva, Sumantra Dutta Roy, Prem Kumar Kalra
    IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW), 2021.

    pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv |

    @inproceedings{joshi021_w,
    Author={Joshi, Indu and Kothari, Riya
     and Utkarsh, Ayush and Kurmi, Vinod K
     and Dantcheva,Antitza and Roy,
     Sumantra Dutta and Kalra, Prem Kumar},
    Title = {Explainable Fingerprint ROI Segmentation
     Using Monte Carlo Dropout},
    Booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications
    of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW)},
    Year   = {2021}
    }
    
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    Revisiting Paraphrase Question Generator using Pairwise Discriminator
    Badri N Patro, Dev Chauhan, Vinod K Kurmi, Vinay P Namboodiri
    Neurocomputing , 2020

    pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | code

    @inproceedings{patro2020Bayesian,
    title={Revisiting Paraphrase Question Generator
    using Pairwise Discriminator},
    author={Patro, Badri Narayana and Chauhan, Dev
    and Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and Namboodiri, Vinay},
    booktitle={Neurocomputing},
    year   = {2020}
    
    
    
    }
    
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    Deep Bayesian Network for Visual Question Generation
    Badri N Patro, Vinod K Kurmi, Sandeep Kumar, Vinay P Namboodiri
    IEEE Winter Conference of Applications on Computer Vision (WACV), 2020
    .

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | code

    @inproceedings{patro2020Bayesian,
      title={Deep Bayesian Network for Visual Question Generation},
      author={Patro, Badri Narayana and Kumar, Sandeep
      and Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and Namboodiri, Vinay},
      booktitle={IEEE Winter Conference of Applications
      on Computer Vision (WACV)},
      year   = {2020}
    }
    
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    Curriculum based Dropout Discriminator for Domain Adaptation
    Vinod K Kurmi, Vipul Bajaj, Venkatesh K Subramanian, Vinay P Namboodiri
    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) , 2019

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | code

    @article{kurmi2019curriculum,
    title={Curriculum based Dropout Discriminator for Domain Adaptation},
    author={Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and Bajaj, Vipul
    and Subramanian, Venkatesh K and Namboodiri, Vinay P},
    journal={BMVC},
    year={2019} }
    
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    Looking back at Labels: A Class based Domain Adaptation Technique
    Vinod K Kurmi, Vinay P Namboodiri
    International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2019. (Oral presentation)

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | ppt | code

    @InProceedings{kurmi2019looking,
    author = {Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and
    Namboodiri, Vinay P},
    title = {Looking back at Labels:
    A Class based Domain Adaptation
    Technique},
    booktitle = {International Joint
    Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) },
    month = {July},
    year = {2019}
    }
    
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    Attending to Discriminative Certainty for Domain Adaptation
    Vinod K Kurmi*, Shanu Kumar*, Vinay P. Namboodiri (*equal contributions)
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2019.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | poster| code| supplementary code

    @InProceedings{Kurmi_2019_CVPR,
    author = {Kumar Kurmi, Vinod and Kumar, Shanu
    and Namboodiri, Vinay P.},
    title = {Attending to Discriminative Certainty
    for Domain Adaptation},
    booktitle = {IEEE Computer Society Conference
    on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR),},
    month = {June},
    year = {2019}
    }
    
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    Multimodal Differential Network for Visual Question Generation
    Badri N Patro, Sandeep Kumar, Vinod K Kurmi, Vinay P Namboodiri
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2018.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | code

    @inproceedings{patro2018multimodal,
      title={Multimodal Differential Network
      for Visual Question Generation},
      author={Patro, Badri Narayana and Kumar,
      Sandeep and Kurmi, Vinod Kumar and Namboodiri, Vinay},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 Conference
      on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
      pages={4002--4012},
      year={2018}
    }
    
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    Learning Semantic Sentence Embeddings using Sequential Pair-wise Discriminator
    Badri N Patro*,Vinod K Kurmi*, Sandeep K*, Vinay P Namboodiri (*equal contributions)
    International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2018.

    webpage | pdf | abstract | bibtex | arXiv | code

    @inproceedings{patro2018learning,
      title={Learning Semantic Sentence Embeddings
      using Sequential Pair-wise Discriminator},
      author={Patro, Badri Narayana and Kurmi,
      Vinod Kumar and Kumar, Sandeep and
      Namboodiri, Vinay},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th
      International Conference on Computational
      Linguistics},
      pages={2715--2729},
      year={2018}
    }
    
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    Robust hand gesture recognition from 3D data
    Vinod K Kurmi, Garima Jain, Venkatesh K Subramanian
    International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG), 2015.

    pdf | abstract | bibtex | weblink | code | webpage | video

    @article{kurmi2015robust,
      title={Robust hand gesture recognition
      from 3D data},
      author={Kurmi, Vinod K and Jain, Garima
      and Venkatesh, KS},
      year={2015},
      publisher={V{\'a}clav Skala-UNION Agency}
    }
    
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    A Human-Hand Detection System, Apparatus and A Method Thereof
    Vinod K Kurmi, Garima Jain, Venkatesh K Subramanian
    Indian Patent, 2016.


      Selected Awards
    • Outstandng PhD Thesis Award (2021).
    • AI Post-Doc Net Fellow (2020-2021).
    • TCS Research Fellowship (2016-2019).
    • Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2019 Finalists (2019).
    • MHRD PhD Fellowship (2015-16).
    • Qualified for Junior Research Fellowship(JRF) of CSIR-NET(2014).
    • MHRD Post-Graduate Fellowship (2012-14).


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