Selected Publication. Please go to my List of All papers for a detailed list.

• What Can Human Sketches Do for Object Detection?
  Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, Subhadeep Koley, Tao Xiang, Yi-Zhe Song
  Venue: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023, Award Candidate (Best Paper Finalist, Top 12 out of 9155)
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• SceneTrilogy: On Scene Sketches and its Relationship with Text and Photo
  Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, Subhadeep Koley, Tao Xiang, Yi-Zhe Song
  Venue: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
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• CLIP for All Things Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, Fine-Grained or Not
  Aneeshan Sain, Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Subhadeep Koley, Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song
  Venue: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
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• Picture that Sketch: Photorealistic Image Generation from Abstract Sketches
  Subhadeep Koley, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song
  Venue: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
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• Garment Ideation: Iterative view-aware sketch-based garment modeling
  Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Tuanfeng Wang, Duygu Ceylan, Yi-Zhe Song, Yulia Gryaditskaya
  Venue: International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2022 ORAL
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• FS-COCO: Towards Understanding of Freehand Sketches of Common Objects in Context
  Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Aneeshan Sain, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Tao Xiang, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Yi-Zhe Song
  Venue: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
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• Partially Does It: Towards Scene-Level FG-SBIR with Partial Input
  Pinaki Nath chowdhury, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala, Aneeshan Sain, Tao Xiang, Yi-Zhe Song
  Venue: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022
  [pdf] [URL] [code] [video]
  

Teaching

• [2023] EEEM071 Advanced Topics in Computer Vision and Deep Learning, University of Surrey
• [2021] EEE1032 Mathematics II: Engineering Maths, University of Surrey

Student Collaborators

• [2023] Deep Wilson Aricatt, MSc., University of Surrey. Thesis: Sketch Query Guided Object Detection.
• [2023] Ezhil Priyadharshini Krishna, MSc., University of Surrey. Thesis: Sketch Captioning: Understanding Human Drawn Scene-Sketches and its Subjectivity.
• [2022] Alexander Ashcroft, MSc., University of Surrey. Thesis: Making Sketch Encoders Robust to Their Partial Nature.
• [2022] Ramya Priyadharshini, MSc., University of Surrey. Thesis: Unifying Sketch, Text, and Photo.

Invited Talks

• [14/06/2022] CVC Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain [Talk]

Volunteer

• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• Reviewer for IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• Reviewer for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
• Reviewer for European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
• Reviewer for International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
• Reviewer for Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• Reviewer for International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
• Reviewer for Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia
• Reviewer for Computers & Graphics
• Reviewer for Pattern Recognition (PR)
• Reviewer for Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL)
• Reviewer for International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
• Reviewer for Machine Intelligence Research (MIR)

Research Experience

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Supervisor: Umapada Pal
Position: Visiting Scientist
January 2022

Adobe Research, London
Supervisor: Tuanfeng Wang and Duygu Ceylan
Position: Internship
May 2021 - July 2021

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Supervisor: Umapada Pal
Position: Project Linked Person (aka. Research Assistant/Associate)
June 2018 - September 2020

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research - Central Drug Research Institute
Supervisor: Sukant Khurana
Position: Internship
August 2017 - February 2018