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Mount Everest

Representation Supersedeth Scaling.

It does not mean that we should not scale AI. It just means that we should scale it intelligently. Bruteforce scaling wastes compute. A good representation can help scaling models find optimal solution faster. Hence, representations are still important.
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2020 - 2030

Canonical Locks that encode part-whole hierarchies

A geometrical primitive that allows neural nets to construct hierarchical graph-like structures in higher dimensions

AUTHORS: Rajat Modi, Yogesh Singh Rawat
[PAPER]

Forget, Anticipate, Adapt: TTT for long videos

TTT on long videos consumes O(N) time per sliding window. We got this down to O(1). Inspired by Kadane's algorithm, we proposed to `forget' a frame moving out of window, `anticipate' if current frame exceeds a notion of `surprise' and if so adapt it. Surprise threshold adjusted dynamically based on Gaussian mixture model which temporally evolves as information of prior adapted frames accumulates in a buffer.

STATUS: ECCV 2026
AUTHORS: Rajat Modi, S. Noel, Xin Liang, Yogesh S. Rawat
[PAPER]

Sky2Ground

Introduced the new problem of cross-view camera localization given aerial, ground, satellite of outdoor scenes. New dataset for 54 scenes. Proposed SkyNet, an architecture for 3D point cloud generation, thus setting a strong baseline for the field. Grateful for the support from IARPA WRIVA grant.

STATUS: CVPR 2026
AUTHORS: Zengyan Wang, Sirshapan Mitra, Rajat Modi, Grace Lim, Yogesh Rawat
[PAPER] [GITHUB]

Layer Query Networks

Introduces constant-time feature extraction across any layer in a DNN. Operates in O(1) time compared to sequential O(depth). 15% speedup on ImageNet with 12% relative accuracy improvement. Grateful for the support from IARPA WRIVA grant.

STATUS: Under Review
AUTHORS: Rajat Modi, Xin Liang, Priyank Pathak, Yogesh S. Rawat
[PAPER]

Foundational Models for Video Understanding

Comprehensive survey of over 200 video foundational models and evaluation metrics across 14 video tasks.

STATUS: Under Review
AUTHORS: Neelu Madan, Andreas Moegelmose, Rajat Modi, Yogesh S. Rawat, Thomas B. Moeslund
[PAPER] [GITHUB]

Asynchronous Perception Machine(s)

First working implementation of the GLOM architecture. 10x faster than ViT-B/16 and performs 2% better than state-of-the-art OpenCLIP ViT-H on ImageNet. Spiritual successor to capsule networks. Grateful for the support from IARPA WRIVA grant.

VENUE: NeurIPS 2024
AUTHORS: Rajat Modi, Yogesh Singh Rawat
[PAPER] [POSTER] [CODE] [PATENT]

On Occlusions in Video Action Detection

First benchmark studying occlusions in spatio-temporal video action detection. Introduced 5 new datasets and surpassed VideoCapsuleNet by 32.3%.

VENUE: NeurIPS 2023
AUTHORS: Rajat Modi, Vibhav Vineet, Yogesh Rawat
[PAPER] [POSTER] [CODE]

Video Action Detection: Analyzing Limitations

Dataset containing multiple people performing temporally challenging actions. Featured in the official CVPR workshop.

VENUE: CVPRW 2022
AUTHORS: Rajat Modi, Aayush Jung Rana, Akash Kumar, Praveen Tirupattur, Shruti Vyas, Yogesh Singh Rawat, Mubarak Shah
[PAPER] [DATASET] [CHALLENGE]
2010 - 2020

Steganography Using Wavelets

Algorithm forcing stego images to lie within higher frequency ranges of input images with statistical analysis.

VENUE: IEEE Iementech 2017
[PAPER]
PATENTS

Asychronous Perception Machine

First implementation getting GLOM to work. Recently filed as an A1 patent application in USPTO

Externally Guided Multi Domain Personalization

Invented attribute selection and sampling vectors in GANs to achieve personalized user recommendations.

Context Resolution in Autonomous Systems

System using cross-stitch units to merge user inputs into a unified representation.