Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla is an Associate Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H), with additional roles as Lead (Applied Projects and Academic Programs) at iHub-Data Mobility. His research spans Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Human-Robot Interaction, focusing on interdisciplinary challenges involving multimodal data (images, sketches, eye-tracking, audio).

Research Themes:

• Computer vision projects in Document Image Understanding, Sketch Recognition, and Depiction-Invariant Object Recognition
• Cognitive modeling through Eye Tracking Analysis and Pictionary-inspired Models
• Human-robot interaction studies on Proxemics, Panoramic Attention, and Extended Interaction Analysis

Technical Contributions:

• Pioneered Category-Epitome representations for sparse sketch recognition
• Developed SketchParse - a deep network for automated sketch parsing
• Created PPSS-12 benchmark for evaluating object recognition robustness