Sanjoy Chowdhury

I am a second year CS PhD student at University of Maryland, College Park advised by Prof. Dinesh Manocha. I am broadly interested in multi-modal learning and its different applications. My current line of research involves studying the interplay between vision and audio modality and learning their holistic understanding in a real-world setting.

I am currently working as a student researcher at Google Research with Avisek Lahiri and Vivek Kwatra in the Talking heads team on speech driven facial synthesis. Before Google, I spent a wonderful summer with Adobe Research working with Joseph K J in the Multi-modal AI team as a research PhD intern on multi-modal audio generation. I am also fortunate to have had the chance to work with Prof. Kristen Grauman , Prof. Mohamed Elhoseiny and Ruohan Gao among other wonderful collaborators.

Before this, I was working as a Machine Learning Scientist with the Camera and Video AI team at ShareChat, India. I was also a visiting researcher at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit at Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata under Prof. Ujjwal Bhattacharya. Even before, I was a Senior Research Engineer with the Vision Intelligence Group at Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore. I primarily worked on developing novel AI-powered solutions for different smart devices of Samsung.

I received my MTech in Computer Science & Engineering from IIIT Hyderabad where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. C V Jawahar. During my undergrad, I worked as a research intern under Prof. Pabitra Mitra at IIT Kharagpur and the CVPR Unit at ISI Kolkata.

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Updates



[Mar 2024] Paper on LLM guided navigational instruction generation got accepted to NAACL 2024
[Feb 2024] MeLFusion got accepted to CVPR 2024 project image
[Feb 2024] Joined Google Research as a student researcher. project image
[Oct 2023] APoLLo gets accepted to EMNLP 2023
[Oct 2023] Invited talk on AdVerb at AV4D Workshop, ICCV 2023
[July 2023] AdVerb got accepted to ICCV 2023
[May 2023] Joined Adobe Research as a research intern.
[Aug 2022] Joined as a CS PhD student at University of Maryland College Park . Awarded Dean's fellowship.
[Oct 2021] Paper on audio-visual summarization accepted in BMVC 2021.
[Sep 2021] Blog on Video Quality Enhancement released at Tech @ ShareChat.
[July 2021] Paper on reflection removal got accepted in ICCV 2021.
[June 2021] Joined ShareChat Data Science team.
[May 2021] Paper on audio-visual joint segmentation accepted in ICIP 2021.
[Dec 2018] Accepted Samsung Research offer. Will be joining in June'19.
[Sep 2018] Received Dean's merit list award for academic excellence at IIIT Hyderabad.
[Oct 2017] Our work on a multi-scale, low-latency face detection framework received Best Paper Award at NGCT-2017.


Selected publications

My research is at the intersection of Computer vision, deep learning with a focus on multi-modal learning (Vision + X), generative modeling, visual understanding, and their various applications. I'm broadly interested in studying the interplay between different modalities with minimal supervision.

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project imageMeLFusion: Synthesizing Music from Image and Language Cues using Diffusion Models


Sanjoy Chowdhury*, Sayan Nag*, Joseph KJ, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Dinesh Manocha
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
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We propose MeLFusion, a model that can effectively use cues from a textual description and the corresponding image to synthesize music. MeLFusion is a text-to-music diffusion model with a novel "visual synapse", which effectively infuses the semantics from the visual modality into the generated music. To facilitate research in this area, we introduce a new dataset MeLBench, and propose a new evaluation metric IMSM.

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APoLLo project image: Unified Adapter and Prompt Learning for Vision Language Models


Sanjoy Chowdhury*, Sayan Nag*, Dinesh Manocha
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
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Our method is designed to substantially improve the generalization capabilities of VLP models when they are fine-tuned in a few-shot setting. We introduce trainable cross-attention-based adapter layers in conjunction with vision and language encoders to strengthen the alignment between the two modalities.

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AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberation


Sanjoy Chowdhury*, Sreyan Ghosh*, Subhrajyoti Dasgupta, Anton Ratnarajah, Utkarsh Tyagi, Dinesh Manocha
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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We present a novel audio-visual dereverberation framework that uses visual cues in addition to the reverberant sound to estimate clean audio.

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Measured Albedo in the Wild: Filling the Gap in Intrinsics Evaluation


Jiaye Wu, Sanjoy Chowdhury, Hariharmano Shanmugaraja, David Jacobs, Soumyadip Sengupta
International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2023
Paper / Project Page / Dataset (coming soon)

In order to comprehensively evaluate albedo, we collect a new dataset, Measured Albedo in the Wild (MAW), and propose three new metrics that complement WHDR

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AudViSum: Self-Supervised Deep Reinforcement Learning for Diverse Audio-Visual Summary Generation


Sanjoy Chowdhury*, Aditya P. Patra*, Subhrajyoti Dasgupta, Ujjwal Bhattacharya
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2021
Paper / Code / Presentation

Introduced a novel deep reinforcement learning-based self-supervised audio-visual summarization model that leverages both audio and visual information to generate diverse yet semantically meaningful summaries.

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V-DESIRR: Very Fast Deep Embedded Single Image Reflection Removal


B H Pawan Prasad, Green Rosh K S, Lokesh R B, Kaushik Mitra, Sanjoy Chowdhury
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
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We have proposed a multi-scale end-to-end architecture for detecting and removing weak, medium, and strong reflections from naturally occurring images.

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Listen to the Pixels


Sanjoy Chowdhury, Subhrajyoti Dasgupta, Sudip Das, Ujjwal Bhattacharya
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2021
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In this study, we exploited the concurrency between audio and visual modalities in an attempt to solve the joint audio-visual segmentation problem in a self-supervised manner.




Blog(s)

Have tried my hand at writing technical blogs.

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The devil is in the details: Video Quality Enhancement Approaches


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The blog contextualizes the problem of video enhancement in present-day scenarios and talks about a couple of interesting approaches to handle this challenging task.

Academic services

I have served as a reviewer for the following conferences:

CVPR: 2023, '24

ICCV: 2023

ECCV: 2024

WACV: 2022, '23, '24

ACMMM: 2023, '24




Affiliations




IIT Kharagpur
Apr-Sep 2016

ISI Kolkata
Feb-July 2017

IIIT Hyderabad
Aug 2017 - May 2019

Mentor Graphics Hyderabad
May - July 2018

Samsung Research Bangalore
June 2019 - June 2021

ShareChat Bangalore
June 2021 - May 2022

UMD College Park
Aug 2022 - Present

Adobe Research
May 2023 - Aug 2023

KAUST
Jan 2024 - Present

Google Research
Feb 2024 - May 2024

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