ADWAY MITRA

I have finished PhD from Department of Computer Science and Automation of the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore, India. I had been working in the Machine Learning Lab under the guidance of Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. The final version of the thesis is here

Thesis Title: Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling of Temporal Coherence for Entity-driven Video Analytics

Machine Learning
- Spatio-Temporal Pattern Mining
- Modeling Spatio-Temporal Processes
- Bayesian Nonparametrics
- Low-rank Matrix Recovery
Applications
- Climate Science: Mining patterns in Climate Data
- Computer Vision: Video Summarization
- Computer Vision: Video Segmentation

My current CV is available here

Adway Mitra, Soma Biswas, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. Bayesian Modeling of Temporal Coherence in Videos for Entity Discovery and Summarization. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2016
Adway Mitra, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Soma Biswas. EntScene: Nonparametric Bayesian Temporal Segmentation of Videos aimed at Entity-driven Scene Detection . International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina Code and Data Appendix

Adway Mitra, Soma Biswas, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. Temporally Coherent CRP: A Bayesian Non-Parametric Approach for Clustering Tracklets with applications to Person Discovery in Videos. SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2015, Vancouver, Canada Code and Data Appendix

Adway Mitra, Srujana Merugu. Reconciliation of Categorical Opinions from Multiple Sources . ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2013, San Francisco, USA

Adway Mitra, Ranganath B.N., Indrajit Bhattacharya. A Layered Dirichlet Process for Hierarchical Segmentation of Sequential Grouped Data . European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), 2013, Prague, Czech Republic. Data Appendix

Dhruv Mahajan, Rajeev Rastogi, Charu Tiwari, Adway Mitra. LogUCB: An Explore-Exploit Algorithm for Comments Recommendation . ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2012, Hawaii

Anoop K.R., Adway Mitra, Ujwal Bonde, Chiranjib Bhattcharyya, K.R. Ramakrishnan. Covariance Profiles: A Signature Representation For Object Sets . International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2012, Tsukuba, Japan

Adway Mitra, Anoop K.R., Ujwal Bonde, Chiranjib Bhattcharyya, K.R. Ramakrishnan. Eigen-Profiles of Spatio-temporal Fragments for Adaptive Region-based Tracking . IEEE International Conference on Accoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012, Kyoto, Japan). Data Demo

Ph.D. in Computer Science (Machine Learning), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2010-current) - CGPA: 7.0/8.0

M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2008-10) - combined CGPA (course+project): 7.3/8.0 Thesis

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2004-2008) - CGPA: 9.0/10.0