Assistant Professor

Mr Arun Kumar Sivapuram

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning
  • Image Processing

Faculty Details

Education

2016

JJNTUK
B.Tech

2020

IIT Tirupati
M.Tech

2025

IIT Tirupati
PhD

Experience

 

  • 2018 to 2025 – Teaching Assistant – IIT Tirupati, Courses: Image Processing Lab, Computer Vision Lab, Advance Signal Processing, Speech Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Machine Learning.
  • 2019 to 2025 – Research Scholar – IIT Tirupati.
  • 2022 to 2025 - Reviewer for NCC, CVIP, ICVGIP, Geo Sciecnce and Remote Sensing Letters, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, CVPR, ECCV, BMVC and CVPRW
  • 2023 to 2025 – GPU Lab Administrator (SPCV Lab) – IIT Tirupati

Research Interest

  • Developing specialized loss functions to address class imbalance in object identification tasks, including classification, detection, and segmentation.
  • Designing lightweight models for object detection and enhancing detection modules within tracking frameworks to improve tracking performance.
  • Creating advanced frameworks for generating more challenging adversarial samples using adversarial attack techniques to enhance the robustness of object detection methods.
  • These methodologies are applied in Precision Agriculture, Transportation, Autonomous Systems, and Healthcare to enhance efficiency, safety, and automation in real-world scenarios.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2023 - First Position in "Infrared imaging-based drone detection and tracking in distorted surveillance Videos" - challenge Competition in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.
  • Ministry of Education Research Scholarship of USD 27000 for PhD at IIT Tirupati (Jan 2018 – Feb 2025).
  • MHRD Teaching Assistant Scholarship of USD 3000 in Masters at IIT Tirupati (Aug 2018 – Dec 2019).
  • IITT-NIF scholarship of USD 2,725 in PhD at IIT Tirupati (Aug 2023 - Jan 2025).
  • MHRD conference scholarship of USD 1,500 for attending Asian Conference on Machine Learning (Dec 4-8, 2024, Hanoi, Vietnam).
  • Visiting Research Scholar under INMOST Project – USD 3,650 (Oct 7 – Nov 28, 2024) at University of Agder, Norway.

Memberships

  • IAPR member

Publications

Journals

  • SA-LfV: Self-Annotated Labeling from Videos for Object Detection - A.K. Sivapuram, P. Komuravelli, R.K.S. Gorthi Machine Learning 114(1), (2025).
  • VISAL—A Novel Learning Strategy to Address Class Imbalance - S.R. Vamsidhar, A.K. Sivapuram, V. Ravi, G. Senthil, R.K. Gorthi Neural Networks 161, 178-184 (2023).
  • Depth Camera-Based Dataset of Hand Gestures - S. Jeeru, A.K. Sivapuram, D.G. León, J. Gröli, S.R. Yeduri, L.R. Cenkeramaddi Data in Brief 45, 108659 (2022).
  • The Second Visual Object Tracking Segmentation VOTS2024 Challenge Results - A.K. Sivapuram, P. Jaswanth Reddy, D. Manas, R.K. Gorthi Computer Vision–ECCV 2024 Workshops (2024).
  • Towards Accurate Disease Segmentation in Plant Images: A Comprehensive Dataset Creation and Network Evaluation - K. Prashanth, J.S. Harsha, A.K. Sivapuram, J. Srilekha Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 7086-7094 (2024).
  • The First Place Solution for ICIP2023 Challenge: Infrared Imaging-Based Drone Detection and Tracking in Distorted Surveillance Videos - V. Nageli, A.K. Sivapuram, R.K.S.S. Gorthi, A. Jamal 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Challenges and Workshops (ICIPCW), 1-5 (2023).
  • Adv-Cut Paste: Semantic Adversarial Class-Specific Data Augmentation Technique for Object Detection - A.K. Sivapuram, A. Pal, K.R. Mopuri, R.K. Gorthi 2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 3632-3638 (2022).
  • Memory-Based Long-Term Anti-UAV Tracking from Ground-Based Visible and TIR Videos - A.K. Sivapuram, P. Jaswanth Reddy, R.K. Gorthi IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Under review, 2024).
  • SAF-TAYOLO: A Self-Annotating Framework for UAV Detection and Segmentation with Triplet Attention YOLO - A.K. Sivapuram, A. Madhu, R.K. Gorthi IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Under review, 2025).
  • Heavy Vehicle Axle Detection and Segmentation - A.K. Sivapuram, A. Shah, M.R. D, R.K. Gorthi, P. Krishna IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (Under review, 2023).

    • Contact Details

    • E-mail id:arunkumar.s@srmap.edu.in
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