Conference Publications

ShapeGrasp: Zero-Shot Object Grasping with LLMs via Geometric Decomposition

S. Li, S. Bhagat, J. Campbell, Y. Xie, W. Kim, K. Sycara, S. Stepputtis
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
🏆 Oral Website Paper Thread


Let Me Help You! Neuro-Symbolic Short-Context Action Anticipation

S. Bhagat, S. Li, J. Campbell, Y. Xie, K. Sycara, S. Stepputtis
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
Website Paper Code Thread Video Demo


Sample-Efficient Learning of Novel Visual Concepts

S. Bhagat*, S. Stepputtis*, J. Campbell, K. Sycara
Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs), 2023
🏆 Oral; Top 20% of Accepted Papers Website Paper Code Thread Video


Suspect Identification Framework using Contrastive Relevance Feedback

D. Gupta, A. Saini, D. Bhasin, S. Bhagat, S. Uppal, P. Kumaraguru, R. Shah
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023 Paper Video


Emotional Talking Faces: Making Videos More Expressive and Realistic

S. Goyal, S. Uppal, S. Bhagat, D. Goel, S. Mali, Y. Yu, Y. Yin, R. Shah
ACM Multimedia Asia (MMAsia), 2022
🏆 Best Demo Paper Award; 300+ stars on GitHub Paper Code Video Project Page


Disentangling Multiple Features in Video Sequences using Gaussian Processes in Variational Autoencoders

S. Bhagat*, S. Uppal*, Z. Yin, N. Lim
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
ICVGIP 2020 Vision India
Paper Code Video


UAV Target Tracking in Urban Environments Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

S. Bhagat, P.B. Sujit
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020
🏆 Oral; 50+ Citations Paper Video


C3VQG: Category Consistent Cyclic Visual Question Generation.

S. Uppal*, A. Madan*, S. Bhagat*, Y. Yu, R. Shah
ACM Multimedia Asia (MMAsia), 2020
VQA and Dialogue Workshop, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Spotlight)
Paper Code Video


PrOSe: Product of Orthogonal Spheres Parameterization for Disentangled Representation Learning

A. Shukla, S. Bhagat*, S. Uppal*, S. Anand, P. Turaga
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2019 Paper


Geometry of Deep Generative Models for Disentangled Representations

A. Shukla, S. Uppal*, S. Bhagat*, S. Anand, P. Turaga
Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), 2018 Paper


Journal Publications

Multimodal Research in Vision and Language: A Review of Current and Emerging Trends

S. Uppal*, S. Bhagat*, D. Hazarika, N. Majumdar, S. Poria, R. Zimmermann, A. Zadeh
Information Fusion Journal, 2021 (Impact Factor: 15.7)
🏆 100+ citations Paper


Deep Reinforcement Learning for Soft Robotic Applications: Brief Overview with Impending Challenges

S. Bhagat*, H. Banerjee*, Z. Tse, H. Ren
Robotics 2019, 8(1), 4
🏆 100+ citations Paper


Thesis

Enhancing Robot Perception and Interaction Through Structured Domain Knowledge

Advisor: Katia Sycara
Master's Thesis Thesis


Geometry of Neural Network based Disentangled Latent Space Models

Advisors: S. Anand (IIIT-Delhi), P. Turaga (Arizona State University)
Bachelor's Thesis Thesis


Workshop Publications

WROOM: An Autonomous Driving Approach for Off-Road Navigation

D. Kalaria, S. Sharma, S. Bhagat, H. Xue, J. Dolan
Off-road Autonomy Workshop, ICRA 2024
Website Paper Simulator Media


Geometric Shape Reasoning for Zero-Shot Task-Oriented Grasping

S. Li, S. Bhagat, J. Campbell, Y. Xie, W. Kim, K. Sycara, S. Stepputtis
Workshop on 3D Visual Representations for Robot Manipulation, ICRA 2024 Website


Symbolic Graph Inference for Compound Scene Understanding

A. Mangal, S. Stepputtis, S. Bhagat, J. Campbell, K. Lee, H. Mahjoub, K Sycara
Workshop on Ontologies and Standards for Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024 Paper


Knowledge-Guided Short-Context Action Anticipation in Human-Centric Videos

S. Bhagat, S. Stepputtis, J. Campbell, K. Sycara
Workshop on AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding, ICCV 2023 Paper Video Thread


Emotionally Enhanced Talking Face Generation

S. Goyal, S. Bhagat, S. Uppal, Y. Yu, Y. Yin, R. Shah
Workshop on AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding, ICCV 2023
Workshop on Multimedia Content Generation and Evaluation: New Methods and Practice (McGE), MM 2023 Paper Code Video


Contrastive Personalization Approach to Suspect Identification

D. Gupta, D. Bhasin, S. Bhagat, S. Uppal, P. Kumaraguru, R. Shah
AAAI Student Abstract 2021 Paper


DisCont: Self-Supervised Visual Attribute Disentanglement using Context Vectors

S. Bhagat*, V. Udandarao*, S. Uppal*, S. Anand
Perception Through Structured Generative Models, ECCV 2020
ML Interpretability for Scientific Discovery, ICML 2020.
Paper Code Video