RESUME [pdf]
After 6 wonderful years at UCI, I graduated in December 2012 and currently work for Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ (now part of SRI International). Here is a link to my PhD thesis and my defense slides
Journal Publications
"Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout"
Chaitanya Desai, Deva Ramanan, Charless Fowlkes
International Journal of Computer Vision( IJCV )appear (this is a more comprehensive version of our ICCV'09 paper with the same title)
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Conference Publications
"Predicting Functional Regions on Objects"
Chaitanya Desai, Deva Ramanan
CVPR workshop on Scene Analysis Beyond Semantics , Portland, June 2013.
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"Detecting Actions, Poses and Objects with Relational Phraselets"
Chaitanya Desai, Deva Ramanan
European Conference on Computer Vision ( ECCV),Florence,Italy,
October 2012.
Selected for Oral presentation
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"Discriminative Models for static human-object interactions"
Chaitanya Desai, Deva Ramanan, Charless Fowlkes
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Structured models in Computer Vision( CVPR Workshop paper),San Francisco,
June 2010.
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"Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout"
Chaitanya Desai, Deva Ramanan, Charless Fowlkes
Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision( ICCV),Kyoto, Japan,
September 2009.
Best Paper award, Marr Prize Winner
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"Using Semantics for Speech Annotation of Images"
Chaitanya Desai, Dmitri Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian.
Proc. of International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE), short publication,
March 29 - April 4, 2009.
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