3 papers
cs.CV2026
TOLiD: Bridging the Architecture Gap in Vision Foundation Model to LiDAR Pretraining via Token Lifting for Distillation
Sutharsan Mahendran, Darshana Priyasad, Kaushik Roy +4
Cross-modal distillation from Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) to LiDAR backbones has recently emerged as a self-supervised pretraining strategy that reduces reliance on dense point…
cs.LG2025
Transforming volcanic monitoring: A dataset and benchmark for onboard volcano activity detection
Darshana Priyasad, Tharindu Fernando, Maryam Haghighat +2
Natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, pose significant challenges to daily life and incur considerable global economic losses. The emergence of next-generation small-satel…
cs.CV2025
Face Deepfakes -- A Comprehensive Review
Tharindu Fernando, Darshana Priyasad, Sridha Sridharan +2
In recent years, remarkable advancements in deep-fake generation technology have led to unprecedented leaps in its realism and capabilities. Despite these advances, we observe a no…