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most citedSketching without Worrying: Noise-Tolerant Sketch-Based Image Retrieval

6 citations · 31 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.RO2026

HINT-Blimp: Human INTent Inference from Multimodal Cues for Robotic Blimps

Subhadeep Koley, Benjamin Greenberg, Yifei Simon Shao +3

In human-robot interaction, traditional interfaces such as joysticks and handheld tablets introduce latency into navigation tasks and require the operator's explicit attention on t…

cs.RO2026

Planning Trajectories that Bounce: Reflection Classes for Collision-Tolerant Robots

Subhadeep Koley, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, David Saldaña

Robot navigation methods tend to avoid contact, and consequently search for collision-free trajectories. For robots with high inertia and limited maneuverability, however, avoiding…

cs.CV2026

Training-free Temporal Object Tracking in Surgical Videos

Subhadeep Koley, Abdolrahim Kadkhodamohammadi, Santiago Barbarisi +2

Purpose: In this paper, we present a novel approach for online object tracking in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) surgical videos, targeting localisation and tracking of critical…

cs.CV2025

Doodle Your Keypoints: Sketch-Based Few-Shot Keypoint Detection

Subhajit Maity, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Subhadeep Koley +3

Keypoint detection, integral to modern machine perception, faces challenges in few-shot learning, particularly when source data from the same distribution as the query is unavailab…

cs.CV2025

Sketch Down the FLOPs: Towards Efficient Networks for Human Sketch

Aneeshan Sain, Subhajit Maity, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury +3

As sketch research has collectively matured over time, its adaptation for at-mass commercialisation emerges on the immediate horizon. Despite an already mature research endeavour f…

cs.CV2025

SketchFusion: Learning Universal Sketch Features through Fusing Foundation Models

Subhadeep Koley, Tapas Kumar Dutta, Aneeshan Sain +3

While foundation models have revolutionised computer vision, their effectiveness for sketch understanding remains limited by the unique challenges of abstract, sparse visual inputs…

cs.CV2025

SketchYourSeg: Mask-Free Subjective Image Segmentation via Freehand Sketches

Subhadeep Koley, Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala, Aneeshan Sain +4

We introduce SketchYourSeg, a novel framework that establishes freehand sketches as a powerful query modality for subjective image segmentation across entire galleries through a si…

cs.CV2024

DreamColour: Controllable Video Colour Editing without Training

Chaitat Utintu, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Aneeshan Sain +3

Video colour editing is a crucial task for content creation, yet existing solutions either require painstaking frame-by-frame manipulation or produce unrealistic results with tempo…

cs.CV2024

Do Generalised Classifiers really work on Human Drawn Sketches?

Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Aneeshan Sain +4

This paper, for the first time, marries large foundation models with human sketch understanding. We demonstrate what this brings -- a paradigm shift in terms of generalised sketch…

cs.CV2024

Freeview Sketching: View-Aware Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval

Aneeshan Sain, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Subhadeep Koley +2

In this paper, we delve into the intricate dynamics of Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) by addressing a critical yet overlooked aspect -- the choice of viewpoint…

cs.CV2024

SketchDeco: Training-Free Latent Composition for Precise Sketch Colourisation

Chaitat Utintu, Yi-Zhe Song

We introduce SketchDeco, a training-free approach to sketch colourisation that bridges the gap between professional design needs and intuitive, region-based control. Our method emp…

cs.CV2024

It's All About Your Sketch: Democratising Sketch Control in Diffusion Models

Subhadeep Koley, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Deeptanshu Sekhri +4

This paper unravels the potential of sketches for diffusion models, addressing the deceptive promise of direct sketch control in generative AI. We importantly democratise the proce…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

You'll Never Walk Alone: A Sketch and Text Duet for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval

Subhadeep Koley, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain +3

Two primary input modalities prevail in image retrieval: sketch and text. While text is widely used for inter-category retrieval tasks, sketches have been established as the sole p…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Great Sketch-Photo Matchmakers

Subhadeep Koley, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain +3

This paper, for the first time, explores text-to-image diffusion models for Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We highlight a pivotal discovery: the capacity of text…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

How to Handle Sketch-Abstraction in Sketch-Based Image Retrieval?

Subhadeep Koley, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain +3

In this paper, we propose a novel abstraction-aware sketch-based image retrieval framework capable of handling sketch abstraction at varied levels. Prior works had mainly focused o…

cs.CV2023

DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch

Dar-Yen Chen, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Subhadeep Koley +3

In this paper, we democratise caricature generation, empowering individuals to effortlessly craft personalised caricatures with just a photo and a conceptual sketch. Our objective…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Doodle Your 3D: From Abstract Freehand Sketches to Precise 3D Shapes

Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay, Subhadeep Koley, Ayan Das +5

In this paper, we democratise 3D content creation, enabling precise generation of 3D shapes from abstract sketches while overcoming limitations tied to drawing skills. We introduce…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Sketch2Saliency: Learning to Detect Salient Objects from Human Drawings

Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Subhadeep Koley, Amandeep Kumar +4

Human sketch has already proved its worth in various visual understanding tasks (e.g., retrieval, segmentation, image-captioning, etc). In this paper, we reveal a new trait of sket…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Picture that Sketch: Photorealistic Image Generation from Abstract Sketches

Subhadeep Koley, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain +3

Given an abstract, deformed, ordinary sketch from untrained amateurs like you and me, this paper turns it into a photorealistic image - just like those shown in Fig. 1(a), all non-…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

CLIP for All Things Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, Fine-Grained or Not

Aneeshan Sain, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Pinaki Nath Chowdhury +3

In this paper, we leverage CLIP for zero-shot sketch based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We are largely inspired by recent advances on foundation models and the unparalleled generalis…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Exploiting Unlabelled Photos for Stronger Fine-Grained SBIR

Aneeshan Sain, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Subhadeep Koley +4

This paper advances the fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) literature by putting forward a strong baseline that overshoots prior state-of-the-arts by ~11%. This is…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

What Can Human Sketches Do for Object Detection?

Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain +3

Sketches are highly expressive, inherently capturing subjective and fine-grained visual cues. The exploration of such innate properties of human sketches has, however, been limited…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

SceneTrilogy: On Human Scene-Sketch and its Complementarity with Photo and Text

Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Aneeshan Sain +3

In this paper, we extend scene understanding to include that of human sketch. The result is a complete trilogy of scene representation from three diverse and complementary modaliti…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Doodle It Yourself: Class Incremental Learning by Drawing a Few Sketches

Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala, Subhadeep Koley +4

The human visual system is remarkable in learning new visual concepts from just a few examples. This is precisely the goal behind few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL), where…