CVIG LabIIT Gandhinagar

IIT Gandhinagar, Departments of CSE and EE

Computer Vision, Imaging & Graphics Laboratory

We study how images are formed, and how to invert that process to recover the shape, material and light of the scenes behind them.

Led by
Prof. Shanmuganathan RamanDr Vilas Mujumdar Chair, Professor and Head of CSE
Est.
2013
Record
140+ papers, 6 patents
Hover or drag to steer the light. Light, shadow and shape: the problems at the centre of the lab's work.

Research highlights

All publications

Research areas

Six threads that run the length of the imaging pipeline: capturing light, inverting it into shape and material, and rendering it back.

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  • Figure from Computational Photography & HDR

    Computational Photography & HDR

    High-dynamic-range imaging from ordinary cameras; tone mapping and exposure fusion.

  • Figure from Photometric Stereo & Inverse Rendering

    Photometric Stereo & Inverse Rendering

    Shape, reflectance and light from images, polarization and scattering.

  • Figure from 3D, Point Clouds & Neural Rendering

    3D, Point Clouds & Neural Rendering

    Point-cloud completion, meshes and neural radiance fields.

  • Figure from Differentiable Rendering & Visual Art

    Differentiable Rendering & Visual Art

    Shadow art, anamorphic sculpture and scribble art as optimisation problems.

  • Figure from Saliency, Symmetry & Retargeting

    Saliency, Symmetry & Retargeting

    Symmetry detection, saliency and content-aware retargeting.

  • Figure from Learning, Restoration & Generative Vision

    Learning, Restoration & Generative Vision

    Restoration, inpainting, EEG decoding and generative video.

Selected publications

All publications and BibTeX

News

  1. AwardArjun Badola and Dikshit Hegde win the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2026.

  2. AwardDikshit Hegde is awarded the IndiaAI PhD Fellowship.

  3. DefensePrajwal Singh defends his PhD thesis, Scalable Generative Vision and Neural Decoding.

  4. DefenseSeema Kumari defends her PhD thesis on the restoration and analysis of 3D point clouds.

  5. Paper acceptedLab papers accepted at IEEE ICIP 2026, ICASSP 2026, ISBI 2026 and WACV 2026.

  6. DefenseAshish Tiwari defends his PhD thesis and joins Dolby Laboratories.

  7. ServiceProf. Raman takes charge as Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar.

Teaching, joining and contact

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Computer Vision

Classical and learning-based vision, from image formation to generative models.

Course site

Join through IIT Gandhinagar's Summer Research Internship Programme (SRIP) or its doctoral admissions.

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Lab address
Academic Block 13, Rooms 313 & 318, IIT Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gujarat 382355
Email
shanmuga@iitgn.ac.in
Departments
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering