Rudra PK Poudel

Rudra PK Poudel
Senior Researcher
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Toshiba Europe Ltd, Cambridge, UK

My research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. I am particularly interested to discover how we learn and how we see. Can we enable machines to do the same things? To answer these questions I am working in machine learning, computer vision and robotics research. My current research interests include efficient (less supervision, data and compute) learning in deep neural networks, causality, reinforcement learning, and AI for social good.

Links : CV, Google scholar, Github, LinkedIn, Twitter

News

NavACL is accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2020
Fast-SCNN is accepted as oral presentation in BMVC 2019
ContextNet is accepted as oral presentation in BMVC 2018

Selected Publications

Embodied Visual Navigation with Automatic Curriculum Learning in Real Environments
Steven D Morad, Roberto Mecca, Rudra PK Poudel, Stephan Liwicki, Roberto Cipolla
In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020.
[pdf] [arXiv]

Fast-SCNN: Fast Semantic Segmentation Network
Rudra PK Poudel, Stephan Liwicki, Roberto Cipolla
In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2019. [Oral]
[pdf] [Slides] [arXiv]

ContextNet: Exploring Context and Detail for Semantic Segmentation in Real-time
Rudra PK Poudel, Ujwal Bonde, Stephan Liwicki, Christopher Zach
In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2018. [Oral]
[pdf] [Slides] [arXiv] [Code]

eg. Predicting Brain Age with Deep Learning from Raw Imaging Data Results in a Reliable and Heritable Biomarker

Predicting Brain Age with Deep Learning from Raw Imaging Data Results in a Reliable and Heritable Biomarker
James H Cole, Rudra PK Poudel, Dimosthenis Tsagkrasoulis, Matthan WA Caan, Claire Steves, Tim D Spector, Giovanni Montana
In NeuroImage, 2017.
[pdf] [NeuroImage] [arXiv] [MIT Tech Review]

eg. Recurrent Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-slice MRI Cardiac Segmentation

Recurrent Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-slice MRI Cardiac Segmentation
Rudra PK Poudel, Pablo Lamata, Giovanni Montana
In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Workshop, 2016.
[pdf] [arXiv]

A Unified Framework for 3D Hand Tracking
Rudra PK Poudel, Jose AS Fonseca, Jian J Zhang, Hammadi Nait-Charif
In International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2013. [Oral]
[pdf] [Demo Video]

Region-Based Skin Color Detection
Rudra PK Poudel, Hammadi Nait-Charif, Jian J Zhang, David Liu
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2012. [Oral]
[pdf]

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Teaching

Current:

No classes

Past:

Object Oriented Programming with C++
Management Information System
Operations Management

Students:

PhDs,

Alasdair Paren, PhD in Oxford University, jointly supervised with Pawan Kumar
Anthony Hu, PhD in Cambridge University, jointly supervised with Roberto Cipolla

Interns,

Steven Morad, University of Arizona, 2020