DreamVu Publications

  • RetailSMV: Exocentric vs. Egocentric Adaptation of Foundation Video World Models in Retail — A. Rouhi, R. Aggarwal, P. Sakurikar, A. M. Namboodiri, S. P. Reddi. 2026. arXivProject Page
  • PRISM-World: Teaching Video World Models the Physics of Retail Environments — A. Rouhi, R. Aggarwal, P. Sakurikar, A. M. Namboodiri, S. P. Reddi. Embodied AI Workshop, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. OpenReviewProject Page
  • SABER: A Scalable Action-Based Embodied Dataset for Real-World VLA Adaptation — N. Menga, P. Sakurikar, A. Rouhi, R. Aggarwal, A. M. Namboodiri, S. P. Reddi. 2026. arXivOpenReviewProject Page
  • PRISM: A Multi-View Multi-Capability Retail Video Dataset for Embodied Vision-Language Models — A. Rouhi, P. Sakurikar, S. S. Reddy, N. Menga, A. Govil, S. H. Chittajallu, R. Aggarwal, A. M. Namboodiri, S. Reddi. March 2026. arXivHugging FaceProject Page

Patents

DreamVu's camera family — including the ALIA 360° omnidirectional camera — is built on the omni-stereo patent family below.

  • US 11,677,921System and Method for Generating Dewarped Image Using Projection Patterns Captured from Omni-Directional Stereo Cameras — R. Aggarwal, A. M. Namboodiri, P. Sakurikar. Granted 2023 · DreamVu, Inc.
  • US 11,025,888System and Method for Capturing Omni-Stereo Videos Using Multi-Sensors — R. Aggarwal, A. M. Namboodiri. Granted 2021 · DreamVu, Inc.
  • US 10,154,249System and Method for Capturing Horizontal Disparity Stereo Panorama — A. M. Namboodiri, R. Aggarwal, A. Vohra. Granted 2018.

Selected Prior Research

  • Fast Analytic Soft Shadows from Area Lights — Aakash K. T., P. Sakurikar, P. J. Narayanan. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), 2021.
  • Appearance Editing with Free-viewpoint Neural Rendering — P. Gera, Aakash K. T., D. Sirikonda, P. Sakurikar, P. J. Narayanan. arXiv preprint, 2021.
  • Understanding Dynamic Scenes Using Graph Convolution Networks — S. Mylavarapu, M. Sandhu, P. Vijayan, K. M. Krishna, B. Ravindran, A. Namboodiri. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
  • Geometric Scene Refocusing — P. Sakurikar, P. J. Narayanan. arXiv preprint, 2020.
  • IDD: A Dataset for Exploring Problems of Autonomous Navigation in Unconstrained Environments — G. Varma, A. Subramanian, A. Namboodiri, M. Chandraker, C. V. Jawahar. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2019.
  • Universal Material Translator: Towards Spoof Fingerprint Generalization — R. Gajawada, A. Popli, T. Chugh, A. Namboodiri, A. K. Jain. International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), 2019.
  • Defocus Magnification Using Conditional Adversarial Networks — P. Sakurikar, I. Mehta, P. J. Narayanan. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2019.
  • A Flexible Neural Renderer for Material Visualization — Aakash K. T., P. Sakurikar, S. Saini, P. J. Narayanan. SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs, 2019.
  • Semi-Adversarial Networks: Convolutional Autoencoders for Imparting Privacy to Face Images — V. Mirjalili, S. Raschka, A. Namboodiri, A. Ross. IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security, and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), 2018.
  • Deep Expander Networks: Efficient Deep Networks from Graph Theory — A. Prabhu, G. Varma, A. Namboodiri. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018.
  • RefocusGAN: Scene Refocusing Using a Single Image — P. Sakurikar, I. Mehta, V. N. Balasubramanian, P. J. Narayanan. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018.
  • Structured Adversarial Training for Unsupervised Monocular Depth Estimation — I. Mehta, P. Sakurikar, P. J. Narayanan. International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2018.
  • SLFT: A Physically Accurate Framework for Tracing Synthetic Light Fields — U. Khurana, P. Sakurikar, P. J. Narayanan. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), 2018.
  • Composite Focus Measure for High Quality Depth Maps — P. Sakurikar, P. J. Narayanan. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017.
  • Pose-Aware Person Recognition — V. Kumar, A. Namboodiri, M. Paluri, C. V. Jawahar. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.
  • Multiscale Two-view Stereo Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Unrectified Images — P. Yadati, A. Namboodiri. IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), 2017.
  • Recovering the 3D Geometry of Heritage Monuments from Image Collections — R. Shah, A. Deshpande, A. Namboodiri, P. J. Narayanan. Digital Hampi: Preserving Indian Cultural Heritage, Springer, 2017.
  • Panoramic Stereo Videos with a Single Camera — R. Aggarwal, A. Vohra, A. M. Namboodiri. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016.
  • Detection and Segmentation of Mirror-like Surfaces Using Structured Illumination — R. Aggarwal, A. M. Namboodiri. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), 2016.
  • Visual Phrases for Exemplar Face Detection — V. Kumar, A. Namboodiri, C. V. Jawahar. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.
  • Online Handwriting Recognition Using Depth Sensors — R. Aggarwal, S. Swetha, A. M. Namboodiri, J. Sivaswamy, C. V. Jawahar. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2015.
  • Blind Authentication: A Secure Crypto-Biometric Verification Protocol — M. Upmanyu, A. M. Namboodiri, K. Srinathan, C. V. Jawahar. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2010.
  • Efficient Privacy Preserving Video Surveillance — M. Upmanyu, A. M. Namboodiri, K. Srinathan, C. V. Jawahar. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009.
  • Contextual Restoration of Severely Degraded Document Images — J. Banerjee, A. M. Namboodiri, C. V. Jawahar. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.
  • Efficient Biometric Verification in Encrypted Domain — M. Upmanyu, A. M. Namboodiri, K. Srinathan, C. V. Jawahar. International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), 2009.
  • Online Handwritten Script Recognition — A. M. Namboodiri, A. K. Jain. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2004.
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