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Basics

Name Nikhil Reddy Billa
Label Graduate Student
Email nikilr@vt.edu
Phone +916302845952
Url https://nikhilreddybilla28.github.io/
Summary Graduate Student at Virginia Tech & Machine learning Researcher. Ex Software Engineer at NCR Corporation

Work

  • 2022.06 - Present
    Software Engineer
    NCR Corporation
    Leveraged C# expertise to diagnose and resolve issues at Grocery and Fuel POS, ensuring optimal system functionality and a positive user experience.Additionally, developed new features to address evolving business requirements.
    • Emerald POS

Research

  • 2022.05 - 2023.12

    Hyderabad, India

    Research Assistant
    ML Lab, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad
    Working on deploying fully autonomous navigation systems on the road to detect objects under adverse weather conditions and in unstructured traffic.Working on the safety and robustness of semantic segmentation models.Developed simulation-based Labs for Discrete Mathematics course
    • Work published at WACV 2024

Education

  • 2018.07 - 2022.05

    Odisha,India

    Undergraduation
    National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela
    Electrical Engineering
    • Machine Learning
    • Computer Vision
    • C programming
    • Soft Computing Techniques
    • Digital Electronics
    • Electrical Machines

Awards

  • 2022.08.03
    People Choice Award
    NCR London Center
    Received the People's Choice Award from NCR London Center for a smart store prototype at the NCR Global Hackathon 2022.

Certificates

Machine Learning
Stanford University 2018-01-01

Publications

  • 2024.01.05
    IDD-AW: A Benchmark for Safe and Robust Segmentation of Drive Scenes in Unstructured Traffic and Adverse Weather
    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
    We introduce the IDD-AW dataset, which provides 5000 pairs of high-quality images with pixel-level annotations, captured under rain, fog, low light, and snow in unstructured driving conditions. As compared to other adverse weather datasets, we provide i.) more annotated images, ii.) paired Near-Infrared (NIR) image for each frame, iii.) larger label set with a 4-level label hierarchy to capture unstructured traffic conditions. We benchmark state-of-the-art models for semantic segmentation in IDD-AW. We also propose a new metric called 'Safe mean Intersection over Union (Safe mIoU)' for hierarchical datasets which penalizes dangerous mispredictions that are not captured in the traditional definition of mean Intersection over Union (mIoU).
  • 2024.01.03
    CNN based image resizing forensics for double compressed JPEG images
    Elsevier, Journal of Information Security and Applications
    This paper investigates a novel CNN-based architecture for image resizing forensics in the presence of Double-JPEG compression.

Skills

Deep Learning
Pytorch
Python
C#
SQL
Data Structures & Algorithms
Object Oriented Programming
DBMS
Git
Azure Cognitive Services

Languages

Telugu
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Medical Imaging
Image Forensics
Generative AI

References

Dr.Girish Varma :
Assistant Professor International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India 040-6653 1000 Ext:1212 , girish.varma@iiit.ac.in
Dr.Manish Okade
Associate Professor National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India (+91) 661 246 2471 , 3471 , okadem@nitrkl.ac.in