I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Math & Computing Science, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada. Prior to joining SMU, I was a postdoc in Graphics Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria. Prior to UVic, I worked as a postdoc in Geospatial Intelligence Lab, University of Calgary. I obtained my PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras under the supervision of Prof. Ramanathan Muthuganapathy.
Research Interests
Broadly, my research interests lie in computer graphics, 3D vision and machine learning. I am interested in developing efficient algorithms, and computational tools for 3D sensing and modeling of the objects and the world around us, with interesting applications in virtual/augmented reality, autonomous robotics, urban planning & simulation, collective behavior etc.. I am also interested in geometric problems related to shape analysis, matching and retrieval. My current focus include the following.
- Point cloud processing (LiDAR/RGB-D)
- Semantic surface reconstruction
- Spatial data structures
- Geometric and topological deep learning
Open Positions
We have a few available positions at the level of PhD, MSc and BSc. See the group page for more details.
Grants/Fellowships
- John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), CFI 2022-24
- Research Opportunities Fund, Research Nova Scotia, 2022
- MITACS Accelerate Cluster Funding, 2020-2022 (with Modest Tree, Halifax)
- Discovery grant, NSERC of Canada, 2019-2024
- FGSR grant, SMU, 2018
- Start up grant, Saint Mary’s University 2018
- MITACS Elevate fellowship (with Dreamcraft Attractions, Victoria), 2018
- EYES HIGH fellowship, University of Calgary, 2015-2017
- Institute fellowship, IIT Madras, 2014-2015
- MHRD PhD scholarship, 2011-2014
Professional Activities
- Editorial
- Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 2019-
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Advances in Understanding and 3D Semantic Modeling of Large-Scale Urban Scenes from Point Clouds II” for Remote Sensing, submission deadline March 2024.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Advances in Understanding and 3D Semantic Modeling of Large-Scale Urban Scenes from Point Clouds” for Remote Sensing, submission deadline Feb 2023.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Advances in Deep Learning based 3D Scene Understanding from LiDAR” for Remote Sensing, submission deadline Jan 2023.
- Guest Editor, Special issue on “LiDAR based Virtual City Creation” for Sensors, 2019-20.
- Session Chair/Committees
- Session chair, 3D Data Construction, Processing and Evaluation (Posters), IEEE IGARSS 2023
- NSERC CS Scholarship Committee (Member), 2022-
- Science Atlantic CS Committee (Member), 2023-
- AARMS CRG Scientific Machine Learning (Member), 2021-
- Program Committee (Member)- CRV 2024-
- Program Committee (Member)- ISVC 2019-
- Program Committee (Member)- CVPR USM3D 2024
- Review Committee (Member)-CAD 2020-
- Ad hoc Reviewer
- Funding agencies
- NSERC DG
- MITACS Accelerate
- Journals-
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier
- Image & Vision Computing, Elsevier
- Computers & Graphics, Elsevier
- International Journal of Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing
- Conferences-
- ECCV, WACV, ISVC, INDOOR3D, CRV, SIBGRAPI, ISPRS Congress
- Funding agencies
Membership
- ACM SIGGRAPH
- ASIA Graphics Association
- Solid Modeling Association (SMA)
- ACM SIGSPATIAL
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IEEE Computer Society
- IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society
- IEEE Smart Cities Community
Industrial Projects
- Optimization of Cab Lamp Locations on Hydraulic Excavator for Improved Illumination, Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd, 2014-2015
- Spheremesh Tracker for VR Darkrides, Dreamcraft Attractions Ltd, Victoria, 2017-2018
Contact
Office: MN130, McNally North (see the map below),
Department of Math & Computing Science,
Saint Mary’s University,
912 Robie Street, Halifax, Canada-B3H3C3
e-mail: jiju.poovvancheri@smu.ca/jijupnair2000@gmail.com
phone: +1 902 420 5787 , +1 902 266 4096