Yogesh S. Rawat
Associate Professor, IAI, CRCV, University of Central Florida.
Our research group is focused on advancing computer vision and AI, particularly in the areas of video understanding, multimodal learning, and robust AI systems. Our work explores foundational models and machine learning techniques to tackle challenges like action recognition, anomaly detection, and resilience to adversarial conditions. We aim to develop intelligent systems that not only perceive but also reason about complex visual and multimodal data for real-world applications.
We are always looking for PhD candidates, please reach out with your resume if you are interested in working with our group.
For recent list of research publications please visit Google Scholar.
Recent News
All News| Jul 01, 2026 | 4 papers accepted in ECCV’26, congrats to Raiyaan, Rajat, Priyank and Shresth! [Link] [Link] [Link] [Link] |
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| Jun 15, 2026 | Recognized as an Outstanding Area Chair at CVPR 2026. |
| Jun 05, 2026 | Two NAIRR Pilot projects approved: “Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Dynamic Visual Planning in Embodied Agents” and “Streaming Long-Video Understanding with Grounding and Efficient Memory.” Thank you to the sponsors for the support! |
| Feb 27, 2026 | 3 papers accepted in CVPR’26, congrats to Shehreen, Zen, Sirs, Rajat, Grace! [Link] [Link] [Link] |
| Sep 15, 2025 | 1 paper accepted in NeurIPS 2025 (Datasets and Benchmarks Track), congrats to Deepan! [Link] |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 3 papers accepted in ICCV’25, congrats to Raiyaan, Shehreen, and Priyank! [Link] [Link] [Link] |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Received UCF’s Reach for the Stars Award 2025! [Link] |
| Mar 20, 2025 | 3 papers accepted in CVPR’25, congrats to Xin, Shehreen, Aaryan and Akash! [Link] [Link] [Link] |
| Jan 28, 2025 | 2 papers accepted in ICLR’25, congrats to Akash and Priyank! [Link] [Link] |
| Jan 10, 2025 | 1 paper accepted in AAAI’25, congrats to Akash and Sirshapan! [Link] |
Recent Publications
All Publications-
ProDiG: Progressive Diffusion-Guided Gaussian Splatting for Aerial to Ground ReconstructionIn IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings, 2026
Service
All Service- Serving as an Associate Editor for the journal Pattern Recognition, 2024–present.
- Served as an Area Chair for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in 2026.
- Served as an Area Chair for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) in 2026.
- Served as an Area Chair for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in 2026.
- Served as an Area Chair for the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2026.
- Served as an Area Chair for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) in 2025.
- Served as an Area Chair for the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2025.
- Served as a panelist on a National Science Foundation (NSF) review panel in 2025.
- Served as an Area Chair for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in 2024.
- Serving as an Associate Editor for the journal Machine Vision and Applications (MVAP) since January 2020.