The Vision Intelligence Lab (VIL) is a research group at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIITA) under the supervision of Dr. Navjot Singh, dedicated to advancing the frontiers of computer vision, image processing, natural language processing and machine learning.
Our research spans a broad spectrum of challenging problems — from document intelligence, detecting objects in complex real-world environments to restoring images degraded by underwater conditions or adverse weather. We are committed to producing high-impact research that bridges theoretical foundations with practical applications.
The lab fosters a collaborative environment for researchers, encouraging innovative thinking, rigorous methodology, and interdisciplinary approaches to solve real-world challenges.
We tackle challenging problems with deep learning, artifiial intelligence and novel algorithmic approaches.
Intelligent processing of handwritten and printed documents, including layout analysis, table understanding, OCR, and information extraction from historical and modern documents.
Developing robust detectors for complex scenes, occluded objects, and challenging illumination conditions using transformer-based and CNN architectures.
Advancing deep learning methods for accurate image classification and pixel-level segmentation across diverse domains including medical, aerial, and natural imagery.
Restoring and improving degraded images affected by noise, haze, rain, or underwater conditions using physics-aware and learning-based deep models.
Improving visual quality of video sequences through temporal super-resolution, denoising, and restoration techniques for real-world surveillance and media applications.
Building multimodal systems that understand and reason over visual content to answer natural language questions, bridging computer vision and language understanding.
Research published at top venues.
Meet the researchers driving innovation at Vision Intelligence Lab.
Publicly available datasets curated and released by the lab for the research community.