seevi-lab

Research

Our peer-reviewed publications span image forensics, provenance analysis, and image protection, including work on transformation-aware embeddings, fast large-scale image retrieval, and defending images against AI-based editing.

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Is Perturbation-Based Image Protection Disruptive to Image Editing
Is Perturbation-Based Image Protection Disruptive to Image Editing?
Qiuyu Tang, Bonor Ayambem, Mooi Choo Chuah, Aparna Bharati
2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)  ·  14 Sep 2025  ·  doi:10.1109/icip55913.2025.11084494

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2025

Is Perturbation-Based Image Protection Disruptive to Image Editing
Is Perturbation-Based Image Protection Disruptive to Image Editing?
Qiuyu Tang, Bonor Ayambem, Mooi Choo Chuah, Aparna Bharati
2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)  ·  14 Sep 2025  ·  doi:10.1109/icip55913.2025.11084494
Implications of Neural Compression to Scientific Images
Implications of Neural Compression to Scientific Images
João Phillipe Cardenuto, Joshua Krinsky, Lucas Nogueira, Aparna Bharati, Daniel Moreira
Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security  ·  17 Jun 2025  ·  doi:10.1145/3733102.3733148
Subjective Face Transform using Human First Impressions
Subjective Face Transform using Human First Impressions
Chaitanya Roygaga, Joshua Krinsky, Kai Zhang, Kenny Kwok, Aparna Bharati
arXiv  ·  19 Mar 2025  ·  arxiv:2309.15381
Learn No to Say Yes Better: Improving Vision-Language Models via Negations
Learn "No" to Say "Yes" Better: Improving Vision-Language Models via Negations
Jaisidh Singh, Ishaan Shrivastava, Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Aparna Bharati
arXiv  ·  13 Mar 2025  ·  arxiv:2403.20312
Learning the Power of No : Foundation Models with Negations
Learning the Power of “No”: Foundation Models with Negations
Jaisidh Singh, Ishaan Shrivastava, Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Aparna Bharati
2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)  ·  26 Feb 2025  ·  doi:10.1109/WACV61041.2025.00777
From No to Know: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Opportunities for Negation Understanding in Multimodal Foundation Models
From No to Know: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Opportunities for Negation Understanding in Multimodal Foundation Models
Mayank Vatsa, Aparna Bharati, Surbhi Mittal, Richa Singh
arXiv  ·  17 Feb 2025  ·  arxiv:2502.09645

2024

Exploring Saliency Bias in Manipulation Detection
Exploring Saliency Bias in Manipulation Detection
Joshua Krinsky, Alan Bettis, Qiuyu Tang, Daniel Moreira, Aparna Bharati
2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)  ·  27 Oct 2024  ·  doi:10.1109/ICIP51287.2024.10648063
A Relative Data Diversity Measure for Synthetic Face Images
A Relative Data Diversity Measure for Synthetic Face Images
Cancan Zhang, Chaitanya Roygaga, Aparna Bharati
2024 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)  ·  15 Sep 2024  ·  doi:10.1109/IJCB62174.2024.10744512
SynthProv: Interpretable Framework for Profiling Identity Leakage
SynthProv: Interpretable Framework for Profiling Identity Leakage
Jaisidh Singh, Harshil Bhatia, Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Aparna Bharati
2024 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)  ·  03 Jan 2024  ·  doi:10.1109/wacv57701.2024.00468

2023

Development of an Automated Reciprocal-Space Navigator in a JEOL FEMTUS Platform
Development of an Automated Reciprocal-Space Navigator in a JEOL FEMTUS Platform
Surui Huang, Brian Chen, Aparna Bharati, Martin P Harmer, Masashi Watanabe
Microscopy and Microanalysis  ·  22 Jul 2023  ·  doi:10.1093/micmic/ozad067.359
IdProv: Identity-Based Provenance for Synthetic Image Generation Student Abstract
IdProv: Identity-Based Provenance for Synthetic Image Generation (Student Abstract)
Harshil Bhatia, Jaisidh Singh, Gaurav Sangwan, Aparna Bharati, Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence  ·  26 Jun 2023  ·  doi:10.1609/aaai.v37i13.26942

2022

A Computer Vision Method for Estimating Velocity from Jumps
A Computer Vision Method for Estimating Velocity from Jumps
Soumyadip Roy, Chaitanya Roygaga, Nathaniel Blanchard, Aparna Bharati
arXiv  ·  12 Dec 2022  ·  arxiv:2212.04665
In-group and Out-group Performance Bias in Facial Retouching Detection
In-group and Out-group Performance Bias in Facial Retouching Detection
Aparna Bharati, Emma Connors, Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Kevin Bowyer
2022 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)  ·  10 Oct 2022  ·  doi:10.1109/IJCB54206.2022.10007942
Push-Button Microscopy : Automated Instrument Alignment and Reciprocal-space Navigation using PyJEM
“Push-Button Microscopy”: Automated Instrument Alignment and Reciprocal-space Navigation using PyJEM
Surui Huang, Jack Kellerk, Brian Chen, Aparna Bharati, Masashi Watanabe, Patrick Cantwell, Chris Marvel, Martin Harmer
Microscopy and Microanalysis  ·  01 Aug 2022  ·  doi:10.1017/s1431927622011771
Image Provenance Analysis
Image Provenance Analysis
Daniel Moreira, William Theisen, Walter Scheirer, Aparna Bharati, Joel Brogan, Anderson Rocha
Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition  ·  01 Jan 2022  ·  doi:10.1007/978-981-16-7621-5_15
APE-V: Athlete Performance Evaluation using Video
APE-V: Athlete Performance Evaluation using Video
Chaitanya Roygaga, Dhruva Patil, Michael Boyle, William Pickard, Raoul Reisers, Aparna Bharati, Nathaniel Blanchard
2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW)  ·  01 Jan 2022  ·  doi:10.1109/wacvw54805.2022.00076

2021

Fast Local Spatial Verification for Feature-Agnostic Large-Scale Image Retrieval
Fast Local Spatial Verification for Feature-Agnostic Large-Scale Image Retrieval
Joel Brogan, Aparna Bharati, Daniel Moreira, Anderson Rocha, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn, Walter J. Scheirer
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing  ·  01 Jan 2021  ·  doi:10.1109/TIP.2021.3097175
Transformation-Aware Embeddings for Image Provenance
Transformation-Aware Embeddings for Image Provenance
Aparna Bharati, Daniel Moreira, Patrick J. Flynn, Anderson de Rezende Rocha, Kevin W. Bowyer, Walter J. Scheirer
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security  ·  01 Jan 2021  ·  doi:10.1109/TIFS.2021.3050061