Samyak Rawlekar

I am a PhD student in the Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am advised by Prof. Narendra Ahuja.

My research focuses on visual and vision-language representations for scene understanding and physical interaction. My interests include:

  • Self-supervised visual representations: Understanding pretrained vision models and discovering objects and their parts without additional training.
  • Vision-language learning: Adapting models for multi-object recognition, segmentation, and multimodal retrieval, while improving visual grounding.
  • 3D perception and physical interaction: Identifying object regions that support actions specified through images or language.

Previously, I obtained MS in Computer Engineering from New York University, and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Dharwad.

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Selected Publications

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PartDINO Teaser

Complementing DINO Features with Image Structure for Part Discovery

ObjectDINO Teaser

Finding Distributed Object-Centric Properties in Self-Supervised Transformers

DCLIP Teaser

Efficiently Disentangling CLIP for Multi-Object Perception

PositiveCoOp Teaser

PositiveCoOp: Rethinking Prompting Strategies for Multi-Label Recognition with Partial Annotations

MLR GCN Teaser

Improving Multi-label Recognition using Class Co-Occurrence Probabilities

S30 Teaser

S3O: A Dual-Phase Approach for Reconstructing Dynamic Shape and Skeleton

LIMR Teaser

LIMR: Learning Implicit Representation for Reconstructing Articulated Objects

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