Publications

Publications are listed according to their type and in reverse chronological order. For an updated list please check on Google Scholar. * denotes equal contribution

2025

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    Fish-vista: A multi-purpose dataset for understanding & identification of traits from images
    Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, M Maruf, Arka Daw, Abhilash Neog, Harish Babu Manogaran, Mridul Khurana, Zhenyang Feng, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2025
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    TaxaDiffusion: Progressively Trained Diffusion Model for Fine-Grained Species Generation
    Amin Karimi Monsefi, Mridul Khurana, Rajiv Ramnath, Anuj Karpatne, Wei-Lun Chao, and Cheng Zhang
    In ICCV, 2025

2024

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    Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution
    Mridul Khurana, Arka Daw, M. Maruf, Josef C. Uyeda, Wasila Dahdul, Caleb Charpentier, Yasin Bakis, and 8 more authors
    In ECCV, 2024
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    Conditioning Diffusion Models Using the Knowledge of Phylogeny for Understanding Species Evolution
    Mridul Khurana, Arka Daw, M. Maruf, Josef C. Uyeda, Wasila Dahdul, Caleb Charpentier, Yasin Bakis, and 5 more authors
    In AAAI workshop on Imageomics (Oral), 2024
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    Vlm4bio: A benchmark dataset to evaluate pretrained vision-language models for trait discovery from biological images
    M Maruf, Arka Daw, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Harish Babu Manogaran, Abhilash Neog, Medha Sawhney, Mridul Khurana, and 4 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024

2023

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    Discovering Novel Biological Traits From Images Using Phylogeny-Guided Neural Networks
    Mohannad Elhamod, Mridul Khurana, Harish Babu Manogaran, Josef C. Uyeda, Meghan A. Balk, Wasila Dahdul, Yasin Bakis, and 11 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD (KDD) Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Oral), 2023
    Also at CVPR 2023 - CV4Animals Workshop (Oral + Poster)