Ankit Goyal
I am a Research Scientist in Robotics at NVIDIA working with Dieter Fox. I did my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University, where I was advised by Prof. Jia Deng. I completed Masters from University of Michigan and Bachelors from IIT Kanpur.
I have been fortunate to intern at some wonderful places and work with amazing mentors.
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PhD, CS Princeton University 2018 - 2022 |
Research Intern NVIDIA Summer-Fall 2021 |
Research Intern Intel Winter 2021 |
MS, CSE University of Michigan 2016 - 2018 |
Research Intern MSR Summer 2016 |
Research Intern USC Summer 2015 |
BTech, EE IIT Kanpur 2012 - 2016 |
Research
I am interested in understanding various aspects of intelligence, especially reasoning and common sense. In particular, I want to develop computation models for various reasoning skills that humans possess.
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ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Models
Ishika Singh, Valts Blukis, Arsalan Mousavian, Ankit Goyal, Danfei Xu, Jonathan Tremblay, Dieter Fox, Jesse Thomason, Animesh Garg
ICRA 2023
Also in LaRel @ NeurIPS 2022 and LangRob @ CoRL 2022
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We use large language models (LLMs) for task planning in robotics. We construct pythonic prompts, which specify the task, robot capabilities and the environment to seed LLMs.
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IFOR: Iterative Flow Minimization for Robotic Object Rearrangement
Ankit Goyal, Arsalan Mousavian, Chris Paxton, YWC, BO, JD, Dieter Fox
CVPR 2022
Also in EAI @ CVPR 2022
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IFOR is an end-to-end method for the challenging problem of object rearrangement for unknown objects given an RGBD image of the original and final scenes. It works on cluttered scenes in the real world, while training only on synthetic data.
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Coupled Iterative Refinement for 6D Multi-Object Pose Estimation
Lahav Lipson, Zachary Teed, Ankit Goyal, Jia Deng
CVPR 2022
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We propose state-of-the-art 6DOF multi-object pose estimation system. Our system iteratively refines object pose and correspondece.
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Non-deep Networks
Ankit Goyal, Alexey Bochkovskiy, Jia Deng, Vladlen Koltun
NeurIPS 2022
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Depth is the hallmark of DNNs. But more depth means more sequential computation and higher latency. This begs the question -- is it possible to build high-performing ``non-deep" neural networks? We show it is.
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Revisiting Point Cloud Shape Classification with a Simple and Effective Baseline
Ankit Goyal, Hei Law, Bowei Liu, Alejnadro Newell, Jia Deng
ICML 2021
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Many point-based approaches have been proposed reporting steady benchmark improvements over time. We study the key ingredients of this progress and uncover two critical results. First, auxiliary factors, independent of the model architecture, make a large difference in performance. Second, a very simple projection based method performs surprisingly well.
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Rel3D: A Minimally Contrastive Benchmark for Grounding Spatial Relations in 3D
Ankit Goyal, Kaiyu Yang, Dawei Yang, Jia Deng
NeuRIPS 2020, Spotlight (Top 4% of submitted papers)
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Understanding spatial relations is important for both humans and robots. We create Rel3D, the first large-scale, human-annotated dataset for grounding spatial relations in 3D. The 3D scenes in Rel3D come in minimally contrastive pairs: two scenes in a pair are almost identical, but a spatial relation holds in one and fails in the other.
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PackIt: A Virtual Environment for Geometric Planning
Ankit Goyal, Jia Deng
ICML 2020
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Simultaneously reasoning about geometry and planning action is crucial for intelligent agents. This ability of geometric planning comes in handy while grocery shopping, rearranging room, warehouse management etc. We create PackIt, a virtual environment that caters to geometric planning.
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Think Visually: Question Answering through Virtual Imagery
Ankit Goyal, Jian Wang, Jia Deng
ACL 2018
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We study geometric reasoning in the context of question-answering. We introduce Dynamic Spatial Memory Network (DSMN), a deep network architecture designed for answering questions that admit latent visual representations.
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ProtoNN: Compressed and Accurate kNN for Resource-scarce Devices
C Gupta, AS Suggala, A Goyal, HV Simhadri, BP, AK, SG, RU, MV, P Jain
ICML 2017
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Resource-Efficient Machine Learning
Prateek Jain, Chirag Gupta, AS Suggala, Ankit Goyal, HV Simhadri
US Patent Applicaiton
We propose ProtoNN, a novel algorithm that addresses the problem of real-time and accurate prediction on resource-scarce devices.
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A Multimodal Mixture-Of-Experts Model for Dynamic Emotion Prediction in Movies
Ankit Goyal, Naveen Kumar, Tanaya Guha, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
ICASSP 2016
We address the problem of continuous emotion prediction in movies. We propose a Mixture of Experts (MoE)-based fusion model that dynamically combines information from the audio and video modalities for predicting the emotion evoked in movies.
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Object Matching Using Speeded Up Robust Features
NK Verma, Ankit Goyal, A Harsha Vardhan, Rahul Kumar Sevakula, Al Salour
IES 2016
We propose a robust algorithm which is capable of detecting all the instances of a particular object in a scene image using Speeded Up Robust Features.
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Template Matching for Inventory Management using Fuzzy Color Histogram and Spatial Filters
NK Verma, Ankit Goyal, Anadi Chaman, Rahul K Sevakula, Al Salour
ICIEA 2015
We propose a methodology for object counting using color histogram based segmentation and spatial filters.
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Teaching
I have been a Teaching Assistant for the following courses:
- COS529: Advanced Computer Vision at Princeton University [Winter 2020]
- COS429: Computer Vision at Princeton University [Fall 2018]
- EECS442: Computer Vision at University of Michigan [Fall 2017, Winter 2018]
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