Lalit Manam
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow -
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Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, 2025 -
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Biography
Lalit Manam earned his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science in 2025, where he worked on structure from motion (SfM), a fundamental approach in 3D computer vision. His doctoral research was focused on efficient and reliable camera motion estimation. At MERL, he continues to explore related problems in 3D computer vision like simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and their applications.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL Presents 7 Papers and 2 Workshops at CVPR 2026 Date: June 3, 2026 - June 7, 2026
Where: Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado
MERL Contacts: Moitreya Chatterjee; Anoop Cherian; Kaen Kogashi; Suhas Lohit; Lalit Manam; Tim K. Marks; Pedro Miraldo; Kuan-Chuan Peng
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine LearningBrief- MERL researchers are proud to present 7 papers, including two highlight papers (top 3.6% of submissions), and 2 workshops at CVPR 2026. CVPR, taking place from June 3-7 in Denver, CO, USA, is a premier international conference in computer vision.
Papers with MERL Authors:
1. Point4Cast: Streaming Dynamic Scene Reconstruction and Forecasting by Xinhang Liu, Pedro Miraldo, Suhas Lohit, Huaizu Jiang, Naoko Sawada, Yu-Wing Tai, Chi-Keung Tang, and Moitreya Chatterjee (Highlight Paper)
2. Parallel Rigidity Matters for Bundle Adjustment by Lalit Manam and Venu Govindu (Highlight Paper)
3. Revisiting Monocular SLAM with Spatio-Temporal Scene Modeling by Valter Piedade, Lalit Manam, Masashi Yamazaki, and Pedro Miraldo
4. AssemblyBench: Physics-Aware Assembly of Complex Industrial Objects by Danrui Li, Jiahao Zhang, Bernhard Egger, Moitreya Chatterjee, Suhas Lohit, Tim K. Marks, and Anoop Cherian
5. LASER: Layer-wise Scale Alignment for Training-Free Streaming 4D Reconstruction by Tianye Ding, Yiming Xie, Yiqing Liang, Moitreya Chatterjee, Pedro Miraldo, and Huaizu Jiang
6. SoREL: Soft-Label Refurbishment with Ensemble Learning for Noisy Long-Tailed Classification by Jun-Wei Hsieh, Ying-Hsuan Wu, Yi-Kuan Hsieh, Xin Li, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Ming-Ching Chang (CVPR Findings paper)
7. MMHOI: Complex 3D Multi-Human-Object Interaction Understanding by Kaen Kogashi and Anoop Cherian (PhysHuman Workshop paper)
Workshops Co-Organized by MERL:
1. Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning Workshop by Anoop Cherian, Suhas Lohit, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Honglu Zhou, Kevin Smith, and Josh Tenenbaum
2. The Third Workshop on Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models by Kuan-Chuan Peng, Ying Zhao, and Abhishek Aich
- MERL researchers are proud to present 7 papers, including two highlight papers (top 3.6% of submissions), and 2 workshops at CVPR 2026. CVPR, taking place from June 3-7 in Denver, CO, USA, is a premier international conference in computer vision.
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Research Highlights
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MERL Publications
- , "Parallel Rigidity Matters for Bundle Adjustment", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), May 2026.BibTeX TR2026-053 PDF Video Presentation
- @inproceedings{Lalit2026may,
- author = {{Lalit, Manam and Govindu, Venu}},
- title = {{Parallel Rigidity Matters for Bundle Adjustment}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-053}
- }
- , "Revisiting Monocular SLAM with Spatio-Temporal Scene Modeling", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), May 2026.BibTeX TR2026-056 PDF Video Software Presentation
- @inproceedings{Piedade2026may,
- author = {{Piedade, Valter and Manam, Lalit and Yamazaki, Masashi and Miraldo, Pedro}},
- title = {{Revisiting Monocular SLAM with Spatio-Temporal Scene Modeling}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-056}
- }
- , "Parallel Rigidity Matters for Bundle Adjustment", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), May 2026.
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Other Publications
- , "Leveraging Camera Triplets for Efficient and Accurate Structure-from-Motion", Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2024, pp. 4959-4968.BibTeX External
- @Inproceedings{manam2024camtripsfm,
- author = {Manam, Lalit and Govindu, Venu Madhav},
- title = {Leveraging Camera Triplets for Efficient and Accurate Structure-from-Motion},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2024,
- pages = {4959--4968},
- month = jun,
- url = {https://ee.iisc.ac.in/cvlab/research/camtripsfm/cam_triplets_sfm.pdf}
- }
- , "Fusing Directions and Displacements in Translation Averaging", International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), March 2024, pp. 75-84.BibTeX External
- @Inproceedings{manam2024fusedta,
- author = {Manam, Lalit and Govindu, Venu Madhav},
- title = {Fusing Directions and Displacements in Translation Averaging},
- booktitle = {International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)},
- year = 2024,
- pages = {75--84},
- month = mar,
- organization = {IEEE},
- url = {https://ee.iisc.ac.in/cvlab/research/fusedta/fused_ta.pdf}
- }
- , "Sensitivity in Translation Averaging", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2023, vol. 36.BibTeX External
- @Inproceedings{manam2023tasensitivity,
- author = {Manam, Lalit and Govindu, Venu Madhav},
- title = {Sensitivity in Translation Averaging},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
- year = 2023,
- volume = 36,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://ee.iisc.ac.in/cvlab/research/tasensitivity/ta_sensitivity.pdf}
- }
- , "Correspondence Reweighted Translation Averaging", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022, pp. 56-72.BibTeX External
- @Inproceedings{manam2022creta,
- author = {Manam, Lalit and Govindu, Venu Madhav},
- title = {Correspondence Reweighted Translation Averaging},
- booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
- year = 2022,
- pages = {56--72},
- organization = {Springer},
- url = {https://www.ecva.net/papers/eccv_2022/papers_ECCV/papers/136930053.pdf}
- }
- , "Leveraging Camera Triplets for Efficient and Accurate Structure-from-Motion", Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2024, pp. 4959-4968.
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