Name: Arun Reddy Anugu

Project: 2D VLMs for 3D VQA

Advisor: Prof. Fernando de la Torre
Industry Sponsor: Meta

Arun is a first-year MSCV student with expertise in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and 3D Computer Vision. His project responsibilities span conducting comprehensive literature surveys, evaluating baselines, including prior state-of-the-art 2D VLMs — for 3D Visual Question Answering (VQA), and developing novel approaches such as 3D Scene Object Maps and Novel View Synthesis–Augmented VLMs to enable robust 3D VQA. He also plans to explore additional research directions, including token pruning for VLMs and Video-Language Models.

Name: Kashish Gandhi

Project: 2D VLMs for 3D VQA

Advisor: Prof. Fernando de la Torre
Industry Sponsor: Meta

Kashish is a first-year MSCV student with expertise in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and 3D Computer Vision. Her project responsibilities span conducting comprehensive literature surveys, evaluating baselines, including prior state-of-the-art 2D VLMs — for 3D Visual Question Answering (VQA), and working on Plucker Ray map encoding. Along with this she is going to explore the situation-aware view selection for SQA3D dataset. She also plans to explore additional research directions, including token pruning for VLMs and Video-Language Models.