{"id":121,"date":"2026-05-07T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf17\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:26:39","slug":"team-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf17\/team-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Name<\/strong>: <strong>Arun Reddy Anugu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project: 2D VLMs for 3D VQA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advisor: Prof. Fernando de la Torre<br>Industry Sponsor: Meta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.57.42-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.57.42-PM.png 314w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.57.42-PM-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2014 for 3D Visual Question Answering (VQA), and developing novel approaches such as 3D Scene Object Maps and Novel View Synthesis\u2013Augmented VLMs to enable robust 3D VQA. He also plans to explore additional research directions, including token pruning for VLMs and Video-Language Models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Name: Kashish Gandhi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project: 2D VLMs for 3D VQA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advisor: Prof. Fernando de la Torre<br>Industry Sponsor: Meta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2026\/05\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0120623712856722;width:376px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2026\/05\/image-9.png 672w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2026\/05\/image-9-300x296.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kashish is a first-year MSCV student with expertise in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and 3D Computer Vision. 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