{"id":36,"date":"2026-04-25T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:13:47","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Avi Athota<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37\" style=\"width:156px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-8.png 300w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-8-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Avi Athota is a Master\u2019s student in Computer Vision (MSCV) at Carnegie Mellon University. His interests lie in computer vision, multimodal learning, and their applications to real-world systems such as autonomous driving. In this project, he led the design and implementation of the detection-to-reasoning pipeline, including vision-language modeling and evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sagar Bellad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38\" style=\"width:161px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-9.png 300w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-9-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sagar Bellad is a Master\u2019s student in Computer Vision (MSCV) at Carnegie Mellon University. His interests lie in computer vision, vision-language models, diffusion models, and applied machine learning for autonomous driving systems and real-world deployment. Before CMU, he worked on large-scale ML and video streaming systems at Sling TV \/ DISH Network. In this project, he contributed to the vision pipeline, synthetic data generation, model evaluation, and perception system design for reliable warehouse object understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The faculty mentor for this project is <a href=\"https:\/\/frc.ri.cmu.edu\/~zhangji\/\">Dr. Ji Zhang<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project was sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiongroup.com\/en\/\">KION Group<\/a>, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dematic.com\/en-us\/\">Dematic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4.386116991481922;width:410px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-10.png 1000w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-10-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/04\/image-10-768x175.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avi Athota Avi Athota is a Master\u2019s student in Computer Vision (MSCV) at Carnegie Mellon University. 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Sagar Bellad Sagar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Team - Grounded Vision-Language Understanding for Warehouse Automation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2026teamf5\/team\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Team - Grounded Vision-Language Understanding for Warehouse Automation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Avi Athota Avi Athota is a Master\u2019s student in Computer Vision (MSCV) at Carnegie Mellon University. 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