Pranav Asthana

I’m a second year PhD student at the University of Maryland working with Prof. Matthias Zwicker.

Previously, I worked on 3D vision at Amazon Just-Walk-Out and language and multimodal models at ShortTok. Prior to that, I graduated with an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign where I was advised by Prof. David Forsyth and worked on Single Image Scene Relighting. I got my undergrad in CS from BITS Pilani - Hyderabad Campus.

My research interests include 3D Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and Computational Photography.

I love travelling, hiking, bouldering, badminton and am always looking for more to do. I’ve also been learning to play the guitar and keyboard.


Publications

   
SplatSure SplatSuRe: Selective Super-Resolution for Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Splatting
Under Review, 2025.
Pranav Asthana, Alex Hanson, Allen Tu, Tom Goldstein, Matthias Zwicker, Amitabh Varshney

Enhance 3D Gaussian Splatting by selectively injecting super-resolution only where high-frequency detail is missing, yielding sharper results and improved perceptual quality without introducing multi-view inconsistencies.
SIRfyN SIRfyN: Single Image Relighting from your Neighbors
arXiv, 2021.
David Forsyth, Anand Bhattad, Pranav Asthana, Yuanyi Zhong, Yu-Xiong Wang

Learning to relight images with a single image of a scene, lacking any multi-view or multi-illumination, by exploiting images of similar scenes.

Updates

     
Aug 2024 UMD Joined University of Maryland (College Park) for PhD in Computer Science
May 2024 PAXAFE Summer at PAXAFE as an ML Intern
Apr 2023 ShortTok Joined ShortTok as an ML Engineer to work on all things AI for automated visual storytelling
Aug 2022 AmazonGo Joined Amazon Go as an Applied Scientist to work on vision based just-walk-out technology
May 2022 UIUC Graduated MS with thesis on Single Image Scene Relighting, advised by Prof. David Forsyth
July 2021 AmazonLab126 Summer at Amazon Lab 126 as an Applied Scientist Intern to work on their home robot, Astro
Aug 2020 UIUC Joined University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC) for MS in Computer Science
Jul 2019 Arcesium Joined Arcesium as a Software Engineer
May 2019 BITS Graduated from BITS with a bachelor’s degree in CS
Jul 2018 AMEX Semester at American Express AI labs as a Research Intern to work on unsupervised summarization of customer call transcripts
May 2016 HappiestMinds Summer at Happiest Minds as an Intern to work on speaker recognition and video topic tagging
Aug 2015 BITS Joined BITS Pilani - Hyderabad campus for BE Computer Science