Sakethram Madhuvarasu

Hello all! I am Saketh, a Perception Software Engineer at Seneca, where I build the vision stack for autonomous drones — automated annotation and training pipelines, custom depth models, and LiDAR-based detection running on the edge.

Previously, I was a Machine Learning Engineer in Computer Vision at Meta Reality Labs, where my main focus was 3D reconstruction — generating synthetic training data from multi-view AR/VR captures using Gaussian Splatting — and a language-grounded 3D-VLM for 3D scene understanding and geometry-aware panel placement. I also worked on stereo depth estimation and hand–object segmentation. Before that, I worked on geometric computer vision at Vimaan Robotics — transformer-based detection and camera calibration for warehouse automation.

I earned my MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, specializing in Robotics and AI, and my B.Tech in Electrical Engineering at IIT Tirupati. At UCSD I was a graduate researcher on 3D Gaussian Splatting with Prof. Tara Javidi, and on visual-inertial SLAM and semantic odometry with Prof. Nikolay Atanasov.

I’m interested in 3D vision for robotics: 3D-scene reconstruction, multi-view geometry, 3D-perception, and Embodied AI

News

May 2026	Started as a Perception Software Engineer at Seneca
Mar 2026	Our paper “Ego-1K: A Large-Scale Multiview Video Dataset for Egocentric Vision” was accepted at CVPR 2026
Feb 2026	Our paper “3D Scene Rendering with Multimodal Gaussian Splatting” was accepted at ACSSC 2026
Aug 2025	Started as a Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision at Meta Reality Labs
Jun 2025	Graduated with an MS in ECE from UC San Diego

Selected Publications

CVPR

Ego-1K: A Large-Scale Multiview Video Dataset for Egocentric Vision

Jae Yong Lee, Daniel Scharstein, Akash Bapat, et al., Saketh Madhuvarasu, Jason Wither

In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{lee2026ego1k,
  author = {Lee, Jae Yong and Scharstein, Daniel and Bapat, Akash and Hu, Hao and Fu, Andrew and Zhao, Haoru and Sammut, Paul and Li, Xiang and Jeapes, Stephen and Gupta, Anik and David, Lior and Madhuvarasu, Saketh and Joshi, Jay Girish and Wither, Jason},
  title = {Ego-1K: A Large-Scale Multiview Video Dataset for Egocentric Vision},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year = {2026},
}

ACSSC

3D Scene Rendering with Multimodal Gaussian Splatting

Chi-Shiang Gau, Konstantinos D. Polyzos, Athanasios Bacharis, Saketh Madhuvarasu, and Tara Javidi

In Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC), 2026

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{gau2026mmgs,
  author = {Gau, Chi-Shiang and Polyzos, Konstantinos D. and Bacharis, Athanasios and Madhuvarasu, Saketh and Javidi, Tara},
  title = {3D Scene Rendering with Multimodal Gaussian Splatting},
  booktitle = {Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC)},
  year = {2026},
}

arXiv

ActiveInitSplat: How Active Image Selection Helps Gaussian Splatting

Konstantinos D. Polyzos, Athanasios Bacharis, Saketh Madhuvarasu, Nikos Papanikolopoulos, and Tara Javidi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06859, 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{polyzos2025activeinitsplat,
  author = {Polyzos, Konstantinos D. and Bacharis, Athanasios and Madhuvarasu, Saketh and Papanikolopoulos, Nikos and Javidi, Tara},
  title = {ActiveInitSplat: How Active Image Selection Helps Gaussian Splatting},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2503.06859},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06859},
}

ROBIO

Fog-based Distributed Camera Network system for Surveillance Applications

Mvs Sakethram, and Ps Saikrishna

In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2023

DOI Bib HTML

@inproceedings{10355008,
  author = {Sakethram, Mvs and Saikrishna, Ps},
  title = {Fog-based Distributed Camera Network system for Surveillance Applications},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)},
  year = {2023},
  pages = {1-6},
  doi = {10.1109/ROBIO58561.2023.10355008},
  keywords = {Cloud computing;Surveillance;Cameras;Software;Real-time systems;Sensors;Internet of Things}
}