Tarasha Khurana
I am a Ph.D. candidate at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University advised by Prof. Deva Ramanan. My research focus is broadly on spatiotemporal 4D scene understanding and its applications. Previously, I did my Masters in Robotics at CMU and Bachelors in Computer Engineering at University of Delhi. I have had the fortune to work at amazing companies - Boston Dynamics AI Institute, Google Research, Argo AI, Staqu Technologies.

I am a trained Kathak dancer, and Hindustani classical vocalist. I love baking, taking care of plants, and hiking. My life is made easier by my husband, Akash Sharma, who does research in robotics.

News
[03/24] We launched the 2nd iteration of Argoverse2.0 Occupancy Forecasting Challenge.
[02/24] I'll be at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute this summer.
[08/23] I was chosen as a Rising Star in EECS!
[07/23] I gave a talk on building 4D foundation models at Waabi AI.
[06/23] We are all set to organize the Argoverse2.0 Challenges at CVPR 2023!
[03/23] Our work on 4D occupancy forecasting was accepted to CVPR 2023!
[07/22] Detecting Invisible People was covered by NBC Universal.
[01/22] I'll be at Google Research this summer, working with Alireza Fathi and Cordelia Schmid!
[07/21] My favorite work, Detecting Invisible People, was accepted to ICCV '21!
[04/21] I accepted CMU's PhD offer for Fall '21.
Recent Work
Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentation
Kaihua Chen, Deva Ramanan, Tarasha Khurana
In submission.
[pdf] [project page] [code (coming soon)]
Predicting Long-horizon Futures by Conditioning on Geometry and Time
Tarasha Khurana, Deva Ramanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11554, 2024.
[pdf] [project page]
TAO-Amodal: A Benchmark for Tracking any Object Amodally
Cheng-Yen Hseih, Kaihua Chen, Achal Dave, Tarasha Khurana, Deva Ramanan
In submission.
[pdf] [project page] [code]
Point Cloud Forecasting as a Proxy for 4D Occupancy Forecasting
Tarasha Khurana, Peiyun Hu, David Held, Deva Ramanan
IEEE/CVF Conferece on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), '23.
[pdf] [project page] [code]
Differentiable Raycasting for Self-supervised Planning
Tarasha Khurana*, Peiyun Hu*, Achal Dave, Jason Ziglar, David Held, Deva Ramanan
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), '22.
[pdf] [project page] [code]
BURST: A Benchmark for Unifying Object Recognition, Segmentation and Tracking in Videos
Ali Athar, Jonathon Luiten, Paul Voigtlaender, Tarasha Khurana, Achal Dave, Bastian Leibe, Deva Ramanan
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023.
[arXiv] [benchmark & API]
Detecting Invisible People
Tarasha Khurana, Achal Dave, Deva Ramanan
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), '21.
[arXiv] [project page] [code]
Detecting Invisible People's media coverage by NBC Universal.
[article]
TAO: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Tracking Any Object
Achal Dave, Tarasha Khurana, Pavel Tokmakov, Cordelia Schmid, Deva Ramanan
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) '20. Spotlight.
[arXiv] [project page] [workshop] [dataset]
Exploiting Texture Cues for Clothing Parsing in Fashion Images
Tarasha Khurana, Kushagra Mahajan, Chetan Arora, Atul Rai
25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) '18.
[pdf] [poster] [Xplore]
Pose Aware Fine Grained Visual Classification Using Pose Experts
Kushagra Mahajan, Tarasha Khurana, Ayush Chopra, Isha Gupta, Chetan Arora, Atul Rai
25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) '18.
[pdf] [poster] [Xplore]


I also have experience in the following research topics - earth observation, audio-video lip reading, lung cancer prediction, table detection in documents, text recognition, adversarial example generation.