Kartik Kuckreja

Hi! I am a Research Associate-II at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), jointly advised by Prof. Muhammad Haris Khan and Prof. Abhinav Dhall( Monash University).

I recently completed my undergrad from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani (BITS-Pilani) in Computer Science. I had the privilege of completing my Undergraduate Thesis (GeoChat) under the guidance of Prof. Fahad Khan, Dr. Salman Khan and Dr. Abhijit Das. Before this, I worked as a Summer Research Intern at IIT Ropar, with Dr. Abhinav Dhall.

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Research Interests

I mostly work in the intersection of Deep Learning and Computer Vision, particularly involving Generative AI. Currently working on Long video/ movie understanding (Multimodal) and Embodied AI (Multiagent Robotics). Earlier, I worked on Vision Language Models for Remote Sensing and Deepfakes.

News

  • [February 2025] - Joined Prof. Haris and Prof. Abhinav Dhall as Research Associate-II at MBZUAI.
  • [June 2024] - Attending CVPR-24 in Seattle, USA 🥳🥳.
  • [June 2024] - Graduated from BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus 🥳🥳.
  • [May 2024] - INDIFACE accepted to IEEE-FG Workshop 🎉🎉.
  • [March 2024] - Geochat accepted at CVPR-24 🎉🎉.
  • [Nov 2023] - Released GeoChat :)
  • [June 2023] - Joined MBZUAI as a Research Assistant.
  • [June 2022] - Joined LASII Lab at IIT Ropar as a Summer Research Intern.
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    Publications

    * denotes joint first authors
    indiface Tell me Habibi, is it Real or Fake?
    Kartik Kuckreja, Parul Gupta, Injy Hamed, Thamar Solorio, Muhammad Haris Khan Abhinav Dhall,
    Under Review Neurips-25
    Code / Dataset / Paper

    Geochat GeoChat: Grounded Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing
    Kartik Kuckreja*, Mohammad Sohail Danish*, Muzammal Naseer, Salman Khan, Abhijit Das, Fahad Shahbaz Khan
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition-2024
    Code / Paper

    indiface INDIFACE: Illuminating India's Deepfake Landscape with a Comprehensive Synthetic Dataset
    Kartik Kuckreja, Ximi Hoque, Nishit Poddar, Shukesh Reddy, Abhinav Dhall, Abhijit Das
    FG-24 SDFGA
    Paper

    indiface All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages
    Ashmal Vayani, Dinura Dissanayake, Kartik Kuckreja, Multiple Authors..
    CVPR-25 Highlight 🌟
    Code / Paper

    indiface GEOBench-VLM: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Geospatial Tasks
    Mohammad Sohail Danish*, Akhtar Munir*, Syed Roshaan, Kartik Kuckreja, Fahad Shahbaz Khan Paolo Fraccaro, Alexandre Lacoste, Salman Khan
    Under Review ICCV-25
    Code / Paper