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Gaurav Rai

Ph.D Research Scholar

IIIT Delhi, India


I'm a Ph.D. research scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi under the supervision of Dr. Ojaswa Sharma .

My research focuses on sketch-to-video synthesis, diffusion-based animation, motion transfer, and 3D-aware visual generation. Over the past few years, I have worked on projects involving video-driven image animation, text-to-video diffusion models, sketch animation transfer, and AI-driven indoor scene synthesis. My broader research interests include differentiable rendering, skeletal deformation, scene understanding, motion estimation, and generative visual computing. I enjoy building systems that combine geometric reasoning with modern generative models to create intuitive and interactive visual experiences.

Contact

  • gauravr [at] iiitd.ac.in

    grg.gauravr [at] gmail.com

  • LAB A513, R&D Block, IIIT-Delhi, Delhi, 110020

Education

  • PhD in CSE, 2020-2026

    IIIT Delhi, India

  • B.Tech in CSE, 2016-2020

    GKV, Haridwar, India

Research Experiences

  • CDNM Logo Center for Design and New Media, IIIT Delhi
    Sept 2025 - Jan 2026
    Research Associate
  • BTH Logo HINTs Lab, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Karlskrona, Sweden
    Sept 2024 - Feb 2025
    Visiting Researcher
  • GRG Logo Graphics Research Group, IIIT Delhi, India
    Aug 2020 - Present (Thesis submitted)
    Research Scholar, Supervisor: Dr. Ojaswa Sharma

Publications

  • Published

    SketchAnim: Real-time sketch animation transfer from videos

    Gaurav Rai, Shreyas Gupta, Ojaswa Sharma.

    23RD ACM SIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2024).

    Published in Computer Graphics Forum.

    [ Paper ] [ Code ] [ Project Page ]

  • Enhancing Sketch Animation: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with Temporal Consistency and Rigidity Constraints

    Gaurav Rai, Ojaswa Sharma.

    20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2025).

    [ Paper ] [ Code ] [ Project Page ]

  • LiveImage: Motion Condition Guided Diffusion Model for Video Motion Transfer

    Gaurav Rai, Ojaswa Sharma.

    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2025).

    [ Paper ] [ Code ] [ Project Page ]

  • Space-aware Indoor Furniture Recommendation and Placement using Agentic AI

    Prashant Goswami, Gaurav Rai*, V.S.A. Akula*, Ojaswa Sharma, Muhammad Imran.

    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality (ICIR 2025).

    [ Paper ] [ Code ] [ Project Page ]

Achievements

  • Presented the LiveImage paper at ICME 2025 in Nantes, France.
  • Received ACM Student Travel Grant for ICME 2025.
  • Presented the Enhancing Sketch Animation paper at VISIGRAPP 2025 in Porto, Portugal.
  • Received CHANAKYA Doctoral Fellowship.
  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Computer Science and Engineering (2020).

Positions of Responsibility

Academic Services

Teaching Assistant