Varun Belagali

CS PhD student at Stony Brook University, New York. I am part of the CV Lab advised by Prof. Dimitris Samaras.
Previously, I was a Research Associate at Spire Lab, IISc working with Prof. Prasanta Kumar Ghosh. I have completed my Bachelor's in CS from R V College of Engneering, Bengaluru.

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Research

Visual Representation Learning with Self-supervision

TICON: A Slide-Level Tile Contextualizer for Histopathology Representation Learning
Varun Belagali*, Saarthak Kapse* Pierre Marza, Srijan Das, Zilinghan Li, Sofiène Boutaj, Pushpak Pati, Srikar Yellapragada, Tarak Nath Nandi, Ravi K Madduri, Joel Saltz, Prateek Prasanna, Stergios Christodoulidis, Maria Vakalopoulou, Dimitris Samaras

arXiv 2025 → CVPR 2026 (Findings)
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CDG-MAE: Learning Correspondences from Diffusion Generated Views
Varun Belagali, Pierre Marza, Srikar Yellapragada, Zilinghan Li, Tarak Nath Nandi, Ravi K Madduri, Joel Saltz, Stergios Christodoulidis, Maria Vakalopoulou, Dimitris Samaras

arXiv 2025
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Gen-SIS: Generative Self-augmentation Improves Self-supervised Learning
Varun Belagali*, Srikar Yellapragada*, Alexandros Graikos, Saarthak Kapse, Zilinghan Li, Tarak Nath Nandi, Ravi K Madduri, Prateek Prasanna, Joel Saltz, Dimitris Samaras

arXiv 2024
Paper | Website

HyperMAE: Modulating Implicit Neural Representations for MAE Training
Varun Belagali, Lei Zhou, Xiang Li, Dimitris Samaras

NeurIPS Workshop - SSLTheoryPractice 2023
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