Krishna Srikar Durbha

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Laboratory of Image and Video Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Alan Bovik. As part of my research, I collaborate with Meta Video Infrastructure Team on Video Engineering and Perceptual Quality Optimization.

My research involves developing self-supervised learning algorithms to build robust and human-aligned perceptual models. My interests include leveraging unlabeled data for image generation, improving visual quality assessment, and optimizing video delivery systems. My experience encompasses high-resolution image synthesis and the development of algorithms for detectingAI-generated content.

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Education
  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    2022 - Present
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Advisor: Prof. Alan Bovik
  • Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering
    2018 - 2022
    Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Research Interests
  • Image and Video Representation Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Image and Video Processing
  • Generative AI
  • Perceptual Quality Assessment
  • Video Streaming Optimization
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Research Ongoing | Under Review
Video Encoding Complexity

A self-supervised learning approach to extract video representation features that are sensitive to encoding complexity of various videos.

[Working on submitting to ECCV 2026]
Unsupervised Image Quality Assessment

A self-supervised learning approach to extract image representation features that are sensitive to various image distortions.

[Working on submitting to ECCV 2026]
Aligning Flow Matching Models using Self-Supervised Learning

A self-supervised learning method to improve the aligning capabilities of flow matching image generative models.

[Working on submitting to NeurIPS 2026]
Leveraging Compression to Construct Transferable Bitrate Ladders

Krishna Srikar Durbha, Hassene Tmar, Ping-Hao Wu, Ioannis Katsavounidis and Alan C. Bovik

[Paper]    [Code]    [Under Review in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing]
Published Papers
Perceptual Classifiers: Detecting Generative Images using Perceptual Features

Krishna Srikar Durbha, Asvin Kumar Venkataramanan, Rajesh Sureddi, Alan C. Bovik

[Paper]    [Code]
Constructing Per-Shot Bitrate Ladders using Visual Information Fidelity

Krishna Srikar Durbha and Alan C. Bovik

[Paper]    [Code]
Bitrate Ladder Construction Using Visual Information Fidelity

Krishna Srikar Durbha, Hassene Tmar, Cosmin Stejerean, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Alan C. Bovik

[Paper]    [Code]
AutoML Models for Wireless Signals Classification and their effectiveness against Adversarial Attacks

Krishna Srikar Durbha, Saidhiraj Amuru

[Paper]    [Code]

Source Code Credit to Dr. Jon Barron