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2025

Computer Vision Sustainability Policy

Space to Policy: Scalable Brick Kiln Detection and Automatic Compliance Monitoring with Geospatial Data

Zeel B Patel, Rishabh Mondal, Shataxi Dubey, Suraj Jaiswal, Sarath Guttikunda, Nipun Batra

ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS) 2025

arXiv BibTeX YouTube Google AQ Summit 2024 IITD Talk HuggingFace

@article{patel2025space, title={Space to Policy: Scalable Brick Kiln Detection and Automatic Compliance Monitoring with Geospatial Data}, author={Patel, Zeel B and Mondal, Rishabh and Dubey, Shataxi and Jaiswal, Suraj and Guttikunda, Sarath and Batra, Nipun}, journal={ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS)}, year={2025} }

2024

NILM Machine Learning

Benchmarking Active Learning for NILM

Dhruv Patel, Ankita Kumari Jain, Haikoo Khandor, Xhitij Choudhary, Nipun Batra

arXiv 2024

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Health Machine Learning

SpiroActive: Active Learning for Efficient Data Acquisition for Spirometry

Ankita Kumari Jain, Nitish Sharma, Madhav Kanda, Nipun Batra

arXiv 2024

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Air Quality NLP

VayuBuddy: an LLM-Powered Chatbot to Democratize Air Quality Insights

Zeel B Patel, Yash Bachwana, Nitish Sharma, Sarath Guttikunda, Nipun Batra

arXiv 2024

arXiv BibTeX Google AQ Summit 2024 HuggingFace News: Divya Bhaskar News: Indian Express News: Ahmedabad Mirror News: Chitralekha

Health Computer Vision

JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery While Exercising

Rishiraj Adhikary, Maite Sadeh, Nipun Batra, Mayank Goel

ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2024; and ACM Ubicomp 2024

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@article{adhikary2024jouleseye, title={JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery While Exercising}, author={Adhikary, Rishiraj and Sadeh, Maite and Batra, Nipun and Goel, Mayank}, journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies}, volume={8}, number={2}, pages={1–32}, year={2024}, publisher={ACM} }

2023

Air Quality Machine Learning Dataset

AIRDELHI: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Particulate Matter Dataset From Delhi For ML based Modeling

Sachin Chauhan, Zeel B Patel, Sayan Ranu, Rijurekha Sen, and Nipun Batra.

Datasets and Benchmarks Track, NeurIPS 2023, the Thirty-seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

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Health IoT

SpiroMask: measuring Lung function using consumer-grade masks

Rishiraj Adhikary, Dhruvi Lodhavia, Chris Francis, Rohit Patil, Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Nipun Batra, Joseph Breda, Jacob Peplinski, Shwetak Patel

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare 2023

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2022

NILM Machine Learning

“I do not know”: Quantifying Uncertainty in Neural Network Based Approaches for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

Vibhuti Bansal, Rohit Khoiwal, Hetvi Shastri, Haikoo Khandor, Nipun Batra

The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022)

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Air Quality NLP

Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India

Karm Patel, Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B Patel, Nipun Batra, Sarath Guttikunda

ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (COMPASS ’22)

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Air Quality Machine Learning

Accurate and Scalable Gaussian Processes for Fine-grained Air Quality Inference

Zeel B Patel, Palak Purohit, Harsh Patel, Shivam Sahni, and Nipun Batra

Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)

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NLP Machine Learning

Vastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Text using a Robust Generative Adversarial Network

Shastri, Hetvi; Lodhavia, Dhruvi; Purohit, Palak; Kaoshik, Ronak; Batra, Nipun

CODS-COMAD ’22 : 5th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD)

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2021

Air Quality NLP

Vartalaap: what drives #airquality discussions: politics, pollution or pseudo-science?

Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B. Patel, Tanmay Srivastava, Nipun Batra, Mayank Singh, Udit Bhatia, and Sarath Guttikunda

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, no. CSCW1 (2021)

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NILM Machine Learning

Neural Network Approaches and Dataset Parser for NILM Toolkit

Hetvi Shastri, Nipun Batra

8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (Buildsys)

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Exploring Hidden Markov Models : An interactive illustration

Kukunuri Rithwik, Rishiraj Adhikary, Mahika Om Jaguste, Nipun Batra and Ashish Tendulkar

4th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI’21)

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2020

Active Learning: A Visual Tour

Zeel B Patel, Nipun Batra

3rd Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI’20)

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NILM IoT

EdgeNILM: towards NILM on edge devices

Kukunuri, Rithwik, Anup Aglawe, Jainish Chauhan, Kratika Bhagtani, Rohan Patil, Sumit Walia, and Nipun Batra

Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, pp. 90-99. 2020.

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Machine Learning

Exploring Bayesian Optimization

Apoorv Agnihotri, Nipun Batra

Distill Journal 2020

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Computer Vision Dataset

PlantDoc: A Dataset for Visual Plant Disease Detection.

Davinder Singh, Naman Jain, Pranjali Jain, Pratik Kayal, Sudhakar Kumawat, Nipun Batra

ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2020)

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2019

NILM Machine Learning

Active Collaborative Sensing for Energy Breakdown

Yiling Jia, Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse

The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’2019)

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NILM

Demo Abstract: A demonstration of reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation using NILMTK

Nipun Batra, Rithwik Kukunuri, Ayush Pandey, Raktim Malakar, Rajat Kumar, Odysseas Krystalakos, Mingjun Zhong, Paulo Meira, Oliver Parson

The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)

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NILM

Towards reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation

Nipun Batra, Rithwik Kukunuri, Ayush Pandey, Raktim Malakar, Rajat Kumar, Odysseas Krystalakos, Mingjun Zhong, Paulo Meira, Oliver Parson

The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)

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NILM Machine Learning

A Tree-Structured Neural Network Model for Household Energy Breakdown

Yiling Jia, Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse

Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’19)

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2018

NILM

Rimor: Towards Identifying Anomalous Appliances in Buildings

Haroon Rashid, Nipun Batra, Pushpendra Singh

Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments (Buildsys 18)

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NILM Machine Learning

Transferring Decomposed Tensors for Scalable Energy Breakdown across Regions

Nipun Batra, Yiling Jia, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse

AAAI 2018, Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18)

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2017

NILM

Systems and Analytical Techniques Towards Practical Energy Breakdown for Homes

Nipun Batra

Ph.D. Thesis

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NILM Machine Learning

Matrix Factorisation for Scalable Energy Breakdown

Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse

AAAI 2017, Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17)

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2016

NILM

Gemello: Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill

Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse

KDD 2016, 22nd ACM SIGKDD conference on knowledge discovery and data mining

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Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation Through Actionable Feedback

Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse

3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

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Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill

Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse

3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

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2015

If You Measure It, Can You Improve It? Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation

Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse

2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2015)

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Non Intrusive Load Monitoring: Systems, Metrics and Use Cases

Nipun Batra

Doctoral Colloqium of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2015)

[Best presentation award]

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Dataport and NILMTK: A Building Data Set Designed for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring

Oliver Parson, Grant Fisher, April Hersey, Nipun Batra, Jack Kelly, Amarjeet Singh, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers.

1st International Symposium on Signal Processing Applications in Smart Buildings at 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Orlando, FL, USA, 14-16 December, 2015.

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2014

NILMTK v0. 2: A Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit for Large Scale Data Sets

Jack Kelly, Nipun Batra, Oliver Parson, Haimonti Dutta, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava.

First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)

[Best demo award]

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Bits and Watts: Improving energy disaggregation performance using power line communication modems

Nipun Batra, Manoj Gulati, Puneet Jain, Kamin Whitehouse, Amarjeet Singh

First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)

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NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring

Nipun Batra, Jack Kelly, Oliver Parson, Haimonti Dutta, William Knottenbelt, Alex Rogers, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava

5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), Cambridge, UK. 2014

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A comparison of non-intrusive load monitoring methods for commercial and residential buildings

Nipun Batra, Oliver Parson, Mario Berges, Amarjeet Singh, Alex Rogers

Tech. report

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Data Driven Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Haimonti Dutta, Venkatesh Sarangan, Mani Srivastava

PhD. qualifiers report, IIIT Delhi

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2013 and before

It’s Different: Insights into home energy consumption in India

Nipun Batra, Manoj Gulati, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava

5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (Buildsys 2013)

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INDiC: Improved Non-Intrusive load monitoring using load Division and Calibration

Nipun Batra, Haimonti Dutta, Amarjeet Singh

The 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’13)

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Experiences with Occupancy Based Building Management Systems

Nipun Batra, Pandarasamy Arjunan, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh

2013 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP ’13)

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SensorAct: A Privacy and Security Aware Federated Middleware for Building Management

Pandarasamy Arjunan, Nipun Batra, Haksoo Choi, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Mani Srivastava

BuildSys ’12: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings

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