Omkar Thawakar

According to our database, Omkar Thawakar authored at least 32 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

CoVR-R:Reason-Aware Composed Video Retrieval.

Omkar Thawakar, Dmitry Demidov, Vaishnav Potlapalli, Bogireddy Sai Prasanna Teja, Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala, Alaa Mostafa Lasheen, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

CoRR, March, 2026

Mobile-O: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation on Mobile Device.

Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Ahmed Heakl, Jaseel Muhammad Kaithakkodan, Ritesh Thawkar, Omkar Thawakar, Senmao Li, Hisham Cholakkal, Ian Reid, Eric P. Xing, Salman H. Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

CoRR, February, 2026

A Multi-Agent Diffusion Approach for MRI Anomaly Segmentation via Modality-Specific LoRA Specialization.

Wafa Al Ghallabi, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Ritesh Thawkar, Omkar Thawakar, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2026

DuwatBench: Bridging Language and Visual Heritage through an Arabic Calligraphy Benchmark for Multimodal Understanding.

Shubham Patle, Sara Ghaboura, Hania Tariq, Mohammad Usman Khan, Omkar Thawakar, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

2025

Thinking Beyond Labels: Vocabulary-Free Fine-Grained Recognition using Reasoning-Augmented LMMs.

Dmitry Demidov, Zaigham Zaheer, Zongyan Han, Omkar Thawakar, Rao Muhammad Anwer

CoRR, December, 2025

EvoLMM: Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models with Continuous Rewards.

Omkar Thawakar, Shravan Venkatraman, Ritesh Thawkar, Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

CoRR, November, 2025

How Good are Foundation Models in Step-by-Step Embodied Reasoning?

Dinura Dissanayake, Ahmed Heakl, Omkar Thawakar, Noor Ahsan, Ritesh Thawkar, Ketan More, Jean Lahoud, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Hisham Cholakkal, Ivan Laptev, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman H. Khan

CoRR, September, 2025

ARB: A Comprehensive Arabic Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark.

Sara Ghaboura, Ketan More, Wafa Al Ghallabi, Omkar Thawakar, Jorma Laaksonen, Hisham Cholakkal, Salman H. Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer

CoRR, May, 2025

LLM Post-Training: A Deep Dive into Reasoning Large Language Models.

Komal Kumar, Tajamul Ashraf, Omkar Thawakar, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Hisham Cholakkal, Mubarak Shah, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Phillip H. S. Torr, Salman H. Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

CoRR, February, 2025

AIN: The Arabic INclusive Large Multimodal Model.

Ahmed Heakl, Sara Ghaboura, Omkar Thawakar, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan

CoRR, February, 2025

Video Instance Segmentation in an Open-World.

Omkar Thawakar, Sanath Narayan, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan, Jorma Laaksonen, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Int. J. Comput. Vis., January, 2025

CAMEL-Bench: A Comprehensive Arabic LMM Benchmark.

Sara Ghaboura, Ahmed Heakl, Omkar Thawakar, Ali Husain Salem Abdulla Alharthi, Ines Riahi, Abduljalil Radman, Jorma Laaksonen, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 29, 2025

DriveLMM-o1: A Step-by-Step Reasoning Dataset and Large Multimodal Model for Driving Scenario Understanding.

Ayesha Ishaq, Jean Lahoud, Ketan More, Omkar Thawakar, Ritesh Thawkar, Dinura Dissanayake, Noor Ahsan, Yuhao Li, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Hisham Cholakkal, Ivan Laptev, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025

Beyond Simple Edits: Composed Video Retrieval with Dense Modifications.

Omkar Thawakar, Dmitry Demidov, Ritesh Thawkar, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025

Vocabulary-Free Fine-Grained Visual Recognition via Enriched Contextually Grounded Vision-Language Model.

Dmitry Demidov, Zaigham Zaheer, Omkar Thawakar, Salman H. Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2025, 2025

Fann or Flop: A Multigenre, Multiera Benchmark for Arabic Poetry Understanding in LLMs.

Wafa Al Ghallabi, Ritesh Thawkar, Sara Ghaboura, Ketan Pravin More, Omkar Thawakar, Hisham Cholakkal, Salman Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages.

Ashmal Vayani, Dinura Dissanayake, Hasindri Watawana, Noor Ahsan, Nevasini Sasikumar, Omkar Thawakar, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Yahya Hmaiti, Amandeep Kumar, Kartik Kuckreja, Mykola Maslych, Wafa Al Ghallabi, Mihail Minkov Mihaylov, Chao Qin, Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Mike Zhang, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, Amiel Gian Esplana, Monil Gokani, Shachar Mirkin, Harsh Singh, Ashay Srivastava, Endre Hamerlik, Fathinah Asma Izzati, Fadillah Adamsyah Maani, Sebastian Cavada, Jenny Chim, Rohit Gupta, Sanjay Manjunath, Kamila Zhumakhanova, Feno Heriniaina Rabevohitra, Azril Hafizi Amirudin, Muhammad Ridzuan, Daniya Najiha Abdul Kareem, Ketan Pravin More, Kunyang Li, Pramesh Shakya, Muhammad Saad, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Amirbek Djanibekov, Dilshod Azizov, Branislava Jankovic, Naman Bhatia, Alvaro Cabrera, Johan S. Obando-Ceron, Olympiah Otieno, Fabian Farestam, Muztoba Rabbani, Sanoojan Baliah, Santosh Sanjeev, Abduragim Shtanchaev, Maheen Fatima, Thao Nguyen, Amrin Kareem, Toluwani Aremu, Nathan Augusto Zacarias Xavier, Amit Bhatkal, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Aman Chadha, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Michael Felsberg, Jorma Laaksonen, Thamar Solorio, Monojit Choudhury, Ivan Laptev, Mubarak Shah, Salman H. Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

LlamaV-o1: Rethinking Step-by-step Visual Reasoning in LLMs.

Omkar Thawakar, Dinura Dissanayake, Ketan Pravin More, Ritesh Thawkar, Ahmed Heakl, Noor Ahsan, Yuhao Li, Mohammed Zumri, Jean Lahoud, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Hisham Cholakkal, Ivan Laptev, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman H. Khan

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

Time Travel: A Comprehensive Benchmark to Evaluate LMMs on Historical and Cultural Artifacts.

Sara Ghaboura, Ketan Pravin More, Ritesh Thawkar, Wafa Al Ghallabi, Omkar Thawakar, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Hisham Cholakkal, Salman H. Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

2024

All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages.

Ashmal Vayani, Dinura Dissanayake, Hasindri Watawana, Noor Ahsan, Nevasini Sasikumar, Omkar Thawakar, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Yahya Hmaiti, Amandeep Kumar, Kartik Kuckreja, Mykola Maslych, Wafa Al Ghallabi, Mihail Mihaylov, Chao Qin, Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Mike Zhang, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, Amiel Esplana, Monil Gokani, Shachar Mirkin, Harsh Singh, Ashay Srivastava, Endre Hamerlik, Fathinah Asma Izzati, Fadillah Adamsyah Maani, Sebastian Cavada, Jenny Chim, Rohit Gupta, Sanjay Manjunath, Kamila Zhumakhanova, Feno Heriniaina Rabevohitra, Azril Amirudin, Muhammad Ridzuan, Daniya Kareem, Ketan More, Kunyang Li, Pramesh Shakya, Muhammad Saad, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Amirbek Djanibekov, Dilshod Azizov, Branislava Jankovic, Naman Bhatia, Alvaro Cabrera, Johan S. Obando-Ceron, Olympiah Otieno, Fabian Farestam, Muztoba Rabbani, Sanoojan Baliah, Santosh Sanjeev, Abduragim Shtanchaev, Maheen Fatima, Thao Nguyen, Amrin Kareem, Toluwani Aremu, Nathan A. Z. Xavier, Amit Bhatkal, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Aman Chadha, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Michael Felsberg, Jorma Laaksonen, Thamar Solorio, Monojit Choudhury, Ivan Laptev, Mubarak Shah, Salman Khan, Fahad Khan

CoRR, 2024

CAMEL-Bench: A Comprehensive Arabic LMM Benchmark.

Sara Ghaboura, Ahmed Heakl, Omkar Thawakar, Ali Husain Salem Abdulla Alharthi, Ines Riahi, Abduljalil Saif, Jorma Laaksonen, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman H. Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer

CoRR, 2024

Dynamic Pre-training: Towards Efficient and Scalable All-in-One Image Restoration.

Akshay Dudhane, Omkar Thawakar, Syed Waqas Zamir, Salman H. Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Ming-Hsuan Yang

CoRR, 2024

MobiLlama: Towards Accurate and Lightweight Fully Transparent GPT.

Omkar Thawakar, Ashmal Vayani, Salman H. Khan, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Michael Felsberg, Tim Baldwin, Eric P. Xing, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

CoRR, 2024

Composed Video Retrieval via Enriched Context and Discriminative Embeddings.

Omkar Thawakar, Muzammal Naseer, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan, Michael Felsberg, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024

XrayGPT: Chest Radiographs Summarization using Large Medical Vision-Language Models.

Omkar Thawakar, Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan, Jorma Laaksonen, Fahad Khan

Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, 2024

2023

XrayGPT: Chest Radiographs Summarization using Medical Vision-Language Models.

Omkar Thawakar, Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan, Jorma Laaksonen, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

CoRR, 2023

3D Mitochondria Instance Segmentation with Spatio-Temporal Transformers.

Omkar Thawakar, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Jorma Laaksonen, Orly Reiner, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Proceedings of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2023, 2023

Arabic Mini-ClimateGPT : A Climate Change and Sustainability Tailored Arabic LLM.

Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Omkar Thawakar, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman H. Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

Fast Video Instance Segmentation via Recurrent Encoder-Based Transformers.

Omkar Thawakar, Alexandre Rivkind, Ehud Ahissar, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Proceedings of the Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 2023

2022

Video Instance Segmentation via Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Split Attention Transformer.

Omkar Thawakar, Sanath Narayan, Jiale Cao, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Muhammad Haris Khan, Salman Khan, Michael Felsberg, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2022, 2022

2019

Motion Saliency Based Generative Adversarial Network for Underwater Moving Object Segmentation.

Prashant W. Patil, Omkar Thawakar, Akshay Dudhane, Subrahmanyam Murala

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2019

Image and Video Super Resolution using Recurrent Generative Adversarial Network.

Omkar Thawakar, Prashant W. Patil, Akshay Dudhane, Subrahmanyam Murala, Uday Kulkarni

Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2019