Raghav Sardana

I am currently pursuing my Masters and PhD at Academy of Scientific & Innovative Reseach (AcSIR-CSIO). I have previously worked as Project Assistant-II at CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation. My research intrests include computer vision, vision based navigation and perception.

Projects

• Joint Forward-Backward Visual Odometry for Stereo Cameras
• Software for Electronic Nose

Publications

1. Sardana, R., and Poddar, S. “AWL-VIO: Adaptive window length–based visual-inertial odometry using statistical measures.” Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control (2025)
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2. Sardana, R., Karar, V. & Poddar, S. Improving visual odometry pipeline with feedback from forward and backward motion estimates. Machine Vision and Applications 34, 24 (2023).
   (doi) (SharedIt)

3. Kottath, R., Poddar, S., Sardana, R. et al. Mutual Information Based Feature Selection for Stereo Visual Odometry. J Intell Robot Syst 100, 1559–1568 (2020).
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4. Raghav Sardana, Rahul Kottath, Vinod Karar, Shashi Poddar, “Joint Forward-Backward Visual Odometry for Stereo Cameras,” Advances in Robotics, 2019. ACM.
   (arXiv) (doi)

Experience

• Project Associate-II
  Visual-Inertial Odometry for navigation of unmanned vehicle in GPS denied environment
  CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation
  2022-Present
  

• Project Assistant-II
  Design and Development of Visual Odometry System
  CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation
  2017-2020
  

Education

• Integrated Dual Degree PhD (IDDP)
  Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research
  2020-Present
  

• Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
  Electronics and Communication
  Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh
  2013-2017