Publications
2024
JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery While Exercising
Rishiraj Adhikary, Maite Sadeh, Nipun Batra, Mayank Goel. In ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2024; and ACM Ubicomp 2024 [PDF] [News coverage] [YouTube]
2023
“Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Particulate Matter Dataset From Delhi For ML based Modeling”
Sachin Chauhan,Zeel Patel,Sayan Ranu,Rijurekha Sen,and Nipun Batra. In NeurIPS, 2023
“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. In ACM Transactions on Health
2022
“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. In ACM Buildsys 2022 [PDF][Github]
Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India
Karm Patel, Rishiraj Adhikary, Zeel B Patel, Nipun Batra, Sarath Guttikunda. In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (COMPASS ’22) [PDF][Github]
Accurate and Scalable Gaussian Processes for Fine-grained Air Quality Inference
Zeel B Patel, Palak Purohit, Harsh Patel, Shivam Sahni, and Nipun Batra. In: AAAI 2022, Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22).[PDF][Github]
Vastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Text using a Robust Generative Adversarial Network
Shastri, Hetvi; Lodhavia, Dhruvi; Purohit, Palak; Kaoshik, Ronak; Batra, Nipun. In CODS COMAD 2022.
2021
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)[PDF]
Neural network approaches and dataset parser for NILM toolkit
Shastri, Hetvi; Batra, Nipun. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (Buildsys)[PDF]
2020
Active Learning: A Visual Tour
Zeel B Patel, Nipun Batra. In VisXAI workshop at IEEE VIS. [Link]
EdgeNILM: towards NILM on edge devices
Kukunuri, Rithwik, Anup Aglawe, Jainish Chauhan, Kratika Bhagtani, Rohan Patil, Sumit Walia, and Nipun Batra. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, pp. 90-99. 2020.[PDF]
Exploring Bayesian Optimization.
Apoorv Agnihotri, Nipun Batra In: Distill Journal 2020 [link]
PlantDoc: A Dataset for Visual Plant Disease Detection.
Davinder Singh, Naman Jain, Pranjali Jain, Pratik Kayal, Sudhakar Kumawat, Nipun Batra In: ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2020)[PDF]
2019
Active Collaborative Sensing for Energy Breakdown
Yiling Jia, Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse.
In: The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’2019)[PDF]
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.
In: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)[PDF]
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.
In: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)[PDF]
A Tree-Structured Neural Network Model for Household Energy Breakdown
Yiling Jia, Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse
In: Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’19)[PDF]
2018
Rimor: Towards Identifying Anomalous Appliances in Buildings
Haroon Rashid, Nipun Batra, Pushpendra Singh
In: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments (Buildsys 18).[PDF]
Transferring Decomposed Tensors for Scalable Energy Breakdown across Regions
Nipun Batra, Yiling Jia, Hongning Wang, Kamin Whitehouse
In: AAAI 2018, Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18).[PDF][Github]
2017
Systems and Analytical Techniques Towards Practical Energy Breakdown for Homes
Nipun Batra
In: Ph.D. Thesis.[PDF]
Matrix Factorisation for Scalable Energy Breakdown
Nipun Batra, Hongning Wang, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.
In: AAAI 2017, Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17).[PDF][Github][Poster]
2016
Gemello: Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill
Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.
In: KDD 2016, 22nd ACM SIGKDD conference on knowledge discovery and data mining.[PDF][Github][Poster][Video]
Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation Through Actionable Feedback
Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.
In: 3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring.[PDF][Slides][Talk]
Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill
Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.
In: 3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring.[PDF][Slides][Talk]
2015
If You Measure It, Can You Improve It? Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation.
Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Kamin Whitehouse.
In: 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2015)[PDF][Github][Slides (.key)][Slides (.pdf)]
Non Intrusive Load Monitoring: Systems, Metrics and Use Cases.
Nipun Batra
In: Doctoral Colloqium of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2015)[PDF][Slides (.key)][Slides (.pdf)][Best presentation award]
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.
In: 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. [PDF]
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.
In: First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)[PDF][Demo notebook][Poster][Best demo award]
Bits and Watts: Improving energy disaggregation performance using power line communication modems
Nipun Batra, Manoj Gulati, Puneet Jain, Kamin Whitehouse, Amarjeet Singh.
In: First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)[PDF][Poster]
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
In: 5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), Cambridge, UK. 2014[PDF][Slides (.pptx)][Slides (.pdf)]
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[PDF]
Data Driven Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Haimonti Dutta, Venkatesh Sarangan, Mani Srivastava
In: PhD. qualifiers report, IIIT Delhi[PDF][Slides (.pdf)]
2013 and before
It’s Different: Insights into home energy consumption in India
Nipun Batra, Manoj Gulati, Amarjeet Singh, Mani Srivastava.
In: 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (Buildsys 2013)[PDF][Github][Dataset][Slides (.pptx)][Slides (.pdf)]
INDiC: Improved Non-Intrusive load monitoring using load Division and Calibration
Nipun Batra, Haimonti Dutta, Amarjeet Singh
In: ICMLA 2013[PDF][Slides (.pptx)][Slides (.pdf)]
Experiences with Occupancy Based Building Management Systems
Nipun Batra, Pandarasamy Arjunan, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh
In: ISSNIP 2013[PDF]
SensorAct: A Privacy and Security Aware Federated Middleware for Building Management
Pandarasamy Arjunan, Nipun Batra, Haksoo Choi, Amarjeet Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Mani Srivastava
In: Buildsys 2012[PDF]