Omkar Oak

I am currently a master's student at Yamasaki Lab, The University of Tokyo and a recipient of the Japanese Government's MEXT scholarship. I completed my Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune. I briefly worked as a Software Engineer at Wells Fargo in the Instant Payments team. I'm interested in working on topics in Multimodal LLMs, VLMs, Computer Vision and Remote Sensing.

I (rarely) write Computer Science blogs on Medium. For fun blogs visit here. In my free time, you will find me playing chess or writing Kanji in a square notebook. Nonetheless, I am equally bad at both. I also enjoy climbing mountains and listening to Indian classical music.

The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo

oak [at] cvm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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Publications

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TERRA-CD: A Multi-Temporal Framework for Multi-Class and Semantic Change Detection

Omkar Oak, Rukmini Nazre, Rujuta Budke and Suraj Sawant

11th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT) 2026 Paper Code
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A Temporal Convolutional Network-based Approach for Network Intrusion Detection

Rukmini Nazre, Rujuta Budke, Omkar Oak, Suraj Sawant and Amit Joshi

International Conference on Integrated Intelligence and Communication Systems (ICIICS), 2024 Paper Code
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A Comparative Analysis of CNN-based Deep Learning Models for Landslide Detection

Omkar Oak, Rukmini Nazre, Soham Naigaonkar, Suraj Sawant and Himadri Vaidya

Asian Conference on Intelligent Technologies (ACOIT), 2024 Paper Code
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A Novel Multivariate Bi-LSTM model for Short-Term Equity Price Forecasting

Omkar Oak, Rukmini Nazre, Rujuta Budke and Yogita Mahatekar

IEEE Global Conference for Advancement in Technology, 2024 Paper Code
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A Novel Transfer Learning based CNN Model for Wildfire Susceptibility Prediction

Omkar Oak, Rukmini Nazre, Soham Naigaonkar, Suraj Sawant and Amit Joshi

IEEE International Conference for Emerging Technology, 2024 Paper Code

Cool Stuff

On C++ "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." – Bjarne Stroustrup
On Computer Science "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." – SICP, Abelson and Sussman
Stigler's law states that no Discovery is ever actually named after the first person to discover it. Appropriately, Stephen Stigler was not the first person to notice this (it was Robert Merton, though doubtlessly someone else noticed before him too) and so the name "Stigler's law" is an example of Stigler's law. – Stephen Stigler
Addition to Hilbert's Slogan "We must know. We will know. But the truth is we do not know." – Math's Fundamental Flaw, Veritasium
On Familiarity "It took me some time to realize why I keep coming back to this place. To the attendant, in her spectacles, and face-mask. To the small enclosure contained within those four walls with their white paint tearing up in some places. To the servers, with their plates, and to the food topped with Ghee. I was looking for a word, a feeling to explain this behavior. I know what it is now. Familiarity." – Ghee Sakhar, by Mihir Jain