Alexei A. Efros: Curriculum Vitae

ALEXEI A. EFROS
Curriculum Vitae

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Office: BWW 8016
E-mail: efros@eecs.berkeley.edu
Home Page: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~efros

EDUCATION

Ph.D in Computer Science, October 2003
Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. Thesis: Data-driven Approaches for Texture and Motion
Research Advisor: Prof. Jitendra Malik

M.S. in Computer Science, December 1999
Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley

B.S. in Computer Science, summa cum laude, June 1997
Computer Science Department, University of Utah

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2017 -- present Professor, EECS Department
UC Berkeley

2013 -- 2017 Associate Professor, EECS Department
UC Berkeley

2010 -- 2013 Associate Professor, The Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2004 -- 2010 Assistant Professor, The Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Fall 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, WILLOW Laboratory
Ecole Normale Superieure / INRIA, Paris, France

2003 -- 2004 Visiting Research Fellow, Robotics Research Group
University of Oxford, England

1998 -- 2003 Graduate Student Researcher, Computer Vision Research Group
University of California, Berkeley

1993 -- 1997 Research Assistant, Computer Science Department
University of Utah

PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
1. T. C. Henderson, A. A. Efros, ``Evolutionary Teleomorphology,'' Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997.
2. T. M. Sobh, M. Dekhil, and A. A. Efros, ``Sensing Under Uncertainty for Mobile Robots,'' Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1999
3. M. Dekhil, A. A. Efros, and T.M. Sobh, ``Commanding sensors and controlling indoor autonomous mobile robots,'' International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1999.
4. T. M. Sobh, M. Dekhil, A. A. Efros and R. Mihali, ``Logical Control for Mobile Robots,'' International Journal of Robotics & Automation, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2001.
5. L. Ren, A. Patrick, A.A. Efros, J. Hodgins, and J.M. Rehg, ``Quantifying Natural Human Motion'', Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 05), July 2005
6. D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Automatic Photo Pop-up'', Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 05), July 2005
7. J. Hays, A. A. Efros. ``Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2007), August 2007, vol. 26, No. 3.
8. J.-F. Lalonde, D. Hoiem, A. A. Efros, C. Rother, J. Winn, A. Criminisi. ``Photo Clip Art'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2007), August 2007, Vol 26. No. 3.
9. D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Recovering Surface Layout from an Image'', International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 75, no. 1, October 2007
10. M.H. Nguyen, J.-F. Lalonde, A.A. Efros, F. de la Torre. ``Image-based Shaving'', Computer Graphics Forum Journal (Eurographics 2008), 27(2), 2008.
11. D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Putting Objects in Perspective'', International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 80, no. 1, October 2008
12. J. Hays and A.A. Efros, ``Scene completion using millions of photographs'', Communications of the ACM, vol. 51, no. 10, October 2008 (named Seminal Graphics Paper)
13. J.-F. Lalonde, A.A. Efros, S.G. Narasimhan, ``Webcam Clip Art: Appearance and Illuminant Transfer from Time-lapse Sequences'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2009), 28(5), 2009
14. J.-F. Lalonde, S.G. Narasimhan, A.A. Efros, ``What Do the Sun and the Sky Tell Us About the Camera?'', International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol 88, no. 1, 2010
15. D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Recovering Occlusion Boundaries from an Image'', International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol 91, no. 3, 2011
16. A. Srivastava, T. Malisiewicz, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, ``Data-driven Visual Similarity for Cross-domain Image Matching'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2011), 30(6), 2011
17. J.-F. Lalonde, A.A. Efros, S.G. Narasimhan, ``Estimating the Natural Illumination Conditions from a Single Outdoor Image'', International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol 98, no. 2, 2012
18. C. Doersch, S. Singh, A. Gupta, J. Sivic, A.A. Efros, ``What makes Paris look like Paris?'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), 31(3), 2012
19. E. Reinhard, A.A. Efros, J. Kautz, H.P. Seidel, ``On Visual Realism of Synthesized Imagery'', Proceedings of the IEEE, 101(9), pp pp 1998-2007, Sept 2013
20. H. Kang, M. Hebert, A.A. Efros, T. Kanade, ``Data-driven Objectness'', IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 99, pp 1-8, April 2014
21. N. Kholgade, T. Simon, A.A. Efros, Y. Sheikh,``3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2014), August 2014, vol. 33, No. 4.
22. J.-Y. Zhu, Y.J. Lee, A.A. Efros, ``AverageExplorer: Interactive Exploration and Alignment of Visual Data Collections'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2014), August 2014, vol. 33, No. 4.
23. D. Fouhey, V. Delaitre, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, I. Laptev, J. Sivic, ``People Watching: Human Actions as a Cue for Single View Geometry'', International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol 110, no. 3, Dec 2014
24. S. Arietta, A.A. Efros, R. Ramamoorthi, M. Agrawala, ``City Forensics: Using Visual Elements to Predict Non-Visual City Attributes'', IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol 20, no. 12, 2013 (Best Paper honorable mention)
25. J-Y. Zhu, A. Agarwala, A.A. Efros, E. Shechtman, J. Wang, ``Mirror Mirror: Crowdsourcing better portraits'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), vol 33, no 6, 2014
26. F. Okura, K. Vanhoey, A. Bousseau, A.A. Efros, G. Drettakis, ``Unifying Color and Texture Transfer for Predictive Appearance Manipulation'', Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), Volume 34, Number 4, 2015
27. C. Doersch, S. Singh, A. Gupta, J. Sivic, A.A. Efros, ``What makes Paris look like Paris?'', Comm. of the ACM, 58(12), 2015
28. T.-C. Wang, A.A. Efros, R. Ramamoorthi, ``Depth Estimation with Occlusion Modeling Using Light-field Cameras'', Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2016
29. J. Ribelles, D. Gutierrez, A.A. Efros, ``BUILDUP: interactive creation of urban scenes from large photo collections'', Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76(10), 2017
30. R Zhang, JY Zhu, P Isola, X Geng, AS Lin, T Yu, AA Efros, ``Real-time user-guided image colorization with learned deep priors'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 36(4), 119:1--119:11, 2017
31. T-C. Wang, J-Y. Zhu, N.K. Kalantari, A.A. Efros, R. Ramamoorthi, ``Light Field Video Capture Using a Learning-Based Hybrid Imaging System'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 36(4), 133:1--133:13, 2017
32. T-C. Wang, M. Chandraker, A.A. Efros, R. Ramamoorthi, ``SVBRDF-Invariant Shape and Reflectance Estimation from a Light-Field Camera'', IEEE Trans. PAMI 40(3): 740-754, 2018
33. J. Delanoy, M. Aubry, P. Isola, A.A. Efros, A. Bousseau, ``3D Sketching using Multi-View Deep Volumetric Prediction'', Proc. of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 1(1), July 2018
34. J. Philip, M. Gharbi, T. Zhou, A.A. Efros, G. Drettakis, ``Multi-view Relighting using a Geometry-Aware Network'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 38(4), July 2019
35. B. Yang, D. Jayaraman, G. Berseth, A.A. Efros and S. Levine, "Morphology-Agnostic Visual Robotic Control," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 766-773, April 2020
36. X. Shen, R. Champenois, S. Ginosar, I. Pastrolin, M. Rousselot, O. Bounou, T. Monnier, S. Gidaris, F. Bougard, P.-G. Raverdy, M.-F. Limon, C. Benevent, M. Smith, O. Poncet, K. Bender, B. Joyeux-Prunel, E. Honig, A.A. Efros, M. Aubry, ``Spatially-Consistent Feature Matching and Learning for Heritage Image Analysis,'' Int J Computer Vision, 130, 2022
Refereed Conference Papers
1. A. A. Efros, T. K. Leung, ``Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling,'', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (Helmholtz Test-of-Time Prize)
2. A. A. Efros, W. T. Freeman, ``Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis and Transfer'', Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 01, Los Angeles, August 2001 (named Seminal Graphics Paper)
3. A. A. Efros, A. C. Berg, G. Mori, J. Malik, ``Recognizing Action at a Distance,'', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Nice, France, October 2003 (Helmholtz Test-of-Time Prize)
4. G. Mori, X. Ren, A. A. Efros, J. Malik, ``Recovering Human Body Configurations: Combining Segmentation and Recognition'', IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Washington DC, June 2004.
5. A. A. Efros, V. Isler, J. Shi, M. Visontai, ``Seeing Through Water'', Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), vol 17, Vancouver, BC, December 2004.
6. D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Geometric Context from a Single Image'', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, October 2005.
7. J. Sivic, B.C. Russell, A.A. Efros, A. Zisserman, W. T. Freeman, ``Discovering objects and their localization in images'', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, October 2005 (Helmholtz Test-of-Time Prize)
8. J. Hays, M. Leordeanu, A.A. Efros, Y. Liu, ``Discovering Texture Regularity as a Higher-Order Correspondence Problem'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, May 2006.
9. B.C. Russell, A.A. Efros, J. Sivic, A. Zisserman, W. T. Freeman, ``Using Multiple Segmentations to Discover Objects and their Extent in Image Collections'', IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, June 2006.
10. D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Putting Objects in Perspective'', IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, June 2006. (Best Paper Award)
11. B. Nabbe, D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``Opportunistic use of vision to push back the path planning horizon'', IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing, October 2006.
12. T. Malisiewicz, A.A. Efros, ``Improving Spatial Support for Objects via Multiple Segmentations'', British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2007) , September 2007.
13. D. Hoiem, A. Stein, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``Recovering Occlusion Boundaries from a Single Image'', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, October 2007.
14. J.-F. Lalonde, A.A. Efros, ``Using Color Compatibility for Assessing Image Realism'', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, October 2007.
15. J. Hays, A.A. Efros, ``im2gps: estimating geographic information from a single image'', Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008
16. T. Malisiewicz, A.A. Efros , ``Recognition by Association via Learning per-exemplar Distances'', Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008
17. D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``Closing the Loop on Scene Interpretation'', Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008
18. J. Sivic, B.C. Russell, A. Zisserman, W.T. Freeman, A.A. Efros, ``Unsupervised Discovery of Object Hierarchies'', Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008
19. J-F Lalonde, S.G. Narasimhan, A.A. Efros, ``What Does the Sky Tell Us About the Camera?'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, France, October 2008
20. S.K. Divvala, D. Hoiem, J. Hays, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``An Empirical Study of Context in Object Detection'', Conference on Computer vision and Pattern ecognition (CVPR), Miami Beach, Florida, June 2009
21. J-F Lalonde, A.A. Efros, S.G. Narasimhan, ``Estimating Natural Illumination from a Single Outdoor Image'', International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, October 2009
22. E. Kalogerakis, O. Vesselova, J. Hays, A.A. Efros, A. Hertzmann, ``Image Sequence Geolocation with Human Travel Priors'', International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, October 2009
23. T. Malisiewicz, A.A. Efros, ``Beyond Categories: The Visual Memex Model for Reasoning About Object Relationships'', NIPS 2009, Vancouver, Canada, December 2009
24. B. Russell, A.A. Efros, J. Sivic, B. Freeman, A. Zisserman, ``Segmenting Scenes by Matching Image Composites'', NIPS 2009, Vancouver, Canada, December 2009
25. A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``Blocks World Revisited: Image Understanding using Qualitative Geometry and Mechanics'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Crete, Greece, September 2010 (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
26. J-F Lalonde, A.A. Efros, S.G. Narasimhan, ``Detecting Ground Shadows in Outdoor Consumer Photographs'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Crete, Greece, September 2010
27. A. Gupta, S. Satkin, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``From 3D Scene Geometry to Human Workspace'', Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, June 2011
28. A. Torralba, A.A. Efros, ``Unbiased Look at Dataset Bias'', Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, June 2011
29. T. Malisiewicz, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, ``Ensemble of Exemplar-SVMs for Object Detection and Beyond'', International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona, Nov 2011
30. S. Divvala, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``Object Instance Sharing by Enhanced Bounding Box Correspondence'', British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Sept 2012
31. S. Singh, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, ``Unsupervised Discovery of Mid-Level Discriminative Patches'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Florence, Oct 2012
32. D. Fouhey, V. Delaitre, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, I. Laptev, J. Sivic, ``People Watching: Human Actions as a Cue for Single View Geometry'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Florence, Oct 2012
33. V. Delaitre, D. Fouhey, I. Laptev, J. Sivic, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, ``Scene Semantics from Long-term Observation of People'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Florence, Oct 2012
34. F. Palermo, J. Hays, A.A. Efros, ``Dating Historical Color Images'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Florence, Oct 2012
35. A. Khosla, T. Zhou, T. Malisiewicz, A.A. Efros, A. Torralba, ``Undoing the Damage of Dataset Bias'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Florence, Oct 2012
36. H. Kang, M. Hebert, A.A. Efros, T. Kanade. ``Connecting Missing Links: Object Discovery from Sparse Observations using 5 Million Product Images'', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Florence, Oct 2012
37. C. Doersch, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros. ``Mid-Level Visual Element Discovery as Discriminative Mode Seeking'', in Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Reno, NV, Dec 2013
38. Y.J. Lee, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Style-aware Mid-level Representation for Discovering Visual Connections in Space and Time'', in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Dec 2013
39. M. Aubry, D. Maturana, A.A. Efros, B. Russell, J.Sivic, ``Seeing 3D chairs: exemplar part-based 2D-3D alignment using a large dataset of CAD models'', in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Columbus, OH, June 2014
40. C. Doersch, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, ``Context as Supervisory Signal: Discovering Objects with Predictable Context'', In Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Zurich, Sept 2014
41. S. Lee, N. Maisonneuve, D. Crandall, A.A. Efros, J. Sivic, ``Linking past to present: Discovering style in two centuries of architecture'', in International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP 2015), May 2015
42. T. Zhou, Y.-J. Lee, S.X. Yu, A.A. Efros, ``FlowWeb: Joint Image Set Alignment by Weaving Consistent, Pixel-wise Correspondences'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Parrern Recognition (CVPR), 2015, Boston, June 2015
43. T.-C. Wang, A.A. Efros, R. Ramamoorthi, ``Occlusion-aware Depth Estimation Using Light-field Cameras'', in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Dec 2015
44. J.-Y. Zhu, P. Krähenbühl, E. Shechtman, A.A. Efros, ``Learning a Discriminative Model for the Perception of Realism in Composite Images``, in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Dec 2015
45. T. Zhou, P. Krähenbühl, A.A. Efros, ``Learning Data-driven Reflectance Priors for Intrinsic Image Decomposition'', in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Dec 2015
46. C. Doersch, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros, ``Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning by Context Prediction'', in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Dec 2015
47. K.K. Singh, K. Fatahalian, A.A. Efros, ``KrishnaCam: Using a Longitudinal, Single-Person, Egocentric Dataset for Scene Understanding Tasks'', in IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Placid, March 2016
48. T.-C. Wang, M. Chandraker, A.A. Efros, R. Ramamoorthi, ``SVBRDF-Invariant Shape and Reflectance Estimation from Light-Field Cameras'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Los Vegas, June 2016
49. D. Pathak, P. Krähenbühl, J. Donahue, T. Darrell, A.A. Efros, ``Context Encoders: Feature Learning by Inpainting'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Los Vegas, June 2016
50. T. Zhou, P. Krähenbühl, M. Aubry, Q. Huang, A.A. Efros, ``Learning Dense Correspondence via 3D-guided Cycle Consistency'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Los Vegas, June 2016
51. R. Zhang, P. Isola, A.A. Efros, ``Colorful Image Colorization'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Amsterdam, Oct 2016
52. T.-C. Wang, J.-Y. Zhu, E. Hiroaki, M. Chandraker, A.A. Efros, R. Ramamoorthi, ``4D Light-Field Dataset and CNN Architectures for Material Recognition'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Amsterdam, Oct 2016
53. T. Zhou, S. Tulsiani, W. Sun, J. Malik, A.A. Efros, ``View Synthesis by Appearance Flow'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Amsterdam, Oct 2016
54. J.-Y. Zhu, P. Krähenbühl, E. Shechtman, A.A. Efros, ``Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Amsterdam, Oct 2016
55. P. Isola, J.-Y. Zhu, T. Zhou, A.A. Efros, ``Image-to-image translation with conditional adversarial networks'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, July 2017
56. R. Zhang, P. Isola, A.A. Efros, ``Split-brain autoencoders: Unsupervised learning by cross-channel prediction'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, July 2017
57. S. Tulsiani, H. Su, L.J. Guibas, A.A. Efros, J. Malik, ``Learning shape abstractions by assembling volumetric primitives'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, July 2017
58. S. Tulsiani, T. Zhou, A.A. Efros, J. Malik, ``Multi-view supervision for single-view reconstruction via differentiable ray consistency'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, July 2017
59. D. Pathak, P. Agrawal, A.A. Efros, T. Darrell, ``Curiosity-driven exploration by self-supervised prediction'', Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Aug 2017
60. J.Y. Zhu, T. Park, P. Isola, A.A. Efros, ``Unpaired image-to-image translation using cycle-consistent adversarial networks'', The IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Venice, Oct 2017
61. J.Y. Zhu, R. Zhang, D. Pathak, T. Darrell, A.A. Efros, O. Wang, E. Shechtman, ``Toward Multimodal Image-to-Image Translation'', In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Long Beach, Dec 2017
62. D. Pathak, P. Mahmoudieh, G. Luo, P. Agrawal, D. Chen, Y. Shentu, E. Shelhamer, J. Malik, A.A. Efros, T. Darrell, ``Zero-shot Visual Immitation'', in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018
63. S. Tulsiani, S. Gupta, D. Fouhey, A.A. Efros, J. Malik, ``Factoring Shape, Pose, and Layout from the 2D Image of a 3D Scene'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, June 2018
64. D. Fouhey, W. Kuo, A.A. Efros, J. Malik, ``From Lifestyle VLOGs to Everyday Interactions'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, June 2018
65. S. Tulsiani, A.A. Efros, J. Malik, ``Multi-view Consistency as Supervisory Signal for Learning Shape and Pose Prediction'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, June 2018
66. R. Zhang, P. Isola, A.A. Efros, E. Shechtman, O. Wang, ``The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, June 2018
67. R. Dubey, P. Agrawal, D. Pathak, T. Griffiths, A.A. Efros, ``Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games'', in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, July 2018
68. J. Hoffman, E. Tzeng, T. Park, J-Y Zhu, P. Isola, K. Saenko, A.A. Efros, T. Darrell, ``CyCADA: Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Domain Adaptation'', in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, July 2018
69. A. Kanazawa, S. Tulsiani, A.A. Efros, J. Malik, ``Learning Category-Specific Mesh Reconstruction from Image Collections'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Munich, Sept 2018
70. A. Owens, A.A. Efros, ``Audio-Visual Scene Analysis with Self-Supervised Multisensory Features'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Munich, Sept 2018
71. M. Huh, A. Liu, A. Owens, A.A. Efros, ``Fighting Fake News: Image Splice Detection via Learned Self-Consistency'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Munich, Sept 2018
72. Z. Wu and A.A. Efros, S.X. Yu, ``Improving Generalization via Scalable Neighborhood Component Analysis'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Munich, Sept 2018
73. Y. Burda, H. Edwards, D. Pathak, A. Storkey, T. Darrell, A.A. Efros, ``Large-Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Learning'', in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2019
74. D. Jayaraman, F. Ebert, A.A. Efros, S. Levine, ``Time-Agnostic Prediction: Predicting Predictable Video Frames'', in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2019
75. X. Wang, A. Jabri, A.A. Efros, ``Learning Correspondence from the Cycle-Consistency of Time'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, June 2019
76. X. Shen, A.A. Efros, M. Aubry, ``Discovering Visual Patterns in Art Collections with Spatially-cinonsistent Feature Learning'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, June 2019
77. C. Chan, S. Ginosar, T. Zhou, A.A. Efros, ``Everybody Dance Now'', in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, Oct 2019
78. A. Ghosh, R. Zhang, P. Dokaria, O. Wang, A.A. Efros, P. Torr, E. Shechtman, ``Interactive Sketch & Fill: Multiclass Sketch-to-Image Translation'', in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, Oct 2019
79. S.-Y. Wang, O. Wang, A. Owens, R. Zhang, A.A. Efros, ``Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop'', in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, Oct 2019
80. D. Pathak, C. Lu, T. Darrell, P. Isola, A.A. Efros, ``Learning to Control Self-Assembling Morphologies: A Study of Generalization via Modularity'', in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Dec 2019
81. S.-Y. Wang, O. Wang, R. Zhang, A. Owens, A.A. Efros, ``CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot... for now'', in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
82. Y. Sun, X. Wang, Z. Liu, J. Miller, A.A. Efros, M. Hardt, ``Test-Time Training with Self-Supervision for Generalization under Distribution Shifts'', in International Conference for Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
83. L. Ma, Z. Lin, C. Barnes, A.A. Efros, J. Lu, ``Unselfie: Translating Selfies to Neutral-pose Portraits in the Wild'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
84. W. Peebles, J. Peebles, J.-Y. Zhu, A.A. Efros, A. Torralba, ``The Hessian Penalty: a Weak Prior for Unsupervised Disentanglement'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
85. X. Shen, F. Darmon, A.A. Efros, M. Aubry, ``RANSAC-Flow: generic two-stage image alignment'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
86. T. Park, A.A. Efros, R. Zhang, J.-Y. Zhu, ``Contrastive Learning for Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
87. A. Liu, S. Ginosar, T. Zhou, A.A. Efros, N. Snavely, ``Learning to Factorize and Relight a City'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
88. T. Park, J.-Y. Zhu, O. Wang, J. Lu, E. Shechtman, A.A. Efros, R. Zhang, ``Swapping Autoencoder for Deep Image Manipulation'', in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020
89. A. Jabri, A. Owens, A.A. Efros, ``Space-Time Correspondence as a Contrastive Random Walk'', in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020
90. T. Xiao, X. Wang, A.A. Efros, T. Darrell, ``What Should Not Be Contrastive in Contrastive Learning'', in International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021
91. N. Hansen, R. Jangir, Y. Sun, G. Alenya, P. Abbeel, A.A. Efros, L. Pinto, X. Wang, ``Self-Supervised Policy Adaptation during Deployment'', in International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021
92. Q. Zhang, T. Xiao, A.A. Efros, L. Pinto, X. Wang, ``Learning Cross-Domain Correspondence for Control with Dynamics Cycle-Consistency'', in International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021
93. U. Ojha, Y. Li, J. Lu, A.A. Efros, Y-J. Lee, E. Shechtman, R. Zhang, ``Few-shot Image Generation via Cross-domain Correspondence'', in Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
94. Z. Lai, S. Liu, A.A. Efros, X. Wang, ``Video Autoencoder: self-supervised disentanglement of static 3D structure and motion'', in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
95. D. Smirnov, M. Gharbi, M. Fisher, V. Guizilini, A.A. Efros, J. Solomon, ``MarioNette: Self-Supervised Sprite Learning'', in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021
96. M. Narasimhan, S. Ginosar, A. Owens, A.A. Efros, T. Darrell, ``Strumming to the beat: Audio-conditioned contrastive video textures'', in IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Hawaii, 2022
97. Z. Bian, A. Jabri, A.A. Efros, A. Owens, ``Learning Pixel Trajectories with Multiscale Contrastive Random Walks'', in Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
98. W. Peebles, J-Y. Zhu, R. Zhang, A. Torralba, A.A. Efros, E. Shechtman, ``GAN-Supervised Dense Visual Alignment'', in Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
99. G. Cazenavette, T. Wang, A. Torralba, A.A. Efros, J-Y. Zhu, ``Dataset Distillation by Matching Training Trajectories'', in Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
100. X. Li, X. Wang, M-H. Yang, A.A. Efros, S. Liu, ``Scraping Textures from Natural Images for Synthesis and Editing'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
101. A.C. Li, A.A. Efros, D. Pathak, ``Understanding Collapse in Non-Contrastive Siamese Representation Learning'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
102. V.H. Maluleke, N. Thakkar, T. Brooks, E. Weber, T. Darrell, A.A. Efros, A. Kanazawa, D. Guillory, ``Studying Bias in GANs through the Lens of Race'' in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
103. T. Monnier, M. Fisher, A.A. Efros, M. Aubry, ``Share With Thy Neighbors: Single-View Reconstruction by Cross-Instance Consistency'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
104. T. Brooks, A.A. Efros, ``Hallucinating Pose-Compatible Scenes'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
105. D. Epstein, T. Park, R. Zhang, E. Shechtman, A.A. Efros, ``BlobGAN: Spatially Disentangled Scene Representations'', in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
Book Cchapters
1. N. Rapoport, A.A. Efros, ``Monte Carlo Simulation of Polymer High-Temperature Degradation and Fracture.'' (eds.) M. R. Tant, J. W. Connell, H. L. N. McManus, High-Temperature Properties and Applications of Polymeric Materials, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., pp. 155-165, 1995.
2. T. C. Henderson, A.A. Efros, ``Bio-based control for Intelligent Autonomous Systems.'' (eds.) H. Bunke, T. Kanade, H. Noltemeier, Modelling and Planning for Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 431-442, 1995.
3. T. M. Sobh, M. Dekhil, and A.A. Efros, ``Robust Sensing for Mobile Robot Control'', Robot Control, Elsevier Science, 1997.
4. J. Hays, A.A. Efros, ``Large-Scale Image Geolocalization'', in Multimodal Location Estimation of Videos and Images, Springer, pp. 41-62, 2015
5. Y.-J. Lee, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``Discovering Mid-level Visual Connections in Space and Time'', in Large-Scale Visual Geo-Localization, Springer International Publishing, pp. 21-40, 2016
Patents
1. U.S. Patent #6,919,903: Texture synthesis and transfer for pixel images, July 2005.
2. U.S. Patent #7,785,180: Method, apparatus, and system for object recognition, object segmentation and knowledge acquisition, August 2010.
3. International Patent WO2021034443A1: Human motion transfer for dancing video synthesis, Feb 2021

STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS

Graduated PhD Students:
- Derek Hoiem (PhD 2007, co-advised with M.Hebert), now professor at University of Illinois
  Recipient of CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award
  Recipient of ACM Best Dissertation Honorable Mention
- James Hays (PhD 2009), now Associate Professor at Georgia Tech
- Jean-Francois Lalonde (PhD 2011, co-advised with S.Narasimhan), now professor at Universit?Laval
  Recipient of CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award
- Tomasz Malisiewicz (PhD 2011), now Reserch Scientist Manager at Meta Reality Labs
- Santosh Kumar Divvala (PhD 2012, co-advised with M.Hebert), now research scientist at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
- Carl Doersch (PhD 2016, co-advised with Abhianv Gupta), now senior research scientist at Google DeepMind
- Ting-Chun Wang (PhD 2017, co-advised with Ravi Ramamoorthi), now senior research scientist at nVIDIA
- Jun-Yan Zhu (PhD 2017), now assistant professor at CMU
- Richard Zhang (PhD 2018), now senior research scientist at Adobe
- Tinghui Zhou (PhD 2018), now startup founder
- Deepak Pathak (PhD 2019), now assistant professor at CMU
- Shiry Ginosar (PhD 2020), now postdoc at UC Berkeley
- Taesung Park (PhD 2021), now research scientist at Adobe
Graduated Masters Students:
- Krishna Kumar Singh (MS 2015, co-advised with K.Fatahalian), now PhD student at UC Davis
- Abhinav Shrivastava (MS 2011, co-advised with M.Hebert and A.Gupta), now PhD student at CMU
- Saurabh Singh (MS 2011, co-advised with M.Hebert and A.Gupta), now PhD student at UIUC
Former PostDocs:
- Abhinav Gupta (2009-2011), now associate profesor at CMU
- Ali Farhadi (2011-2012), now professor at University of Washington
- Yong Jae Lee (2012-2014), now associate professor at Wisconcin-Madison
- Mathieu Aubry (2015), now tenured faculty at ?ole des Ponts ParisTech
- Philipp Krähenbühl (2014-2016), now associate professor at UT Austin
- Phillip Isola (2015-2017), now associate professor at MIT
- Judy Hoffman (2017-2018), now assistant professor at Georgia Tech
- David Fouhey (2016-2018), now assistant professor at University of Michigan
- Andrew Owens (2016-2019), now assistant professor at University of Michigan
- Dinesh Jayaraman (2017-2019), now assistant professor at UPenn
- Angjoo Kanazawa (2018-2019), now assistant professor at UC Berkeley
- Lerrel Pinto (2019-2020), now assistant professor at NYU
- Xiaolong Wang (2019-2020), now assistant professor at UC San Diego
Outside thesis Committee Service: Steve Lin (CSD, CMU, PhD 2005), Liu Ren (CSD, CMU, PhD 2006), Alexander Neubeck (ETH Zurich, PhD 2006), David Tinapple (Fine Arts, CMU, MFA 2007), Bryan Russell (MIT, PhD 2007), Jiang Ni (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2007), Andrew Stein (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2008), Yan Ke (CSD, CMU, PhD 2008), Caroline Pantofaru (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2008), Andrew Gallagher (ECE, CMU, PhD 2009), Sanjeev Koppal (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2009), Tom Stepleton (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2010), Elena Bernardis (UPenn, PhD 2011), David Lee (ECE, CMU, PhD 2011), Jenny Yuen (MIT, PhD 2011), Vladimir Nedovic (University of Amsterdam, PhD 2011), Yong Jae Lee (UT Austin, PhD 2012), Edward Hiao (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2013), Jianxiong Xiao (MIT, PhD 2013), Scott Satkin (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2013), Omid Aghazadeh (KTH, PhD 2014), Abhinav Srivastava (CMU, PhD 2017), Dinesh Jayaraman (UT Austin, PhD 2017), Mehdi Noroozi (U Bern, PhD 2019), Yaroslav Ganin (U Montreal, PhD 2019), ThÃ©ophile Dalens (ENS, PhD 2019).

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

Keynote/Distinguished/Plenary Talks

Organick Memorial Lecture, School of Computing, University of Utah (Oct 2024)
Munich AI Lecture (July 2024)
Raj Reddy Artificial Intelligence Lecture, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (Nov 2023)
Distinguished Lecture, Toyota Technical Intitute, Chicago (April 2022)
Keynote Lecture, ML in PL Conference, Poland (Dec 2020)
Invited Plenary Talk, ICLR'21 (May 2021)
Colloquium Jacques Morgenstern, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France (Nov 2019)
Keynote Lecture, GANocracy: Workshop on Theory, Practice and Artistry of Deep Generative Modeling, MIT (May 2019)
Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Oct 2018)
Distinguished Lecture Series speaker, Snap Inc, Venice, CA (July 2018)
Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series speaker, Helsinki, Finland (June 2018)
Distinguished Lecture Series speaker, Adobe, San Francisco (Dec 2017)
Laurate Lecture, Heidelberg Laurate Forum, Heidelberg (Sept 2017)
CS Distinguished Lecturer, UC Davis (May 2017)
Keynote Speaker, Stata+Hadoop World, San Jose (March 2016)
Keynote Speaker, Bay Area Robotics Symposium, Berkeley (Oct 2015)
Keynote Speaker, Computer Graphics International (CGI'15), Strasbourg, France (June 2015)
Invited Planery Speaker, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Francisco (Feb 2015)
Invited Speaker, Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), Berlin (June 2013)
Speaker, 2013 Distinguished Lecture Series, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley (March 2013)
Speaker, 2012-2013 Distinguished Lecture Series, George Mason University, Washington DC (Nov 2012)
Keynote Speaker, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR'12), Paris (June 2012)
Keynote Speaker, London Graphics Seminar (annual full-day workshop), London (June 2012)
Plenary Speaker, Indian Conference on Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP'10), Chennai, India (Dec 2010)
Keynote Speaker, 3DPVT'10 Conference, Paris (May 2010)
Keynote Speaker, Eurographics'10, Norrkoping, Sweden (May 2010)
Keynote Speaker, GraphiCon'09, Moscow, Russia (Oct 2009)
Keynote Speaker, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'09), London, (Sept 2009)
Invited Plenary Speaker, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), Chicago (July 2008)
Keynote Speaker, IMAGINA'08, Monte Carlo, Monaco (Jan 2008)

Other Invited Talks

Invited Speaker, Strata+Hadoop World, San Jose (Feb 2015)
Invited Speaker, NSF-DARPA Workshop on Frontiers of Image and Video Analysis, Arlington, VA (Jan 2014)
invited Speaker, Scenes from Video Workshop, Barossa, Australia (Dec 2013)
Invited Speaker, Big Data Lecture Series, MIT CSAIL (Oct 2012)
Invited Lecturer, INRIA Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School, Grenoble, France (July 2012)
Invited Lecturer, Computational (Biological) Vision Summer School, Black Forest, Germany (June 2012)
Invited Speaker, "At the intersection of Vision, Graphics, Learning and Sensing" workshop, MSRC, Cambridge, UK (May 2012)
Invited Lecturer, INRIA Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School, Paris (July 2011)
Invited Speaker, MIT/NSF Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision, Boston (August 2011)
Invited Speaker, "What Can Computer Vision Do for Neuroscience and Vice Versa?" workshop, Janelia Farm, DC (Nov 2010)
Invited Speaker, Snowbird Learning Workshop, Utah (April 2010)
Invited Speaker, BIRS Workshop on Computer Vision and the Internet, Banff, Canada (August 2009)
Invited Speaker, Rosenon Workshop, Stockholm archipelago, Sweden (August 2008)
Invited Speaker, International Workshop on Computer Vision, Venice, Italy (May 2008)
Invited Speaker, Rank Prize Workshop, Lake District, UK (July 2007)
Invited Speaker, Scene Understanding Symposium (SUnS'07), Boston (Feb 2007)
Invited Speaker, Visual Learning and Recognition Workshop, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis (May 2006)
Invited Speaker, Emphasis week on Visual Recognition, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley (March 2005)

Invited Colloquia

INRIA (June 2016), Oxford (July 2015), Edinburgh (July 2015), EPFL (June 2015), Princeton (Nov 2012), Oxford (May 2012), NYU (Dec 2011), Cornell (Sept 2010), INRIA Rocquencourt (Nov 2009), Max Plank Institute in Tubingen (April 2008), Czech Technical University (April 2008), Universiteit van Amsterdam (Feb 2008), UPenn (October 2006), Stanford (April 2006), Weizmann Institute (March 2006), MIT (May 2005), etc.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Conference Area Chair (SIGGRAPH Program Committee): ECCV 2008,2010,2012,2014; CVPR 2009,2011,2015,2016,2018,2019; ACM SIGGRAPH 2006,2007,2009,2014,2017

Journal Editorial Board: Intenratioanl Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2009-2012; Big Visual Data special issue (2013-2014)

Book reviews for: Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, MIT Press.

Panels: DARPA Computer Science Futures panel (April-May 2006); various NSF panels

University Activity: CMU Faculty Senate (2006-2008); University Research Council (2006-2007); Dissertation Award Committee (2010,2012); Faculty Hiring Committee (2010-2011); VASC Seminar Organizer (2005-2009); Robotics Institute Seminar Organizer (2006-2007);
Educational:Co-organizer, ACM Utah High School Programming Contest, 1995-1997 (Designed take-home problems: Optical Character Recognition, CPU Simulation, BASIC interpreter)
Organizational/Social: Co-organizer (with A. Torralba, T. Tuytelaars, C. Schmid), "Sicily" Workshop on Object Recognition, 2008; Poster Session and Local Arrangements Organizer, Convergence of Graphics, Vision, and Video Workshop, Berkeley, (March 2001); Co-organizer (with Pietro Perona), The "Vodka Tasting" Party, CVPR 2001, Hawaii (Dec 2001)

SELECTED HONORS

Howard Friesen Chair in Engineering (2024-2029)

Jim and Donna Gray Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Computer Science (2023)
PAMI Thomas S. Huang Memorial Prize (2023)
Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching Computer Science (2019)
ACM Prize in Computing (2016)
3 IEEE PAMI Helmholtz Test-of-Time Prizes (1999,2003,2005)
Google Research Award (2017,2012,2009,2007)
ECCV Best Paper Honorable Mention (2010)
SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award (2010)
Finmeccanica Career Development Chair (2010-2012)
Okawa Foundation Grant (2008)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2008-2009)
Sloan Fellowship (2008-2010)
Faculty Development Fellowship, School of Computer Science, CMU (2007-2009)
CVPR Best Paper Award (2006)
``Cool Person Award'', Robotics Institute Student Organization (RoboOrg), CMU (2006)
NSF CAREER Award (2006-2010)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (1997-2000)
Barry Goldwater Scholar in Mathematics, Science and Engineering (1995-1997)
University of Utah Honors at Entrance Scholarship (1993-1997)
2nd Place, USSR National Young Programmer Contest, Krasnoyarsk, USSR (1989)

SELECTED PRESS COVERAGE

Quanta Magazine (October 24, 2023): The Computing Pioneer Helping AI See
Inside Higher Ed (Sept 30, 2022): Computer Science's Challenges, as Seen by Its Pioneers
Quanta Magazine (August 11, 2022): Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
Nature (June 11, 2019): From Brueghel to Warhol: AI enters the attribution fray
New Yorker (Nov 12, 2018): In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?
Scientific American (October 2018): Clicks, Lies, and Videotape
Wired (Dec 17, 2017): Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp on Reality
Quanta Magazine (Sept 19, 2017): Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious
New York Magazine (March 29, 2017): This New AI Tool Makes Great Art. It Could Also Make Great Fake News
Forbes (Sept 30, 2016): New Adobe-Funded Tech Converts Scribbles Into Realistic Photos
The Washington Post (Dec 1, 2015): Why people used to look so serious in photos but now have big smiles
The New Yorker online (Aug 22, 2014): Out of Many, One
The New York Times (Aug 11, 2014): 3-D Tool Guesses What a Photo Is Missing
The Atlantic (Aug 20, 2012): Can a Computer Tell Us What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?
The Atlantic Cities (Aug 8, 2012): Data-Mining a City's Visual Identity
Wired (Aug 8, 2012): Technology The software that can identify cities from their architecture
CNET (Aug 8, 2012): Machine learning system can ID cities via pics
...also blogged by Wall Street Journal, Slate, Discover Magazine, New Scientist, Smithsonian Maganize
Communications of the ACM (vol 55, no.6, June 2012): Smarter Photography
Le Monde (Feb 25 print edition, 2012): De nouveaux yeux pour voir le monde
TechCrunch (Dec 6, 2011): CMU Researchers One-Up Google Image Search And Photosynth With Visual Similarity Engine
PBS NOVA (Feb 9, 2011): Getting Computers to See
Science Daily (Sept 10, 2010): New Method Helps Computer Vision Systems Decipher Outdoor Scenes
Computing Community Consortium (Nov 19, 2008): Algorithm Estimates Geographic Location of Photos
CNET (June 18, 2008): New geotagging method draws on Flickr photos
Aperture Magazine (no. 190, Spring 2008): Of Other Times and Places by Fred Ritchin
The Independent (Sept 19, 2007): Instant makeup: Perfect your holiday snaps
MSNBC (Sept 12, 2007): Software turns photos from bad to good
BBC News (August 8, 2007): Photo tool could fix bad images
USA Today (June 12, 2007): Researchers try Google photo tactic
MIT Technology Review (April 27, 2007): A New Dimension for Your Photos
The Economist (Dec 2, 2006): It All Depends on Your Point of View
Photonics Spectra (August 2006): Synergy Improves Automated Scene Recognition
Scientific Computing World (July/August 2005): The Colour of the Past
YouTube: Transforming a 2D image into 3D (almost 2 million views)
Slashdot: Researchers Teach Computers To Perceive 3D from 2D (2006), Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images (2007), and Computer Scientists Scour Your Holiday Photos (2008)

2017 -- present	Professor, EECS Department UC Berkeley
2013 -- 2017	Associate Professor, EECS Department UC Berkeley
2010 -- 2013	Associate Professor, The Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2004 -- 2010	Assistant Professor, The Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Fall 2009	Guggenheim Fellow, WILLOW Laboratory Ecole Normale Superieure / INRIA, Paris, France
2003 -- 2004	Visiting Research Fellow, Robotics Research Group University of Oxford, England
1998 -- 2003	Graduate Student Researcher, Computer Vision Research Group University of California, Berkeley
1993 -- 1997	Research Assistant, Computer Science Department University of Utah