Angjoo Kanazawa

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. I lead the Kanazawa AI Research (KAIR) lab under BAIR. I am also a Research Scientist at Google Research, and serve on the advisory board of Wonder Dynamics.

Previously, I was a BAIR postdoc at UC Berkeley advised by Jitendra Malik, Alexei A. Efros and Trevor Darrell. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park with my advisor David Jacobs. During my PhD, I had the pleasure to visit the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany under the guidance of Michael Black. Prior to that, I spent four years at NYU where I worked with Rob Fergus and completed my BA in Mathematics and Computer Science.

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Email: kanazawa (at) eecs.berkeley.edu

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Research

My research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. We live in a 3D world that is dynamic, full of life with people and animals interacting with the environment. How can we build a system that can capture, perceive, and understand these embodied agents in the 3D world from everyday photograph and video? The goal of my lab is to answer this question.

Kanazawa AI Research (KAIR) members

Postdoc

Georgios Pavlakos (with Jitendra Malik)

Graduate Students

Research Assistant

Alex Yu

Distinguished Berkeley Computer Vision Fellow

Hao Li

Alumni

Micael Tchapmi, MS student @ Stanford
Ze (Edward) Ma, now MS Student @ Columbia
Jason Y. Zhang now PhD student @ CMU
Xin Qin now PhD student @ USC

Publications

	Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image Andrew Liu, Richard Tucker, Varun Jampani, Ameesh Makadia, Noah Snavely, Angjoo Kanazawa ICCV 2021 (Oral) [Project Page with Demo] [Paper] [Code] [bibtex]
	PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields Alex Yu, Ruilong Li, Matthew Tancik, Hao Li, Ren Ng, Angjoo Kanazawa ICCV 2021 (Oral) [Project Page with Demo] [Paper] [Code] [bibtex]
	Reconstructing Hand-Object Interactions in the Wild Zhe Cao, Ilija Radosavovic, Angjoo Kanazawa, Jitendra Malik ICCV 2021 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code coming soon] [bibtex]
	AI Choreographer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with AIST++ Ruilong Li, Shan Yang, David A. Ross, Angjoo Kanazawa ICCV 2021 [Project Page] [Paper] [Dataset] [Code] [bibtex]
	AMP: Adversarial Motion Priors for Stylized Physics-Based Character Control Xue Bin Peng, Ze Ma, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine, Angjoo Kanazawa SIGGRAPH 2021 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code] [bibtex]
	KeypointDeformer: Unsupervised 3D Keypoint Discovery for Shape Control Tomas Jakab, Richard Tucker, Ameesh Makadia, Jiajun Wu, Noah Snavely, Angjoo Kanazawa CVPR 2021 (Oral) [Project website][Paper] [Code] [bibtex]
	pixelNeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images Alex Yu, Vickie Ye, Matthew Tancik, Angjoo Kanazawa CVPR 2021 [Project Page/Code] [paper] [bibtex]
	De-rendering the World's Revolutionary Artefacts Shangzhe Wu, Ameesh Makadia, Jiajun Wu, Noah Snavely, Richard Tucker, Angjoo Kanazawa CVPR 2021 [Project website] [Paper] [bibtex]
	An Analysis of SVD for Deep Rotation Estimation Jake Levinson, Carlos Esteves, Kefan Chen, Noah Snavely, Angjoo Kanazawa, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Ameesh Makadia NeurIPS 2020 [Github] [paper] [bibtex]
	Perceiving 3D Human-Object Spatial Arrangements from a Single Image in the Wild Jason Y. Zhang, Sam Pepose, Hanbyul Joo, Deva Ramanan, Jitendra Malik, Angjoo Kanazawa ECCV 2020 [project page] [Github] [arXiv preprint] [bibtex]
	Shape and Viewpoint without Keypoints Shubham Goel, Angjoo Kanazawa, Jitendra Malik ECCV 2020 [project page] [Github] [arXiv preprint] [bibtex]
	Three-D Safari: Learning to Estimate Zebra Pose, Shape, and Texture from Images "In the Wild" Silvia Zuffi, Angjoo Kanazawa, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Michael J. Black ICCV 2019 [Github] [arXiv preprint] [bibtex]
	PIFu: Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution Clothed Human Digitization Shunsuke Saito, Zeng Huang, Ryota Natsume, Shigeo Morishima, Angjoo Kanazawa, Hao Li ( equal contribution) ICCV 2019 [project page] [arXiv preprint] [video] [bibtex]
	Predicting 3D Human Dynamics from Video Jason Y. Zhang, Panna Felsen, Angjoo Kanazawa, Jitendra Malik ICCV 2019 [project page] [arXiv preprint] [video] [bibtex]
	Learning 3D Human Dynamics from Video Angjoo Kanazawa, Jason Y. Zhang, Panna Felsen, Jitendra Malik CVPR 2019* [project page] [arXiv preprint] [video] [bibtex]
	Variational Discriminator Bottleneck: Improving Imitation Learning, Inverse RL, and GANs by Constraining Information Flow Xue Bin Peng, Angjoo Kanazawa, Sam Toyer, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine ICLR 2019 [project page] [code] [arXiv preprint] [video] [bibtex]
	SFV: Reinforcement Learning of Physical Skills from Videos Xue Bin Peng, Angjoo Kanazawa, Jitendra Malik, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2018) [project page] [pdf] [BAIR Blog] [arXiv preprint] [video] [bibtex] Featured in two minute papers
	Learning Category-Specific Mesh Reconstruction from Image Collections Angjoo Kanazawa, Shubham Tulsiani, Alexei A. Efros, Jitendra Malik (* equal contribution) ECCV 2018 [project page] [pdf] [arXiv preprint] [video] [bibtex]
	End-to-end Recovery of Human Shape and Pose Angjoo Kanazawa, Michael J. Black, David W. Jacobs, Jitendra Malik CVPR 2018 [project page with code] [pdf] [arXiv preprint] [bibtex]
	SfSNet : Learning Shape, Reflectance and Illuminance of Faces ‘in the wild’ Soumyadip Sengupta, Angjoo Kanazawa, Carlos D. Castillo, David W. Jacobs CVPR 2018 (Spotlight) [project page with code] [pdf] [arXiv preprint] [bibtex]
	Lions and Tigers and Bears: Capturing Non-Rigid, 3D, Articulated Shape from Images Silvia Zuffi, Angjoo Kanazawa, Michael J. Black CVPR 2018 (Spotlight) [project page with 3D models] [pdf] [bibtex]
	Towards Accurate Marker-less Human Shape and Pose Estimation over Time Yinghao Huang, Federica Bogo, Christoph Lassner, Angjoo Kanazawa, Peter V. Gehler, Javier Romero, Ijaz Akhter, Michael J. Black International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017. [pdf] [bibtex]
	3D Menagerie: Modeling the 3D shape and pose of animals Silvia Zuffi, Angjoo Kanazawa, David W. Jacobs, Michael J. Black Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017. (Spotlight) [project page with model and demo] [pdf] [arXiv] [bibtex]
	Keep it SMPL: Automatic Estimation of 3D Human Pose and Shape from a Single Image Federica Bogo, Angjoo Kanazawa, Christoph Lassner, Peter Gehler, Javier Romero and Michael J. Black (* equal contribution) European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2016. (Spotlight) [pdf] [project page with code] [Spotlight video] [bibtex] Our work was featured in two minute papers!
	WarpNet: Weakly Supervised Matching for Single-View Reconstruction Angjoo Kanazawa, David W. Jacobs, Manmohan Chandraker Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016. [pdf] [supp] [test set ids & our curves] [bibtex]
	Learning 3D Deformation of Animals from 2D Images Angjoo Kanazawa, Shahar Kovalsky, Ronen Basri, David W. Jacobs Eurographics 2016. Günter Enderle Best Paper Award [pdf] [code on github] [fastforward] [See the results here] [bibtex]
	Locally Scale-invariant Convolutional Neural Network Angjoo Kanazawa, Abhishek Sharma, David W. Jacobs Deep Learning and Representation Learning Workshop: NIPS 2014. [pdf] [code on github] [bibtex]
	Affordance of Object Parts from Geometric Features Austin Myers, Angjoo Kanazawa, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras: RSS 2014 [pdf] [bibtex] [Part Affordance Dataset] [bibtex]
	Dog Breed Classification Using Part Localization Jiongxin Liu, Angjoo Kanazawa, Peter Belhumeur, David W. Jacobs European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oct. 2012. [pdf] [slides] [bibtex] try our iPhone app: Dogsnap ! Columbia dogs with parts dataset used in the paper: zip file (2.43GB) 133 breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club 8,351 images of dogs from Google image search, Image-net, and Flickr. 8 part locations annotated for each image