PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Conference Papers
- S. Singh, A. Gupta, A.A. Efros,
``Unsupervised Discovery of Mid-Level Discriminative Patches'',
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Florence, Oct
2012
- 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
- 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
- F. Palermo, J. Hays, A.A. Efros, ``Dating Historical Color
Images'',
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV),
Florence, Oct 2012
- 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
- 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
- S. Divvala, A.A. Efros, M. Hebert, ``Object Instance Sharing by
Enhanced Bounding Box Correspondence'', British Machine
Vision Conference (BMVC),
Sept 2012
- 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
- 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
- A. Torralba, A.A. Efros, ``Unbiased Look at Dataset Bias'',
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
Colorado Springs, June 2011
- 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)
- 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
- T. Malisiewicz, A.A. Efros, ``Beyond Categories: The Visual Memex
Model for Reasoning About Object Relationships'',
NIPS 2009, Vancouver,
Canada, December 2009
- B. Russell, A.A. Efros, J. Sivic, B. Freeman, A. Zisserman,
``Segmenting Scenes by Matching Image Composites'',
NIPS 2009, Vancouver,
Canada, December 2009
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- T. Malisiewicz, A.A. Efros, ``Improving Spatial Support for Objects
via Multiple Segmentations'', British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2007)
, September 2007.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Geometric Context from a
Single Image'', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
(ICCV), Beijing, October 2005.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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.
- A. A. Efros, W. T. Freeman, ``Image Quilting for Texture
Synthesis and Transfer'', Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 01, Los
Angeles, August 2001.
(over 1000 citations)
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A. A. Efros, T. K. Leung, ``Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric
Sampling,'', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV),
Corfu, Greece, September 1999.
(over 1500 citations)
Journal Articles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- J. Hays and A.A. Efros, ``Scene completion using millions of photographs'',
Communications of the ACM, vol. 51, no. 10, October 2008
- D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Putting
Objects in Perspective'', International Journal of Computer Vision
(IJCV), vol. 80, no. 1, October 2008
- 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.
- 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
- J. Hays, A. A. Efros. ``Scene Completion Using Millions of
Photographs'', ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2007),
August
2007,
vol. 26, No. 3.
- 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.
- D. Hoiem, A.A. Efros, and M. Hebert, ``Automatic Photo
Pop-up'', Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 05), July 2005
- L. Ren, A. Patrick, A.A. Efros, J. Hodgins, and J.M.
Rehg, ``Quantifying Natural Human Motion'', Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 05), July 2005
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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.
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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. (Originally published in
Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference on Control Applications, September 1996, pp.199-204.)
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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 (Originally published as book chapter in
ASME Series on Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing,
Volume 3, 1996.)
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T. C. Henderson, A. A. Efros, ``Evolutionary Teleomorphology,'' Robotics
and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1997.
Patents
- U.S. Patent Pending: System and Method for Generating 3D models from
a single 2D image, filed Jan. 2007.
- U.S. Patent #7,785,180: Method, apparatus, and system for object recognition, object segmentation and knowledge acquisition, August 2010.
- U.S. Patent #6,919,903: Texture synthesis and transfer for pixel images,
July 2005.
STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
- Graduated PhD Students:
- Derek Hoiem (PhD 2007, co-advised with M.Hebert), now assistant
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 assistant professor at Brown University
- Jean-Francois Lalonde (PhD 2011, co-advised with S.Narasimhan),
now Postdoctoral Fellow at Disney Research
Recipient of CMU
School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award
- Tomasz Malisiewicz (PhD 2011), now Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT
- Santosh Kumar Divvala (PhD 2012, co-advised with M.Hebert), now
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington
- Graduated Masters Students:
- 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 (co-adviced with Martial Hebert):
- Abhinav Gupta (2009-2011), now assistant research profesor at CMU
- Ali Farhadi (2011-2012), now assistant professor at University of Washington
- 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 (UTexas, PhD 2012),
Edward Hiao (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2013),
Jianxiong Xiao (MIT, PhD 2013),
Scott Satkin (Robotics, CMU, PhD 2013).
SELECTED
INVITED
TALKS
Other Invited
Talks
- 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)