Carl Vondrick

Students

Parita Pooj (with Shree Nayar)
Yiliang Shi (with Eugene Wu)

Teaching

Talks

Service

Area Chair, ICML 2019
Area Chair, CVPR 2019
Area Chair, CVPR 2018

Code and Data

Press

Research

Our group focuses on computer vision and machine learning. We are interested in leveraging large amounts of unlabeled data to teach rich perceptual capabilities to machines. We often develop visual models that learn without human supervision and transfer across tasks and modalities. Other interests include interpretable models, high-level reasoning, and perception for robotics.

Prospective students: We have openings for a few PhD students. You do not need to contact me. Please apply directly to the computer science PhD program and mention my name.

News

We have three papers accepted to ECCV 2018!
Blog post: by learning to colorize videos, visual tracking emerges.
We are organizing a tutorial on unsupervised visual learning at CVPR 2018. Slides and videos now available.
Checkout our new audio-visual source separation demo.

All Papers

Representative Papers

2018

Tracking Emerges by Colorizing Videos New!
Carl Vondrick, Abhinav Shrivastava, Alireza Fathi, Sergio Guadarrama, Kevin Murphy
ECCV 2018
Paper Blog

The Sound of Pixels New!
Hang Zhao, Chuang Gan, Andrew Rouditchenko, Carl Vondrick, Josh McDermott, Antonio Torralba
ECCV 2018
Paper Project Page

Actor-centric Relation Network New!
Chen Sun, Abhinav Shrivastava, Carl Vondrick, Kevin Murphy, Rahul Sukthankar, Cordelia Schmid
ECCV 2018
Paper

AVA: A Video Dataset of Spatio-temporally Localized Atomic Visual Actions
Chunhui Gu et al
CVPR 2018
Paper Project Page

Moments in Time Dataset: one million videos for event understanding
Mathew Monfort et al
arXiv 2018
Paper Project Page

2017

Following Gaze in Video
Adria Recasens, Carl Vondrick, Aditya Khosla, Antonio Torralba
ICCV 2017
Paper

Generating the Future with Adversarial Transformers
Carl Vondrick, Antonio Torralba
CVPR 2017
Paper Project Page

Cross-Modal Scene Networks
Yusuf Aytar*, Lluis Castrejon*, Carl Vondrick, Hamed Pirsiavash, Antonio Torralba
PAMI 2017
Paper Project Page

See, Hear, and Read: Deep Aligned Representations
Yusuf Aytar, Carl Vondrick, Antonio Torralba
arXiv 2017
Paper Project Page

2016

Generating Videos with Scene Dynamics
Carl Vondrick, Hamed Pirsiavash, Antonio Torralba
NeurIPS 2016
Paper Project Page Code NBC Scientific American New Scientist MIT News

SoundNet: Learning Sound Representations from Unlabeled Video
Yusuf Aytar*, Carl Vondrick*, Antonio Torralba
NeurIPS 2016
Paper Project Page Code NPR New Scientist Week Junior MIT News

Anticipating Visual Representations with Unlabeled Video
Carl Vondrick, Hamed Pirsiavash, Antonio Torralba
CVPR 2016
Paper Project Page NPR CNN AP Wired Stephen Colbert MIT News

Predicting Motivations of Actions by Leveraging Text
Carl Vondrick, Deniz Oktay, Hamed Pirsiavash, Antonio Torralba
CVPR 2016
Paper Dataset

Learning Aligned Cross-Modal Representations from Weakly Aligned Data
Lluis Castrejon*, Yusuf Aytar*, Carl Vondrick, Hamed Pirsiavash, Antonio Torralba
CVPR 2016
Paper Project Page Demo

Visualizing Object Detection Features
Carl Vondrick, Aditya Khosla, Hamed Pirsiavash, Tomasz Malisiewicz, Antonio Torralba
IJCV 2016
Paper Project Page Slides MIT News

2015

Do We Need More Training Data?
Xiangxin Zhu, Carl Vondrick, Charless C. Fowlkes, Deva Ramanan
IJCV 2015
Paper Dataset

Learning Visual Biases from Human Imagination
Carl Vondrick, Hamed Pirsiavash, Aude Oliva, Antonio Torralba
NeurIPS 2015
Paper Project Page Technology Review

Where are they looking?
Adria Recasens*, Aditya Khosla*, Carl Vondrick, Antonio Torralba
NeurIPS 2015
Paper Project Page Demo

2014

Assessing the Quality of Actions
Hamed Pirsiavash, Carl Vondrick, Antonio Torralba
ECCV 2014
Paper Project Page

2013

HOGgles: Visualizing Object Detection Features
Carl Vondrick, Aditya Khosla, Tomasz Malisiewicz, Antonio Torralba
ICCV 2013
Paper Project Page Slides MIT News

2012

Do We Need More Training Data or Better Models for Object Detection?
Xiangxin Zhu, Carl Vondrick, Deva Ramanan, Charless C. Fowlkes
BMVC 2012
Paper Dataset

Efficiently Scaling Up Crowdsourced Video Annotation
Carl Vondrick, Donald Patterson, Deva Ramanan
IJCV 2012
Paper Project Page

2011

Video Annotation and Tracking with Active Learning
Carl Vondrick, Deva Ramanan
NeurIPS 2011
Paper Project Page

A Large-scale Benchmark Dataset for Event Recognition
Sangmin Oh, et al.
CVPR 2011
Paper Project Page

2010

Efficiently Scaling Up Video Annotation with Crowdsourced Marketplaces
Carl Vondrick, Deva Ramanan, Donald Patterson
ECCV 2010
Paper Project Page