My research is in computational vision, in particular how to integrate mechanisms for visual recognition and perceptual organization with 3D scene understanding. We apply these computational models to a variety of problems including development of tools for biological image and shape analysis in neuroscience, animal development and palynology as well as applications to forensic science. |
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some research highlights:
- S. Shafique, S. Kong, C. Fowlkes,
"CriSp: Leveraging Tread Depth Maps for Enhanced Crime-Scene Shoeprint Matching", ECCV, (Sept. 2024)
arXiv:2404.16972
- Y. Zhao, H. Ma, S. Kong, C. Fowlkes,
"Instance Tracking in 3D Scenes from Egocentric Videos", CVPR, (June 2024)
arXiv:2312.04117
[pdf]
- Y. Dukler, A. Achille, H. Yang, B. Bowman, V. Vivek, L. Zancato, A. Ravichandran, C. Fowlkes, A. Swaminathan, S. Soatto,
"Your representations are in the network: composable and parallel adaptation for large scale models",
NeurIPS, (Dec. 2023)
[pdf]
- H. Li, C. Fowlkes, H. Yang, O. Dabeer, Z. Tu, S. Soatto,
"Guided recommendation for model fine-tuning", CVPR, (June 2023)
[pdf]
- S. Shafique, B. Kong, S. Kong, C. Fowlkes,
"Creating a Forensic Database of Shoeprints from Online Shoe Tread Photos",
WACV (Jan. 2023)
arXiv:2205.02361
- Y. Zhao, C. Barnes, Y. Zhou, E. Shechtman, S. Amirghodsi, C. Fowlkes,
"GeoFill: Reference-Based Image Inpainting of Scenes with Better Geometric Understanding",
WACV (Jan. 2023)
arXiv:2201.08131
- M. Wallingford, H. Li, A. Achille, A. Ravichandran, C. Fowlkes, R. Bhotika, S. Soatto,
"Task Adaptive Parameter Sharing for Multi-Task Learning", CVPR, (June 2022),
arXiv:2203.16708
- C. Zhu, P. Rajendran, P. Hanna, I. Efimov, G. Salama, C. Fowlkes, K. Shivkumar,
"High resolution structure-function mapping of intact hearts reveals altered sympathetic control of infarct border zones",
JCI Insight, (2022), 7(3):e153913. 10.1172/jci.insight.153913
- Z. Li, A. Ravichandran, C. Fowlkes, M. Polito, R. Bhotika, S. Soatto
"Representation Consolidation for Training Expert Students",
Technical Report (July 2021),
arXiv:2107.08039
- Y. Zhao, S. Kong, C. Fowlkes,
"Camera Pose Matters: Improving Depth Prediction by Mitigating Pose Distribution Bias",
CVPR, (June 2021)
arXiv:2007.03887
- Z. Cai, A. Ravichandran, S. Maji, C. Fowlkes, Z. Tu, S. Soatto
"Exponential Moving Average Normalization for Self-supervised and Semi-supervised Learning",
CVPR, (June 2021)
arXiv:2101.08482
- I. Romero, S. Kong, C. Fowlkes, C. Jaramillo, M. Urban, F. Oboh-Ikuenobe, C. D'Apolito, S. Punyasena,
"Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy",
Proc.
of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Oct 2020, 202007324.
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2007324117
- Y. Zhao, S. Kong, D. Shin, C. Fowlkes,
"Domain Decluttering: Simplifying Images to Mitigate Synthetic-Real Domain Shift and Improve Depth Estimation",
CVPR, (June 2020)
[pdf]
[project]
arXiv:2002.12114
- C. Huh, K. Abdelaal, K. Salinas, D. Gu, J. Zeitoun, D. Velez,
J. Peach, C. Fowlkes, S. Gandhi,
"Long-term monocular deprivation during juvenile critical period disrupts binocular integration in mouse visual thalamus",
Journal of Neuroscience,
(Nov. 2019)
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1626-19.2019
- D. Shin, Z. Ren, E. Sudderth, C. Fowlkes,
"3D Scene Reconstruction with Multi-layer Depth and Epipolar Transformers",
ICCV (Oct. 2019)
[pdf]
[project]
arXiv:1902.06729
- A. Achille, M. Lam, R. Tewari, A. Ravichandran, S. Maji, C. Fowlkes, S. Soatto, P. Perona,
"Task2Vec: Task Embedding for Meta-Learning",
ICCV (Oct. 2019)
[pdf]
arXiv:1902.03545
- Z. Wang, L. Chen, S. Rathore, D. Shin, C. Fowlkes,
"Geometric Pose Affordance : 3D Human Pose with Scene Constraints", (May 2019).
arXiv:1905.07718
full list of publications here...
students:
current academic advisees and lab members
- Daeyun Shin (PhD)
past academic advisees
- Samia Shafique (PhD, 2024)
- Yunhan Zhao (PhD, 2024) now at Google
- Viktor Liviniuk (MS, 2022) now at Nuro
- Alina Liviniuk (MS, 2022) now at Pinterest
- Zhe Wang (PhD, 2021) now at Cruise
- Chinmayee Athalye (MS, 2020)
- Linfeng Wang (MS, 2020)
- Shaurya Rathore (MS, 2020)
- Ryan Sivoraphonh (BS, 2020)
- Shu Kong (PhD, 2019) now at CMU
- Minhaeng Lee (PhD, 2019) now at Apple
- Liyan Chen (BS, 2019) now at UT Austin
- Bailey Kong (PhD, 2018)
- Phuc Nguyen (PhD, 2018) now at Google
- Dongxu Zhao (MS 2018) now at UNC Chapel Hill
- Jasmine Bhanushali (MS, 2018) now at Microsoft
- Maharshi Patel (BS, 2017) now at Microsoft
- Golnaz Ghiasi (PhD, 2016) now at Google Research
- Raúl Díaz (PhD, 2016) now at Amazon
- Sam Hallman (PhD, 2015) now at Amazon
- Gio Borje (BS, 2015) now at LinkedIn
- Samreen Anjum (MS, 2014) now at Qatar Computing Research Institute
- Shaofei Wang (MS, 2013) now at U Penn
- Jason Lee (BS, 2013) now at OCLARO
- Julian Yarkony (PhD,2012) now at Experian Data Lab
- Matthew Nease (BS, 2012) now at Edmunds
- Shu-Chi Hsu (MS, 2012)
- Ragib Morshed (MS, 2011) now at Amazon
- Nityananda Jayadevaprakash (MS, 2010) now at Apple
- Sangeeta Jha (MS, 2010) now at Intel
- Tony Tran (MS, 2009) now at Uber
- Dennis Park (MS, 2009) now at Vicarious
- Michelle Ngo (MCBS rotation, 2018)
- Katiana Khouri (MCBS rotation, 2017)
- Yoon Jung (BS, 2017)
- Michael Chiang (PhD w/Olivier Cinquin, 2015)
- Joseph Nash (CCBS rotation, 2015)
- Hyeoungho Bae (PhD w/Pai Chu, 2013) now at Microsoft
- Yihang Bo (visiting PhD, 2010-2011) now at Beijing Film Academy
awards:
- UCI Chancellors fellow (2019-2022)
- American Staistical Society SPAIG award
for building a statistically sound and scientifically solid foundation for the analysis and interpretation of forensic evidence.
- Helmholtz
Prize in 2015 for significant impact in computer vision with our paper:
"A Database of Human Segmented Natural Images and its Application to Evaluating Segmentation Algorithms and Measuring Ecological Statistics", D. Martin, C. Fowlkes, D. Tal, J. Malik. ICCV 2001 [pdf]
- Award for Teaching Excellence in Undergarduate Education, UCI ICS, 2014
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2013
- Marr Prize in 2009 for our paper:
"Discriminative models for multi-class object layout", C. Desai, D. Ramanan, C. Fowlkes. ICCV 2009 [pdf]
teaching:
cs 116 : computational photography and vision [2010-present]
cs 117 : project in computer vision[2009-present]
cs 216 : image understanding [2008-present]
cs 217 : light and geometry in vision [2010-present]
ics 162 : modeling and world building [f12,s14,f15]
cs 295 : research topics in vision [s09,w10,w11]
cs 177 : applications of probability in computer science [s08]
funding:
My research is currently supported by:
- DARPA Perceptual Task Guidance Program
- NIST CSAFE: Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence
- NIH ( NIBIB R25:EB022366, OD OT2:OD024899, NIA R01AG057748 OD OT2:OD023848, )
- National Science Foundation ( DBI-1053036, DBI-1262547, IIS-1618806, IIS-1253538 IIS-1813785, CNS-1730158 )
- Funding from Adobe
- Funding from Qualcomm Research
- Hardware donation from NVIDIA
- Google Research Award
- UC Labs Research Program
service and meetings/workshops organized:
- Area chair for CVPR (2010,2012,2016,2017,2019,2020,2021,2023), ICCV (2015,2017,2019), ECCV (2016,2018), ISMB (2016)
- Associate editor for IEEE TPAMI (2018-),
CVIU (2016-2019),
IEEE/ACM TCBB (2015-2018)
- USA-Sino Summer School in Vision, Learning, Pattern Recognition (VLPR 2012) Fudan Unviersity, Shanghai, China July 2012.
- The Eighth Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV 2012), CVPR, Providence, RI.
- Southern California Computer Vision Meetup (2009-2012)
- Big Data Image Processing and Analysis (2016-2018).