Fernando De la Torre (CMU)
Fernando De la Torre is faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in top conferences and journals in the topic of computer vision and machine learning. He served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and regularly acts as an area chair for ECCV, CVPR and ICCV. He founded FacioMetrics, which was acquired by Facebook in 2016. At FB he led the efforts in mobile Augmented Reality. His team developed the technology for facial feature tracking, person segmentation and other real-time on device technology for people augmentation in Messenger, Instagram and FB Camera.
Sofien Bouaziz (Meta)
Sofien Bouaziz is currently a Research Scientist Manager at Meta where he leads the XR Presence team. Prior to joining Meta, he was a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google where he led a perception team developing state-of-the-art technologies for scene and human understanding, and input technologies. Prior to Google, Sofien was a Staff Research Scientist at Apple where he developed the face tracking and reconstruction algorithm enabling features such as Animoji. This work was a continuation of the Faceshift AG technology, a startup he co-founded and which was acquired by Apple. Sofien completed his PhD degree at EPFL in 2015. His thesis was awarded the 2016 SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award honorable mention, the 2015 ETHZ Fritz Kutter PhD thesis award, and the 2015 EPFL Patrick Denantes PhD award honorable mention. He also received the 2018 Eurographics Young Researcher Award.
Natalia Neverova (Meta)
Natalia Neverova is a Research Lead and Manager at Meta AI (FAIR) in London. Prior to joining FAIR, Natalia completed her PhD at INSA Lyon (France) and University of Guelph (Canada), and received 2017 French PhD thesis award in ”Signal, Image and Vision” for her work on "Deep Learning for Human Motion Analysis". She has also spent time as a visiting researcher at Google. Her research focuses on statistical machine learning and computer vision with emphasis on dynamic scene 3D reconstruction and synthesis, targeting AR/VR applications. She is a Tutorial Chair for ECCV 2022 and regularly serves as an Area Chair for CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR. She previously co-organized COCO (DensePose) challenges at ECCV 2018 and ICCV 2019, CV4Animals workshops at CVPR 2021/2022, and Unsupervised 3D Learning in the Wild workshop at ICCV 2021.
Andrew Rabinovich (Headroom Inc.)
Andrew is an applied computer scientist. His career in machine learning and computer vision is over 20 years old. Andrew's interests are both in theoretical advances, as well as practical applications. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2008. He is the author of numerous patents and peer-reviewed publications. He founded a biotechnology startup, which was acquired. After helping develop computer vision and machine learning technologies at Google, including Goggles, Glass, Brain, and Photos, Andrew became interested in spatial computing and led AI efforts at Magic Leap. In 2020, Andrew co-founded Headroom, a next generation video interaction platform.
Serge Belongie (University of Copenhagen)
Serge Belongie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the head of the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, an Associate Dean at Cornell Tech, and a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google. His research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, and Human-in-the-Loop Computing. He is also a co-founder of several companies including Digital Persona, Anchovi Labs, and Orpix. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35” Award, and the Helmholtz Prize for fundamental contributions in Computer Vision.
Harald Haraldsson (Cornell Tech)
Harald Haraldsson is the Director of the XR Collaboratory at Cornell Tech, and lecturer on Augmented and Virtual Reality. At the XR Collaboratory, Harald works with Cornell faculty, researchers, and students from a variety of disciplines on XR-related projects. Harald holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Program Committee Members
Anelia Angelova (Google)
Abe Davis (Cornell)
Aaron Gokaslan (Cornell)
Matthias Grundmann (Google)
Zeqi Gu (Cornell)
Amin Jourabloo (Meta)
Victor Lempitsky (Yandex)
Jamie Lin (Google)
Tomasz Malisiewicz (Meta)
Andrew Mendez (Clarifai)
Karthik Raveendran (Google)
George Sung (Google)
Wenqi Xian (Cornell)
Tong Xiao (Meta)
Poster & Demo Session Organizers
Jessie Taft (Cornell Tech)
Guandao Yang (Cornell)
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