Carl Vondrick

I am a computer science Ph.D. student at MIT. I work at CSAIL with the Computer Vision Group where I am advised by Antonio Torralba. My research revolves around computer vision, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.

I am best contacted by email:

Email: vondrick@mit.edu
GChat: cvondrick@gmail.com 		D542 Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

I completed my B.S. in computer science in 2011 at UC Irvine where I was advised by Deva Ramanan. I was at Google Maps for the summer of 2012 working with Dave Gallup. Next summer, I will be at Google X Lab working with Adrien Treuille.

My curriculum vitae has more information.

Projects

iHOG: Feature Visualization Tool
A tool to visualize feature spaces
commonly used in object detection.

Code Examples Demo



vatic: Video Annotation Tool
An interactive tool to efficiently annotate
massive videos on Mechanical Turk.

Code Demo


Papers

Inverting and Visualizing Features for Object Detection
Carl Vondrick, Aditya Khosla, Tomasz Malisiewicz, Antonio Torralba
arXiv 2012 (pre-print)
Paper Slides Code

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

Efficiently Scaling Up Crowdsourced Video Annotation
Carl Vondrick, Donald Patterson, Deva Ramanan
IJCV 2012
Paper Slides Data + Code

Video Annotation and Tracking with Active Learning
Carl Vondrick, Deva Ramanan
NIPS 2011
Paper Slides Code

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

Efficiently Scaling Up Video Annotation with Crowdsourced Marketplaces
Carl Vondrick, Deva Ramanan, Donald Patterson
ECCV 2010
Journal Paper Conference Paper Data + Code

Thesis

Visualizing Object Detection Features
Carl Vondrick
M.S. Thesis, MIT, 2013
Thesis Code

Links

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