I'm looking for motivated MSc/PhD and visiting students, as well as a postdoc.
My work is in the area of Computer Vision. My main research interests are 2D and 3D object detection, particularly scalable multi-class detection, object segmentation and image labeling, and (3D) scene understanding. I am also interested in the interplay between language and vision: generating sentential descriptions about complex scenes, as well as using textual descriptions for better scene parsing (e.g., in the scenario of the human-robot interaction).
Program Chair: | 3DV'16 |
Area Chair: | |
       Computer Vision: | ECCV'18, CVPR'18, ICCV'17, CVPR'17, CVPR'16, ACCV'16 |
       Machine Learning: | ICLR'18, NIPS'17, ICLR'17 |
       NLP: | EMNLP'17, EMNLP'16 |
       AI: | AAAI'18 |
Chair: | Tutorial Chair (CVPR'16), Publications co-Chair (CVPR'13, CVPR'14, CVPR'15, ICCV'15), Presentations Chair (CVPR'10) |
Program Committee: | CVPR'09-'15, ECCV '08-'16, NIPS'13-'16, ACCV'09, ICRA'15, IROS'15 |
Tutorial: | 3D Indoor Scene Understanding, a half-day tutorial at CVPR'15, co-organized with Raquel Urtasun |
Workshops: | Role of Simulation in Computer Vision, Workshop at ICCV'17 |
The Joint Video and Language Understanding Workshop: MovieQA and The Large Scale Movie Description Challenge, Workshop at ICCV'17 | |
Geometry Meets Deep Learning, Workshop at ICCV'17 | |
Geometry Meets Deep Learning, Workshop at ECCV'16 | |
RMRC Challenge, Workshop at ECCV'14 | |
RMRC Challenge, Workshop at ICCV'13 |
Paper award: | Best paper honorable mention at CVPR'17 |
Faculty award: | Connaught Innovation Award, 2020 |
Early Researcher Award, 2019 | |
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, 2018 | |
Connaught New Researcher Award, 2018 | |
Amazon Academic Research Award, 2017 | |
NVIDIA Pioneer of AI Award, 2016 | |
Facebook Faculty Award, 2016 |
Reviewing: | Outstanding reviewer award at ECCV'08, ECCV'12, CVPR'12, CVPR'15 |
Teaching: | Professor of the Year, 2014/2015, awarded by the UofT's Computer Science Student Union |
Best Teaching Assistant, 2007, awarded by University of Ljubljana's Computer Science Student Union |
Other: | Best student presentation at EU Cognition's student competition, 2007 |
Best paper award at Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (AAPR) conference, 2003 | |
Thesis Award for Diploma (BSc) Thesis, University of Ljubljana, Math & Physics Dept |
What I like perhaps the most about academic life is working with students -- seeing them develop and helping them succeed. I particularly want to inspire and encourage (through talks and competitions) the younger generations to pursue graduate studies in Computer Science.
Competitions: | Research video competition for undergraduate students (UofT's summer research program), 2015 |
Research video competition for undergraduate students, 2014 | |
Multimedia Chair for International Mathematical Olympiad (high school students), 2006 |
Talks: | Talk at TEDxUofT, 2017 |
Invited talk for the UofT undergradute students' AI Day'16 | |
Talk on "The Gee-Whiz of A.I. at UofT", grad orientation day for CogSci students | |
Talk on "How to write a research paper", USRA'16, UofT | |
Invited talk at the Women in Computer Vision workshop in conjunction with CVPR'15, intended to mentor female graduate students | |
Talk on "How to make a research video", USRA'15, UofT | |
Invited talk for the UofT undergradute students' AI night'14 | |
Invited lecture for high school students, Math summer school MARS in Slovenia, 2014 | |
Talk on "How to make a research video", USRA'14, UofT |
► Our pop song generator was picked up by the media:
► The MovieQA benchmark was featured in the media:
► Our work on fashionability received a lot of attention in the press:
![]() By Erin Silver “Computer scientists from the University of Toronto have created a software program that helps users avoid fashion faux pas. Raquel Urtasun and Sanja Fidler, along with colleagues in Spain, designed an algorithm that analyzes a person's photograph to determine whether the wearer's outfit is stylish. It also suggests ways to improve the ensemble and the subject's overall appeal.” |
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![]() By Sarah Lindig “Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed an algorithm that will analyze your photo and make suggestions to improve it. As explained in the report provided by the Computer Vision Foundation, "People want to look good; business or casual, elegant or sporty, sexy but not slutty, and of course trendy, particularly so when putting their picture online. Our goal is to learn and predict how fashionable a person looks on a photograph and suggest subtle improvements the user could make to improve her/his appeal."    Um... yes, please! ” |
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![]() By Lila MacLellan “AI is ready to help us live better in many domains, the professors say, and scientists are only starting to envision what can be done with it. Inviting a thinking robot to rifle through our closets might be the softest possible introduction to a whole new world. ” (photo on the left is of Edgar-Simo Serra, the first author of the paper) |
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New Scientist | Quartz | Tech Times | Wired, UK | Mashable |
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AOL News (video) | Huffington Post, UK (video) | Huffington Post, Canada | MSN, Canada | Protein |
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Yahoo, Canada | Science Daily | Daily Mail, UK | PSFK | Toronto Star |
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Gizmag | TheRecord.com | iDigitalTimes | Scientific Computing | Bustle |
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Phys.org | DigitalTrends | Globe and Mail | Wiproo |
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Harper's Bazaar | Glamour | Elle | Cosmopolitan, UK | Marie Claire |
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Fashion Magazine | Yahoo style | Red Magazine, UK | The Pool, UK | FashionNotes |
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Health Beauty Life | Refinery29 | StyleIte | Be | ForeverVogue |
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Vogue (Spain) | Stylebook (Germany) | Ansa (Italy) | CenarioMT (Brazil) | Elle (NL) |
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Marie Claire (France) | Fashion Police (Nigeria) | Nauka (Poland) | Pluska (Slovakia) | Pressetext (Austria) |
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Wired (Germany) | Jetzt (Germany) | La Gazzetta (Italy) | PopSugar (Australia) | SinEmbargo (Mexico) |
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Marie Claire (South Africa) | Peru.com (Peru) | Metropotam (Romania) | Her.ie (Ireland) | RTVE (Spain) -- television [15:12 to 16:43] |
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Vanity Fair (Italy) | Scientias (NL) | Grazia (Germany) | SenePeople (Senegal) | elDiario (Spain) |
A more complete list is maintained on our project webpage.