Publications

January 1, 2020

Ethics in Design and Communication

Virtual Reality (VR) designers accept the ethical responsibilities of removing a user’s entire world and superseding it with a fabricated reality. These unique immersive design challenges are intensified when virtual experiences become public and socially-driven. As female VR designers in 2018, we see an opportunity to fold the language of consent into the design practice of virtual reality—as a means to design safe, accessible, virtual spaces.

Publication will be made available in 2020.

Areas: AR/VR Human Computer Interaction & UX

November 10, 2019

SIGGRAPH Asia

Designing a fully integrated 360◦ video camera supporting 6DoF head motion parallax requires overcoming many technical hurdles, including camera placement, optical design, sensor resolution, system calibration, real-time video capture, depth reconstruction, and real-time novel view synthesis. While there is a large body of work describing various system components, such as multi-view depth estimation, our paper is the first to describe a complete, reproducible system that considers the challenges arising when designing, building, and deploying a full end-to-end 6DoF video camera and playback environment.

Areas: AR/VR Computer Vision

November 7, 2019

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)

In modern production platforms, large scale online learning models are applied to data of very high dimension. To save computational resource, it is important to have an efficient algorithm to select the most significant features from an enormous feature pool. In this paper, we propose a novel neural-network-suitable feature selection algorithm, which selects important features from the input layer during training.

Areas: Machine Learning

November 1, 2019

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

Previous work on neural noisy channel modeling relied on latent variable models that incrementally process the source and target sentence. This makes decoding decisions based on partial source prefixes even though the full source is available. We pursue an alternative approach based on standard sequence to sequence models which utilize the entire source.

Areas: Natural Language Processing & Speech

October 28, 2019

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Pre-training general-purpose visual features with convolutional neural networks without relying on annotations is a challenging and important task. Most recent efforts in unsupervised feature learning have focused on either small or highly curated datasets like ImageNet, whereas using non-curated raw datasets was found to decrease the feature quality when evaluated on a transfer task. Our goal is to bridge the performance gap between unsupervised methods trained on curated data, which are costly to obtain, and massive raw datasets that are easily available.

Areas: Computer Vision Facebook AI Research Machine Learning

October 28, 2019

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

We introduce the Intermediate Level Attack (ILA), which attempts to fine-tune an existing adversarial example for greater black-box transferability by increasing its perturbation on a pre-specified layer of the source model, improving upon state-of-the-art methods.

Areas: Computer Vision

October 27, 2019

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

We present an approach for pixel-level future prediction given an input image of a scene. We observe that a scene is comprised of distinct entities that undergo motion and present an approach that operationalizes this insight. We implicitly predict future states of independent entities while reasoning about their interactions, and compose future video frames using these predicted states.

Areas: Computer Vision Facebook AI Research

October 27, 2019

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Video recognition models have progressed significantly over the past few years, evolving from shallow classifiers trained on hand-crafted features to deep spatiotemporal networks. However, labeled video data required to train such models has not been able to keep up with the ever increasing depth and sophistication of these networks. In this work we propose an alternative approach to learning video representations that requires no semantically labeled videos, and instead leverages the years of effort in collecting and labeling large and clean still-image datasets.

Areas: Computer Vision Facebook AI Research Machine Learning

October 27, 2019

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

We explore the task of Canonical Surface Mapping (CSM). Specifically, given an image, we learn to map pixels on the object to their corresponding locations on an abstract 3D model of the category.

Areas: Computer Vision Facebook AI Research

October 27, 2019

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Self-supervised learning aims to learn representations from the data itself without explicit manual supervision. Existing efforts ignore a crucial aspect of self-supervised learning – the ability to scale to large amount of data because self-supervision requires no manual labels. In this work, we revisit this principle and scale two popular self-supervised approaches to 100 million images.

Areas: Computer Vision Facebook AI Research