Carl Vondrick

I am a first year computer science Ph.D. student at MIT. I work at CSAIL with the Computer Vision Group where I am advised by Professor Antonio Torralba. I am broadly interested in computer vision and its applications.

I am best contacted by email:

Email: vondrick@mit.edu
Phone: +1 (510) 409-7059
GTalk: cvondrick@gmail.com 		D542 Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Previously, I completed my B.S. in computer science at UC Irvine with the Computational Vision Lab where I was advised by Professor Deva Ramanan.

My curriculum vitae has more information.

Software


An interactive tool to efficiently annotate massive videos on Mechanical Turk.

Code Demo


Conference Publications

Carl Vondrick and Deva Ramanan. "Video Annotation and Tracking with Active Learning" Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Granada, Spain, December 2011. [paper] [slides] [poster] [code]

Sangmin Oh, et al. "A Large-scale Benchmark Dataset for Event Recognition in Surveillance Video" Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 2011. [paper] [data] [slides]

Carl Vondrick, Deva Ramanan, Donald Patterson. "Efficiently Scaling Up Video Annotation with Crowdsourced Marketplaces" European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Crete, Greece, September, 2010. [paper] [poster] [slides] [data + code]

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