Publications

2024

• Outdoor Scene Extrapolation with Hierarchical Generative Cellular Automata

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  @inproceedings{Zhang2024Hierarchical,
  author = {Dongsu Zhang and Francis Williams and Zan Gojcic and Karsten Kreis and Sanja Fidler and Young Min Kim and Amlan Kar},
  title = {Outdoor Scene Extrapolation with Hierarchical Generative Cellular Automata},
  booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year = {2024}
  }
  

2023

• DreamTeacher: Pretraining Image Backbones with Deep Generative Models

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  @inproceedings{li2023dreamteacher,
  title={Dreamteacher: Pretraining image backbones with deep generative models},
  author={Li, Daiqing and Ling, Huan and Kar, Amlan and Acuna, David and Kim, Seung Wook and Kreis, Karsten and Torralba, Antonio and Fidler, Sanja},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision},
  pages={16698–16708},
  year={2023}
  }
  

2022

• EPIC-KITCHENS VISOR Benchmark: VIdeo Segmentations and Object Relations

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  @inproceedings{VISOR2022,
  title={EPIC-KITCHENS VISOR Benchmark: VIdeo Segmentations and Object Relations},
  author={Darkhalil, Ahmad and Shan, Dandan and Zhu, Bin and Ma, Jian and Kar, Amlan and Higgins, Richard and Fidler, Sanja and Fouhey, David and Damen, Dima},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Track on Datasets and Benchmarks},
  year={2022}}
  

2021

• ATISS: Autoregressive Transformers for Indoor Scene Synthesis

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  @inproceedings{Paschalidou2021NEURIPS,
  author = {Despoina Paschalidou and Amlan Kar and Maria Shugrina and Karsten Kreis and Andreas Geiger and Sanja Fidler},
  title = {ATISS: Autoregressive Transformers for Indoor Scene Synthesis},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2021}
  }
  

• Towards Good Practices for Efficiently Annotating Large-Scale Image Classification Datasets

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  @inproceedings{liao2021towards,
   title={Towards Good Practices for Efficiently Annotating Large-Scale Image Classification Datasets},
   author={Liao, Yuan-Hong and Kar, Amlan and Fidler, Sanja},
   booktitle={CVPR},
   year={2021}
  }
  

2020

• Meta-Sim2: Unsupervised Learning of Scene Structure for Synthetic Data Generation

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  @inproceedings{devaranjan2020metasim2,
   title={Meta-Sim2: Learning to Generate Synthetic Datasets},
   author={Devaranjan, Jeevan and Kar, Amlan and Fidler, Sanja},
   booktitle={ECCV},
   year={2020}
  }
  

• Interactive Annotation of 3D Object Geometry using 2D Scribbles

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  @inproceedings{shen2020interactive,
   title={Interactive Annotation of 3D Object Geometry using 2D Scribbles},
   author={Shen, Tianchang and Gao, Jun and Kar, Amlan and Fidler, Sanja},
   booktitle={ECCV},
   year={2020}
  }
  

• Federated Simulation for Medical Imaging

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  @inproceedings{li2020federated,
   title={Federated Simulation for Medical Imaging},
   author={Li, Daiqing and Kar, Amlan and Ravikumar, Nishant and Frangi, Alejandro and Fidler, Sanja},
   booktitle={MICCAI},
   year={2020}
  }
  

• Learning to Evaluate Perception Models using Planner-Centric Metrics

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  @inproceedings{philion2020learning,
  title={Learning to Evaluate Perception Models using Planner-Centric Metrics},
  author={Jonah Philion and Amlan Kar and Sanja Fidler},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2020}
  }
  

• Nonlinear Color Triads for Approximation, Learning and Direct Manipulation of Color Distributions

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  @article{shugrina2020color,
  title={Nonlinear Color Triads for Approximation, Learning and Direct Manipulation of Color Distributions},
  author={Maria Shugrina and Amlan Kar and Karan Singh and Sanja Fidler},
  booktitle={ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  year={2020}
  }
  

2019

• Meta-Sim: Learning to Generate Synthetic Datasets

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  @inproceedings{kar2019metasim,
   title={Meta-Sim: Learning to Generate Synthetic Datasets},
   author={Kar, Amlan and Prakash, Aayush and Liu, Ming-Yu and Cameracci, Eric and Yuan, Justin and Rusiniak, Matt and Acuna, David and Torralba, Antonio and Fidler, Sanja},
   booktitle={ICCV},
   year={2019}
  }
  

• Neural Turtle Graphics for Modeling City Road Layouts

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  @inproceedings{chu2019ntg,
   title={Neural Turtle Graphics for Modeling City Road Layouts},
   author={Chu, Hang and Li, Daiqing and Acuna, David and Kar, Amlan and Shugrina, Maria and Wei, Xinkai and Liu, Ming-Yu and Torralba, Antonio and Fidler, Sanja},
   booktitle={ICCV},
   year={2019}
  }
  

• Learning to Caption Images through a Lifetime by Asking Questions

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  @inproceedings{shen2018learning,
  title={Learning to Caption Images through a Lifetime by Asking Questions},
  author={Kevin Shen and Amlan Kar and Sanja Fidler},
  booktitle={ICCV},
  year={2019}
  }
  

• Devil is in the Edges: Learning Semantic Boundaries from Noisy Annotations

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  @inproceedings{acuna2019devil,
  title={Devil is in the Edges: Learning Semantic Boundaries from Noisy Annotations},
  author={David Acuna and Amlan Kar and Sanja Fidler},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2019}
  }
  

• Creative Flow+ Dataset

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  @inproceedings{shugrina2019creative,
  title={Creative Flow+ Dataset},
  author={Maria Shugrina and Ziheng Liand and Amlan Kar and Jiaman Li and Angad Singh and Karan Singh and Sanja Fidler},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2019}
  }
  

• Fast Interactive Object Annotation with Curve-GCN

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  @inproceedings{curvegcn2019,
  title={Fast Interactive Object Annotation with Curve-GCN},
  author={Huan Ling and Jun Gao and Amlan Kar and Wenzheng Chen and Sanja Fidler},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2019}
  }
  

• Object Instance Annotation with Deep Extreme Level Set Evolution

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  @inproceedings{wang2019delse,
  title={Object Instance Annotation with Deep Extreme Level Set Evolution},
  author={Zian Wang and Huan Ling and David Acuna and Amlan Kar and Sanja Fidler},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2019}
  }
  

2018

• Efficient Interactive Annotation of Segmentation Datasets with Polygon-RNN++

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  @inproceedings{AcunaCVPR18,
  title={Efficient Interactive Annotation of Segmentation Datasets with Polygon-RNN++},
  author={David Acuna and Huan Ling and Amlan Kar and Sanja Fidler},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2018}
  }
  

2017

• AdaScan: Adaptive Scan Pooling in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition in Videos

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  @inproceedings{kar2016adascan,
  title={AdaScan: Adaptive Scan Pooling in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition in Videos},
  author={Kar, Amlan and Rai, Nishant and Sikka, Karan and Sharma, Gaurav},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2017}
  }