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70
Citations
22664
World Ranking
1855
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947

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to computer vision and graphics
  • 2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Irfan Essa is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Aerospace Engineering, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Video Analysis and Summarization
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • José Lezama
  • Apoorva Beedu
  • Harish Haresamudram
  • Kihyuk Sohn
  • Dhruv Batra

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • AI Matters
  • 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Assessing the State of Self-Supervised Human Activity Recognition Using Wearables," 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • "Semantic MapNet: Building Allocentric Semantic Maps and Representations from Egocentric Views," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "DiscrimNet: Semi-Supervised Action Recognition from Videos using Generative Adversarial Networks," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Language Model Beats Diffusion -- Tokenizer is Key to Visual Generation," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Irfan Essa has been recognized with professional distinctions including being named an IEEE Fellow in 2012 for contributions to computer vision and graphics. They also hold the status of ACM Senior Member since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts

    Vivek Kwatra;Arno Schödl;Irfan Essa;Greg Turk

  • The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research

    Cory D. Kidd;Robert Orr;Gregory D. Abowd;Christopher G. Atkeson

  • Coding, analysis, interpretation, and recognition of facial expressions

    I.A. Essa;A.P. Pentland

  • Efficient hierarchical graph-based video segmentation

    Matthias Grundmann;Vivek Kwatra;Mei Han;Irfan Essa

  • Texture optimization for example-based synthesis

    Vivek Kwatra;Irfan Essa;Aaron Bobick;Nipun Kwatra

  • Video textures

    Arno Schödl;Richard Szeliski;David H. Salesin;Irfan Essa

  • One-Shot Learning for Semantic Segmentation

    Amirreza Shaban;Shray Bansal;Zhen Liu;Irfan Essa

  • Auto-directed video stabilization with robust L1 optimal camera paths

    Matthias Grundmann;Vivek Kwatra;Irfan Essa

  • Exploiting human actions and object context for recognition tasks

    D.J. Moore;I.A. Essa;M.H. Hayes

  • Facial expression recognition using a dynamic model and motion energy

    I.A. Essa;A.P. Pentland

  • Increasing the opportunities for aging in place

    Elizabeth D. Mynatt;Irfan Essa;Wendy Rogers

  • Image and video based painterly animation

    James Hays;Irfan Essa

  • A practical approach for recognizing eating moments with wrist-mounted inertial sensing

    Edison Thomaz;Irfan Essa;Gregory D. Abowd

  • Motion regularization for model-based head tracking

    S. Basu;I. Essa;A. Pentland

  • Detecting and tracking eyes by using their physiological properties, dynamics, and appearance

    A. Haro;M. Flickner;I. Essa

  • Ubiquitous sensing for smart and aware environments

    I.A. Essa

  • Recognizing multitasked activities from video using stochastic context-free grammar

    Darnell Moore;Irfan Essa

  • A Vision System for Observing and Extracting Facial Action Parameters

    Irfan A. Essa;Alex Pentland

  • DD-PPO: Learning Near-Perfect PointGoal Navigators from 2.5 Billion Frames

    Erik Wijmans;Abhishek Kadian;Ari Morcos;Stefan Lee

  • Gaussian process regression flow for analysis of motion trajectories

    Kihwan Kim;Dongryeol Lee;Irfan Essa

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory D. Abowd
Gregory D. Abowd Northeastern University
Thad Starner
Thad Starner Georgia Institute of Technology
Aaron F. Bobick
Aaron F. Bobick Washington University in St. Louis
Nicholas Diakopoulos
Nicholas Diakopoulos Northwestern University
Trevor Darrell
Trevor Darrell University of California, Berkeley
James M. Rehg
James M. Rehg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dhruv Batra
Dhruv Batra Georgia Institute of Technology
Devi Parikh
Devi Parikh Facebook (United States)
Stan Sclaroff
Stan Sclaroff Boston University

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