My research is in computational vision, in particular how to integrate mechanisms for visual recognition and perceptual organization with 3D scene understanding. We apply these computational models to a variety of problems including development of tools for biological image and shape analysis in neuroscience, animal development and palynology as well as applications to forensic science.

recent research highlights:

• S. Kong, C. Fowlkes, "Recurrent Scene Parsing with Perspective Understanding in the Loop", Technical Report, (May 2017) arXiv:1705.07238 [pdf]
  
  
• S. Kong, C. Fowlkes, "Low-rank Bilinear Pooling for Fine-Grained Classification", to appear, CVPR, (July 2017). arXiv:1611.05109 [pdf]
  
  
• R. Diaz, C. Fowlkes, "Cluster-wise Ratio Tests for Fast Camera Localization", to appear, Int. Workshop on Visual Odometry, CVPR, (July 2017). arXiv:1612.01689 [pdf]
  
  
• S. Wang, S. Wolf, C. Fowlkes, J. Yarkony, "Tracking Objects with Higher Order Interactions using Delayed Column Generation", to appear, AISTATS, (April 2017). arXiv:1512.02413 [pdf]
  
  
• S. Wang, C. Fowlkes, "Learning Optimal Parameters for Multi-target Tracking with Contextual Interactions", IJCV, 122:484 (2017). DOI 10.1007/s11263-016-0960-z arXiv:1610.01394 [pdf]
  
  
• S. Kong, X. Shen, Z. Lin, R. Mech, C. Fowlkes, "Photo Aesthetics Ranking Network with Attributes and Content Adaptation",ECCV, Amsterdam, (Oct. 2016). arXiv:1606.01621 [pdf] [supplement]
  
  
• G. Ghiasi, C. Fowlkes, "Laplacian Pyramid Reconstruction and Refinement for Semantic Segmentation", ECCV, Amsterdam, (Oct. 2016). arXiv:1605.02264 [pdf] [code]
  
  
• S. Kong, S. Punyasena, C. Fowlkes, "Spatially Aware Dictionary Learning and Coding for Fossil Pollen Identiifcation", CVMI Workshop, Los Vegas, NV, (July 2016). arXiv:1605.00775 [pdf]
  
  
• P. Nguyen, G. Rogez, C. Fowlkes, D. Ramanan, "The Open World of Micro-Videos", Technical Report, (March 2016). arXiv:1603.09439 [pdf]
  
  
• R. Diaz, M. Lee, J. Schubert, C. Fowlkes, "Lifting GIS Maps into Strong Geometric Context", WACV Lake Placid, NY (March 2016). arXiv:1507.03698 [pdf]
  
  
• M. Chiang, S. Hallman, A. Cinquin, N. Reyes de Mochel, A. Paz, S. Kawauchi, A. Calof, K. Cho, C. Fowlkes, O. Cinquin, "Analysis of in vivo single cell behavior by high throughput, human-in-the-loop segmentation of three-dimensional images", BMC Bioinformatics 2015, 16:397 doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0814-7. [pdf]
  
  
• J. Yarkony, C. Fowlkes, "Planar Ultrametrics for Image Segmentation", NIPS, (Dec. 2015). arXiv:1507.02407 [pdf]
  
  
• J. B. Treweek, K. Chan, N. Flytzanis, B. Yang, B. Deverman, A. Greenbaum, A. Lignell, C. Xiao, L. Cai, M. Ladinsky, P. Bjorkman, C. Fowlkes, V. Gradinaru "Whole-Body Tissue Stabilization and Selective Extractions via Tissue-Hydrogel Hybrids for High Resolution Intact Circuit Mapping and Phenotyping", Nature Protocols, 10 (11), 1860-1896, (2015) DOI 10.1038/nprot.2015.122
  
  
• G. Ghiasi, C. Fowlkes, "Occlusion Coherence: Detecting and Localizing Occluded Faces", Technical Report, (June 2015) arXiv:1506.08347 [pdf] [code] [dataset]
  
  
  
  more recent pubs here...

students:

advisees

• Minhaeng Lee (PhD)
  
• Bailey Kong (PhD)
  
• Shu Kong (PhD)
  
• Phuc Nguyen (PhD, co-advised with Deva Ramanan)
  
• Zhe Wang (PhD)
  
• Jasmine Bhanushali (MS)
  
• Shaurya Rathore (BS)
  

past advisees

• Maharshi Patel (BS, 2017) now at Microsoft
  
• Golnaz Ghiasi (PhD, 2016) now at Google
  
• Raúl Díaz (PhD, 2016) now at HP
  
• Sam Hallman (PhD, 2015) now at Amazon
  
• Gio Borje (BS, 2015) now at LinkedIn
  
• Shaofei Wang (MS, 2013)
  
• Julian Yarkony (PhD,2012) now at Experian Data Lab
  
• Matthew Nease (BS, 2012) now at Edmunds
  
• Shu-Chi Hsu (MS, 2012)
  
• Ragib Morshed (MS, 2011) now at Adconion
  
• Sangeeta Jha (MS, 2010) now at Intel
  
• Tony Tran (MS, 2009) now at Uber
  
• Dennis Park (MS, 2009) now at Vicarious
  

collaborators

• James Supancic (PhD w/Deva Ramanan, 2017)
  
• Michael Chiang (PhD w/Olivier Cinquin, 2015)
  
• Hyeoungho Bae (PhD w/Pai Chu, 2013) now at Microsoft
  
• Yihang Bo (visiting PhD, 2010-2011) now at Beijing Film Academy
  

awards:

• Helmholtz Prize in 2015 for significant impact in computer vision with our paper:
  
  "A Database of Human Segmented Natural Images and its Application to Evaluating Segmentation Algorithms and Measuring Ecological Statistics", D. Martin, C. Fowlkes, D. Tal, J. Malik. ICCV 2001 [pdf]
  
  
• Marr Prize in 2009 for our paper:
  
  "Discriminative models for multi-class object layout", C. Desai, D. Ramanan, C. Fowlkes. ICCV 2009 [pdf]
  
  
• Award for Teaching Excellence in Undergarduate Education, UCI ICS, 2014

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2013

teaching:

Big Data Image Processing and Analysis.
Monday, September 18-22, 2017.
Center for Complex Biological Systems,
University of California, Irvine.

cs 117 : project in computer vision [w09,f13,s15,s17]
ics 162 : modeling and world building [f12,s14,f15]
cs 116 : computational photography and vision [w10,w11,w13,w14,w16,w17]
cs 216 : image understanding [f08,f10,f11,f12,s14,w16,s17]
cs 217 : light and geometry in vision [s10,w12,s15]
cs 295 : research topics in vision [s09,w10,w11]
cs 177 : applications of probability in computer science [s08]

funding:

My research is currently supported by:

• NSF ( IIS-1618806, IIS-1253538, DBI-1262547 )
• NIH (NIBIB R25:EB022366, OD OT2:OD023848)
• NIST CSAFE: Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence
• Research Gift from Adobe
• Hardware donation from NVIDIA

previously:

• National Science Foundation DBI-1053036
• Google Research Award
• UC Labs Research Program

service and meetings organized:

• Area chair for CVPR (2010,2012,2016, 2017), ICCV (2015, 2017), ECCV (2016), ISMB (2016)

• Associate editor for CVIU (2016-), IEEE/ACM TCBB (2015-)

• USA-Sino Summer School in Vision, Learning, Pattern Recognition (VLPR 2012) Fudan Unviersity, Shanghai, China July 2012.
  
  
• The Eighth Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV 2012), CVPR, Providence, RI.
  
  
• Southern California Computer Vision Meetup (2009-2012)