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Research Scientist
Google Research
New York, NY
makadia@gmail.com



     

New

  • Single Mesh Diffusion Models with Field Latents for Texture Generation accepted to CVPR.
  • NAVI dataset paper accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
  • Three papers accepted to ICCV 2023: LU-NeRF, ASIC, and Generalizable Instance-wise Invariance.
  • Google Research blog post (link) on scaling spherical CNNs for scientific applications.

About

Since the Fall of 2007 I have been a Research Scientist with Google in New York City. Prior to joining Google Research (aka Google AI), I completed my PhD in the GRASP Lab at UPENN.

At Google, I lead a research team working at the intersection of Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Please contact me for internship or full-time opportunities.


Publications

Select publications are listed below. See Scholar for the full list.


CVPR'24 Single Mesh Diffusion Models with Field Latents for Texture Generation
Thomas W Mitchel, Carlos Esteves, and Ameesh Makadia
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2024
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NeurIPS'23 NAVI: Category-Agnostic Image Collections with High-Quality 3D Shape and Pose Annotations
Varun Jampani, Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis, Andreas Engelhardt, Arjun Karpur, Karen Truong, Kyle Sargent, Stefan Popov, André Araujo, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, Kaushal Patel, Daniel Vlasic, Vittorio Ferrari, Ameesh Makadia, Ce Liu, Yuanzhen Li, and Howard Zhou
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2023
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ICCV'23 LU-NeRF: Scene and Pose Estimation by Synchronizing Local Unposed NeRFs
Zezhou Cheng, Carlos Esteves, Varun Jampani, Abhishek Kar, Subhransu Maji, and Ameesh Makadia
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2023
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ICCV'23 Learning to Transform for Generalizable Instance-wise Invariance
Utkarsh Singhal, Carlos Esteves, Ameesh Makadia, and Stella X. Yu
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2023
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ICCV'23 Oral ASIC: Aligning sparse in-the-wild image collections
Kamal Gupta, Varun Jampani, Carlos Esteves, Abhinav Shrivastava, Ameesh Makadia, Noah Snavely, and Abhishek Kar
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2023
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ICML'23 Scaling Spherical CNNs
Carlos Esteves, Jean-Jacques Slotine, and Ameesh Makadia
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2023
Code GoogleAI Blog PDF Bibtex


ECCV'22Oral Generalizable Patch-Based Neural Rendering
Mohammed Suhail, Carlos Esteves, Leonid Sigal, Ameesh Makadia
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), October 2022
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CVPR'22Oral Light Field Neural Rendering
Mohammed Suhail, Carlos Esteves, Leonid Sigal, Ameesh Makadia
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2021
Best Paper Finalist (33 finalists from 8161 submissions)
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CVPR'22Oral Learning ABCs: Approximate Bijective Correspondence for isolating factors of variation
Kieran A. Murphy, Varun Jampani, Srikumar Ramalingam, Ameesh Makadia
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2021
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ICCV'21 Oral Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image
Andrew Liu*, Richard Tucker*, Varun Jampani, Ameesh Makadia, Noah Snavely, Angjoo Kanazawa
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2021
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ICML'21 Implicit Representation of Probability Distributions on the Rotation Manifold
Kieran Murphy, Carlos Esteves, Varun Jampani, Srikumar Ramalingam, Ameesh Makadia
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2021
Website Code Dataset Colab Bibtex


CVPR'21 De-rendering the World’s Revolutionary Artefacts
Shangzhe Wu, Ameesh Makadia, Jiajun Wu, Noah Snavely, Richard Tucker, Angjoo Kanazawa
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2021
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CVPR'21 Oral KeypointDeformer: Unsupervised 3D Keypoint Discovery for Shape Control
Tomas Jakab, Richard Tucker, Ameesh Makadia, Jiajun Wu, Noah Snavely, Angjoo Kanazawa
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2021
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CVPR'21 Wide-Baseline Relative Camera Pose Estimation with Directional Learning
Kefan Chen, Noah Snavely, Ameesh Makadia
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2021
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NeurIPS'20 An Analysis of SVD for Deep Rotation Estimation
Jake Levinson, Carlos Esteves, Kefan Chen, Noah Snavely, Angjoo Kanazawa, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Ameesh Makadia
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2020
Video Code PDF Bibtex


NeurIPS'20 Spin-Weighted Spherical CNNs
Carlos Esteves, Ameesh Makadia, Kostas Daniilidis
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2020
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CVPR'20 Local Implicit Grid Representations for 3D Scenes
Chiyu "Max" Jiang, Avneesh Sud, Ameesh Makadia, Jingwei Huang, Matthias Nießner, Tom Funkhouser
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2020
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arXiv Time Dependence in Non-Autonomous Neural ODEs
Jared Quincy Davis, Krzysztof Choromanski, Jake Varley, Honglak Lee, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Valerii Likhosterov, Adrian Weller, Ameesh Makadia, Vikas Sindhwani
arXiv, May 2020
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ICML'19 Cross-Domain 3D Equivariant Image Embeddings
Carlos Esteves, Avneesh Sud, Zhengyi Luo, Kostas Daniilidis, and Ameesh Makadia
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2019
Code Poster PDF Bibtex


Google I/O Tensorflow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning
Julien Valentin, Cem Keskin, Pavel Pidlypenskyi, Ameesh Makadia, Avneesh Sud, and Sofien Bouaziz
2019
Project (a core TF Library) Bibtex


ECCV Workshops Labeling Panoramas with Spherical Hourglass Networks
Carlos Esteves, Kostas Daniilidis, and Ameesh Makadia
360-degree Perception and Interaction Workshop at ECCV, September 2018
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ECCV'18 Oral and 12 best Learning SO(3) Equivariant Representations with Spherical CNNs
Carlos Esteves, Christine Allen-Blanchette, Ameesh Makadia, and Kostas Daniilidis
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018
Selected as one of the best 12 papers by the Program Committee (0.4% - 776 accepted papers, 2.5K submissions)
Talk Code PDF "Best of ECCV" IJCV Special Issue Bibtex


CVPR'18 Deformable Shape Completion with Graph Convolutional Autoencoders
Or Litany, Alex Bronstein, Michael Bronstein, and Ameesh Makadia
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2018
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RSS'17 Geometry of 3D Environments and Sum of Squares Polynomials
Amir Ali Ahmadi, Georgina Hall, Ameesh Makadia, and Vikas Sindhwani
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July 2017
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3DV'14 Oral Learning 3D Part Detection from Sparsely Labeled Data
Ameesh Makadia and Mehmet Yumer
3DV, December 2014
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CVPR'14 Co-Segmentation of Textured 3D Shapes with Sparse Annotations
Mehmet Yumer, Won Chun, and Ameesh Makadia
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2014
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ICML'13 Label Partitioning For Sublinear Ranking
Jason Weston, Ameesh Makadia, and Hector Yee
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2013
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IJCV'10 Baselines for Image Annotation
Ameesh Makadia, Vladimir Pavlovic, and Sanjiv Kumar
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 90, Issue 1, October 2010
Website and Data PDF Bibtex


ECCV'10 Feature Tracking for Wide-Baseline Image Retrieval
Ameesh Makadia
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2010
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IJVC'10 Spherical Correlation of Visual Representations for 3D Model Retrieval
Ameesh Makadia and Kostas Daniilidis
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 89, Issue 2, September 2010
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CVPR'09 Shape-based Object Recognition in Videos Using 3D Synthetic Object Models
Alexander Toshev, Ameesh Makadia, and Kostas Daniilidis
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), May 2009
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ECCV'08 A New Baseline for Image Annotation
Ameesh Makadia, Vladimir Pavlovic, and Sanjiv Kumar
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), October 2008
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IJCV'07 Correspondence-free Structure from Motion
Ameesh Makadia and Christopher Geyer and Kostas Daniilidis
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 75, No. 3, December, 2007
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3DTV'07 Harmonic Silhouette Matching for 3D Models
Ameesh Makadia, Mirko Visontai, and Kostas Daniilidis
3DTV, May 2007
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Ph.D. Dissertation Best thesis award Robust correspondence-free algorithms for 3D motion recovery
Ameesh Makadia
Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award for the best CIS PhD dissertation
Thesis Bibtex


CVPR'06 Oral Fully Automatic Registration of 3D Point Clouds
Ameesh Makadia, Alexander Patterson, and Kostas Daniilidis
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2006
Oral presentation (acceptance ratio 6%)
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Book chapter Correspondenceless Visual Navigation under Constrained Motion
Ameesh Makadia
Kluwer Press, 2006
Chapter Bibtex


TPAMI Rotation Recovery from Spherical Images without Correspondences
Ameesh Makadia and Kostas Daniilidis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Vol. 28, No. 7, July 2006
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CVPR'05 Oral Radon-based Structure from Motion Without Correspondences
Ameesh Makadia, Christopher Geyer, Shankar Sastry, and Kostas Daniilidis
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2005
Oral presentation (acceptance ratio 6%)
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WACV/MOTION'05 Planar Ego-Motion Without Correspondences
Ameesh Makadia, Dinkar Gupta, and Kostas Daniilidis
IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION), Volume 1, January 2005
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ICPR'04 Rotation Estimation from Spherical Images
Ameesh Makadia, Lorenzo Sorgi, and Kostas Daniilidis
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), August 2004
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CVPR'03 Oral Direct 3D-Rotation Estimation from Spherical Images via a Generalized Shift Theorem
Ameesh Makadia and Kostas Daniilidis
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2003
Oral presentation (acceptance ratio 6%)
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Book chapter Omnidirectional Sensing for Robot Control
Kostas Daniilidis, Christopher Geyer, Volkan Isler, and Ameesh Makadia
Control Problems in Robotics, Springer-Verlag, 2002
Chapter Bibtex


OMNIVIS'02 Image Processing in Catadioptric Planes: Spatiotemporal Derivatives and Optical Flow Computation
Kostas Daniilidis, Ameesh Makadia, and Thomas Bülow
Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, in conjunction with ECCV 2002, June 2002
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