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I am a Research Scientist at the Meta Reality Labs since 2022. Before that, I spent almost 4 years at the Microsoft Mixed Reality & AI Lab in Zürich. I received my PhD degree at the Computer Vision Laboratory of EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Fua and Prof. Vincent Lepetit. Before that, I obtained my MS degree in Electrical Engineering from EPFL in 2013, and BS degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University in 2011 with high honors. I also spent time at Microsoft Research as a research intern and at ETH Zürich as a visiting researcher. I am the recipient of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Europe in 2017. |
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I'm interested in computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, image processing, and augmented reality. Much of my research is about semantically understanding humans and objects from the camera images in the 3D world. Particularly, I work on 2D/3D human pose estimation, hand pose estimation, action recognition, human-object interactions, 3D object detection and 6D pose estimation. In the past, I have also worked in biomedical imaging. |
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We introduce DiffH2O, a diffusion-based framework to synthesize dexterous hand-object interactions. DiffH2O generates realistic hand-object motion from natural language, generalizes to unseen objects at test time and enables fine-grained control over the motion with detailed textual descriptions |
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We introduce a novel task and system for automated coaching and feedback on human motion, aimed at generating corrective instructions and guidance for body posture and movement during specific tasks. |
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A method for 6D pose estimation of unseen rigid objects from a single RGB image without any object-specific training. |
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A simple yet effective cross-modal adaptation framework for VLMs. |
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HoloAssist is a large-scale egocentric human interaction dataset, where two people collaboratively complete physical manipulation tasks. By augmenting the data with action and conversational annotations and observing the rich behaviors of various participants, we present key insights into how human assistants correct mistakes, intervene in the task completion procedure, and ground their instructions to the environment. |
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We propose a skeletal self-supervised learning approach that uses alignment as a pretext task. Our approach to alignment relies on a context-aware attention model that incorporates spatial and temporal context within and across sequences and a contrastive learning formulation that relies on 4D skeletal augmentations. Pose data provides a valuable cue for alignment and downstream tasks, such as phase classification and phase progression, as it is robust to different camera angles and changes in the background, while being efficient for real-time processing. |
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We propose an approach to align sequential actions in the wild that involve diverse temporal variations. To this end, we present a new method to enforce temporal priors on the optimal transport matrix, which leverages temporal consistency, while allowing for variations in the order of actions. Our model accounts for both monotonic and non-monotonic sequences and handles background frames that should not be aligned. We demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art in self-supervised sequential action representation learning. |
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In this paper, we propose a method to collect a dataset of two hands manipulating objects for first person interaction recognition. We provide a rich set of annotations including action labels, object classes, 3D left & right hand poses, 6D object poses, camera poses and scene point clouds. We further propose the first method to jointly recognize the 3D poses of two hands manipulating objects and a novel topology-aware graph convolutional network for recognizing hand-object interactions. |
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We develop an effective method for low-shot transfer learning for first-person action classification. We leverage independently trained local visual cues to learn representations that can be transferred from a source domain providing primitive action labels to a target domain with only a handful of examples. |
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We present a method for 3D reconstruction of instructional videos and localizing the associated narrations in 3D. Our method is resistant to the differences in appearance of objects depicted in the videos and computationally efficient. |
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In this paper, we propose a new method for dense 3D reconstruction of hands and objects from monocular color images. We further present a self-supervised learning approach leveraging photo-consistency between sparsely supervised frames. |
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We present HoloLens 2 Research Mode, an API anda set of tools enabling access to the raw sensor streams. We provide an overview of the API and explain how it can be used to build mixed reality applications based onprocessing sensor data. We also show how to combine theResearch Mode sensor data with the built-in eye and handtracking capabilities provided by HoloLens 2. |
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We study the problem of reconstructing the template-aligned mesh for human body estimation from unstructured point cloud data and propose a new dedicated human template matching process with a point-based deep-autoencoder architecture, where consistency of surface points is enforced and parameterized with a specialized Gaussian Process layer, and whose global consistency and generalization abilities are enforced with adversarial training. |
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In this work, we propose, for the first time, a unified method to jointly recognize 3D hand and object poses, and their interactions from egocentric monocular color images. Our method jointly estimates the hand and object poses in 3D, models their interactions and recognizes the object and activity classes with a single feed-forward pass through a neural network. |
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We introduce a new deep learning architecture that naturally extends the single-shot 2D object detection paradigm to 6D object pose estimation. It demonstrates state-of-the-art accuracy with real-time performance and is at least 5 times faster than the existing methods (50 to 94 fps depending on the input resolution). |
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We propose an efficient Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) network for enforcing consistency of 3D human pose predictions across temporal windows. |
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We introduce an approach to learn where and how to fuse the streams of a two-stream convolutional neural network operating on different input modalities for 3D human pose estimation. |
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We propose to jointly model 2D uncertainty and leverage 3D image cues in a regression framework for reliable monocular 3D human pose estimation. |
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We introduce a Deep Learning regression architecture for structured prediction of 3D human pose from monocular images that relies on an overcomplete auto-encoder to learn a high-dimensional latent pose representation and account for joint dependencies. |
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We propose to predict the 3D human pose from a spatiotemporal volume of bounding boxes. We further propose a CNN-based motion compensation method that increases the stability and reliability of our 3D pose estimates. |
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We propose an efficient approach to exploiting motion information from consecutive frames of a video sequence to recover the 3D pose of people. Instead of computing candidate poses in individual frames and then linking them, as is often done, we regress directly from a spatio-temporal block of frames to a 3D pose in the central one. |
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We introduce an efficient approach to approximate a set of nonseparable convolutional filters by linear combinations of a smaller number of separable ones. We demonstrate that this greatly reduces the computational complexity at no cost in terms of performance for image recognition tasks with convolutional filters and CNNs. |
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We propose a technique for improving the performance of L1-based image denoising in the steerable wavelet domain. Our technique, which we call consistency, refers to the fact that the solution obtained by the algorithm is constrained to the space spanned by the basis functions of the transform, which results in a certain norm equivalence between image-domain and wavelet-domain estimations. |
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(*: indicates equal contribution) |
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Gesture recognition based on likelihood of interaction
Multi-modal sensor based process tracking and guidance
Action recognition
Action classification based on manipulated object movement
Predicting three-dimensional articulated and target object pose
Spatially consistent representation of hand motion
Method, System and Device for Direct Prediction of 3D Body Poses from Motion Compensated Sequence |
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Deep Learning, TA, 2018 Computer Vision, TA, 2016, 2017 Numerical Methods for Visual Computing, TA, 2016 Programmation (C/C++) / (Java), TA, 2013, 2015 Principles of Digital Communications, TA, 2013 Circuits and Systems I/II, TA, 2011, 2012, 2013 |
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pronunciation of my name, Buğra / website template from Jon Barron |