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Andrew Owens

52 accepted papers

2026

Point Prompting: Counterfactual Tracking with Video Diffusion Models

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in video generation have produced powerful diffusion models capable of generating high-quality, temporally coherent videos. We ask whether space-time tracking capabilities emerge automatically within these generators, as a consequence of the close connection between synthesizing and…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Community Forensics: Using Thousands of Generators to Train Fake Image Detectors

CVPR 2025poster

One of the key challenges of detecting AI-generated images is spotting images that have been created by previously unseen generative models. We argue that the limited diversity of the training data is a major obstacle to addressing this problem, and we propose a new dataset that is significantly lar…

2025

Contrastive Touch-to-Touch Pretraining

ICRA 2025

Today's tactile sensors have a variety of different designs, making it challenging to develop general-purpose methods for processing touch signals. In this paper, we learn a unified representation that captures the shared information between different tactile sensors. Unlike current approaches that

Cited by 6SourceScholar
2025

GPS as a Control Signal for Image Generation

CVPR 2025poster

We show that the GPS tags contained in photo metadata provide a useful control signal for image generation. We train GPS-to-image models and use them for tasks that require a fine-grained understanding of how images vary within a city. In particular, we train a diffusion model to generate images con…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes

CVPR 2025poster

We study the problem of making 3D scene reconstructions interactive by asking the following question: can we predict the sounds of human hands physically interacting with a scene? First, we record a video of a human manipulating objects within a 3D scene using their hands. We then use these action-s…

2025

Motion Prompting: Controlling Video Generation with Motion Trajectories

CVPR 2025poster

Motion control is crucial for generating expressive and compelling video content; however, most existing video generation models rely mainly on text prompts for control, which struggle to capture the nuances of dynamic actions and temporal compositions. To this end, we train a video generation model…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2025

Tactile Functasets: Neural Implicit Representations of Tactile Datasets

ICRA 2025

Modern incarnations of tactile sensors produce high-dimensional raw sensory feedback such as images, making it challenging to efficiently store, process, and generalize across sensors. To address these concerns, we introduce a novel implicit function representation for tactile sensor feedback. Rathe

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2025

Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls

CVPR 2025poster

Generating sound effects for videos often requires creating artistic sound effects that diverge significantly from real-life sources and flexible control in the sound design. To address this problem, we introduce *MultiFoley*, a model designed for video-guided sound generation that supports multimod…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2024

Binding Touch to Everything: Learning Unified Multimodal Tactile Representations

CVPR 2024poster

The ability to associate touch with other modalities has huge implications for humans and computational systems. However multimodal learning with touch remains challenging due to the expensive data collection process and non-standardized sensor outputs. We introduce UniTouch a unified tactile model…

Cited by 53SourcePDFScholar
2024

Factorized Diffusion: Perceptual Illusions by Noise Decomposition

ECCV 2024poster

"Given a factorization of an image into a sum of linear components, we present a zero-shot method to control each individual component through diffusion model sampling. For example, we can decompose an image into low and high spatial frequencies and condition these components on different text promp…

2024

Real Acoustic Fields: An Audio-Visual Room Acoustics Dataset and Benchmark

CVPR 2024highlight

We present a new dataset called Real Acoustic Fields (RAF) that captures real acoustic room data from multiple modalities. The dataset includes high-quality and densely captured room impulse response data paired with multi-view images and precise 6DoF pose tracking data for sound emitters and listen…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2024

Self-Supervised Audio-Visual Soundscape Stylization

ECCV 2024poster

"Speech sounds convey a great deal of information about the scenes, resulting in a variety of effects ranging from reverberation to additional ambient sounds. In this paper, we manipulate input speech to sound as though it was recorded within a different scene, given an audio-visual conditional exam…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Visual Anagrams: Generating Multi-View Optical Illusions with Diffusion Models

CVPR 2024poster

We address the problem of synthesizing multi-view optical illusions: images that change appearance upon a transformation such as a flip or rotation. We propose a simple zero-shot method for obtaining these illusions from off-the-shelf text-to-image diffusion models. During the reverse diffusion proc…

2023

Conditional Generation of Audio From Video via Foley Analogies

CVPR 2023poster

The sound effects that designers add to videos are designed to convey a particular artistic effect and, thus, may be quite different from a scene's true sound. Inspired by the challenges of creating a soundtrack for a video that differs from its true sound, but that nonetheless matches the actions o…

2023

EXIF As Language: Learning Cross-Modal Associations Between Images and Camera Metadata

CVPR 2023highlight

We learn a visual representation that captures information about the camera that recorded a given photo. To do this, we train a multimodal embedding between image patches and the EXIF metadata that cameras automatically insert into image files. Our model represents this metadata by simply converting…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2023

Self-Supervised Motion Magnification by Backpropagating Through Optical Flow

NeurIPS 2023poster

This paper presents a simple, self-supervised method for magnifying subtle motions in video: given an input video and a magnification factor, we manipulate the video such that its new optical flow is scaled by the desired amount. To train our model, we propose a loss function that estimates the opti…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2023

Self-Supervised Video Forensics by Audio-Visual Anomaly Detection

CVPR 2023highlight

Manipulated videos often contain subtle inconsistencies between their visual and audio signals. We propose a video forensics method, based on anomaly detection, that can identify these inconsistencies, and that can be trained solely using real, unlabeled data. We train an autoregressive model to gen…

2023

Sound Localization from Motion: Jointly Learning Sound Direction and Camera Rotation

ICCV 2023poster

The images and sounds that we perceive undergo subtle but geometrically consistent changes as we rotate our heads. In this paper, we use these cues to solve a problem we call Sound Localization from Motion (SLfM): jointly estimating camera rotation and localizing sound sources. We learn to solve the…

Cited by 11PDFcodeScholar
2023

Sound to Visual Scene Generation by Audio-to-Visual Latent Alignment

CVPR 2023poster

How does audio describe the world around us? In this paper, we propose a method for generating an image of a scene from sound. Our method addresses the challenges of dealing with the large gaps that often exist between sight and sound. We design a model that works by scheduling the learning procedur…

2023

Text2Room: Extracting Textured 3D Meshes from 2D Text-to-Image Models

ICCV 2023poster

We present Text2Room, a method for generating room-scale textured 3D meshes from a given text prompt as input. To this end, we leverage pre-trained 2D text-to-image models to synthesize a sequence of images from different poses. In order to lift these outputs into a consistent 3D scene representatio…

Cited by 186PDFcodeScholar
2022

Comparing Correspondences: Video Prediction With Correspondence-Wise Losses

CVPR 2022poster

Image prediction methods often struggle on tasks that require changing the positions of objects, such as video prediction, producing blurry images that average over the many positions that objects might occupy. In this paper, we propose a simple change to existing image similarity metrics that makes…

Cited by 22PDFcodeScholar
2022

Learning Pixel Trajectories With Multiscale Contrastive Random Walks

CVPR 2022poster

A range of video modeling tasks, from optical flow to multiple object tracking, share the same fundamental challenge: establishing space-time correspondence. Yet, approaches that dominate each space differ. We take a step towards bridging this gap by extending the recent contrastive random walk form…

Cited by 45PDFScholar
2022

Sound Localization by Self-Supervised Time Delay Estimation

ECCV 2022poster

"Sounds reach one microphone in a stereo pair sooner than the other, resulting in an interaural time delay that conveys their directions. Estimating a sound’s time delay requires finding correspondences between the signals recorded by each microphone. We propose to learn these correspondences throug…

2022

Touch and Go: Learning from Human-Collected Vision and Touch

NeurIPS 2022accept

The ability to associate touch with sight is essential for tasks that require physically interacting with objects in the world. We propose a dataset with paired visual and tactile data called Touch and Go, in which human data collectors probe objects in natural environments using tactile sensors, wh…

Cited by 55SourcePDFScholar
2020

CNN-Generated Images Are Surprisingly Easy to Spot... for Now

CVPR 2020oral

In this work we ask whether it is possible to create a "universal" detector for telling apart real images from these generated by a CNN, regardless of architecture or dataset used. To test this, we collect a dataset consisting of fake images generated by 11 different CNN-based image generator models…

Cited by 1237PDFcodeScholar
2020

Self-Supervised Learning of Audio-Visual Objects from Video

ECCV 2020poster

Our objective is to transform a video into a set of discrete audio-visual objects using self-supervised learning. To this end we introduce a model that uses attention to localize and group sound sources, and optical flow to aggregate information over time. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the aud…

Cited by 313SourcePDFScholar
2019

Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop

ICCV 2019poster

Most malicious photo manipulations are created using standard image editing tools, such as Adobe Photoshop. We present a method for detecting one very popular Photoshop manipulation -- image warping applied to human faces -- using a model trained entirely using fake images that were automatically ge…

Cited by 180PDFScholar
2019

Learning Individual Styles of Conversational Gesture

CVPR 2019poster

Human speech is often accompanied by hand and arm gestures. We present a method for cross-modal translation from "in-the-wild" monologue speech of a single speaker to their conversational gesture motion. We train on unlabeled videos for which we only have noisy pseudo ground truth from an automatic…

Cited by 403PDFcodeScholar
2018

Fighting Fake News: Image Splice Detection via Learned Self-Consistency

ECCV 2018poster

Advances in photo editing and manipulation tools have made it significantly easier to create fake imagery, highlighting the need for better visual forensics algorithms. However, learning to detect manipulations from labelled training data is difficult due to the lack of good datasets of manipulated…

2018

More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp Using Vision and Touch

RA-L 2018

For humans, the process of grasping an object relies heavily on rich tactile feedback. Most recent robotic grasping work, however, has been based only on visual input, and thus cannot easily benefit from feedback after initiating contact. In this letter, we investigate how a robot can learn to use t

Cited by 396SourceScholar
2017

Shape-independent hardness estimation using deep learning and a GelSight tactile sensor

ICRA 2017poster

Hardness is among the most important attributes of an object that humans learn about through touch. However, approaches for robots to estimate hardness are limited, due to the lack of information provided by current tactile sensors. In this work, we address these limitations by introducing a novel m…

Cited by 223SourceScholar
2017

The Feeling of Success: Does Touch Sensing Help Predict Grasp Outcomes?

CoRL 2017

A successful grasp requires careful balancing of the contact forces. Deducing whether a particular grasp will be successful from indirect measurements, such as vision, is therefore quite challenging, and direct sensing of contacts through touch sensing provides an appealing avenue toward more succes

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2016

Visually Indicated Sounds

CVPR 2016oral

Objects make distinctive sounds when they are hit or scratched. These sounds reveal aspects of an object's material properties, as well as the actions that produced them. In this paper, we propose the task of predicting what sound an object makes when struck as a way of studying physical interaction…

Cited by 489PDFScholar