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Christopher Funk

8 accepted papers

2026

Thermal-Det: Language-Guided Cross-Modal Distillation for Open-Vocabulary Thermal Object Detection

CVPR 2026

Existing open-vocabulary detectors focus on RGB images and fail to generalize to thermal imagery, where low texture and emissivity variations challenge RGB-based semantics. We present Thermal-Det, the first large language model (LLM) supervised open-vocabulary detector tailored for thermal images. T

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2025

Human Activity Recognition in an Open World (Abstract Reprint)

IJCAI 2025

Managing novelty in perception-based human activity recognition (HAR) is critical in realistic settings to improve task performance over time and ensure solution generalization outside of prior seen samples. Novelty manifests in HAR as unseen samples, activities, objects, environments, and sensor ch

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2024

Language Models are Alignable Decision-Makers: Dataset and Application to the Medical Triage Domain

NAACL 2024industry

In difficult decision-making scenarios, it is common to have conflicting opinions among expert human decision-makers as there may not be a single right answer. Such decisions may be guided by different attributes that can be used to characterize an individual’s decision. We introduce a novel dataset…

2023

Open Set Action Recognition via Multi-Label Evidential Learning

CVPR 2023poster

Existing methods for open set action recognition focus on novelty detection that assumes video clips show a single action, which is unrealistic in the real world. We propose a new method for open set action recognition and novelty detection via MUlti-Label Evidential learning (MULE), that goes beyon…

2023

Scale-MAE: A Scale-Aware Masked Autoencoder for Multiscale Geospatial Representation Learning

ICCV 2023oral

Large, pretrained models are commonly finetuned with imagery that is heavily augmented to mimic different conditions and scales, with the resulting models used for various tasks with imagery from a range of spatial scales. Such models overlook scale-specific information in the data for scale-depende…

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2022

Cascade Transformers for End-to-End Person Search

CVPR 2022poster

The goal of person search is to localize a target person from a gallery set of scene images, which is extremely challenging due to large scale variations, pose/viewpoint changes, and occlusions. In this paper, we propose the Cascade Occluded Attention Transformer (COAT) for end-to-end person search.…

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2020

From Image to Stability: Learning Dynamics from Human Pose

ECCV 2020poster

We propose and validate two end-to-end deep learning architectures to learn foot pressure distribution maps (dynamics) from 2D or 3D human pose (kinematics). The networks are trained using 1.36 million synchronized pose+pressure data pairs from 10 subjects performing multiple takes of a 5-minute lon…

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2017

Beyond Planar Symmetry: Modeling Human Perception of Reflection and Rotation Symmetries in the Wild

ICCV 2017oral

Humans take advantage of real world symmetries for various tasks, yet capturing their superb symmetry perception mechanism with a computational model remains elusive. Motivated by a new study demonstrating the extremely high inter-person accuracy of human perceived symmetries in the wild, we have co…

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