Rob Fergus


Assistant Professor,
Vision, Learning and Graphics group,
Dept. of Computer Science,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University.

Office: Room 1226, 715 Broadway,
          New York, NY 10003, USA.

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Research Overview  

My research is in the areas of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Computer Graphics. I am interested in building statistical models of images both at the high level of objects and scenes and also at the low level of pixels and edges. These models may then be deployed in a variety of problems. Those of particular interest include: object recognition, image search and computational photography.

I currently work with two students: Dilip Krishnan and Melanie Clements. I am a member of the Vision, Learning and Graphics group.

Selected Projects  

Semi-supervised Learning in Gigantic Image Collections

Rob Fergus, Yair Weiss and Antonio Torralba, NIPS 2009. PDF Code PPT

Fast Image Deconvolution using Hyper-Laplacian Priors
Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus, NIPS 2009. PDF Code Project page



Dark Flash Photography

Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus,
ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2009).
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Project page

80 million tiny images: a large dataset for non-parametric object and scene recognition
Antonio Torralba, Rob Fergus and William T. Freeman
PAMI, November 2008. PDF Bib Project page


Removing Camera Shake From A Single Photograph
Rob Fergus, Barun Singh, Aaron Hertzmann, Sam T. Roweis and William T. Freeman, ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2006). PDF Slides Project page