Seeing Differently.
The IU Computer Vision Lab investigates and develops advanced statistical and machine learning techniques for automatically analyzing, understanding, and organizing visual information. Our applications include recognizing objects in consumer images, analyzing human activity in video, discovering patterns in large scientific datasets, reconstructing 3-d models of world landmarks, and even studying visual attention in toddlers.
Selected Recent Papers
CVPR 2024
Extracting Features with Deep Learning for Ensemble-Driven Case-Based Classification
ICCBR 2025
News and Updates
November 15, 2025: The IU Alumni Magazine featured our work with Profs. Linda Smith and Chen Yu on using AI to understand child learning (and vice versa).
October 25, 2025: Check out our two papers at ICCV 2025, on video representation learning and 3d point cloud enhancement.
October 23, 2025: We're very pleased to collaborate on a new NSF grant on using AI to help students understand science diagrams.
October 10, 2025: David and Reza awarded a patent for a new technique for 3D reconstruction.
October 1, 2025: IU film student Jack Bassett made a documentary about our IRIS social robot project!
September 25, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Xizi Wang for passing her dissertation defense!
July 1, 2025: David is Associate Program Chair for AAAI 2026.
June 17, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Chuhua Wang for passing his dissertation defense!
June 13, 2025: Congratulations to Hiroki Sato (plus Weslie Khoo, David Crandall, and Rita Patel) for winning the Dysphonia International Research Award!
May 20, 2025: We presented two papers at CHI 2025, part of a strong showing from IU.
May 15, 2025: CSCI B657 Computer Vision has a poster session every year, but this year IU wrote an article about it!
April 24, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Ishtiak Zaman for passing his dissertation defense!
November 18, 2024: David was very honored to receive the Tracy M. Sonneborn award, and to give the Sonneborn Memorial Lecture.
November 14, 2024: We were delighted to co-organize the IAS Symposium on Intelligence, an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together scholars from around the university.
September 16, 2024: We were very pleased to host almost 200 people from 15 universities for the Midwest Computer Vision Workshop
June 17, 2024: In addition to David being CVPR 2024 Co-PC, our lab was involved in three papers: EgoExo4D, cross-view person matching, and active speaker detection.
April 30, 2024: We were very excited to demo our social robot to support older adults at the U.S. Senate's Robotics Showcase.
March 18, 2024: We presented three papers at the ACM/IEEE Conference on Human Robot Interaction, collaborating with Prof. Selma Sabanovic's lab.
February 20, 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Shujon Naha for passing his dissertation defense!
October 15, 2023: David is a Program Chair for ICDL 2024, a unique interdisciplinary conference on learning in machines and humans. Consider submitting! Deadline is Dec. 15.
October 1, 2023: David is Program Co-Chair for CVPR 2024, the premier annual computer vision conference. Paper registration deadline is Nov 3.
July 12, 2023: We're excited to present our IRIS social robot at the United Nations AI for Good Summit in Geneva!
July 5, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Sam Goree for passing his dissertation defense!
May 1, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Weslie Khoo for receiving a prestigious USDA postdoc fellowship!
April 4, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Zehua Zhang for passing his dissertation defense!
March 20, 2023: New $4.4 million award to continue workforce development and research into trusted AI.
December 14, 2023: David named a Distinguished Member of the ACM.
September 1, 2022: David is very honored to be named inaugural director of the Luddy AI Center.
June 17, 2022: We're delighted to be part of the Ego4D Consortium to collect the next generation egocentric dataset. Check out the website!
July 29, 2021: We're very pleased to be part of the new $20 million NSF AI Institute on Engaged Learning!
July 25, 2021: Three papers at CogSci using cameras to study child behavior: detecting joint attention, predicting whether a new object name will be learned, and modeling verb learning.
July 1, 2021: David is named a Luddy Professor.
June 30, 2021: Congratulations and a fond farewell to Dr. Md Alimoor Reza, who is joining Drake University as an Assistant Professor!
June 21, 2021: We're very excited to present our (quite unusual) CVPR 2021 paper that investigates how vision researchers feel about changes in the field. Also check out the video!
June 1, 2021: New $2.1 million award to collaborate with IU colleagues, Notre Dame, IUPUI, and the U.S. Navy on Trusted AI.
April 1, 2021: Consider submitting a paper to our IJCAI workshop on Deep Learning, Case-Based Reasoning, and AutoML: Present and Future Synergies
March 4, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Eman Hassan on passing her dissertation defense!
January 28, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Bardia Doosti on passing his dissertation defense!
January 3, 2021: We're presenting two interesting papers at WACV 2021 this week on recognizing people based on egocentric hand gestures, and part-based segmentation of novel objects
October 23, 2020: New NSF grant to plan a Midwest AI Institute on Rural Health, Wellness, and Resilience.
June 20, 2020: Check out our CVPR 2020 papers on hand/object pose estimation, video object segmentation, and color harmony modeling.
May 1, 2020: Some of our work on studying the evolution of the web is featured in The Conversation!
March 30, 2020: Congratulations to Sam Goree for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 3, 2020: Thanks to Google for a Faculty Research Award!
January 21, 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Mingze Xu on a successful PhD defense!
October 1, 2019: New grant from Office of Naval Research on explainable machine learning, in collaboration with Prof. David Leake.
September 27, 2019: David will speak about computer vision research at IU Research Unplugged, celebrating IU's 200th anniversary.
August 1, 2019: New grant from NSF with Linda Smith and Chen Yu, "Visual category learning by toddlers provides new principles for teaching rapid generalization."
June 27, 2019: New contract to collaborate with Dzyne on satellite image analysis.
May 1, 2019: New contract to collaborate with ETRI on depth map prediction using deep learning.
April 9, 2019: Congratulations to Katie Spoon for an IU Provost's Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research, an NCWIT Award, and an NSF GRF! Check out her research project.
January 25, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Chenyou Fan on a successful PhD defense!
January 15, 2019: David is pleased to be named a Grant Thornton Scholar for 2019-2020.
December 6, 2018: Check out our NeurIPS 2018 paper on toddler-inspired visual object learning.
October 29, 2018: Thanks to all who participated in OurCS (aka HelloResearch) this weekend; we had a great time working with such talented students! More info in our SIGCSE 2019 paper.
September 12, 2018: We're looking for new faculty in Machine Learning, especially those who are broadly interested in potential connections with human learning. Consider applying!
September 1, 2018: A trio of new papers on egocentric cameras: predicting gaze (BMVC), segmenting and identifying people and camera wearers (ECCV), and estimating head motion (ICMI).
August 13, 2018: Welcome to new postdoc Md Alimoor Reza!
July 19, 2018: Congratulations Dr. Jangwon Lee for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
May 30, 2018: New contract with Purdue and the Indiana Innovation Institute on computer vision to help protect the microelectronics supply chain.
April 3, 2018: Congratulations to lab intern Abraham Oliver on winning best 12th grade project at the Indiana State Science Fair!
March 29, 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Tian (Linger) Xu on a successful PhD defense!
February 15, 2018: Co-organizing Third ICWSM workshop on The Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring. Please consider submitting!
January 24, 2018: New contract from NASA on quantifying lymphatic function using computer vision, with Dawn Kernagis (IHMC) and Eva Sevick (TMC).
December 5, 2017: Co-organizing second CVPR workshop on The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security. Consider submitting a paper!
November 1, 2017: We have openings for postdoc researchers -- please contact David for more information!
October 20, 2017: Two fun remote sensing papers: 3d reconstruction of ice bed surfaces (at ICIP) and combining ground and satellite images to make maps (at ICCV).
September 1, 2017: Thanks to Google for sponsoring a new project investigating the limits of current computer vision technology.
August 23, 2017: IU is hiring faculty in the general area of Machine and Human Learning. Consider applying!
July 22, 2017: Check out our CVPR paper on associating wearable (egocentric) video with third-person video!
July 21, 2018: Congratulations to Jangwon Lee and Michael Ryoo for winning Best Paper at the CVPR Deep Learning for Robotic Vision Workshop.
June 26, 2017: How has visual design on the web changed over time? Two new papers use expert surveys and computer vision to help find out.
June 10, 2017: How can developmental psychology inform computer vision, and vice-versa? Check out the talks from our Workshop on Egocentric Vision: From Science to Real-World Applications.
May 20, 2017: David is very honored for the IU Trustees Teaching Award. But the credit goes to great IU students who make teaching fun -- thanks everyone!
April 28, 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Johnson on a successful dissertation defense!
March 20, 2017: Co-organizing WebSci workshop on The Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring. Deadline is May 1. Please consider submitting!
February 15, 2017: Co-organizing CVPR workshop on The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security. Consider submitting a paper or abstract!
January 11, 2017: Very excited to lead the CS part of a new $2.5 million award to study interdisciplinary connections between human and machine learning!
December 15, 2016: Co-editing special issue on Egocentric Vision and Lifelogging Tools in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. Please consider submitting a manuscript!
December 7, 2016: Check out our NeurIPS 2016 paper on training diverse networks using multiple choice learning.
October 15, 2016: Robert Pless and I are CVPR 2017 tutorial co-chairs. Please consider submitting a proposal!
October 8, 2016: Could wearable cameras narrate our lives? Our "DeepDiary" paper at ECCV EPIC is a first step.
August 22, 2016: Best paper award at ICDL-Epirob 2016 on wearable cameras to study infant word learning, with Sven Bambach and Profs. Linda Smith and Chen Yu.
August 10, 2016: What may machine learning reveal about infant learning? Check out ourCogSci 2016 paper!
August 22, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Sven Bambach on successfully defending his dissertation to earn two PhDs, in Computer Science and Cognitive Science!
July 30, 2016: We've moved! Come visit our new lab (and my new office) at 611 N Park Ave (one block west of Informatics West).
July 20, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Stefan Lee on his dissertation defense!
July 13, 2016: New contract to collaborate with NSWC Crane on analyzing images of microelectronic devices!
July 1, 2016: Promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure).
June 27, 2016: Interested in improving diversity of your deep networks? Check out this talk by my student Stefan Lee at a CVPR tutorial.
June 12, 2016: Check out our book chapter on landmark recognition in a new book on geolocalization.
May 26, 2016: Grant from the IU Social Science Research Commons to investigate applications of computer vision to geography, with Prof. Tom Evans. Thanks SSRC!!
March 29, 2016: Congratulations to senior Ben Newman on winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
February 12, 2016: Our new CHI 2016 paper on detecting computer screens to enhance lifelogger privacy is a CHI best paper honorable mention!
January 15, 2016: I'm co-organizing an International Workshop on the Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring at ICWSM 2016. Short and long papers due Feb 20. Consider submitting!
December 1, 2015: Check out our paper on mining Flickr data for monitoring impact on protected natural areas in Ecological Applications.
September 15, 2015: New ICCV 2015 paper on hand recognition in first person video. Check out the video spotlight!
August 1, 2015: Welcome to new IU faculty member Prof. Michael Ryoo! Check out his interesting work on vision and robotics.
May 26, 2015: Congratulations Dr. Mohammed Korayem on a successful dissertation defense!
April 20, 2015: ICCP paper on mining architectural elements in Google Street View. Check out the demo!
April 15, 2015: Two CHI papers on privacy challenges and opportunities of wearable cameras.
January 1, 2015: Recent and upcoming papers: WACV paper on geo-informative attributes, Signal Processing article on pose recognition, ICIP paper on ice layer detection.
December 18, 2014: New NSF grant to study privacy in first-person cameras, with Apu Kapadia and Denise Anthony. Check out the video!.
October 28, 2014: New NSF grant to help build high-performance computing libraries for computer vision and other applications (with G. Fox, J. Qiu, and others).
September 30, 2014: An article in Fast Company about our first-person camera privacy Ubicomp paper.
September 8, 2014: Looking for a faculty job? Our school is hiring in Interactive and Intelligent Systems (as well as several other areas).
August 22, 2014: Congratulations Dr. Haipeng Zhang on a successful dissertation defense!
August 6, 2014: Check out our redesigned lab website, including a nice new overview of our projects!
July 21, 2014: Congratulations Dr. Kun Duan on a successful dissertation defense!
June 28, 2014: Best paper award at CVPR Workshop on Egocentric Vision.
May 1, 2014: Papers appearing this summer: multimodal clustering at CVPR, first-person hand tracking at CVPR EgoVision, parent-child attention at CogSci, lifelogging privacy at UbiComp and UPSIDE.
February 18, 2014: Google Research Award to study privacy in first-person cameras, with Apu Kapadia.
February 8, 2014: Our EMBO paper on science funding featured in Science.
January 30, 2014: Our PlaceAvoider paper featured in MIT Tech Review and elsewhere.
January 1, 2014: PAMI paper on 3D reconstruction.
December 9, 2013: Best paper award at ICCV Workshop on CV for Converging Perspectives.
October 1, 2013: New Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract to study cloud robotics, with G. Fox and K. Hauser.
May 2, 2013: New IU Collaborative Research Grant to use first-person cameras to study parent interactions with deaf children (with Houston, Smith, Pisoni, Bergeson-Dana, Yu).
March 25, 2013: Awarded NSF CAREER grant.
January 1, 2013: Awarded IU Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP) grant for studying privacy in first-person cameras, with Apu Kapadia.
October 3, 2013: Our PlaceRaider paper on opportunistic 3d reconstruction featured in New Scientist, The Atlantic, MIT Tech Review, among others.
September 12, 2012: Awarded NSF EAGER grant with Chris Raphael, to study optical music recognition.
June 15, 2012: Communications of the ACM paper on social photo mining (with Noah Snavely).
May 5, 2012: Our WWW 2012 paper on using Flickr to study ecology featured in New Scientist.
April 11, 2012: Awarded subcontract from ObjectVideo to participate in the IARPA Finder program.
September 12, 2011: Awarded IU Faculty Research Support Program grant to use first-person cameras for studying autistic and typically-developing children, with Chen Yu.
June 22, 2011: Our paper on 3d reconstruction won runner-up best paper at CVPR 2011!
December 21, 2010: Our PNAS paper on inferring social ties from geo-tags featured in New Scientist and BBC World Service.
August 24, 2010: Awarded grant from the IU D2I Center for mining social media for ecology.
August 1, 2010: Joining the faculty of Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing!