Andrew Owens Please turn on JavaScript to view email address. Office: EECS 4231 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Google Scholar  ·  GitHub  ·  Twitter  ·  CV

I'm an assistant professor at The University of Michigan in the EECS department.

I'm hiring PhD students! Please apply to either ECE or CSE. If you'd like to learn more about the computer vision group at Michigan, please look here.

I did my PhD at MIT CSAIL, where I was advised by William Freeman and Antonio Torralba, and was a postdoc at UC Berkeley with Alyosha Efros and Jitendra Malik. Before that, I was an undergrad at Cornell.

• Multimodal learning: Today's computer vision methods largely require human supervision, such as object labels or natural language, to learn about the world. Humans, on the other hand, learn a great deal from associations between senses: vision trains hearing, touch trains vision, etc. We've been developing models that learn about the world by finding structure in multimodal sensory signals—especially self-supervised computer vision methods that learn from sound and touch.
• Learning from video: We've been developing methods that learn about the world by watching unlabeled video, such as by learning space-time correspondences through self-supervision.
• Image forensics: Computer vision researchers face a dilemma: as our methods get better, so do the tools for malicious image manipulation. To address this growing issue, I've been developing methods for detecting fake images.

• I co-organized the Sight and Sound workshop at CVPR 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
• Slides covering of my audio-visual learning work (through 2020) (key, ppt, pdf). This includes slides on learning from impact sounds, self-supervised feature learning, sound source localization/separation, audio-to-video gesture synthesis, audio-visual objects, and active speaker detection.

• Temporary mirror of the EECS 442 course webpage. Please use this until the outage is over.

• EECS 442: Computer Vision [F23, F22, F21, F20]

• EECS 542: Advanced Topics in Computer Vision [W22]

• Winter 2021. EECS 598-012: Unsupervised Visual Learning

• Fall 2020. EECS 442: Computer Vision

• Winter 2020. EECS 504: Foundations of Computer Vision

	Sound Localization from Motion: Jointly Learning Sound Direction and Camera Rotation Ziyang Chen, Shengyi Qian, Andrew Owens ICCV 2023 project page · paper · bibtex @article{chen2023sound, title={Sound Localization from Motion: Jointly Learning Sound Direction and Camera Rotation}, author={Chen, Ziyang and Qian, Shengyi and Owens, Andrew}, journal={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, year={2023}, } We jointly learn to localize sound sources from audio and to estimate camera rotations from images. Our method is entirely self-supervised.
	Generating Visual Scenes from Touch Fengyu Yang, Jiacheng Zhang, Andrew Owens ICCV 2023 paper · site · bibtex @article{yang2023generating, title={Generating Visual Scenes from Touch}, author={Yang, Fengyu and Zhang, Jiacheng and Owens, Andrew}, journal={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, year={2023}, } We use diffusion to generate images from a touch signal (and vice versa).
	Text2Room: Extracting Textured 3D Meshes from 2D Text-to-Image Models Lukas Höllein*, Ang Cao*, Andrew Owens, Justin Johnson, Matthias Nießner ICCV 2023 (Oral) project page · paper · code · bibtex @article{hollein2023text, title={Text2Room: Extracting Textured 3D Meshes from 2D Text-to-Image Models}, author={H{"o}llein, Lukas and Cao, Ang and Owens, Andrew and Johnson, Justin and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias}, journal={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, year={2023}, } We generate meshes of full 3D rooms using text-to-image models.
	Eventfulness for Interactive Video Alignment Jiatian Sun, Longxiulin Deng, Triantafyllos Afouras, Andrew Owens, Abe Davis SIGGRAPH 2023 project page · paper · bibtex @article{sun2023eventfulness, title={Eventfulness for Interactive Video Alignment}, author={Sun, Jiatian and Deng, Longxiulin and Afouras, Triantafyllos and Owens, Andrew and Davis, Abe}, journal={Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH}, year={2023}, } We learn a representation that makes it easy for users to align videos and sounds.
	EXIF as Language: Learning Cross-Modal Associations Between Images and Camera Metadata Chenhao Zheng, Ayush Shrivastava, Andrew Owens CVPR 2023 (Highlight) project page · paper · bibtex @article{zheng2023exif, title={EXIF as Language: Learning Cross-Modal Associations Between Images and Camera Metadata}, author={Zheng, Chenhao and Shrivastava, Ayush and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2023}, } We learn visual features that capture camera properties, by training a model to learn a joint embedding between image patches and EXIF metadata. We apply it to a variety of tasks that require an understanding of camera properties, such as image forensics.
	GANmouflage: 3D Object Nondetection with Texture Fields Rui Guo, Jasmine Collins, Oscar de Lima, Andrew Owens CVPR 2023 project page · paper · video · bibtex @article{guo2023ganmouflage, title={GANmouflage: 3D Object Nondetection with Texture Fields}, author={Guo, Rui and Collins, Jasmine and de Lima, Oscar and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2023} } We camouflage 3D objects using GANs and texture fields.
	Self-Supervised Video Forensics by Audio-Visual Anomaly Detection Chao Feng, Ziyang Chen, Andrew Owens CVPR 2023 (Highlight) project page · paper · bibtex @article{feng2023self, title={Self-Supervised Video Forensics by Audio-Visual Anomaly Detection}, author={Feng, Chao and Chen, Ziyang and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2023}, } We detect fake videos through anomaly detection, using a model that can be trained solely from real, unlabeled data.
	Conditional Generation of Audio from Video via Foley Analogies Yuexi Du, Ziyang Chen, Justin Salamon, Bryan Russell, Andrew Owens CVPR 2023 paper · project page · code · bibtex @article{du2023conditional, title={Conditional Generation of Audio from Video via Foley Analogies}, author={Du, Yuexi and Chen, Ziyang and Salamon, Justin and Russell, Bryan and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2023}, } We add sound effects to silent videos, given a user-supplied video indicating the sound.
	Sound to Visual Scene Generation by Audio-to-Visual Latent Alignment Kim Sung-Bin, Arda Senocak, Hyunwoo Ha, Andrew Owens, Tae-Hyun Oh CVPR 2023 project page · paper · bibtex @article{sungbin2023sound, title={Sound to Visual Scene Generation by Audio-to-Visual Latent Alignment}, author={Sung-Bin, Kim and Senocak, Arda and Ha, Hyunwoo and Owens, Andrew and Oh, Tae-Hyun}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2023}, } We generate images from sound.
	Touch and Go: Learning from Human-Collected Vision and Touch Fengyu Yang*, Chenyang Ma*, Jiacheng Zhang, Jing Zhu, Wenzhen Yuan, Andrew Owens NeurIPS (Datasets and Benchmarks Track) 2022 paper · project page · code · bibtex @article{yang2022touch, title={Touch and Go: Learning from Human-Collected Vision and Touch}, author={Yang, Fengyu and Ma, Chenyang and Zhang, Jiacheng and Zhu, Jing and Yuan, Wenzhen and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) - Datasets and Benchmarks Track}, year={2022}, } A dataset of paired vision-and-touch data collected by humans. We apply it to: 1) restyling an image to match a tactile input, 2) self-supervised representation learning, 3) multimodal video prediction.
	Sound Localization by Self-Supervised Time Delay Estimation Ziyang Chen, David F. Fouhey, Andrew Owens ECCV 2022 project page · paper · code · bibtex @article{chen2022sound, title={Sound Localization by Self-Supervised Time Delay Estimation}, author={Chen, Ziyang and Fouhey, David F and Owens, Andrew}, journal={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year={2022}, } We learn through self-supervision to find correspondences between stereo channels, which can be used to estimate a sound source's time delay.
	Learning Visual Styles from Audio-Visual Associations Tingle Li, Yichen Liu, Andrew Owens, Hang Zhao ECCV 2022 project page · paper · bibtex @article{li2022learning, title={Learning Visual Styles from Audio-Visual Associations}, author={Li, Tingle and Liu, Yichen and Owens, Andrew and Zhao, Hang}, journal={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year={2022}, } We learn from unlabeled data to manipulate the style of an image using sound.
	Learning Pixel Trajectories with Multiscale Contrastive Random Walks Zhangxing Bian, Allan Jabri, Alexei A. Efros, Andrew Owens CVPR 2022 project page · paper · code · bibtex @article{bian2022learning, title={Learning Pixel Trajectories with Multiscale Contrastive Random Walks}, author={Bian, Zhangxing and Jabri, Allan and Efros, Alexei A. and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2022} } We learn to densely track pixels in a video using multiscale contrastive random walks, leading to a unified model that can be applied to both optical flow and long-range tracking.
	Comparing Correspondences: Video Prediction with Correspondence-wise Losses Daniel Geng, Max Hamilton, Andrew Owens CVPR 2022 project page · paper · code · bibtex @article{geng2022comparing, title={Comparing Correspondences: Video Prediction with Correspondence-wise Losses}, author={Geng, Daniel and Hamilton, Max and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2022} } A simple "loss extension" that makes models more robust to small positional errors: match the predicted and ground truth images using optical flow, then measure the similarity of corresponding pairs of pixels.
	Mix and Localize: Localizing Sound Sources in Mixtures Xixi Hu*, Ziyang Chen*, Andrew Owens CVPR 2022 project page · paper · code · bibtex @article{hu2022mix, title={Mix and Localize: Localizing Sound Sources in Mixtures}, author={Hu, Xixi and Chen, Ziyang and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2022} } We localize multiple sound sources within an image using a formulation based on cycle consistency.
	Strumming to the Beat: Audio-Conditioned Contrastive Video Textures Medhini Narasimhan, Shiry Ginosar, Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros, Trevor Darrell WACV 2022 (Oral) Best Paper Honorable Mention project page · paper · bibtex @inproceedings{narasimhan2022strumming, title={Strumming to the Beat: Audio-Conditioned Contrastive Video Textures}, author={Narasimhan, Medhini and Ginosar, Shiry and Owens, Andrew and Efros, Alexei A and Darrell, Trevor}, journal={Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, year={2022} } We learn a representation for creating video textures using contrastive learning.
	Structure from Silence: Learning Scene Structure from Ambient Sound Ziyang Chen*, Xixi Hu*, Andrew Owens CoRL 2021 (Oral) project page · paper · video · bibtex @article{chen2021structure, title={Structure from Silence: Learning Scene Structure from Ambient Sound}, author={Chen, Ziyang and Hu, Xixi and Owens, Andrew}, journal={Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)}, year={2021} } We estimate the distance to walls from very quiet ambient sounds. We also use these sounds to learn self-supervised audio-visual representations.
	Planar Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Views Linyi Jin, Shengyi Qian, Andrew Owens, David F. Fouhey ICCV 2021 (Oral) project page · paper · video · code · bibtex @article{jin2021planar, title={Planar Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Views}, author={Jin, Linyi and Qian, Shengyi and Owens, Andrew and Fouhey, David F}, journal={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, year={2021} } We create a planar reconstruction of a scene from two very distant camera viewpoints.
	Space-Time Correspondence as a Contrastive Random Walk Allan Jabri, Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros NeurIPS 2020 (Oral) project page · paper · code · bibtex @article{jabri2020spacetime, title={Space-Time Correspondence as a Contrastive Random Walk}, author={Jabri, Allan and Owens, Andrew and Efros, Alexei A}, journal={Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year={2020} } A simple, self-supervised method for video representation learning. Train a random walker to traverse a graph derived from a video. Learn an affinity function that makes it return to the place it started.
	Self-Supervised Learning Of Audio-Visual Objects From Video Triantafyllos Afouras, Andrew Owens, Joon Son Chung, Andrew Zisserman ECCV 2020 project page · paper · code · bibtex @article{afouras2020selfsupervised, title={Self-supervised learning of audio-visual objects from video}, author={Afouras, Triantafyllos and Owens, Andrew and Chung, Joon Son and Zisserman, Andrew}, journal={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year={2020} } We learn from unlabeled video to represent a video as a set of discrete audio-visual objects. These can be used as drop-in replacements for face detectors in speech tasks, including 1) multi-speaker source separation, 2) active speaker detection, 3) correcting misaligned audio and visual streams, and 4) speaker localization.
	CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot... for now Sheng-Yu Wang, Oliver Wang, Richard Zhang, Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros CVPR 2020 (Oral) project page · paper · code · bibtex @article{wang2019cnn, title={CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot... for now}, author={Wang, Sheng-Yu and Wang, Oliver and Zhang, Richard and Owens, Andrew and Efros, Alexei A}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2020} } Forensics classifiers trained to spot one type of CNN-generated image generalize surprisingly well to images made by other networks, too.
	Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop Sheng-Yu Wang, Oliver Wang, Andrew Owens, Richard Zhang, Alexei A. Efros ICCV 2019 project page · paper · video · code · bibtex @article{wang2019detecting, title={Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop}, author={Wang, Sheng-Yu and Wang, Oliver and Owens, Andrew and Zhang, Richard and Efros, Alexei A}, journal={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}}, year={2019} } We detect manipulated face photos, using only training data that was automatically generated by scripting Photoshop.
	Learning Individual Styles of Conversational Gesture Shiry Ginosar*, Amir Bar*, Gefen Kohavi, Caroline Chan, Andrew Owens, Jitendra Malik CVPR 2019 project page · paper · video · bibtex @article{ginosar2019learning, title={Learning Individual Styles of Conversational Gesture}, author={Ginosar, Shiry and Bar, Amir and Kohavi, Gefen and Chan, Caroline and Owens, Andrew and Malik, Jitendra}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2019} } We predict a speaker's arm/hand gestures from audio.
	Audio-Visual Scene Analysis with Self-Supervised Multisensory Features Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros ECCV 2018 (Oral) paper · project page · video · talk · slides (key, ppt) · code · bibtex @article{owens2018audio, title={Audio-visual Scene Analysis with Self-Supervised Multisensory Features}, author={Owens, Andrew and Efros, Alexei A}, journal={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year={2018} } We use self-supervision to learn a multisensory representation that fuses the audio and visual streams of a video. We apply it to: 1) sound-source localization, 2) action recognition, 3) on/off-screen audio source separation.
	Fighting Fake News: Image Splice Detection via Learned Self-Consistency Minyoung Huh*, Andrew Liu*, Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros ECCV 2018 paper · project page · video · code · bibtex @article{huh2018fighting, title={Fighting Fake News: Image Splice Detection via Learned Self-Consistency}, author={Huh, Minyoung and Liu, Andrew and Owens, Andrew and Efros, Alexei A}, journal={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year={2018} } We detect images that are not "self-consistent", using an anomaly detection model that was trained only on real images.
	More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp using Vision and Touch Roberto Calandra, Andrew Owens, Dinesh Jayaraman, Justin Lin, Wenzhen Yuan, Jitendra Malik, Edward H. Adelson, Sergey Levine RA-L 2018 RA-L 2018 Best Paper Award Finalist paper · video · project page · bibtex @article{calandra2018more, title={More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp using Vision and Touch}, author={Calandra, Roberto and Owens, Andrew and Jayaraman, Dinesh and Lin, Justin and Yuan, Wenzhen and Malik, Jitendra and Adelson, Edward H and Levine, Sergey}, journal={Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)}, year={2018} } We train a robot to adjust its grasp, using both vision and touch sensing.
	MoSculp: Interactive Visualization of Shape and Time Xiuming Zhang, Tali Dekel, Tianfan Xue, Andrew Owens, Qiurui He, Jiajun Wu, Stefanie Mueller, William T. Freeman UIST 2018 paper · project page · bibtex @article{zhang2018mosculp, title={MoSculp: Interactive Visualization of Shape and Time}, author={Zhang, Xiuming and Dekel, Tali and Xue, Tianfan and Owens, Andrew and Wu, Jiajun and Mueller Stefanie and Freeman, William T.}, journal={User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)}, year={2018} } We summarize complex motions using a representation called a motion sculpture.
	The Feeling of Success: Does Touch Sensing Help Predict Grasp Outcomes? Roberto Calandra, Andrew Owens, Manu Upadhyaya, Wenzhen Yuan, Justin Lin, Edward H. Adelson, Sergey Levine CoRL 2017 paper · project page · bibtex @article{calandra2017feeling, title={The feeling of success: Does touch sensing help predict grasp outcomes?}, author={Calandra, Roberto and Owens, Andrew and Upadhyaya, Manu and Yuan, Wenzhen and Lin, Justin and Adelson, Edward H and Levine, Sergey}, journal={Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)}, year={2017} } Touch sensing makes it easier to tell whether a grasp will succeed.
	Shape-independent Hardness Estimation Using Deep Learning and a GelSight Tactile Sensor Wenzhen Yuan, Chenzhuo Zhu, Andrew Owens, Mandayam Srinivasan, Edward H. Adelson ICRA 2017 paper · video · bibtex @inproceedings{yuan2017shape, title={Shape-independent Hardness Estimation Using Deep Learning and a GelSight Tactile Sensor}, author={Yuan, Wenzhen and Zhu, Chenzhuo and Owens, Andrew and Srinivasan, Mandayam A and Adelson, Edward H}, journal={International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, year={2017}, } We can estimate the hardness of an object by analyzing the way that it deforms a touch sensor.
	Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning Andrew Owens, Jiajun Wu, Josh McDermott, William T. Freeman, Antonio Torralba ECCV 2016 (Oral) paper · journal paper (2018) · project page · models · bibtex @inproceedings{owens2018ambient, title={Learning Sight From Sound: Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning}, author={Owens, Andrew and Wu, Jiajun and McDermott, Josh H and Freeman, William T and Torralba, Antonio}, journal={International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)}, year={2018}, } @inproceedings{owens2016ambient, title={Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning}, author={Owens, Andrew and Wu, Jiajun and McDermott, Josh H and Freeman, William T and Torralba, Antonio}, journal={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, year={2016}, } When we train a neural network to predict sound from sight, it learns to recognize objects and scenes — without using any labeled training data.
	Visually Indicated Sounds Andrew Owens, Phillip Isola, Josh McDermott, Antonio Torralba, Edward H. Adelson, William T. Freeman CVPR 2016 (Oral) paper · project page · video · bibtex @inproceedings{owens2016visually, title={Visually indicated sounds}, author={Owens, Andrew and Isola, Phillip and McDermott, Josh and Torralba, Antonio and Adelson, Edward H and Freeman, William T}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2016} } What sound does an object make when you hit it with a drumstick? We use sound as a supervisory signal for learning about materials and actions.
	Camouflaging an Object from Many Viewpoints Andrew Owens, Connelly Barnes, Alex Flint, Hanumant Singh, William T. Freeman CVPR 2014 (Oral) paper · project page · video · code · bibtex @inproceedings{owens2014camouflaging, title={Camouflaging an object from many viewpoints}, author={Owens, Andrew and Barnes, Connelly and Flint, Alex and Singh, Hanumant and Freeman, William}, journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year={2014} } We texture a 3D object so that it is hard to see, no matter where it is viewed from.
	Shape Anchors for Data-Driven Multi-view Reconstruction Andrew Owens, Jianxiong Xiao, Antonio Torralba, William T. Freeman ICCV 2013 paper · project page · bibtex @inproceedings{owens2013shape, title={Shape anchors for data-driven multi-view reconstruction}, author={Owens, Andrew and Xiao, Jianxiong and Torralba, Antonio and Freeman, William}, journal={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, year={2013} } Some image regions are highly informative about 3D shape. We use this idea to make a multi-view reconstruction system that exploits single-image depth cues.
	SUN3D: A Database of Big Spaces Reconstructed using SfM and Object Labels Jianxiong Xiao, Andrew Owens, Antonio Torralba ICCV 2013 paper · project page · video · bibtex @inproceedings{xiao2013sun3d, title={SUN3D: A Database of Big Spaces Reconstructed using SfM and Object Labels}, author={Xiao, Jianxiong and Owens, Andrew and Torralba, Antonio}, journal={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, year={2013} } A large dataset of 3D-reconstructed indoor scenes.
	Discrete-Continuous Optimization for Large-Scale Structure from Motion David Crandall, Andrew Owens, Noah Snavely, Dan Huttenlocher CVPR 2011 (Oral) CVPR Best Paper Award Honorable Mention paper · journal paper (2013) · project page · video · bibtex @article{crandall2013pami, author = {David Crandall and Andrew Owens and Noah Snavely and Daniel Huttenlocher}, title = {{SfM with MRFs}: Discrete-Continuous Optimization for Large-Scale Structure from Motion}, journal = {Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)}, year = {2013}, } @inproceedings{crandall2011cvpr, author = {David Crandall and Andrew Owens and Noah Snavely and Daniel Huttenlocher}, title = {Discrete-Continuous Optimization for Large-scale Structure from Motion}, journal = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2011} } Discrete Markov random fields can solve structure-from-motion problems, while incorporating extra information such as GPS and vanishing lines.