Ali Osman Ulusoy

I am a software engineer at Google in Seattle where I work on Project Starline. My background is in computer vision.

Before joining Google, I worked at Microsoft on HoloLens and Azure Spatial Anchors. I did my Phd in electrical engineering with Joseph Mundy at Brown University. After Phd, I did a post-doc at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tubingen where I was advised by Michael J Black and Andreas Geiger.

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Research

My research interests span computer vision, graphics and machine learning. I'm particulary interested in inferring 3D structure and motion from images. Representative papers are highlighted below.

clean-usnob Superquadrics Revisited: Learning 3D Shape Parsing beyond Cuboids
Despoina Paschalidou, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Andreas Geiger
CVPR, 2019
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Neural networks can learn to parse a 3D model into a small set of Superquadrics.

clean-usnob RayNet: Learning Volumetric 3D Reconstruction with Ray Potentials
Despoina Paschalidou, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Carolin Schmitt, Andreas Geiger
CVPR, 2018   (Spotlight Presentation)
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RayNet is a neural network for 3D reconstruction from images. We integrate unrolled belief propagation within the network, so that it doesn't have to learn about geometry of perspective projection and occlusion, but rather focus on learning view-invariant features.

clean-usnob OctNetFusion: Learning Depth Fusion from Data
Gernot Riegler, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Horst Bischof, Andreas Geiger
3DV, 2017   (Oral Presentation)
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Learning depth-fusion can be much more accurate than traditional TSDF fusion and TV-L1 fusion.

clean-usnob OctNet: Learning Deep 3D Representations at High Resolutions
Gernot Riegler, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Andreas Geiger
CVPR, 2017   (Oral Presentation)
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We accelerate 3D convolutional neural networks using octrees.

clean-usnob Semantic Multi-view Stereo: Jointly Estimating Objects and Voxels
Ali Osman Ulusoy, Michael J Black, Andreas Geiger
CVPR, 2017
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We extend our 3DV 2015 paper with object-level 3D shape priors. Inference in this factor graph yields dense 3D geometry in addition to the 6DOF pose of objects in it.

clean-usnob Compression of Probabilistic Volumetric Models using multi-resolution scene flow
Octavian Biris, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Joseph L. Mundy
Image and Vision Computing, 2017

We extend Horn and Schunck's optical flow formulation to 3D volumetric models and use it for compression.

clean-usnob Patches, Planes and Probabilities: A Non-local Prior for Volumetric 3D Reconstruction
Ali Osman Ulusoy, Michael J Black, Andreas Geiger
CVPR, 2016
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We extend our 3DV 2015 paper with non-local planarity surface priors. Much of the paper is about efficient inference in the factor graph.

clean-usnob Towards Probabilistic Volumetric Reconstruction using Ray Potentials
Ali Osman Ulusoy, Andreas Geiger, Michael J Black
3DV, 2015   (Best Paper Award)
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We formulate multi-view stereo as inference in a factor graph. This allows exposing the inherent ambiguities in surface reconstruction from images, and incorporating surface priors.

clean-usnob Image-based 4-d Reconstruction Using 3-d Change Detection
Ali Osman Ulusoy, Joseph L. Mundy
ECCV, 2014
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We use a stream of images captured over time to continuously update a 3D model with changes in the environment.

clean-usnob Evaluation of feature-based 3-d registration of probabilistic volumetric scenes
Maria Restrepo, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Joseph L. Mundy
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2014

We study the problem of registering volumetric 3D models, by evaluating sensitivity to discretization, camera registration errors, and changes in illumination.

clean-usnob Dynamic Probabilistic Volumetric Models
Ali Osman Ulusoy, Octavian Biris, Joseph L. Mundy
ICCV, 2013
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We reconstruct arbitrary dynamic 3D scenes accurately using a view-dependent volumetric modeling, and efficiently by exploiting redundancies in space and time.

clean-usnob Characterization of 3-D Volumetric Probabilistic Scenes for Object Recognition
Maria Restrepo, Brandon Mayer, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Joseph L. Mundy
IEEE Journal of selected topics in Signal Processing, 2012

We solve 3D object recognition in the context of volumetric 3D models.

clean-usnob High Resolution Surface Reconstruction from Multi-view Aerial Imagery
Fatih Calakli, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Maria Restrepo, Gabriel Taubin, Joseph L. Mundy
3D Imaging Modeling Processing Visualization Transmission (3DIMPVT), 2012   (Oral Presentation)
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We fuse images from different viewpoints into a volumetric probabilistic model and extract a textured mesh from it.

clean-usnob Robust one-shot 3D scanning using loopy belief propagation
Ali Osman Ulusoy, Fatih Calakli, Gabriel Taubin
CVPR workshop, 2010

We use factors graphs and belief propagation to solve 3D scanning using structured light.

clean-usnob One-shot scanning using de bruijn spaced grids
Ali Osman Ulusoy, Fatih Calakli, Gabriel Taubin
3DIM workshop at ICCV, 2009

We project a grid pattern with unique spacings onto an object to reconstruct its 3D structure.