SENIOR RESEARCHER

Hi, I'm a researcher in the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft research.  

My current areas of interest include object detection, semantic scene understanding, and human debugging. I also enjoy researching stylus-based applications that assist in creating creative content. For more details please see my publications page.

If you are looking for the MSR 3D video data set you can find it here.

Information about Microsoft's effort to combat illegal imagery and PhotoDNA can be found here.

Executables and Code:

• BiCE (Binary Coherent Edge descriptor)
• EdgeFoci (Edge Foci interest points)
• GradientShop

Bio: C. Lawrence Zitnick is a senior researcher in the Interactive Visual Media group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. He is interested in a broad range of topics related to visual object recognition. His current interests include object detection, semantically interpreting visual scenes, and the use of human debugging to identify promising areas for future research in object recognition and detection. He developed the PhotoDNA technology used by Microsoft, Facebook and various law enforcement agencies to combat illegal imagery on the web. Previous research topics include computational photography, stereo vision, and image-based rendering. Before joining MSR, he received the PhD degree in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. In 1996, he co-founded a company that developed one of the first commercial portable depth cameras.

Professional Activities:

• Area chair: CVPR 2009, ECCV 2012, CVPR 2013
• Program committee/Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, NIPS, IJCV, PAMI