Larry Zitnick

I'm a research scientist at Facebook AI Research in Menlo Park. My current areas of interest include object recognition, language and vision, and reasoning. For more details please see my publications page. I serve on the board of the Common Visual Data Foundation whose mission is to aid the computer vision community in creating datasets and competitions. Previously, I spent 12 great years at Microsoft Research, and obtained a PhD in Robotics from CMU's Robotics Institute.

Email: zitnick@fb.com

Selected Projects

fastMRI

Story describing interchangeability study (10/2019)
Launching fastMRI blogpost (8/2018) (TechCrunch)
Opensourcing data and tools blogpost (11/2018)

ELF OpenGo

Historical game analysis blogpost (2/2019)
ELF OpenGo blogpost (5/2018)

PhotoDNA

New York Times (12/2009)

Curious what images are in the COCO dataset? See all 80k training images in this video:

See the same visualization using 80k random Flickr images:

Teaching

UW CSE P 576: Computer Vision (2011)