Amir Zamir
About Me:
My interests are broadly in computer vision, multi-modal learning, and machine learning. My lab's research aims to understand and develop general multi-modal and multi-task perception and models that can operate as part of an active agent in the real world. Examples of my work on this topic: 4M, FlexTok, Taskonomy, Gibson, Visual Morphology, and MultiMAE. I support Slow Science.
I was the AI/ML chief scientist of Aurora Solar (a Forbes AI 50 company, valued at $4B in 2022) from 2015 to 2022. I currently serve as a scientific advisor to Metamorphic Labs and Duranta.
Prospective students: You do not need to contact me. Please see here first.
PhD Students:
• Roman Bachmann
• Andrei Atanov
• Rishubh Singh
• Jason Toskov
• Kunal Pratap Singh
• Zhitong Gao
• Mingqiao Ye
• Muhammad Uzair Khattak
Former PhD Students:
• Oguzhan Kar (Now at Apple)
• Alexander Sasha Sax (co-advised with Jitendra Malik) (Now at Meta FAIR)
• Teresa Yeo (Now at MIT-Singapore Alliance)
Interns/Undergraduate/Master's Students: full list here.
Current Teaching:
• CS-503 Visual Intelligence, Fall 2021, Spring 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
• CS-500: AI Product Management, Fall 2023, 2024, 2025.
• COM-304: Intelligent Systems, Spring 2024, 2025, 2026.
• ENG-615: Topics in Autonomous Robotics, Spring 2021, 2023, 2025.
Honors:
• PAMI Mark Everingham Prize 2022. [ref]
• SIGGRAPH 2022 Best Paper Award, for CLIPasso. [ref]
• CVPR 2020 Best Paper Award Nomination, for X-Task Consistency. [ref]
• CVPR 2018 Best Paper Award, for Taskonomy. [ref]
• CVPR 2016 Best Student Paper Award, for structural-RNN. [ref]
• ELLIS Faculty Scholar. [ref]
• NVIDIA Pioneering Research Award 2018, for Gibson Environment. [ref]
• Stanford Inst. for Computational and Mathematical Engineering Seed Award. [ref]
• Winner of CVPR19 Habitat Embodied Agents Challenge. [ref]
Selected Projects:
Variable-Length Video Tokenization
4M: Multimodal Foundation Models
Variable-Length Image Tokenization
How far can a 1-pixel camera go?
Omnidata: Steerable Vision Datasets from 3D Scans
Robust Learning with Cross-Task Consistency
Taskonomy: Transfer Learning
Mid-Level Vision for Robotics
Gibson Environment Visual Sim-to-Real Feedback Networks
Workshop/Conference Organization:
• Area Chair of NeurIPS 2026, ICML 2026, CVPR 2026, NeurIPS 2025, CVPR 2025, NeurIPS 2024, CVPR 2024, NeurIPS 2023, CVPR 2023, ICCV 2023, ECCV 2022, CVPR 2021, ICCV 2021, CVPR 2020.
• Computational Design of Diverse Morphologies and Sensors for Vision and Robotics tutorial, in CVPR 2024, co-instructor.
• Capturing, Interpreting & Visualizing Indoor Spaces (CIVILS) workshop, in CVPR 2023, co-organizer.
• Embodied AI workshop, in CVPR 2020, co-organizer.
• Computer Vision for Global Challenges workshop, in CVPR 2019, co-organizer.
• Self-Supervised Learning workshop, in ICML 2019, co-organizer.
• Visual Learning and Embodied Agents in Simulation Environments workshop, in ECCV 2018, co-organizer.
• Beyond Supervised Learning workshop, in CVPR 2018, ICCV 2017, co-organizer.
• Negative Results in Computer Vision workshop, in CVPR 2017, co-organizer.
• Geo-Spatial Computer Vision workshop, in CVPR 2016, co-organizer.
• THUMOS Action Recognition Challenge workshop, in ICCV 2013, ECCV 2014, CVPR 2015, co-organizer.
• 3DV 2016, Workshops and Tutorials Chair.
• Pre-2020 Teaching: Stanford CS331B: Representation Learning in Computer Vision Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017 (co-instructed with Silvio Savarese).
Selected Publications:
(Up-to-date list at Google Scholar)
Andrei Atanov*, Jesse Allardice*, Roman Bachmann, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, R Devon Hjelm, David Griffiths, Peter Fu, Afshin Dehghan, Amir Zamir
In ICML, 2026 - [Spotlight]
[Website | Demo | Code]
Mingqiao Ye, Zhaochong An, Zhitong Gao, Xian Liu, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Jesse Allardice, Roman Bachmann, David Mizrahi, François Fleuret, Chuan Li, Amir Zadeh, Serge Belongie, Afshin Dehghan, Amir Zamir
In ICML, 2026
[Website | Demo | Code]
Zhitong Gao, Parham Rezaei, Ali Cy, Mingqiao Ye, Nataša Jovanović, Jesse Allardice, Afshin Dehghan, Amir Zamir, Roman Bachmann, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar
In ICML, 2026
[Website | Demo | Code]
Kunal Pratap Singh*, Ali Garjani*, Rishubh Singh, Muhammad Uzair Khattak, Efe Tarhan, Jason Toskov, Andrei Atanov, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Amir Zamir
In ICLR, 2026
[Website | Code]
Rahul Ramachandran, Ali Garjani, Roman Bachmann, Andrei Atanov*, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar*, Amir Zamir*
In ICLR, 2026
[Website | Code]
Roman Bachmann*, Jesse Allardice*, David Mizrahi*, Enrico Fini, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Elmira Amirloo, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Amir Zamir, Afshin Dehghan
In ICML, 2025
[Website | Demo | Code]
Artyom Gadetsky*, Andrei Atanov*, Yulun Jiang*, Zhitong Gao, Ghazal Hosseini Mighan, Amir Zamir, Maria Brbić
In ICLR, 2025
[Website | Code]
Roman Bachmann*, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar*, David Mizrahi*, Ali Garjani, Mingfei Gao, David Griffiths, Jiaming Hu, Afshin Dehghan, Amir Zamir
In NeurIPS, 2024
[Website | Demo | Code]
Andrei Atanov*, Jiawei Fu*, Rishubh Singh*, Isabella Yu, Andrew Spielberg, Amir Zamir,
In ECCV, 2024
[Website]
Sogand Salehi, Mahdi Shafiei, Roman Bachmann, Teresa Yeo, Amir Zamir,
In ECCV, 2024
[Website | Demo]
Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Alessio Tonioni, Petra Poklukar, Achin Kulshrestha, Amir Zamir, Federico Tombari,
In ECCV, 2024
[Website]
Harold Benoit*, Liangze Jiang*, Andrei Atanov*, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Mattia Rigotti, Amir Zamir
In ICLR, 2024
[Paper]
David Mizrahi*, Roman Bachmann*, Oguzhan Kar, Teresa Yeo, Mingfei Gao, Afshin Dehghan, Amir Zamir
In NeurIPS, 2023 - [Spotlight]
[Website | Demo | Code]
Teresa Yeo, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Zahra Sodagar, Amir Zamir
In ICCV, 2023
[ Paper | Website]
Marius Memmel, Roman Bachmann, Amir Zamir
In CVPR, 2023
[ Paper | Code | Website]
Roman Bachmann*, David Mizrahi*, Andrei Atanov, Amir Zamir
In ECCV, 2022
[Interactive Visualizations | Live Demo | Paper | Code | Website]
Andrei Atanov, Andrey Filatov, Teresa Yeo, Ajay Sohmshetty, Amir Zamir
In NeurIPS, 2022
[Interactive Visualizations | Paper | Code | Website]
Onur Beker, Mohammad Mohammadi, Amir Zamir
In NeurIPS, 2022
[Website | Paper]
Yael Vinker, Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Jessica Y. Bo, Roman Bachmann, Amit Haim Bermano, Daniel Cohen-Or, Amir Zamir, Ariel Shamir
In Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2022
[Best Paper Award]
[Website | Collab | Code]
Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Teresa Yeo, Andrei Atanov, Amir Zamir
In CVPR, 2022 - [Oral]
[Website | Live Demo | Paper | Code]
Teresa Yeo*, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar*, Alexander Sax, Amir Zamir
In ICCV, 2021 - [Oral]
In Arxiv, 2021
[Website | Paper | Code]
Ainaz Eftekhar*, Alexander Sax*, Roman Bachmann, Jitendra Malik, Amir Zamir
In Arxiv 2021, ICCV 2021
[Live Demo | Dataset | Code | Website | Paper]
Amir Zamir*, Alexander Sax*, Teresa Yeo, Oğuzhan Kar, Nikhil Cheerla, Rohan Suri, Zhangjie Cao, Jitendra Malik, Leonidas Guibas
In CVPR, 2020 - [Best Paper Award Nominee],[Oral]
In Arxiv, 2020
[Live Demo | Visulizations | Website | Paper]
Trevor Standley, Amir Zamir, Dawn Chen, Leonidas Guibas, Jitendra Malik, Silvio Savarese
In ICML, 2020
[Website | Paper]
Jeffrey Zhang, Alexander Sax, Amir Zamir, Leonidas Guibas, Jitendra Malik
In ECCV, 2020 - [Spotlight]
[Website | Paper]
Bryan Chen, Sasha Sax, Lerrel Pinto, Francis Lewis, Iro Armeni, Silvio Savarese, Amir Zamir, Jitendra Malik
In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020
[Website | Paper]
Alexander Sax, Jeffery Zhang, Bradley Emi, Amir Zamir, Leonidas Guibas, Silvio Savarese, Jitendra Malik
In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2019
[Policy Visulizations | Website | Paper]
Iro Armeni, Zhiyang He, JunYoung Gwak, Amir Zamir, Martin Fischer, Jitendra Malik, Silvio Savarese,
In ICCV, 2019
[Interactive Database Visualization | Website | Paper]
Amir Zamir, Alexander Sax*, William Shen*, Leonidas Guibas, Jitendra Malik, Silvio Savarese,
In CVPR, 2018 [Best Paper Award]
In IJCAI, 2019 [Invited Paper, Sister Conference Best Papers Track]
[Transfer Learning API | Live Demo | Website | Paper]
Amir Zamir*, Fei Xia*, Jerry He*, Alexander Sax, Jitendra Malik, Silvio Savarese,
In CVPR, 2018 - [Spotlight Oral],[NVIDIA Pioneering Research Award]
[Gibson Environments | Github | Website | Paper]
Iro Armeni, Ozan Sener, Amir Zamir, Martin Fischer, Silvio Savarese,
US Patent App. 5/619,422, 2017.
[Link]
Amir Zamir*, Te-Lin Wu*, Lin Sun, William B. Shen, Bertram Shi, Jitendra Malik, Silvio Savarese,
In CVPR, 2017.
[PDF | Project Page]
Amir Zamir, Pulkit Agrawal, Tilman Wekel, Jitendra Malik, Silvio Savarese,
In ECCV, 2016.
[PDF | 3DRepresentation website | Dataset]
In CVPR, 2016 [Best Student Paper Award]
[PDF | Project Page ]
In CVPR, 2016 - [Oral] (acceptance rate ~3%)
[PDF | 3D PC Parser website (Demo, Code, Data)]
Amir Zamir, Asaad Hakeem, Luc Van Gool, Mubarak Shah, Richard Szeliski,
Springer, 2016 [Front Matter | Cover | Springer Page]
In Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2016 [PDF | Project Page ]
In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015 [PDF | Project Page ]
In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015 [PDF | Project Page | 1 min Summary]
In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014 [PDF | BibTeX | Project Page | 1 min Summary]
In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014 [PDF | BibTeX | Project Page | 1 min Summary]
in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2014. [PDF | 1 min Summary | 20 min Presentation | BibTeX | Project Page]
in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2014. [PDF | 1 min Summary | BibTeX | Project Page]
in Computer Vision in Sports, Springer, 2014. [PDF | BibTeX ]
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2014 [Preprint PDF | BibTeX | Web Page]
In Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2013 [PDF | Video | BibTeX | Project Page]
In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012 [PDF | Project Page | 20 min Presentation | BibTeX ]
in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2012 [PDF | BibTeX | Project Page]
In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010 [PDF | BibTeX | Project Page]
In arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0402, November, 2012. [PDF | BibTeX | Project Page | PDF2]
In Proceedings of PED, June 2012 [PDF | BibTeX | Project Page]
In Proceedings of ICMLA, 2011
Contact
Email: amir.zamir AT epfl.ch
Office: INJ 230
Assistant: Stephanie Baillargues
Group: Visual Intelligence & Learning
2010-2019















