Angjoo Kanazawa

I am a visiting student from University of Maryland where I work with my advisor David Jacobs.

My work focuses on model-based 3D reconstruction of animals from a single image. Animals are exciting objects to reconstruct because they are articulated, deform non-rigidly and often come with heavy self-occlusion.

I believe the key to solving this problem is having a strong prior on object pose and shape, which can resolve many of the ambiguities. I am interested in how we can learn such models and how to use them efficiently. I am also interested in exploring how deep learning methods can be used for building such models.