Chris Rockwell

I am a final year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and a visiting student at New York University. I do research in computer vision and machine learning and am advised by David F. Fouhey and Justin Johnson. I have been fortunate to collaborate with others including Honglak Lee at UM, Jia Deng at Princeton, Jia-Bin Huang at Meta Reality Labs and Chen-Hsuan Lin at NVIDIA Deep Imagination Research.

I am actively pursuing research scientist positions for 2025! Please feel free to contact me: cnris at umich dot edu

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Publications
Dynamic Camera Poses and Where to Find Them
Chris Rockwell, Joseph Tung, Tsung-Yi Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, David F. Fouhey and Chen-Hsuan Lin
CVPR, 2025
project page / arXiv / Hugging Face / bibtex

We introduce DynPose-100K, a large-scale video dataset of dynamic content with camera annotations.

net1 FAR: Flexible, Accurate and Robust 6DoF Relative Camera Pose Estimation
Chris Rockwell, Nilesh Kulkarni, Linyi Jin, JJ Park, Justin Johnson and David F. Fouhey
CVPR, 2024 (Highlight -- 2.8% accept rate)
project page / arXiv / GitHub / bibtex

Our flexible method produces accurate and robust pose estimates using complementary strengths of Correspondence + Solver and Learning-Based methods.

net1 Scalable 3D Captioning with Pretrained Models
Tiange Luo*, Chris Rockwell*, Honglak Lee and Justin Johnson
NeurIPS (Datasets and Benchmarks Track) 2023
project page / arXiv / GitHub / Hugging Face / bibtex

Pretrained models are highly effective at 3D captioning; we use them to collect large-scale 3D-text dataset Cap3D and finetune text-to-3D models.

net1 The 8-Point Algorithm as an Inductive Bias for Relative Pose Prediction by ViTs
Chris Rockwell, Justin Johnson and David F. Fouhey
3DV 2022
project page / arXiv / GitHub / bibtex

Small modifications to a ViT enable computations similar to the Eight-Point algorithm, and are a good inductive bias for pose estimation.

net1 PlaneFormers: From Sparse View Planes to 3D Reconstruction
Samir Agarwala, Linyi Jin, Chris Rockwell and David F. Fouhey
ECCV 2022
video /--> project page / arXiv / GitHub / bibtex

Transformers are very effective at integrating evidence across multiple views and producing a planar reconstruction.

net1 FWD: Real-time Novel View Synthesis with Forward Warping and Depth
Ang Cao, Chris Rockwell and Justin Johnson
CVPR 2022
project page / arXiv / GitHub / bibtex

Our forward-warping-based method enables real-time, high-quality novel view synthesis on novel objects from sparse views.

net1 Understanding 3D Object Articulation in Internet Videos
Shengyi Qian, Linyi Jin, Chris Rockwell, Siyi Chen and David F. Fouhey
CVPR 2022
project page / arXiv / GitHub / bibtex

By training on both video data and 3D reconstructions in the right way, we can build models of articulations of 3D objects on ordinary video data.

net1 PixelSynth: Generating a 3D-Consistent Experience from a Single Image
Chris Rockwell, David F. Fouhey and Justin Johnson
ICCV 2021
project page / arXiv / GitHub / press / bibtex

Combining 3D reasoning and autoregressive modeling facilitates high-quality and consistent single-image novel view synthesis.

net1 Full-Body Awareness from Partial Observations
Chris Rockwell and David F. Fouhey
ECCV 2020
project page / arXiv / GitHub / press / bibtex

A simple self-training framework significantly improves 3D human pose estimation on highly-truncated Internet videos.

Open-Sourced Projects
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Professional Experience
nvidia NVIDIA, Mar. - Oct. 2024
Research Intern (Deep Imagination Research Group)
Hosts: Chen-Hsuan Lin, Tsung-Yi Lin, and Ming-Yu Liu
meta Meta Reality Labs, May - Dec. 2022
Research Scientist Intern (Computational Photography Research Group)
Hosts: Hung-Yu Tseng, Jia-Bin Huang, and Johannes Kopf
turingsense TuringSense, Inc., Feb. - Apr. 2021
Technical Consultant (Computer Vision)
Activities
um2 AI4ALL, Summer 2020 and 2021
Project Instructor, Application Reviewer, Curriculum Advisory Board
Project Github
Michigan AI4ALL Lead: David F. Fouhey
um2 African Undergraduate Research Adventure (AURA), Summer 2020
Graduate Research Mentor
Research Advisor: David F. Fouhey

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