Irfan Essa
Distinguished Professor
Works on computer vision and machine learning for video analysis, generation and computational journalism.
Irfan Essa's lab at Georgia Tech works on video understanding. 23 papers since 2023, 17 at top venues, mostly CVPR and ICLR. 6 PhD students. 68 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 74%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 68
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 3
- 8 papers2024 · T1 6
- 12 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, ICLR, NeurIPS, ECCV, ACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- generation7 papers
- Video understanding3 papers
- interactive1 paper
- video analysis0 papers
- interactive computing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20253 papers
- ACL (T1)AfriMed-QA: A Pan-African, Multi-Specialty, Medical Question-Answering Benchmark Dataset (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Calibrated Multi-Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Cropper: Vision-Language Model for Image Cropping through In-Context Learning (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- ABCA Washing Machine is All You Need? On the Feasibility of Machine Data for Self-Supervised Human Activity Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)FineStyle: Fine-grained Controllable Style Personalization for Text-to-image Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Language Model Beats Diffusion -- Tokenizer is Key to Visual Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)Parrot: Pareto-optimal multi-reward reinforcement learning framework for text-to-image generation (inproceedings) (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Prompt-Free Diffusion: Taking "Text" out of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- SensorsTowards Learning Discrete Representations via Self-Supervision for Wearables-Based Human Activity Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)VideoPoet: A large language model for zero-shot video generation (opens in a new tab)
202312 papers
- RA-LCascaded Compositional Residual Learning for Complex Interactive Behaviors (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Discrete Predictor-Corrector Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI WorkshopKnowledge Relevance BERT: Integrating Noisy Knowledge into Language Representation (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)MAGVIT: Masked Generative Video Transformer (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)MaskSketch: Unpaired Structure-guided Masked Image Generation (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Slide Gestalt: Automatic Structure Extraction in Slide Decks for Non-Visual Access (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)SPAE: Semantic Pyramid AutoEncoder for Multimodal Generation with Frozen LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style (opens in a new tab)
- BMVCText and Click inputs for unambiguous open vocabulary instance segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Visual Prompt Tuning for Generative Transfer Learning (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL WorkshopWords into Action: Learning Diverse Humanoid Robot Behaviors using Language Guided Iterative Motion Refinement (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went68 listed
Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
Georgia Tech Computer Science PhD
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