Piotr Dollar
RESEARCH DIRECTOR | MENLO PARK, UNITED STATES
Piotr Dollar is a research director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) with a focus on deep learning and computer vision. Piotr received his PhD from UCSD in 2007 followed by a postdoc at Caltech in 2012. After this, and prior to seeing the deep learning light, Piotr helped cofound Anchovi Labs (acquired by Dropbox in 2012) and then spent some years dabbling in shallow research at Microsoft Research (MSR). Current deeper interests include recognition, grouping, network design, and self-supervised learning.
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December 16, 2025
SPEECH & AUDIO
COMPUTER VISION
SAM Audio: Segment Anything in Audio
Yi-Chiao Wu, Julius Richter, Andros Tjandra, Ann Lee, Apoorv Vyas, Bowen Shi, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Helin Wang, John Hoffman, Luya Gao, Matt Le, Piotr Dollar, Sanyuan Chen, Wei-Ning Hsu
December 16, 2025
December 16, 2025
SPEECH & AUDIO
COMPUTER VISION
Pushing the Frontier of Audiovisual Perception with Large-Scale Multimodal Correspondence Learning
Heng-Jui Chang, Cheng-Fu Yang, Julius Richter, Ann Lee, Apoorv Vyas, Bernie Huang, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Luya Gao, Matt Le, Piotr Dollar, Sanyuan Chen, Wei-Ning Hsu
December 16, 2025
November 19, 2025
COMPUTER VISION
SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images
SAM 3D Team, Jianing Yang, Georgia Gkioxari, Anushka Sagar, Aohan Lin, Bowen Song, Bowen Zhang, Fu-Jen Chu, Hao Tang, Jiawei Liu, Jitendra Malik, Kevin J Liang, Matt Feiszli, Michelle Guo, Pierre Gleize, Piotr Dollar, Alexander Sax, Thibaut Hardin, Weiyao Wang, Xiang Li, Xiaodong Wang, Xingyu Chen, Ziqi Ma
November 19, 2025
November 19, 2025
COMPUTER VISION
SAM 3D Body: Robust Full-Body Human Mesh Recovery
Don Pinkus, Soyong Shin, Nicolas Ugrinovic, Kris Kitani, Anushka Sagar, Jinhyung Park, Devansh Kukreja, Jiawei Liu, Jinkun Cao, Jitendra Malik, Matt Feiszli, Piotr Dollar, Taosha Fan, Xitong Yang
November 19, 2025
November 19, 2025
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
Ronghang Hu, Peize Sun, Triantafyllos Afouras, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Katherine Xu, Tsung-Han Wu, Yu Zhou, Liliane Momeni, Shuangrui Ding, Sagar Vaze, Francois Porcher, Feng Li, Siyuan Li, Aishwarya Kamath, Ho Kei Cheng, Andrew Huang, Arpit Kalla, Baishan Guo, Chaitanya Ryali, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Didac Suris Coll-Vinent, Haitham Khedr, Jie Lei, Joseph Greer, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Kate Saenko, Laura Gustafson, Markus Marks, Meng Wang, Nicolas Carion, Nikhila Ravi, Pengchuan Zhang, Piotr Dollar, Rishi Hazra, Roman Rädle, Shoubhik Debnath, Tengyu Ma, Yuan-Ting Hu
November 19, 2025
April 17, 2025
COMPUTER VISION
Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network
Hanoona Rasheed, Junke Wang, Marco Monteiro, Andrea Madotto, Po-Yao Huang, Chen Wei, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Daniel Bolya, Daniel Li (FAIR), Hu Xu, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Jiale Zhi, Nikhila Ravi, Peize Sun, Piotr Dollar, Shiyu Dong, Tengyu Ma, Jang Hyun Cho
April 17, 2025
April 17, 2025
COMPUTER VISION
PerceptionLM: Open-Access Data and Models for Detailed Visual Understanding
Yale Song, Hanoona Rasheed, Miguel Martin, Huiyu Wang, Salman Khan, Philipp Krähenbühl, Lorenzo Torresani, Kristen Grauman, Andrea Madotto, Andrew Westbury, Babak Damavandi, Po-Yao Huang, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Daniel Bolya, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Muhammad Maaz, Nikhila Ravi, Peize Sun, Piotr Dollar, Shane Moon, Shashank Jain, Shuming Hu, Suyog Jain, Tammy Stark, Tengyu Ma, Triantafyllos Afouras, Tushar Nagarajan, Jang Hyun Cho, Vivian Lee
April 17, 2025
July 29, 2024
COMPUTER VISION
SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
Eric Mintun, Junting Pan, Chao-Yuan Wu, Ross Girshick, Nikhila Ravi, Chay Ryali, Chloe Rolland, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Haitham Khedr, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Laura Gustafson, Nicolas Carion, Piotr Dollar, Roman Rädle, Ronghang Hu, Tengyu Ma, Valentin Gabeur, Yuan-Ting Hu
July 29, 2024
October 02, 2023
COMPUTER VISION
The effectiveness of MAE pre-pretraining for billion-scale pretraining
Mannat Singh, Aaron Adcock, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Haoqi Fan, Ishan Misra, Piotr Dollar, Quentin Duval, Rohit Girdhar, Ross Girshick, Vaibhav Aggarwal
October 02, 2023
April 05, 2023
COMPUTER VISION
Segment Anything
Alexander Kirillov, Alex Berg, Chloe Rolland, Eric Mintun, Hanzi Mao, Laura Gustafson, Nikhila Ravi, Piotr Dollar, Ross Girshick, Spencer Whitehead, Wan-Yen Lo, Tete Xiao
April 05, 2023
December 06, 2021
COMPUTER VISION
Early Convolutions Help Transformers See Better
Eric Mintun, Trevor Darrell, Ross Girshick, Mannat Singh, Piotr Dollar, Tete Xiao
December 06, 2021
July 17, 2020
COMPUTER VISION
ML APPLICATIONS
Are Labels Necessary for Neural Architecture Search?
Saining Xie, Kaiming He, Piotr Dollar, Ross Girshick, Alan Yuille, Chenxi Liu
July 17, 2020
April 26, 2020
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
Designing Network Design Spaces
Raj Prateek Kosaraju, Kaiming He, Piotr Dollar, Ross Girshick, Ilija Radosavovic
April 26, 2020
October 27, 2019
October 27, 2019
May 17, 2019
RESEARCH
Panoptic Feature Pyramid Networks
Alexander Kirillov, Kaiming He, Piotr Dollar, Ross Girshick
May 17, 2019
May 17, 2019
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
Panoptic Segmentation
Alexander Kirillov, Kaiming He, Piotr Dollar, Ross Girshick, Carsten Rother
May 17, 2019
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