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
Bowen Shi, Andros Tjandra, John Hoffman, Helin Wang, Yi-Chiao Wu, Luya Gao, Julius Richter, Matt Le, Apoorv Vyas, Sanyuan Chen, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Piotr Dollar, Wei-Ning Hsu, Ann Lee
December 16, 2025
December 16, 2025
SPEECH & AUDIO
COMPUTER VISION
Pushing the Frontier of Audiovisual Perception with Large-Scale Multimodal Correspondence Learning
Apoorv Vyas, Heng-Jui Chang, Cheng-Fu Yang, Bernie Huang, Luya Gao, Julius Richter, Sanyuan Chen, Matt Le, Piotr Dollar, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Ann Lee, Wei-Ning Hsu
December 16, 2025
November 19, 2025
COMPUTER VISION
SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images
SAM 3D Team, Xingyu Chen, Fu-Jen Chu, Pierre Gleize, Kevin J Liang, Alexander Sax, Hao Tang, Weiyao Wang, Michelle Guo, Thibaut Hardin, Xiang Li, Aohan Lin, Jiawei Liu, Ziqi Ma, Anushka Sagar, Bowen Song, Xiaodong Wang, Jianing Yang, Bowen Zhang, Piotr Dollar, Georgia Gkioxari, Matt Feiszli, Jitendra Malik
November 19, 2025
November 19, 2025
COMPUTER VISION
SAM 3D Body: Robust Full-Body Human Mesh Recovery
Xitong Yang, Devansh Kukreja, Don Pinkus, Anushka Sagar, Taosha Fan, Jinhyung Park, Soyong Shin, Jinkun Cao, Jiawei Liu, Nicolas Ugrinovic, Matt Feiszli, Jitendra Malik, Piotr Dollar, Kris Kitani
November 19, 2025
November 19, 2025
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
Nicolas Carion, Laura Gustafson, Yuan-Ting Hu, Shoubhik Debnath, Ronghang Hu, Didac Suris Coll-Vinent, Chaitanya Ryali, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Haitham Khedr, Andrew Huang, Jie Lei, Tengyu Ma, Baishan Guo, Arpit Kalla, Markus Marks, Joseph Greer, Meng Wang, Peize Sun, Roman Rädle, Triantafyllos Afouras, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Katherine Xu, Tsung-Han Wu, Yu Zhou, Liliane Momeni, Rishi Hazra, Shuangrui Ding, Sagar Vaze, Francois Porcher, Feng Li, Siyuan Li, Aishwarya Kamath, Ho Kei Cheng, Piotr Dollar, Nikhila Ravi, Kate Saenko, Pengchuan Zhang, Christoph Feichtenhofer
November 19, 2025
April 17, 2025
COMPUTER VISION
Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network
Daniel Bolya, Po-Yao Huang, Peize Sun, Jang Hyun Cho, Andrea Madotto, Chen Wei, Tengyu Ma, Jiale Zhi, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Hanoona Rasheed, Junke Wang, Marco Monteiro, Hu Xu, Shiyu Dong, Nikhila Ravi, Daniel Li (FAIR), Piotr Dollar, Christoph Feichtenhofer
April 17, 2025
April 17, 2025
COMPUTER VISION
PerceptionLM: Open-Access Data and Models for Detailed Visual Understanding
Jang Hyun Cho, Andrea Madotto, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Triantafyllos Afouras, Tushar Nagarajan, Muhammad Maaz, Yale Song, Tengyu Ma, Shuming Hu, Hanoona Rasheed, Peize Sun, Po-Yao Huang, Daniel Bolya, Suyog Jain, Miguel Martin, Huiyu Wang, Nikhila Ravi, Shashank Jain, Tammy Stark, Shane Moon, Babak Damavandi, Vivian Lee, Andrew Westbury, Salman Khan, Philipp Krähenbühl, Piotr Dollar, Lorenzo Torresani, Kristen Grauman, Christoph Feichtenhofer
April 17, 2025
July 29, 2024
COMPUTER VISION
SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
Nikhila Ravi, Valentin Gabeur, Yuan-Ting Hu, Ronghang Hu, Chay Ryali, Tengyu Ma, Haitham Khedr, Roman Rädle, Chloe Rolland, Laura Gustafson, Eric Mintun, Junting Pan, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Nicolas Carion, Chao-Yuan Wu, Ross Girshick, Piotr Dollar, Christoph Feichtenhofer
July 29, 2024
October 02, 2023
COMPUTER VISION
The effectiveness of MAE pre-pretraining for billion-scale pretraining
Mannat Singh, Quentin Duval, Haoqi Fan, Vaibhav Aggarwal, Aaron Adcock, Piotr Dollar, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Ross Girshick, Rohit Girdhar, Ishan Misra
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
Tete Xiao, Mannat Singh, Eric Mintun, Trevor Darrell, Piotr Dollar, Ross Girshick
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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