Nikhila Ravi
RESEARCH ENGINEER | MENLO PARK, UNITED STATES
Nikhila is a Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research, with a focus on computer vision and 3D understanding. Previously at Facebook, she worked on tools and platforms for democratizing machine learning training and deployment for internal teams. Nikhila graduated with a Bachelor's and Master's in Engineering at Cambridge University and spent a year at Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship, where she focused on machine learning and AI.
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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
August 31, 2023
COMPUTER VISION
FACET: Fairness in Computer Vision Evaluation Benchmark
Laura Gustafson, Chloe Rolland, Nikhila Ravi, Quentin Duval, Aaron Adcock, Cheng-Yang Fu, Melissa Hall, Candace Ross
August 31, 2023
June 20, 2023
COMPUTER VISION
Omni3D: A Large Benchmark and Model for 3D Object Detection in the Wild
Garrick Brazil, Abhinav Kumar, Julian Straub, Nikhila Ravi, Justin Johnson, Georgia Gkioxari
June 20, 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
July 07, 2022
Omnivore: A Single Model for Many Visual Modalities
Ishan Misra, Armand Joulin, Laurens van der Maaten, Mannat Singh, Nikhila Ravi, Rohit Girdhar
July 07, 2022
September 22, 2021
Worldsheet: Wrapping the World in a 3D Sheet for View Synthesis from a Single Image
Ronghang Hu, Alex Berg, Nikhila Ravi, Deepak Pathak
September 22, 2021
September 05, 2019
RESEARCH
C3DPO: Canonical 3D Pose Networks for Non-Rigid Structure From Motion
David Novotny, Andrea Vedaldi, Benjamin Graham, Natalia Neverova, Nikhila Ravi
September 05, 2019
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