Christoph Feichtenhofer
RESEARCH SCIENTIST | MENLO PARK, UNITED STATES
Is a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Prior to joining Facebook in Spring 2018, he received the PhD degree in computer science from TU Graz, and spent time as a visiting researcher at the York University Toronto and the University of Oxford. He is the recipient of a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and his PhD thesis was awarded with the Award of Excellence for outstanding doctoral thesis in Austria. His main areas of research include the development of effective representations for video understanding. He aims to find solutions for problems that are grounded in applications such as recognition and detection from video.
Christoph's Publications
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
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
December 11, 2024
NLP
COMPUTER VISION
Meta CLIP 1.2
Saining Xie, Hu Xu, Bernie Huang, Ching-Feng Yeh, Christine Jou, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Daniel Li (FAIR), Ellen Tan, Gargi Ghosh, Jacob Kahn, Kim Hazelwood, Luke Zettlemoyer, Omer Levy, Philippe Brunet, Ramya Raghavendra, Scott Yih
December 11, 2024
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 06, 2023
COMPUTER VISION
On the Benefits of 3D Pose and Tracking for Human Action Recognition
Georgios Pavlakos, Angjoo Kanazawa, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Jitendra Malik
April 06, 2023
April 05, 2023
COMPUTER VISION
Multiview Compressive Coding for 3D Reconstruction
Chao-Yuan Wu, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Georgia Gkioxari, Jitendra Malik, Justin Johnson
April 05, 2023
October 20, 2022
RESEARCH
ML APPLICATIONS
Masked Autoencoders As Spatiotemporal Learners
Christoph Feichtenhofer, Haoqi Fan, Kaiming He, Yanghao Li
October 20, 2022
June 16, 2020
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
A Multigrid Method for Efficiently Training Video Models
Ross Girshick, Chao-Yuan Wu, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Kaiming He, Philipp Krähenbühl
June 16, 2020
April 01, 2020
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
Ego-Topo: Environment Affordances from Egocentric Video
Kristen Grauman, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Yanghao Li, Tushar Nagarajana
April 01, 2020
June 18, 2019
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
Long-Term Feature Banks for Detailed Video Understanding
Ross Girshick, Chao-Yuan Wu, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Haoqi Fan, Kaiming He, Philipp Kräkenbühl
June 18, 2019
May 13, 2019
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
3D human pose estimation in video with temporal convolutions and semi-supervised training
Michael Auli, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Dario Pavllo, David Grangier
May 13, 2019
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