Roei Herzig

Hi there! I'm Roei, a second-year CS Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University, working with Prof. Amir Globerson and Prof. Trevor Darrell, and a member of the Berkeley AI Research Lab.

I'm also a Machine Learning & Deep Learning Researcher, I have worked at Nexar and Trax Image Recognition in the last 5 years. Previously, I graduated magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University with MSc (CS), BSc (CS) and BSc (Physics).

I'm looking for strong MSc students that wish to collaborate and publish in top-tier conferences on Video Understanding and Compositionality.

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My long-term research goal is to develop compositional models for obtaining a better semantic understanding in complex environments, such as videos, images and robots. I believe our world is structured, and humans do not perceive the world as raw pixels. Additionally, object-centric models can enjoy the generalization and inductive-bias properties, which I find critical, mostly at the intersections of vision, language, and robotics.

Research Interest:

• Machine Learning & Deep Learning: Generative Models, Graph Neural Networks, Self-Supervised Learning.
• Vision & Language: Video Understanding, Scene Understanding, Visual Reasoning.
• Vision & Robotics: Semantic Understanding, Object-Centric Representation, Structured Representation.

I'm a proud father of Adam, and when I'm not working, I'm also a history buff and love learning about science, politics, the two World Wars, the Cold War, and music.

Compositional Video Synthesis with Action Graphs

We introduce the formalism of Action Graphs, a natural and convenient structure representing the dynamics of actions between objects over time. We show we can synthesize goal-oriented videos on the CATER and Something Something datasets and generate novel compositions of unseen actions.

Learning Canonical Representations for Scene Graph to Image Generation

We present a novel model that can inherently learn canonical graph representations and show better robustness to graph size, adversarial attacks, and semantic equivalent, thus generating superior images of complex visual scenes.

We propose a novel compositional action recognition task where the training combinations of verbs and nouns do not overlap with the test set. We show the effectiveness of our approach on the proposed compositional task and a few-shot compositional setting which requires the model to generalize across both object appearance and action category.

We propose an intermediate “graph-like” representation (DSGs) that can be learned in an end-to-end manner from the supervision for a downstream visual reasoning task, which achieves a new state-of-the-art results on Referring Relationships task.

We propose a latent inter-object graph representation for activity recognition that explores the visual interaction between the objects in a self-supervised manner.

We propose a hybrid coarse-to-fine approach that leverages visual and GPS location cues with on a new large-scale driving dataset based on video and GPS data.

We collect a new SKU-110K dataset which takes detection challenges to unexplored territories, and propose a novel mechanism to learn deep overlap rates for each detection.

We propose a novel invariant graph network for mapping images to scene graphs using the permutation invariant property, which achieves a new state-of-the-art results on Visual Genome dataset.

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