Hi, I'm Oliver. I am a Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind in Seattle. My research focus is on Multimodal AI.

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Gemini Omni Flash
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Gemini 3.0 Pro Image
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Veo 3
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Imagen 4
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Gemini 2.5
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Veo 2
Google 2024
Imagen 3
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Gemini
Google 2023
Imagen 2
Google 2023
Adobe Firefly
Express CC 2023 · Photoshop CC 2023
Text-Based Editing
Premiere Pro CC 2023
Adobe Podcast
Adobe 2023
Landscape Mixer
Photoshop CC 2022
Auto Color
Premiere Pro CC 2022
Auto Captioning
Premiere Pro CC 2021
Scene Edit Detection
Premiere Pro CC 2020
Auto Reframe
Rush 2020
Neural Filters
Photoshop CC 2020
Auto Reframe
Premiere Pro CC 2019 · Adobe Experience Manager
Content Aware Fill for Video
After Effects CC 2019
Video Loops
Adobe Stock 2018
Camera-Shake Deblur
After Effects CC 2017.2

Publications

Gemini 2.5
Gemini Team Google
Tech Report
Imagen 3
Imagen 3 Team, Google
Tech Report
Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation
Omer Bar-Tal, Hila Chefer, Omer Tov, Charles Herrmann, Roni Paiss, Shiran Zada, Ariel Ephrat, Junhwa Hur, Guanghui Liu, Amit Raj, Yuanzhen Li, Michael Rubinstein, Tomer Michaeli, Oliver Wang, Deqing Sun, Tali Dekel, Inbar Mosseri
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Greedy Growing Enables High-Resolution Pixel-Based Diffusion Models
Cristina N. Vasconcelos, Abdullah Rashwan, Austin Waters, Trevor Walker, Keyang Xu, Jimmy Yan, Rui Qian, Shixin Luo, Zarana Parekh, Andrew Bunner, Hongliang Fei, Roopal Garg, Mandy Guo, Ivana Kajic, Yeqing Li, Henna Nandwani, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Yasumasa Onoe, Sarah Rosston, Su Wang, Wenlei Zhou, Kevin Swersky, David J. Fleet, Jason M. Baldridge, Oliver Wang
TMLR 2024
Readout Guidance: Learning Control from Diffusion Features
Grace Luo, Trevor Darrell, Oliver Wang, Dan B Goldman, Aleksander Holynski
CVPR 2024 Highlight
Image Neural Field Diffusion Models
Yinbo Chen, Oliver Wang, Richard Zhang, Eli Shechtman, Xiaolong Wang, Michael Gharbi
CVPR 2024 Highlight
VecFusion: Vector Font Generation with Diffusion
Vikas Thamizharasan, Difan Liu, Shantanu Agarwal, Matthew Fisher, Michael Gharbi, Oliver Wang, Alec Jacobson, Evangelos Kalogerakis
CVPR 2024 Highlight
Layered Diffusion Model for One-Shot High Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis
Emaad Khwaja, Abdullah Rashwan, Ting Chen, Oliver Wang, Suraj Kothawade, Yeqing Li
ELVM CVPR Workshop 2024
Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models
Online Detection of AI-Generated Images
David C. Epstein, Ishan Jain, Oliver Wang, Richard Zhang
ICCV DFAF Workshop 2023
Perspective Fields for Single Image Camera Calibration
Linyi Jin, Jianming Zhang, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Oliver Wang, Kevin Matzen, Matthew Sticha, David F. Fouhey
CVPR 2023 Highlight
VideoDoodles: Hand-Drawn Animations on Videos with Scene-Aware Canvases
Emilie Yu, Kevin Blackburn-Matzen, Cuong Nguyen, Oliver Wang, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Adrien Bousseau
SIGGRAPH 2023
Towards Accurate Reconstruction of 3D Scene Shape from A Single Monocular Image
Wei Yin, Jianming Zhang, Oliver Wang, Simon Niklaus, Simon Chen, Yifan Liu, Chunhua Shen
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2022
VideoMap: Video Editing in Latent Space
David Chuan-En Lin, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Joon-Young Lee, Oliver Wang, and Nikolas Martelaro
NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design
Videogenic: Video Highlights via Photogenic Moments
David Chuan-En Lin, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Joon-Young Lee, Oliver Wang, and Nikolas Martelaro
NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design
Neural Volumetric Object Selection
Zhongzheng Ren, Aseem Agarwala, Bryan Russell, Alexander G. Schwing, Oliver Wang
CVPR 2022
ReLU Fields: The Little Non-linearity That Could
Animesh Karnewar, Tobias Ritschel, Oliver Wang, Niloy Mitra
SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference
CharacterGAN: Few-Shot Keypoint Character Animation and Reposing
Tobias Hinz, Matthew Fisher, Oliver Wang, Eli Shechtman, and Stefan Wermter
WACV 2022 Best Application Paper
Layered Neural Atlases for Consistent Video Editing
Yoni Kasten, Dolev Ofri, Oliver Wang, Tali Dekel
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
3D Reconstruction By Parameterized Surface Mapping
Pierre-Alain Langlois, Matthew Fisher, Oliver Wang, Vladimir Kim, Alexandre Boulch, Renaud Marlet, Bryan Russell
ICIP 2021
GaussiGAN: Controllable Image Synthesis with 3D Gaussians from Unposed Silhouettes
Youssef A Mejjati, Isa Milefchik, Aaron Gokaslan, Oliver Wang, Kwang In Kim, James Tompkin
BMVC 2021
Differentiable Signal Processing With Black-Box Audio Effects
Marco A. Martínez Ramírez, Oliver Wang, Paris Smaragdis, Nicholas J. Bryan
ICASSP 2021
Learning to Recover 3D Scene Shape from a Single Image
Wei Yin, Jianming Zhang, Oliver Wang, Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Simon Chen, Chunhua Shen
CVPR 2021 Oral
Neural Scene Flow Fields for Space-Time View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes
Zhengqi Li, Simon Niklaus, Noah Snavely, Oliver Wang
CVPR 2021
Swapping Autoencoder for Deep Image Manipulation
Taesung Park, Jun-Yan Zhu, Oliver Wang, Jingwan Lu, Eli Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros, Richard Zhang
Neurips 2020
Revisiting Adaptive Convolutions for Video Frame Interpolation
Improved Techniques for Training Single-Image GANs
Tobias Hinz, Matthew Fisher, Oliver Wang, Stefan Wermter
WACV 2020
Real-time Semantic Segmentation with Fast Attention
Ping Hu, Federico Perazzi, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Oliver Wang, Zhe Lin, Kate Saenko, Stan Sclaroff
ICRA 2021
LandscapeAR: Large Scale Outdoor Augmented Reality by Matching Photographs with Terrain Models Using Learned Descriptors
TDNet: A Temporally Distributed Network for Fast Video Segmentation
Ping Hu, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Oliver Wang, Zhe Lin, Stan Sclaroff, Federico Perazzi
CVPR 2020
SDC-Net: Semantic Divide-and-Conquer Network for Monocular Depth Estimation
Structure-Guided Ranking Loss for Single Image Depth Prediction
Ke Xian, Jianming Zhang, Oliver Wang, Long Mai, Zhe Lin, Zhiguo Cao
CVPR 2020
CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot...for now
Sheng-Yu Wang, Oliver Wang, Richard Zhang, Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros
CVPR 2020 Oral
MSG-GAN: Multi-Scale Gradients for Generative Adversarial Networks
Web Stereo Video Supervision for Depth Prediction from Dynamic Scenes
Chaoyang Wang, Simon Lucey, Federico Perazzi, Oliver Wang
3DV 2019
Interactive Sketch & Fill: Multiclass Sketch-to-Image Translation
Arnab Ghosh, Richard Zhang, Puneet Dokania, Oliver Wang, Alexei A. Efros, Philip H.S. Torr, Eli Shechtman
ICCV 2019
Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop
Sheng-Yu Wang, Oliver Wang, Andrew Owens, Richard Zhang, Alexei A. Efros
ICCV 2019
Photometric Mesh Optimization for Video-Aligned 3D Object Reconstruction
Chen-Hsuan Lin, Oliver Wang, Bryan C. Russell, Eli Shechtman, Vladimir G. Kim, Matthew Fisher, Simon Lucey
CVPR 2019
Joint Stabilization and Direction of 360 Degree Videos
Chengzhou Tang, Oliver Wang, Feng Liu, Ping Tan
ACM TOG 2019
B-Script: Transcript-based B-roll Video Editing with Recommendations
Bernd Huber, Hijung Valentina Shin, Bryan Russell, Oliver Wang, Gautham Mysore
CHI 2019
How to Design Voice Based Navigation for How-To Videos
Minsuk Chang, Anh Truong, Oliver Wang, Maneesh Agrawala, Juho Kim
CHI 2019
DeepLens: Shallow Depth of Field from a Single Image
Lijun Wang, Xiaohui Shen, Jianming Zhang, Oliver Wang, Zhe Lin, Chih-Yao Hsieh, Sarah Kong and Huchuan Lu
SIGGRAPH Asia 2018
Self-Supervised Generation of Spatial Audio for 360 Video
Pedro Morgado, Nuno Vasconcelos, Timothy Langlois, Oliver Wang
NIPS 2018
Localizing Moments in Video with Temporal Language
Lisa Anne Hendricks, Oliver Wang, Eli Shechtman, Josef Sivic, Trevor Darrell, Bryan Russell
EMNLP 2018 Oral
Learning Blind Video Temporal Consistency
Wei-Sheng Lai, Jia-Bin Huang, Oliver Wang, Eli Shechtman, Ersin Yumer, Ming-Hsuan Yang
ECCV 2018
ST-GAN: Spatial Transformer Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Compositing
Chen-Hsuan Lin, Ersin Yumer, Oliver Wang, Eli Shechtman, Simon Lucey
CVPR 2018
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Networks as a Perceptual Metric
Richard Zhang, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros, Eli Shechtman, Oliver Wang
CVPR 2018
Semantic Segmentation for Line Drawing Vectorization Using Neural Networks
Byungsoo Kim, Oliver Wang, Cengiz Öztireli, Markus Gross
Eurographics 2018
Localizing Moments in Video with Natural Language
Lisa Anne Hendricks, Oliver Wang, Eli Shechtman, Josef Sivic, Trevor Darrell, Bryan Russell
ICCV 2017
GSLAM: Initialization-robust Monocular Visual SLAM via Global Structure-from-Motion
Joint Mobile-Cloud Video Stabilization
Gbolahan Adesoye, Oliver Wang
IEEE Embedded Vision Workshop (CVPR) 2017
Toward Multimodal Image-to-Image Translation
Jun-Yan Zhu, Richard Zhang, Deepak Pathak, Trevor Darrell, Alexei A. Efros, Oliver Wang, Eli Shechtman
NIPS 2017
Example-Based Expressive Animation of 2D Rigid Bodies
Marek Dvorožňák, Pierre Bénard, Pascal Barla, Oliver Wang, Daniel Sýkora
SIGGRAPH 2017
Time Slice Video Synthesis by Robust Video Alignment
Zhaopeng Cui, Oliver Wang, Ping Tan, Jue Wang
SIGGRAPH 2017
High-Resolution Image Inpainting using Multi-Scale Neural Patch Synthesis
Chao Yang, Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, Eli Shechtman, Oliver Wang, Hao Li
CVPR 2017
Deep Video Deblurring
Shuochen Su, Mauricio Delbracio, Jue Wang, Guillermo Sapiro, Wolfgang Heidrich, Oliver Wang
CVPR 2017
Consistent Video Filtering for Camera Arrays
Nicolas Bonneel, James Tompkin, Deqing Sun, Oliver Wang, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Sylvain Paris, Hanspeter Pfister
Eurographics 2017
Suggesting Sounds for Images from Video Collections
Matthias Soler, Jean-Charles Bazin, Oliver Wang, Andreas Krause, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
ECCV Workshop 2016
Bilateral Space Video Segmentation
Nicolas Maerki, Federico Perazzi, Oliver Wang, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
CVPR 2016
Efficient Large-scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search on the GPU
Patrick Wieschollek, Oliver Wang, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Hendrik P.A. Lensch
CVPR 2016
Efficient 3D Object Segmentation from Densely Sampled Light Fields with Applications to 3D Reconstruction
Kaan Yucer, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Oliver Wang, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
ACM TOG 2016
Fully Connected Object Proposals For Video Segmentation
Federico Perazzi, Oliver Wang, Markus Gross, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
ICCV 2015
FaceDirector: Continuous Control of Facial Performance in Video
Charles Malleson, Jean-Charles Bazin, Oliver Wang, Derek Bradley, Thabo Beeler, Adrian Hilton, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
ICCV 2015
Reconstruction of Articulated Objects from a Moving Camera
Kaan Yucer, Oliver Wang, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
ICCV Workshop 2015
Efficient GPU Based Sampling for Scene-Space Video Processing
Felix Klose, Oliver Wang, Jean-Charles Bazin, Marcus Magnor, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
VMV 2015
Path-space Motion Estimation and Decomposition for Robust Animation Filtering
Henning Zimmer, Fabrice Rousselle, Wenzel Jakob, Oliver Wang, David Adler, Wojciech Jarosz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
EGSR 2015
Sampling Based Scene-Space Video Processing
Felix Klose, Oliver Wang, Jean-Charles Bazin, Marcus Magnor, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
SIGGRAPH 2015
Phase-Based Frame Interpolation for Video
Simone Meyer, Oliver Wang, Henning Zimmer, Max Grosse, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
CVPR 2015 Oral
Scalable Structure From Motion for Densely Sampled Videos
Benjamin Resch, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Oliver Wang, Marc Pollefeys, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
CVPR 2015
Panoramic Video from Unstructured Camera Arrays
Federico Perazzi, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Henning Zimmer, Oliver Wang, Scott Watson, Markus Gross
Eurographics 2015
VideoSnapping: Interactive Synchronization of Multiple Videos
Oliver Wang, Christopher Schroers, Henning Zimmer, Markus Gross, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
SIGGRAPH 2014
High-Speed Object Tracking Using an Asynchronous Temporal Contrast Sensor
Daniel Saner, Oliver Wang, Simon Heinzle, Yael Pritch, Aljoscha Smolic, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Markus Gross
VMV 2014
ColorBrush: Animated Diffusion for Intuitive Colorization Simulating Water Painting
Nicolas Maerki, Oliver Wang, Markus Gross, Aljosa Smolic
ICIP 2014
MasterCam FVV: Robust Registration of Multiview Sports Video to a Static High-Resolution Master Camera for Free Viewpoint Video
Distinguishing Texture Edges From Object Boundaries in Video
Oliver Wang, Martina Dümecke, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross
IEEE TIP 2013
Automatic View Synthesis by Image-Domain-Warping
Niko Stefanoski, Oliver Wang, Manuel Lang, Pierre Griesen, Simon Heinzle, Aljoscha Smolic
IEEE TIP 2013
Personal Photo Enhancement using Internet Photo Collections
Chenxi Zhang, Jizhou Gao, Oliver Wang, Pierre Georgel, Ruigang Yang, James Davis, Jan-Michael Frahm, Marc Pollefeys
TVCG Apr 2013 Spotlight paper
DuctTake: Spatiotemporal Video Compositing
Jan Rüegg, Oliver Wang, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross
Eurographics 2013
Finite Element Image Warping
Peter Kaufmann, Oliver Wang, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross
Eurographics 2013
Depth Estimation and Depth Enhancement by Diffusion of Depth Features
Nikolce Stefanoski, Can Bal, Manuel Lang, Oliver Wang, Aljoscha Smolic
ICIP 2013
Computational Sports Broadcasting: Automated Director Assistance for Live Sports
Christine Chen, Oliver Wang, Simon Heinzle, Peter Carr, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross
ICME 2013
Practical Temporal Consistency for Image-Based Graphics Applications
Manuel Lang, Oliver Wang, Tunc Aydin, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross
SIGGRAPH 2012
Depth Image Based Compositing for Stereo 3D
Lars Schnyder, Manuel Lang, Oliver Wang, Aljoscha Smolic
3DTV-CON 2012
Disparity-aware Stereo 3D Production Tools
Aljoscha Smolic, Steven Poulakos, Simon Heinzle, Pierre Greisen, Manuel Lang, Alexander Hornung, Miquel Farre, Nikolce Stefanoski, Oliver Wang. Lars Schnyder, Rafael Monroy, Markus Gross
CVMP 2011
StereoBrush: Interactive 2D to 3D Conversion Using Discontinuous Warps
Oliver Wang, Manuel Lang, Matthias Frei, Alexander Hornung, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross
SBIM 2011
Gradient Domain HDR Compositing
Oliver Wang, James Davis
SIGGRAPH 2011 Poster
2D to 3D Conversion of Sports Content Using Panoramas
Lars Schnyder, Oliver Wang, Aljoscha Smolic
ICIP 2011 Best student paper award
Automatic Content Creation for Multiview Autostereoscopic Displays Using Image Domain Warping
Nonlinear Disparity Mapping for Stereoscopic 3D
Manuel Lang, Alexander Hornung, Oliver Wang, Steven Poulakos, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross
SIGGRAPH 2010
Real-Time Temporal Shaping of High-Speed Video Streams
Martin Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Oliver Wang, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P.A. Lensch
Computers & Graphics 2010
A Context-Aware Light Source
Oliver Wang, Martin Fuchs, Christian Fuchs, James Davis, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P.A. Lensch
ICCP 2010
A Shaped Temporal Filter Camera
Martin Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Oliver Wang, Ramesh Raskar, Hendrik Lensch
VMV Workshop 2009
Optimized Image Sampling for View and Light Interpolation
Prabath Gunawardane, Oliver Wang, Steve Scher, James Davis, Ian Rickard, Tom Malzbender
VAST 2009
Material Classification Using BRDF Slices
Oliver Wang, Prabath Gunawardane, Steve Scher, James Davis
CVPR 2009
Photo Repair And 3D Structure From Flatbed Scanners
Ruggero Pintus, Tom Malzbender, Oliver Wang, Ruth Bergman, Hila Nachlieli
VISAPP 2009
Video Conferencing Relighting Using Infrared Illumination
Oliver Wang, James Davis, Erika Chuang, Ian Rickard, Krystle de Mesa, Chirag Dave
Eurographics 2008
Automatic Natural Video Matting with Depth
Oliver Wang, Jonathan Finger, Qingxiong Yang, James Davis, Ruigang Yang
Pacific Graphics 2007
Synthetic Shutter Speed Imaging
Jacob Telleen, Anne Sullivan, Jerry Yee, Oliver Wang, Prabath Gunawardane, Ian Collins, James Davis
Eurographics 2007
A Bayesian Approach to Building Footprint Extraction
Oliver Wang, Suresh Lodha, David Helmbol
3D-PVT 2006
Using Aerial Lidar Data To Segment and Model Buildings
Oliver Wang
Masters Thesis, UC Santa Cruz. Department of Computer Science. September 2007

Experience & Education

Employment History

Senior Staff Scientist / Principal Scientist 2023-Now
Google DeepMind · Seattle, WA
Research Scientist / Sr. Research Scientist / Principal Scientist 2015-2023
Adobe Research · Seattle, WA
Post-Doc / Research Scientist 2009-2015
Disney Research Zürich · Zürich, Switzerland
Visiting Researcher 2007-2008
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik · Saarbrücken, Germany
R&D Intern 2007
Industrial Light and Magic · San Francisco, CA
Research Internship 2006
Hewlett-Packard · Palo Alto, CA
R&D Engineer 2003
StereoGraphics · San Rafael, CA

Education

PhD in Computer Science 2006-2010
UC Santa Cruz
MS in Computer Science 2004-2006
UC Santa Cruz
BA in Computer Science 1999-2003
Cornell University

Professional Service

CVPR 2024 Area Chair
NeurIPS 2023 Area Chair
CVPR 2023 Area Chair
NTIRE 2021 Program Committee
CVPR 2021 Area Chair
NTIRE 2020 Program Committee
CVPR 2020 Area Chair
NTIRE 2019 Program Committee
ICCV 2019 Area Chair
SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Technical Papers Committee
WICED 2017 Program Committee
SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Course Committee
SIGGRAPH 2016 Technical Papers Committee
JCGT 2015 Editorial Board
SIGGRAPH 2015 Technical Papers Committee
Eurographics 2015 Short Paper Committee
ICME 2013 Technical Program Committee
3DTV-CON 2012 Organizing Committee

Former Student Collaborators and Interns

Hila Chefer
Omer Bar-Tal
Grace Luo
Yinbo Chen
Vikas Thamizharasan
Emaad Khwaja
Linyi Jin
Emilie Yu
Yoni Kasten
Dolev Ofri
Alex Yu
Zhengqi Li
Thibault Ehret
Thu Nguyen
Shiyuan Huang
Wei Yin
Tobias Hinz
Marco Ramirez
Taesung Park
Ping Li
Jan Brejcha
Wenqi Xian
Yuzhong Huang
Zekun Hao
Youssef Mejjati
Animesh Karnewar
Ke Xian
Simon Niklaus
Xinyi Li
Sheng-Yu Wang
Siddhant Jain
Bernd Huber
Minsuk Chang
Arnab Ghosh
Lijun Wang
Lisa Hendricks
Wei-Sheng Lai
Chaoyang Wang
Pedro Morgado
Mackenzie Leake
Richard Zhang
Chen-Hsuan Lin
Mahyar Najibi
Shuochen Su
Chen Chen
Zhaopeng Cui
Chengzhou Tang
Marek Dvorožňák
Felix Klose
Christopher Schroers
Simone Meyer
Florian Angehrn
Nicolas Maerki
Christine Chen
Martina Dümecke
Manuel Lang
Jan Rueegg
Lars Schnyder