About Me

I'm a third year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at The University of Chicago, where I do research in the field of Computer Vision. My advisor is Pedro Felzenszwalb.
Since many people ask, no, I am not assisting in the start of the robot wars.

Research Interests

• Computer Vision (primarily object category detection/classification/localization)
• Machine Learning
• AI (broadly speaking)

Projects

• Object Recognition with mixtures of deformable part models (includes source code).
  State-of-the-art object recognition results in the PASCAL VOC 2008 & 2009 object recognition challenge.

News, updates

• 3-Oct-2009: PASCAL VOC Challenge 2009 Results:
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, David McAllester, and I co-won (with Oxford) the object detection challenge. slides

Papers, etc.

• Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part Based Models
  P. Felzenszwalb, R. Girshick, D. McAllester, D. Ramanan.
  IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Accepted for publication. pdf source code
• Visibility Constraints on Features of 3D Objects
  R. Basri, P. Felzenszwalb, R. Girshick, D. Jacobs, C. Klivans.
  Proceedings of the IEEE CVPR 2009. pdf
• Discriminatively Trained Mixtures of Deformable Part Models. (workshop)
  P. Felzenszwalb, R. Girshick, D. McAllester, D. Ramanan.
  PASCAL VOC Challenge 2008 Workshop. pdf
  
• Object Detection with Heuristic Coarse-to-Fine Search
  R. Girshick
  Master's Thesis pdf

Talks

• Object detection with heuristic coarse-to-fine search
  ICVSS (International Computer Vision Summer School), Sicily, July 2009.
  (Award for best student presentation.)
• Object detection with heuristic coarse-to-fine search
  Illinois Computer Vision Workshop, TTI-C, May 2009
• Discriminatively trained mixtures of deformable part models for detection
  Illinois Computer Vision Workshop, UIUC, October 2008
• An introduction to object recognition with deformable part models
  CS graduate student seminar, University of Chicago, October 2008

Scholarships

• ARCS Foundation Scholar, 2008 to present

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant: Unix Systems Programming [CSPP 51081]
• Teaching Assistant: Game Construction [CMSC 23800 & CSPP 53800]

Random Stuff

• Some Photos.
• A lay explanation of why computer vision is hard.
• An introductory level poster on object recognition
• How to choose dinner.
• Help remove Congress' dependence on corporate money:
  
• Like wikipedia?