Dr. Daniyar Turmukhambetov

I'm a scientist at Niantic.
Previously, I was a post-doctoral research associate with Dr. Gabriel Brostow at University College London. I worked on on EU-FP7 project "Capture-Reconstruct-Play" and "Nature-Smart Cities - Sensing Nature in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park" EPSRC Impact project. See news article about Nature-Smart Cities project on BBC website.
I completed my PhD in the Department of Computer Science at University College London under supervision of Prof. Jan Kautz and Dr. Simon Prince in collaboration with Dr. Neill D.F. Campbell. My PhD thesis, titled "Synthesizing and Editing Photo-realistic Visual Objects", explores image synthesis by combining computer graphics techniques with probabilistic generative models of computer vision. During my PhD I did a summer research internship at Creative Technologies Lab of Adobe in Seattle with Dr. Dan B Goldman.
Before starting my PhD, I finished MSc in Computer Graphics, Vision and Imaging at UCL with distinction. My Master Thesis "Intrinsic Images from Color and Depth", supervised by Dr. Gabriel Brostow, has won "BBC Best Project Prize".
I completed Bachelor of Engineering in "Computer Science and Technology" at Tsinghua University with a scholarship from China National Petroleum Corporation.

Publications

"Interpretable Transformations with Encoder-Decoder Networks"
Daniel E. Worrall, Stephan J. Garbin, Daniyar Turmukhambetov and Gabriel J. Brostow
In International Conference on Computer Vision, 2017
project webpage
arxiv
preprint(PDF, 0.8Kb)
bibtex
"Harmonic Networks: Deep Translation and Rotation Equivariance"
Daniel E. Worrall, Stephan J. Garbin, Daniyar Turmukhambetov and Gabriel J. Brostow
In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017
project webpage
arxiv
preprint(PDF, 4.1Mb)
bibtex
"Help, It Looks Confusing: GUI Task Automation Through Demonstration and Follow-up Questions"
Thanapong Intharah, Daniyar Turmukhambetov and Gabriel J. Brostow
In ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2017
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention
project webpage
arxiv
draft(PDF, 5.4Mb)
bibtex
"Synthesizing and Editing Photo-realistic Visual Objects"
Daniyar Turmukhambetov
PhD Thesis at University College London, 2016
monograph(PDF, 57.5Mb)
UCL Discovery
bibtex
"Modeling Object Appearance using Context-Conditioned Component Analysis"
Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Neill D.F. Campbell, Simon J.D. Prince and Jan Kautz
In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2015
project webpage
paper(PDF, 5.2Mb)
bibtex
"Interactive Sketch-Driven Image Synthesis"
Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Neill D.F. Campbell, Dan B Goldman and Jan Kautz
In Computer Graphics Forum, 2015
project webpage
Free Access to Article at Wiley Online Library
preprint(PDF, 9.5Mb)
bibtex
"Intrinsic Images from Color and Depth"
Daniyar Turmukhambetov
MSc Thesis at University College London, 2011
monograph(PDF, 11.9Mb)

Curriculum Vitae

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Contact Details

daniyar.turmukhambetov.10 (at) ucl.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science
University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom