Abstinencia (Liberated), by Yoan Capote, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Bardia Doosti, Summer 2021.

I am an AI/ML Research Engineer at Google AR. Prior to that, I completed my PhD in Computer Science from the Indiana University Bloomington nder the supervision of Prof. David Crandall at the IU Computer Vision Lab. My research interests include applying Deep Learning on vision and audio problems. Specifically I have worked on Graph-Convolutional and Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Reconstruction and Hand and Object Pose Estimation for egocentric view images.

I spent an amazing summer at Google as a Research Intern. I worked with Tao Dong on designing an Automatic Design Analyzer to detect Material Design components using app view hierarchy and deep convolutional neural networks. We applied this design analyzer to more than 10,000 android apps to study how Material Design is used among apps with different categories, average rating and number of installs.

I also spent 6 wonderful months at Facebook Reality Labs as a research intern during Winter, Spring and Summer 2019 as a research intern. I was working on a data-driven high-fidelity 3D reconstruction project.

I spent Fall 2019 in Google as a research intern. I was working on detecting the social interactions in an image with multiple people in it.

I am now a Research Engineer at Google AR/VR.

I also host Koron Podcast, a podcast in Persian about Persian music.

Work Experience

Google AR
Research Engineer
Toronto, ON
Sep 2021 - Present
Google Cloud Platform
Software Engineer
Kitchener, ON
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Google AI
Research Intern
Seattle, WA
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Facebook Reality Labs
Research Intern
Redmond, WA
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Google Research
Research Intern
Mountain View, CA
May 2017 - Aug 2017

Publications

Spectral Graphormer: Spectral Graph-based Transformer for Egocentric Two-Hand Reconstruction using Multi-View Color Images
Tze Ho Elden Tse, Franziska Mueller, Zhengyang Shen, Danhang Tang, Thabo Beeler, Mingsong Dou, Yinda Zhang, Sasa Petrovic, Hyung Jin Chang, Jonathan Taylor, Bardia Doosti
ICCV 2023
[www] [pdf] [BibTeX]
An Early Rico Retrospective: Three Years of Uses for a Mobile App Dataset
Biplab Deka, Bardia Doosti, Forrest Huang, Chad Franzen, Joshua Hibschman, Daniel Afergan, Yang Li, Ranjitha Kumar, Tao Dong, Jeffrey Nichols
Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction: A Modern Approach
Springer
[www] [pdf] [BibTeX]

This is a preprint of the following chapter: Biplab Deka, Bardia Doosti, Forrest Huang, Chad Franzen, Joshua Hibschman, Daniel Afergan, Yang Li, Ranjitha Kumar, Tao Dong, Jeffrey Nichols, An Early Rico Retrospective: Three Years of Uses for a Mobile App Dataset, published in Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction: A Modern Approach, edited by Yang Li and Otmar Hilliges, 2021, Springer reproduced with permission of Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82681-9

Investigating the Homogenization of Web Design: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Samuel Goree, Bardia Doosti, David Crandall, Norman Makoto Su
CHI 2021
[pdf] [BibTeX]
Boosting Image-based Mutual Gaze Detection using Pseudo 3D Gaze
Bardia Doosti, Ching-Hui Chen, Raviteja Vemulapalli, Xuhui Jia, Yukun Zhu, Bradley Green
AAAI 2021
[pdf] [BibTeX] [Dataset]
C-SL: Contrastive Sound Localization with Inertial-Acoustic Sensors
Majid Mirbagheri, Bardia Doosti
[pdf] [BibTeX]
HOPE-Net: A Graph-based Model for Hand-Object Pose Estimation
Bardia Doosti, Shujon Naha, Majid Mirbagheri, David Crandall
CVPR 2020
[www] [pdf] [BibTeX] [code]
Hand Pose Estimation: A Survey
Bardia Doosti
[pdf] [BibTeX]
Observing Pianist Accuracy and Form with Computer Vision
Jangwon Lee, Bardia Doosti, David Cartledge, David Crandall, Christopher Raphael
WACV 2019
[pdf] [BibTeX]
A Computational Method for Evaluating UI Patterns
Bardia Doosti, Tao Dong, Biplab Deka, Jeffrey Nichols
[www] [pdf] [BibTeX]
A Deep Study into the History of Web Design
Bardia Doosti, David Crandall, Norman Makoto Su
WebSci 2017
[www] [pdf] [BibTeX] [code]