Ohad Fried

Looking for motivated M.Sc. and PhD students, so feel free to reach out!

New: "Deepfaked online content is highly effective in manipulating people's attitudes and intentions" preprint is out.
New: "Iterative Text-based Editing of Talking-heads Using Neural Retargeting" accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics.
New: Our white paper on evaluating facial recognition technology is out.
New: "Lifespan Age Transformation Synthesis" presented at ECCV 2020.
New: "Detecting Deep-Fake Videos from Phoneme-Viseme Mismatches" presented at CVPR 2020 Workshop on Media Forensics.

About Me

I am a senior lecturer (assistant professor) of computer science at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral research scholar at Stanford University, working with Prof. Maneesh Agrawala. For my PhD I worked with Prof. Adam Finkelstein as part of the Princeton Graphics group. I hold an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Computational Biology, both from The Hebrew University. My work lies in the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision, and HCI. More specifically, my research focuses on tools, algorithms, and new paradigms for photo and video editing and synthesis.

Preprints

S. Hughes, O. Fried, M. Ferguson, C. Hughes, R. Hughes, X. Yao and I. Hussey. "Deepfaked online content is highly effective in manipulating people's attitudes and intentions." PsyArXiv, 2021. [pdf] [supp]

Publications

	X. Yao, O. Fried, K. Fatahalian and M. Agrawala. "Iterative Text-based Editing of Talking-heads Using Neural Retargeting." To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2021. [webpage] [video] [pdf] [supp]
	R. Or-El, S. Sengupta, O. Fried, E. Shechtman and I. Kemelmacher-Shlizerman. "Lifespan Age Transformation Synthesis." ECCV, 2020. [webpage] [pdf] [dataset] [code] [colab notebook] [bib]
	S. Agarwal, H. Farid, O. Fried and M. Agrawala. "Detecting Deep-Fake Videos from Phoneme-Viseme Mismatches." CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics, 2020 [pdf] [bib]
	A. Tewari*, O. Fried*, J. Thies*, V. Sitzmann*, S. Lombardi, K. Sunkavalli, R. Martin-Brualla, T. Simon, J. Saragih, M. Nießner, R. Pandey, S. Fanello, G. Wetzstein, J.-Y. Zhu, C. Theobalt, M. Agrawala, E. Shechtman, D. B Goldman and M. Zollhöfer. (* equal contribution) "State of the Art on Neural Rendering." Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics STAR report), 2020 [pdf] [talk] [bib]
	J. L. E, O. Fried, J. Lu, J. Zhang, R. Mech, J. Echevarria, P. Hanrahan and J. A. Landay. "Adaptive Photographic Composition Guidance." CHI, 2020 [webpage] [pdf] [video] [talk] [bib]
	O. Fried, J. Jacobs, A. Finkelstein and M. Agrawala. "Editing Self Image." Communications of the ACM, 2020 [pdf] [bib]
	O. Fried, A. Tewari, M. Zollhöfer, A. Finkelstein, E. Shechtman, D. B Goldman, K. Genova, Z. Jin, C. Theobalt and M. Agrawala. "Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video." ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2019 [webpage] [pdf] [video] [bib]
	J. L. E, O. Fried and M. Agrawala. "Optimizing Portrait Lighting at Capture-Time Using a 360 Camera as a Light Probe." ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2019 [pdf] [webpage (supplementary material, visualizations)] [video] [talk] [bib]
	O. Fried and M. Agrawala. "Puppet Dubbing." The 30th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), 2019 [pdf] [video] [results] [bib]
	D. Danon, H. Averbuch-Elor, O. Fried and D. Cohen-Or. "Unsupervised Natural Image Patch Learning." Computational Visual Media, 2019 [pdf] [bib]
	B. Ward, M. Ward, O. Fried and B. Paskhover. "Nasal Distortion in Short-Distance Photographs: The Selfie Effect." JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 2018 [pdf] [bib] O. Fried and B. Paskhover. "Perceived Facial Distortions in Selfies Are Explained by Viewing Habits—Reply." JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 2018 [pdf] [bib]
	O. Fried, S. Avidan and D. Cohen-Or. "Patch2Vec: Globally Consistent Image Patch Representation." Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Pacific Graphics), 2017 [pdf] [video] [supp] [bib]
	O. Fried. "Photo Manipulation, The Easy Way." PhD Dissertation, Princeton University, 2017 [pdf] [bib]
	O. Fried, E. Shechtman, D. B Goldman and A. Finkelstein. "Perspective-aware Manipulation of Portrait Photos." ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2016 [webpage] [pdf] [video] [bib]
	H. Chang, O. Fried, Y. Liu, S. DiVerdi and A. Finkelstein. "Palette-based Photo Recoloring." ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2015 [pdf] [video] [demo] [webpage] [bib]
	O. Fried, E. Shechtman, D. B Goldman and A. Finkelstein. "Finding Distractors In Images." 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015 [pdf] [video] [webpage] [data] [code] [popular-science-article] [bib]
	O. Fried, S. DiVerdi, M. Halber, E. Sizikova and A. Finkelstein. "IsoMatch: Creating Informative Grid Layouts." 36th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), 2015 [pdf] [video] [code] [bib]
	O. Fried, Z. Jin, R. Oda and A. Finkelstein. "AudioQuilt: 2D Arrangements of Audio Samples using Metric Learning and Kernelized Sorting." 14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2014 [pdf] [video] [bib]
	O. Fried, and R. Fiebrink. "Cross-modal sound mapping using deep learning." Proc. New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2013 [pdf] [video] [bib]
	O. Fried. "Texture Synthesis for Particle Infused Textures." Masters Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2012 [pdf]
	O. Fried. "Single-cell Resolution Analysis of Yeast Response to Osmo-Stress." Undergrad Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2010

Tutorials

A. Tewari*, O. Fried*, J. Thies*, V. Sitzmann*, S. Lombardi, K. Sunkavalli, R. Martin-Brualla, T. Simon, J. Saragih, M. Nießner, R. Pandey, S. Fanello, G. Wetzstein, J.-Y. Zhu, C. Theobalt, M. Agrawala, E. Shechtman, D. B Goldman and M. Zollhöfer. (* equal contribution) "Neural Rendering." CVPR Tutorial, 2020 [webpage] [morning session] [afternoon session]

Media Coverage

Deepfakes as a force for good (while being mindful of potential misuse): [digitaltrends]

Our YouTube video reached 350,000 views! (For a technical research video with no cats nor babies...)

Our work on Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video (2019) received some media attention. While I would have liked to see more on the exciting legitimate use cases, most stories focus on the fake-news angle (which is to be expected given the current political climate.) Hopefully this will help highlight the current issues with video authentication and more broadly, with misinformation.
[Stanford] [Washington Post] [Vice] [Fox News] [The Verge] [WorldStarHipHop] [Mashable] [Daily Mail] [The Register] [Business Insider] [TNW] [Observer] [Dazed] [ynet (he)] and more:

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Another interesting read that mentions our research: [Washington Post].

Wired video on photography, referencing some of our past research: [video].

Our research letter in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery received some media attention! As of April 6, 2018 it has the #1 Altmetric score in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery (#1 of 566) and is in the top 0.02% of all outputs tracked by Altmetric (#2219 of 9,569,234). [Altmetric]

Nasal Distortion in Short-Distance Photographs: The Selfie Effect (2018)
[CNN] [The Washington Post] [CBS News] [Forbes] [Wired] [The Verge] [ABC] [Newsweek] [Vox] [Daily Mail] [cnet] and many more:

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Face Warp, Art of Science (2017)
[PAW]

Radio story on the future of media manipulation (2017, in German)
[webpage] [mp3]

Perspective-aware Manipulation of Portrait Photos (2016)
[Gizmodo] [Motherboard] [Lonely Planet] [Forbes] [CNN] [FastCompany] [CACM] [DPReview] [DailyMail] [Yahoo Tech] [Digital Trends] [Gizmag] [Wired DE] [Spiegel] [PetaPixel] [TOI] [Science 2.0] [cnet] [NJ] [DIYPhotography] [designboom] [Fstoppers] [Inverse] [Princeton] [ICSJ] [Two Minute Papers]

Finding Distractors In Images (2015)
[Popular Science] [MSN] [Daily Mail] [Princeton] [IBT] [Yahoo] [ephotozine]
[Adobe MAX (video)] [TNW] [Inverse] [PAW]

Exposed, Art of Science (2013)
[Wired] [Popular Science] [Princeton] [National Geographic] [Gizmodo] [LiveScience] [Maxisciences]

Awards & Honors

[Post ] The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Fellow 2017-2019
[Post ] The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Magic Grant 2018-2019
[Post ] The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Magic Grant 2017-2018
[Ph.D.] Siebel Scholar, Class of 2017
[Ph.D.] Google PhD Fellowship, 2014-2016
[Ph.D.] Gordon Y.S. Wu Fellowship in Engineering, 2012-2013
[M.S. ] Scholarship of excellence, School of Computer Science, The Hebrew University, 2010-2011
[B.Sc.] Graduated magna cum laude
[B.Sc.] Amirim interdisciplinary honors program, 2007-2010
[B.Sc.] Scholarship of excellence, The Hebrew University, 2007-2010
[B.Sc.] Dean's list for 2007/8, 2008/9 and 2009/10

Patents

Image Distractor Detection and Processing, US9665962 B2
Optimizing Photo Album Layouts, US9424671 B1

Teaching

The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya — "Advanced Seminar on Neural Rendering", spring 2021
The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya — "Advanced Programming", fall 2020
Stanford University — "Computational Video Manipulation", spring 2019
Princeton University — Teaching Assistant, "Computer Graphics", spring 2013
Princeton University — Teaching Assistant, "Computer Vision", fall 2013
Princeton University — Teaching Assistant, "MATLAB short course on programming", fall 2013
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel — "Introduction to Software and System Security", fall 2011/12
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel — "Introduction to Software and System Security", spring 2011

Service

SIGGRAPH	Technical Papers Reviewer 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015
	Posters Adjunct Committee Member 2017
	General Program Reviewer 2016
	Posters Reviewer 2016
SIGGRAPH Asia	Reviewer 2020, 2019, 2018
CVPR	Reviewer 2020 (outstanding reviewer), 2019, 2018, 2017
TPAMI	Reviewer 2021
Computer Graphics Forum	Reviewer 2019, 2016, 2015
Transactions on Graphics	Reviewer 2018, 2016
ECCV	Reviewer 2020, 2018
Transactions on Applied Perception	Reviewer 2018
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction	Reviewer 2018
ICCV	Reviewer 2017
The Visual Computer	Reviewer 2017
Transactions on Multimedia	Reviewer 2017
Transactions on Image Processing	Reviewer 2016