Arya Farkhondeh

Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer

Arya Farkhondeh

About Me

Hi! I am a Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher specializing in Computer Vision. Most recently, I worked at EPFL and Idiap in Switzerland on multimodal human-centric video understanding. Before that, I was a Research Intern at the Computer Vision Center (CVC) in Barcelona with Prof. Sergio Escalera. I hold an MSc in Data Science from Sapienza University of Rome, where I worked with Prof. Simone Scardapane.

I am on the job market and open to roles in Machine Learning and Computer Vision.

Selected Publications

Publication
A Novel Framework for Multi-Person Temporal Gaze Following and Social Gaze Prediction

NeurIPS 2024

Anshul Gupta, Samy Tafasca, Arya Farkhondeh, Pierre Vuillecard, Jean-Marc Odobez.

arXiv
Publication
ChildPlay-Hand: A Dataset of Hand Manipulations in the Wild

ECCV Workshops 2024

Arya Farkhondeh*, Samy Tafasca*, Jean-Marc Odobez.

arXiv / data / code
Publication
Exploring the Zero-Shot Capabilities of Vision-Language Models for Improving Gaze Following

CVPR Workshops 2024 (Nvidia Best Paper Award 🥇)

Anshul Gupta*, Pierre Vuillecard*, Arya Farkhondeh, Jean-Marc Odobez.

arXiv / video
Publication
Towards Self-Supervised Gaze Estimation

BMVC 2022

Arya Farkhondeh, Cristina Palmero, Simone Scardapane, Sergio Escalera.

arXiv / code / website

Experience

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Research Assistant

Idiap Research Institute & EPFL

Oct 2022 - March 2025 . PAU Group | Martigny & Lausanne, Switzerland

Worked on multimodal human-centric video understanding (visual attention modeling, hand-object interaction, vision-language models).

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Research Intern

Computer Vision Center (CVC)

April 2022 - Sep 2022 . Human Pose Recovery & Behavior Analysis (HuPBA) Lab | Barcelona, Spain

Worked on self-supervised representation learning on large-scale facial images & GAN-based image-to-image translation.

Education

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PhD, Electrical Engineering (Incomplete)

Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL)

June 2023 - Nov 2024. Lausanne, Switzerland

Computer Vision & Machine Learning

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MSc, Data Science

Sapienza University of Rome

Sep 2018 - Oct 2022 . Rome, Italy

Thesis: Towards Self-Supervised Gaze Estimation

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Erasmus Exchange, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

University of Barcelona

Feb 2020 - July 2020 . Barcelona, Spain

Courses: Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Bayesian Statistics and Probabilistic Programming, Time Series Analysis, Business Analytics