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Ethan Weber

AI Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs.
PhD in CS @ Berkeley.
BS and MEng in EECS @ MIT.

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  • I'm an AI Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs on the XR World AI team, led by Peter Kontschieder. I work on 3D/4D generation and reconstruction for the Metaverse!

    I completed my PhD at Berkeley advised by Professor Angjoo Kanazawa. I'm excited about extending 3D reconstruction techniques to casual data, such as mobile phone videos, TV shows, and cartoons. I believe that lifting non-traditional data to 3D unlocks new possibilities. You can find my PhD dissertation talk recording here!

    At a higher level, I'm passionate about helping others with technological solutions, and I'm most interested in 3D computer vision with applications in augmented reality and robotics. I'm also intrigued by brain-related technology. Previously I was an undergraduate and Master's student at MIT. I was fortunate to work with and learn from Professor Antonio Torralba during this time.

    Publications

    Eye, Robot: Learning to Look to Act with a BC-RL Perception-Action Loop
    Justin Kerr, Kush Hari, Ethan Weber, Chung Min Kim, Brent Yi, Tyler Bonnen, Ken Goldberg, and Angjoo Kanazawa.

    arXiv 2025
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Fillerbuster: Multi-View Scene Completion for Casual Captures
    Ethan Weber, Norman Müller, Yash Kant, Vasu Agrawal, Michael Zollhöfer, Angjoo Kanazawa, and Christian Richardt.

    arXiv 2025
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Pippo: High-Resolution Multi-View Humans from a Single Image
    Yash Kant, Ethan Weber, Jin Kyu Kim, Rawal Khirodkar, Zhaoen Su, Julieta Martinez, Igor Gilitschenski, Shunsuke Saito, and Timur Bagautdinov.

    arXiv 2025
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Toon3D: Seeing Cartoons from a New Perspective
    Ethan Weber*, Riley Peterlinz*, Rohan Mathur, Frederik Warburg, Alexei A. Efros, and Angjoo Kanazawa.

    arXiv 2024
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    NeRFiller: Completing Scenes via Generative 3D Inpainting
    Ethan Weber, Aleksander Hołyński, Varun Jampani, Saurabh Saxena, Noah Snavely, Abhishek Kar, and Angjoo Kanazawa.

    CVPR 2024
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    👻 Nerfbusters 🧹: Removing Ghostly Artifacts from Casually Captured NeRFs
    Frederik Warburg*, Ethan Weber*, Matthew Tancik, Aleksander Hołyński, and Angjoo Kanazawa.

    ICCV 2023
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Nerfstudio: A Framework for Neural Radiance Field Development
    Matthew Tancik*, Ethan Weber*, Evonne Ng*, Ruilong Li, Brent Yi, Justin Kerr, Terrance Wang, Alexander Kristoffersen, Jake Austin, Kamyar Salahi, Abhik Ahuja, David McAllister, and Angjoo Kanazawa.

    SIGGRAPH 2023
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    The One Where They Reconstructed 3D Humans and Environments in TV Shows
    Georgios Pavlakos*, Ethan Weber*, Matthew Tancik, and Angjoo Kanazawa.

    ECCV 2022
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Studying Bias in GANs through the Lens of Race
    Vongani H. Maluleke, Neerja Thakkar, Tim Brooks, Ethan Weber, Trevor Darrell, Alexei A. Efros, Angjoo Kanazawa, and Devin Guillory.

    ECCV 2022
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Incidents1M: a large-scale dataset of images with natural disasters, damage, and incidents
    Ethan Weber, Dim P. Papadopoulos, Agata Lapedriza, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, and Antonio Torralba.

    TPAMI 2022
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Detecting incidents, accelerating dataset annotation, and estimating depth with multi-view invariants
    Ethan Weber.

    MIT MEng Thesis 2021
    | Thesis Page |


    Scaling up instance annotation via label propagation
    Dim P. Papadopoulos*, Ethan Weber*, and Antonio Torralba.

    ICCV 2021
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Detecting natural disasters, damage, and incidents in the wild
    Ethan Weber, Nuria Marzo, Dim P. Papadopoulos, Aritro Biswas, Agata Lapedriza, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, and Antonio Torralba.

    ECCV 2020
    | Project Page | Paper | Code |


    Building Disaster Damage Assessment in Satellite Imagery with Multi-Temporal Fusion
    Ethan Weber and Hassan Kane.

    AI For Earth Sciences Workshop at ICLR 2020
    | Paper | Code | Presentation |


    Project Portfolio

    Here are some projects I've done over the years, going as far back to my middle school years. Lately, most of passion projects have become research papers and are listed above. 😅

    Experience

    Here is a collection of images to highlight the various experiences I've had. My CV has more details!


    Computer Vision


    Robotics Research


    Autonomous Cars


    FIRST Robotics


    SpecialX Director
    and Hardware Hackathon Organizer

    Contact Me

    I'm happy to chat, so please feel free to reach out! My contact information is located here.