Researcher · Founder · Executive
Lubomir Bourdev
PrimepointCo-founder and CEO
Bourdev brought computer vision into Adobe’s photo tools and Facebook’s image-recognition engine. A founding member of Facebook AI Research[1], he co-developed Poselets to detect people from body-part clues, co-authored the COCO image dataset, and co-founded WaveOne, whose AI video-compression technology Apple acquired in 2023.
Career & education
Primepoint2023-present
WaveOne
Meta
Adobe
Brown University
UC BerkeleyWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Selected contributions
Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
With Tsung-Yi Lin, Michael Maire, Serge Belongie, Ross Girshick, James Hays, Pietro Perona, Deva Ramanan and others ·A dataset of everyday scenes with individual objects labeled and outlined.
References
- Lubomir Bourdev — projects and professional historylubomir.org
Founding member of FAIR; Facebook visual-recognition engine; Adobe transparency flattener, face detection and form auto-fill; Poselets; WaveOne and Apple acquisition.
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