José Lezama · Research Scientist

Staff Research Scientist at Google Research. Working on generative models.

Education

• MsC, PhD, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France (ex ENS Cachan). Advisors: Jean-Michel Morel, Gregory Randall
• BSc, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Recent publications

• Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models (W.A.L.T.)
  A Gupta, L Yu, K Sohn, X Gu, M Hahn, FF Li, I Essa, L Jiang, J Lezama
  ECCV 2024 (Project Page)
• Videopoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation
  D Kondratyuk, L Yu, X Gu, J Lezama, J Huang et al.
  ICML 2024 Best Paper Award (Project Page)
• MaskSketch: Unpaired Structure-guided Masked Image Generation
  Bashkirova, D., Lezama, J., Sohn, K., Saenko, K. and Essa, I.,
  CVPR 2023 Highlight (Project Page)
• MAGVIT: Masked Generative Video Transformer
  Yu, L., Cheng, Y., Sohn, K., Lezama, J., Zhang, H., Chang, H., Hauptmann, A.G., Yang, M.H., Hao, Y., Essa, I. and Jiang, L.,
  CVPR 2023 Highlight (Article)
• Visual Prompt Tuning for Generative Transfer Learning
  Sohn, K., Hao, Y., Lezama, J., Polania, L., Chang, H., Zhang, H., Essa, I. and Jiang, L.,
  CVPR 2023 (Article)
• MUSE: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers
  Chang, H., Zhang, H., Barber, J., Maschinot, A.J., Lezama, J., Jiang, L., Yang, M.H., Murphy, K., Freeman, W.T., Rubinstein, M. and Li, Y.
  Arxiv 2023 (Article)
• Discrete Predictor-Corrector Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis
  José Lezama, Tim Salimans, Lu Jiang, Huiwen Chang, Jonathan Ho, Irfan Essa
  ICLR 2023 (Article)
• Improved Masked Image Generation with Token-Critic
  José Lezama, Huiwen Chang, Lu Jiang, Irfan Essa
  ECCV 2022 (Article)
• Full list of publications in Google Scholar
• Old academic website

Other community engagements

• I received outstanding reviewer mentions at CVPR 2019, ECCV 2020, NeurIPS 2020, ICLR 2021, NeurIPS 2022.
• I help with the organization of the Latin American Meeting in AI, Khipu.ai.

Contact

• jlezama at gmail