João Carreira
Research scientist at Google DeepMind; co-creator of the Kinetics dataset and the Perception Test
- Research Scientist, Google DeepMind21
João Carreira is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind working on computer vision, with a focus on learning from video. Speaker biographies published by the Simons Institute and the ICIST 2026 conference describe Carreira as one of the core creators of the Kinetics dataset and, more recently, the Perception Test, and as an author of the I3D and Perceiver models. Carreira is first author, with Andrew Zisserman, of the 2017 I3D paper "Quo Vadis, Action Recognition?", whose trained models are published in Google DeepMind's kinetics-i3d repository, and is listed among the authors of the Perception Test benchmark, released in a Google DeepMind repository.123456
Work
I3D and the Kinetics dataset (external site: github.com)Published research
First author, with Andrew Zisserman, of "Quo Vadis, Action Recognition? A New Model and the Kinetics Dataset" (2017); Google DeepMind's kinetics-i3d repository publishes the I3D models trained on Kinetics that the paper reports.34
Perception Test (external site: github.com)Open data
Listed among the authors in the citation entry of the Perception Test, a benchmark whose repository provides data and annotation downloads, baselines, and evaluation scripts.5
Perceiver (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention" (2021).6
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