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Perceiving Systems Conference Paper GenLit: Reformulating Single Image Relighting as Video Generation Bharadwaj, S., Feng, H., Becherini, G., Abrevaya, V. F., Black, M. J. In SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers ’25, Association for Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH Asia, December 2025 (To be published) Project Page Paper DOI URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper BEDLAM2.0: Synthetic humans and cameras in motion Tesch, J., Becherini, G., Achar, P., Yiannakidis, A., Kocabas, M., Patel, P., Black, M. J. Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, December 2025 (In press) Project Paper Video URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper CauSciBench: Assessing LLM Causal Reasoning for Scientific Research Acharya, S., Zhang, T. J., Kim, A., Haghighat, A., Xianlin, S., Shrestha, B., Mordig, M., Danisman, F., Jose, C., Qi, Y., et al. NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on CauScien: Uncovering Causality in Science, December 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Cultural Alien Sampler: Open-ended art generation balancing originality and coherence Hernandez, A., Yakura, H., Brinkmann, L., Sola, M. C., Alhaija, H. A., Serna, I., Rahaman, N., Schölkopf, B., Rahwan, I. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Creative AI Track, December 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Do-PFN: In-Context Learning for Causal Effect Estimation Robertson*, J., Reuter*, A., Guo, S., Hollmann, N., Hutter, F., Schölkopf, B. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025, *equal contribution (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Pose Estimation: Application to Sign Language Forte, M. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, November 2025, Department of Computer Science (Published) BibTeX
Haptische Intelligenz Perzeptive Systeme Conference Paper Contact-Aware Refinement of Human Pose Pseudo-Ground Truth via Bioimpedance Sensing Forte, M., Athanasiou*, N., Ballardini*, G., Bartels, U., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Black, M. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, USA, October 2025, Nikos Athanasiou and Giulia Ballardini contributed equally to this publication (Accepted) pdf BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Diffusion-Based Approximate MPC: Fast and Consistent Imitation of Multi-Modal Action Distributions Marquez Julbe, P., Nubert, J., Hose, H., Trimpe, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, October 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Generative Zoo Niewiadomski, T., Yiannakidis, A., Cuevas-Velasquez, H., Sanyal, S., Black, M. J., Zuffi, S., Kulits, P. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, HI, International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV, October 2025 (Published) project page code demo pdf BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MagicHOI: Leveraging 3D Priors for Accurate Hand-object Reconstruction from Short Monocular Video Clips Wang, S., He, H., Parelli, M., Gebhardt, C., Fan, Z., Song, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), ICCV, October 2025 (Published) Project Video Code URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MoGA: 3D Generative Avatar Prior for Monocular Gaussian Avatar Reconstruction Dong, Z., Duan, L., Song, J., Black, M. J., Geiger, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf project code video BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Open-Source Hardware and Software Platform for Vibrotactile Motion Guidance Rokhmanova, N., Martus, J., Faulkner, R., Fiene, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Device, October 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SDFit: 3D Object Pose and Shape by Fitting a Morphable SDF to a Single Image Antić, D., Paschalidis, G., Tripathi, S., Gevers, T., Dwivedi, S. K., Tzionas, D. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) Project arXiv Code Video Poster BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ETCH: Generalizing Body Fitting to Clothed Humans via Equivariant Tightness Li, B., Feng, H., Cai, Z., Black, M. J., Xiu, Y. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) project arXiv code video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Im2Haircut: Single-view Strand-based Hair Reconstruction for Human Avatars Vanessa, S., Egor, Z., Malte, P., Giorgio, B., Michael, B., Justus, T. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, USA, October 2025 (Accepted) arXiv project code BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PRIMAL: Physically Reactive and Interactive Motor Model for Avatar Learning Zhang, Y., Feng, Y., Cseke, A., Saini, N., Bajandas, N., Heron, N., Black, M. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf project code video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper St4RTrack: Simultaneous 4D Reconstruction and Tracking in the World Feng, H., Zhang, J., Wang, Q., Ye, Y., Yu, P., Black, M., Darrell, T., Kanazawa, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf arXiv project code demo video BibTeX
Robotic Composites and Compositions Article Jamming with magnetic composites Aktaş, B., Kim, M., Baeckert, M., Sicilia, G., Franchini, G., Heemeyer, F., Gervasoni, S., Chen, X., Pane, S., Nelson, B. Nature Communications, 16:8711, September 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Adding Internal Audio Sensing to Internal Vision Enables Human-Like In-Hand Fabric Recognition with Soft Robotic Fingertips Andrussow, I., Solano Vega, L. J., Richardson, B. A., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, Korea, September 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Embodied Vision Conference Paper ISyHand: A Dexterous Multi-finger Robot Hand with an Articulated Palm Richardson, B. A., Grüninger, F., Mack, L., Stueckler, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, Korea, September 2025, Benjamin A. Richardson, Felix Grüninger and Lukas Mack contributed equally to this publication (Accepted) BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Strategic Hypothesis Testing Hossain, S., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Spotlight Poster, top 3%, September 2025 (Accepted) arXiv BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Wrist-Worn Pressure Pulses for Phantom Directional Cues in VR Kadmani, A. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, September 2025, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (Published) BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Article Performative Prediction: Past and Future Hardt, M., Mendler-Dünner, C. Statistical Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, August 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous The Benefits of Gait Retraining with Vibrotactile Feedback Outweigh Higher Perceived Mental Load Sundaram, V. H., Rokhmanova, N., Halilaj, E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (1 page) presented at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting (ASB), Pittsburgh, USA, August 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Materials Article Sensitivity Enhancement of a Micro Ring Resonator-Based Photonic Sensor by Using a Gelatin Methacryloyl Functional Coating for the Detection of Metoprolol Tsianaka, A., Schweikert, C., Southan, A., Hoppe, N., Greul, M., Kaschel, M., Vogel, W., Berroth, M., Rademacher, G., Tovar, G. E. M. ACS Applied Optical Materials, 3(7):1556-1566, July 2025 (Published) pdf DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A DNN-Based Metamodel for Simulating Fingertip Deformation Deshmukh, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Serhat, G. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Active Fine-Tuning of Multi-Task Policies Bagatella, M., Hübotter, J., Martius, G., Krause, A. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:2409-2441, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Deep Models and Optimization Conference Paper Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion von Rütte, D., Fluri, J., Ding, Y., Orvieto, A., Schölkopf, B., Hofmann, T. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:61810-61843, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generative Intervention Models for Causal Perturbation Modeling Schneider, N., Lorch, L., Kilbertus, N., Schölkopf, B., Krause, A. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:53388-53412, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Joint Interventional Effects from Single-Variable Interventions in Additive Models Kekić, A., Garrido Mejia, S., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:29651-29669, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Learning-Based Touch Detection and Force Estimation in Cutaneous Electrohydraulic Devices Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Singer, D., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Perception of Diverse Asymmetric Vibration Signals Tashiro, N., Ballardini, G., Nunez, C. M., Vardar, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Position: Probabilistic Modelling is Sufficient for Causal Inference Mlodozeniec, B. K., Krueger, D., Turner, R. E. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:81810-81840, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Progressive Tempering Sampler with Diffusion Rissanen*, S., OuYang*, R., He*, J., Chen, W., Heinonen, M., Solin, A., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:51724-51746, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Quantifying Texture-Rendering Quality Across Haptic Devices Fazlollahi, F., Seifi, H., Ballardini, G., Taghizadeh, Z., Schulz, A. K., MacLean, K. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Autonomous Learning Conference Paper SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models Sancaktar, C., Gumbsch, C., Zadaianchuk, A., Kolev, P., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:52745-52777, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), International Conference on Machine Learning , July 2025 (Published) arXiv Project website URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Scalable Gaussian Processes with Latent Kronecker Structure Lin, J. A., Ament, A., Balandat, M., Eriksson, D., Hernández-Lobato, J. M., Bakshy, E. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:37730-37744, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous Soft Magnetic Fingertip Devices for Clear Vibrotactile Feedback Gertler, I., Ballardini, G., Grüninger, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Watch, Feel, Do: Investigating the Impact of Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback and Active Imitation on Manual Skill Learning Gourishetti, R., Hughes, A. G., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Whole-Arm Humanoid Robot Teleoperation with Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback Gong, Y., Hudhud Mughrabi, M., L’Orsa, R., Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotics Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Wrist-Worn Circumferential Pressure Feedback for Conveying Directional Forces in Virtual Reality Kadmani, A., Bartels, J. U., Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Gasparetto, W., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Suwon, Korea, July 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Conference Paper Zero-Shot Offline Imitation Learning via Optimal Transport Rupf, T., Bagatella, M., Gürtler, N., Frey, J., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 267:52345-52381, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Singh, Aarti and Fazel, Maryam and Hsu, Daniel and Lacoste-Julien, Simon and Berkenkamp, Felix and Maharaj, Tegan and Wagstaff, Kiri and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Reconstructing Animals and the Wild Kulits, P., Black, M. J., Zuffi, S. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv code BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models Rosu, R. A., Wu, K., Feng, Y., Zheng, Y., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project paper code dataset BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper InterDyn: Controllable Interactive Dynamics with Video Diffusion Models Akkerman, R., Feng, H., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D., Abrevaya, V. F. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects Cseke, A., Tripathi, S., Dwivedi, S. K., Lakshmipathy, A. S., Chatterjee, A., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv video code dataset BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ChatGarment: Garment Estimation, Generation and Editing via Large Language Models Bian, S., Xu, C., Xiu, Y., Grigorev, A., Liu, Z., Lu, C., Black, M. J., Feng, Y. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv video code data BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Surface Rolling Active Magnetic Emulsions Khan, M. T. A., Gardi, G., Bozuyuk, U., Sitti, M. Advanced Science, 12, June 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper Difficult Lessons on Social Prediction from Wisconsin Public Schools Perdomo, J. C., Britton, T., Hardt, M., Abebe, R. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, June 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article Flow annealed importance sampling bootstrap meets differentiable particle physics Kofler, A., Stimper, V., Mikhasenko, M., Kagan, M., Heinrich, L. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 6(2), IOP Publishing, June 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX