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Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

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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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 Conference Paper Temporally Consistent Object-Centric Learning by Contrasting Slots Manasyan, A., Seitzer, M., Radovic, F., Martius, G., Zadaianchuk, A. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 5401-5411, June 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper VERA: Explainable Video Anomaly Detection via Verbalized Learning of Vision-Language Models Ye, M., Liu, W., He, P. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 8679-8688, June 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ChatHuman: Chatting about 3D Humans with Tools Lin, J., Feng, Y., Liu, W., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 8150-8161, June 2025 (Published) project pdf Paper DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper InteractVLM: 3D Interaction Reasoning from 2D Foundational Models Dwivedi, S. K., Antić, D., Tripathi, S., Taheri, O., Schmid, C., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 22605-22615, June 2025 (Published) Project Paper Code Video BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery Wang, Y., Sun, Y., Patel, P., Daniilidis, K., Black, M. J., Kocabas, M. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) arXiv project video BibTeX

Social Foundations of Computation Conference Paper To Give or Not to Give? The Impacts of Strategically Withheld Recourse Chen, Y., Estornell, A., Vorobeychik, Y., Liu, Y. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTAS), PMLR, The Twenty-Eight International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 2025 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Embodied Vision Robotics Conference Paper Visuo-Tactile Object Pose Estimation for a Multi-Finger Robot Hand with Low-Resolution In-Hand Tactile Sensing Mack, L., Grüninger, F., Richardson, B. A., Lendway, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Stueckler, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, May 2025 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Gaussian Garments: Reconstructing Simulation-Ready Clothing with Photo-Realistic Appearance from Multi-View Video Rong, B., Grigorev, A., Wang, W., Black, M. J., Thomaszewski, B., Tsalicoglou, C., Hilliges, O. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, March 2025 (Published) arXiv project video URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper My Robot, My Motion: Expressive Real-Time Teleoperation Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Hands-on demonstration presented at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia, March 2025 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper CameraHMR: Aligning People with Perspective Patel, P., Black, M. J. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, March 2025 (Published) arXiv project BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper CHOIR: A Versatile and Differentiable Hand-Object Interaction Representation Morales, T., Taheri, O., Lacey, G. In Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), February 2025 (Published) GitHub Paper URL BibTeX

Deep Models and Optimization Conference Paper Geometric Inductive Biases of Deep Networks: The Role of Data and Architecture Movahedi, S., Orvieto, A., Moosavi-Dezfooli, S. In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2025, The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, January 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX

Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper Cross-Entropy Is All You Need To Invert the Data Generating Process Reizinger, P., Bizeul, A., Juhos, A., Vogt, J. E., Balestriero, R., Brendel, W., Klindt, D. In January 2025 (Published) OpenReview BibTeX

Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper Identifiable Exchangeable Mechanisms for Causal Structure and Representation Learning Reizinger, P., Guo, S., Huszár, F., Schölkopf, B., Brendel, W. In January 2025 (Published) OpenReview BibTeX

Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper In Search of Forgotten Domain Generalization Mayilvahanan, P., Zimmermann, R. S., Wiedemer, T., Rusak, E., Juhos, A., Bethge, M., Brendel, W. In January 2025 (Published) OpenReview BibTeX

Robust Machine Learning Conference Paper Interaction Asymmetry: A General Principle for Learning Composable Abstractions Brady, J., von Kügelgen, J., Lachapelle, S., Buchholz, S., Kipf, T., Brendel, W. In January 2025 (Published) OpenReview BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper OpenCapBench: A Benchmark to Bridge Pose Estimation and Biomechanics Gozlan, Y., Falisse, A., Uhlrich, S., Gatti, A., Black, M., Chaudhari, A. In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) , January 2025 (Published) arXiv code/data URL BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Distributed Event-Based Learning via ADMM Er, D., Trimpe, S., Muehlebach, M. In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025 (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Deep Models and Optimization Conference Paper Using Shapley interactions to understand how models use structure Divyansh Singhvi, D. M. A. E. R. J. I. P. N. S. In Proceedings ACL, 1-20, Vienna Center, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), 2025 (Accepted) DOI URL BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Adversarial Training for Defense Against Label Poisoning Attacks Bal, M. I., Cevher, V., Muehlebach, M. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Conformal Generative Modeling with Improved Sample Efficiency through Sequential Greedy Filtering Kladny, K., Schölkopf, B., Muehlebach, M. In International Conference On Learning Representations, International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025 (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Forecasting in Offline Reinforcement Learning for Non-stationary Environments Ada, S. E., Martius, G., Ugur, E., Oztop, E. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025), 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2025 (Accepted) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Joker: Conditional 3D Head Synthesis with Extreme Facial Expressions Prinzler, M., Zakharov, E., Sklyarova, V., Kabadayi, B., Thies, J. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, 2025 (Published) project page arxiv BibTeX

Conference Paper PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects Cseke, A., Tripathi, S., Dwivedi, S. K., Lakshmipathy, A., Chatterjee, A., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. In June 2025 (Published) arXiv project BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MotionFix: Text-Driven 3D Human Motion Editing Athanasiou, N., Cseke, A., Diomataris, M., Black, M. J., Varol, G. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Proceedings, ACM, SIGGRAPH Asia , December 2024 (Published) Code (GitHub) Website Data Exploration ArXiv URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SPARK: Self-supervised Personalized Real-time Monocular Face Capture Baert, K., Bharadwaj, S., Castan, F., Maujean, B., Christie, M., Abrevaya, V., Boukhayma, A. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Proceedings, SIGGRAPH Asia, December 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Deep Models and Optimization Conference Paper Adaptive Methods through the Lens of SDEs: Theoretical Insights on the Role of Noise Monzio Compagnoni, E., Liu, T., Islamov, R., Proske, F. N., Orvieto, A., Lucchi, A. In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2025, The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, November 2024 (Accepted) BibTeX

Organizational Leadership and Diversity Conference Paper Is it Part of Me? Exploring Experiences of Inclusive Avatar Use For Visible and Invisible Disabilities in Social VR Angerbauer, K., Van Wagoner, P., Halach, T., Vogelsang, J., Hube, N., Smith, A., Keplinger, K., Sedlmair, M. In Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 1-15, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, ASSETS '24, October 2024 (Published) Inclusive Avatar Use For Visible and Invisible Disabilities in Social VR Inclusive Avatar Use for Social VR DOI URL BibTeX