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Manel Baradad

8 accepted papers

2026

PLACID: Identity-Preserving Multi-Object Compositing via Video Diffusion with Synthetic Trajectories

CVPR 2026

Recent advances in generative AI have dramatically improved photorealistic image synthesis, yet they fall short for studio-level multi-object compositing. This task demands simultaneous (i) near-perfect preservation of each item's identity, (ii) precise background and color fidelity, (iii) layout an

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Separating Knowledge and Perception with Procedural Data

ICML 2025poster

We train representation models with procedural data only, and apply them on visual similarity, classification, and semantic segmentation tasks without further training by using visual memory---an explicit database of reference image embeddings. Unlike prior work on visual memory, our approach achiev…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

A Vision Check-up for Language Models

CVPR 2024highlight

What does learning to model relationships between strings teach Large Language Models (LLMs) about the visual world? We systematically evaluate LLMs' abilities to generate and recognize an assortment of visual concepts of increasing complexity and then demonstrate how a preliminary visual representa…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2022

Procedural Image Programs for Representation Learning

NeurIPS 2022accept

Learning image representations using synthetic data allows training neural networks without some of the concerns associated with real images, such as privacy and bias. Existing work focuses on a handful of curated generative processes which require expert knowledge to design, making it hard to scale…

2021

Learning to See by Looking at Noise

NeurIPS 2021spotlight

Current vision systems are trained on huge datasets, and these datasets come with costs: curation is expensive, they inherit human biases, and there are concerns over privacy and usage rights. To counter these costs, interest has surged in learning from cheaper data sources, such as unlabeled images…

2019

Using Unknown Occluders to Recover Hidden Scenes

CVPR 2019poster

We consider the challenging problem of inferring a hidden moving scene from faint shadows cast on a diffuse surface. Recent work in passive non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging has shown that the presence of occluding objects in between the scene and the diffuse surface significantly improves the condit…

Cited by 88PDFScholar
2018

Inferring Light Fields From Shadows

CVPR 2018poster

We present a method for inferring a 4D light field of a hidden scene from 2D shadows cast by a known occluder on a diffuse wall. We do this by determining how light naturally reflected off surfaces in the hidden scene interacts with the occluder. By modeling the light transport as a linear system, a…