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Ron Kimmel

23 accepted papers

2026

Learning Eigenstructures of Unstructured Data Manifolds

CVPR 2026

We introduce a novel framework that directly learns a spectral basis for shape and manifold analysis from unstructured data, eliminating the need for traditional operator selection, discretization, and eigensolvers. Grounded in optimal-approximation theory, we train a network to decompose an implici

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2026

Time-to-Move: Training-Free Motion-Controlled Video Generation via Dual-Clock Denoising

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion-based video generation can create realistic videos, yet existing image and text-based conditioning fails to offer precise motion control. Prior methods for motion control typically rely on displacement-based conditioning and require model-specific fine-tuning, which is computationally expe…

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2025

Conformalized Survival Analysis for General Right-Censored Data

ICLR 2025poster

We develop a framework to quantify predictive uncertainty in survival analysis, providing a reliable lower predictive bound (LPB) for the true, unknown patient survival time. Recently, conformal prediction has been used to construct such valid LPBs for *type-I right-censored data*, with the guarante…

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2025

Finsler Multi-Dimensional Scaling: Manifold Learning for Asymmetric Dimensionality Reduction and Embedding

CVPR 2025poster

Dimensionality reduction is a fundamental task that aims to simplify complex data by reducing its feature dimensionality while preserving essential patterns, with core applications in data analysis and visualisation. To preserve the underlying data structure, multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) methods…

2025

Paint by Inpaint: Learning to Add Image Objects by Removing Them First

CVPR 2025poster

Image editing has advanced significantly with the introduction of text-conditioned diffusion models. Despite this progress, seamlessly adding objects to images based on textual instructions without requiring user-provided input masks remains a challenge. We address this by leveraging the insight tha…

2025

Pathways on the Image Manifold: Image Editing via Video Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Recent advances in image editing, driven by image diffusion models, have shown remarkable progress. However, significant challenges remain, as these models often struggle to follow complex edit instructions accurately and frequently compromise fidelity by altering key elements of the original image.…

2024

GS2Mesh: Surface Reconstruction from Gaussian Splatting via Novel Stereo Views

ECCV 2024poster

"Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an efficient approach for accurately representing scenes. However, despite its superior novel view synthesis capabilities, extracting the geometry of the scene directly from the Gaussian properties remains a challenge, as those are optimized bas…

2022

Unsupervised High-Fidelity Facial Texture Generation and Reconstruction

ECCV 2022poster

"Many methods have been proposed over the years to tackle the task of facial 3D geometry and texture recovery from a single image. Such methods often fail to provide high-fidelity texture without relying on 3D facial scans during training. In contrast, the complementary task of 3D facial generation…

2020

LIMP: Learning Latent Shape Representations with Metric Preservation Priors

ECCV 2020poster

In this paper, we advocate the adoption of metric preservation as a powerful prior for learning latent representations of deformable 3D shapes. Key to our construction is the introduction of a geometric distortion criterion, defined directly on the decoded shapes, translating the preservation of the…

Cited by 87SourcePDFScholar
2020

Towards Precise Completion of Deformable Shapes

ECCV 2020poster

According to Aristotle, a philosopher in Ancient Greece, {\it ``the whole is greater than the sum of its parts''}. This statement was adopted to explain human perception by the Gestalt psychology school of thought in the twentieth century. Here, we claim that observing part of an object which was pr…

2018

Specular-to-Diffuse Translation for Multi-View Reconstruction

ECCV 2018poster

Most multi-view 3D reconstruction algorithms, especially when shape-from-shading cues are used, assume that object appearance is predominantly diffuse. To alleviate this restriction, we introduce S2Dnet, a generative adversarial network for transferring multiple views of objects with specular reflec…

Cited by 28SourcePDFScholar
2017

Geodesic Distance Descriptors

CVPR 2017poster

The Gromov-Hausdorff (GH) distance is traditionally used for measuring distances between metric spaces. It was adapted for non-rigid shape comparison and matching of isometric surfaces, and is defined as the minimal distortion of embedding one surface into the other, while the optimal correspondence…

Cited by 52PDFcodeScholar
2017

Unrestricted Facial Geometry Reconstruction Using Image-To-Image Translation

ICCV 2017poster

It has been recently shown that neural networks can recover the geometric structure of a face from a single given image. A common denominator of most existing face geometry reconstruction methods is the restriction of the solution space to some low-dimensional subspace. While such a model significan…

Cited by 315PDFcodeScholar
2016

Real-Time Depth Refinement for Specular Objects

CVPR 2016poster

The introduction of consumer RGB-D scanners set off a major boost in 3D computer vision research. Yet, the precision of existing depth scanners is not accurate enough to recover fine details of a scanned object. While modern shading based depth refinement methods have been proven to work well with L…

Cited by 29PDFScholar
2015

RGBD-Fusion: Real-Time High Precision Depth Recovery

CVPR 2015poster

The popularity of low-cost RGB-D scanners is increasing on a daily basis. Nevertheless, existing scanners often cannot capture subtle details in the environment. We present a novel method to enhance the depth map by fusing the intensity and depth information to create more detailed range profiles. T…

Cited by 134SourcePDFScholar