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Stefan Andreas Baumann

12 accepted papers

2026

Envisioning the Future, One Step at a Time

CVPR 2026

Accurately anticipating how complex, diverse scenes will evolve requires models that represent uncertainty, simulate along extended interaction chains, and efficiently explore many plausible futures. Yet most existing approaches rely on dense video or latent-space prediction, expending substantial c

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2026

Guiding Token-Sparse Diffusion Models

CVPR 2026

Diffusion models deliver high quality in image synthesis but remain expensive during training and inference. Recent works have leveraged the inherent redundancy in visual content to make training more affordable by training only on a subset of visual information. While these methods were successful

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2026

Learning Long-term Motion Embeddings for Efficient Kinematics Generation

CVPR 2026

Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures through full video synthesis remains prohibitively inefficient. We model scene dynamics orders of ma

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2025

CleanDIFT: Diffusion Features without Noise

CVPR 2025poster

Internal features from large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have recently been established as powerful semantic descriptors for a wide range of downstream tasks. Works that use these features generally need to add noise to images before passing them through the model to obtain the semantic featu…

2025

Continuous, Subject-Specific Attribute Control in T2I Models by Identifying Semantic Directions

CVPR 2025poster

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have significantly improved the quality of generated images. However, providing efficient control over individual subjects, particularly the attributes characterizing them, remains a key challenge. While existing methods have introduced mechani…

2025

DepthFM: Fast Generative Monocular Depth Estimation with Flow Matching

AAAI 2025technical

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth estimation as a direct transport between image and depth dis…

2025

DisMo: Disentangled Motion Representations for Open-World Motion Transfer

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) models, have enabled the creation of visually compelling and dynamic videos from simple textual descriptions or initial frames. However, these models often fail to provide an explicit representation of motion separate from content, limi…

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2025

TREAD: Token Routing for Efficient Architecture-agnostic Diffusion Training

ICCV 2025poster

Diffusion models have emerged as the mainstream approach for visual generation. However, these models typically suffer from sample inefficiency and high training costs. Consequently, methods for efficient finetuning, inference and personalization were quickly adopted by the community. However, train…

2025

What If: Understanding Motion Through Sparse Interactions

ICCV 2025poster

Understanding the dynamics of a physical scene involves reasoning about the diverse ways it can potentially change, especially as a result of local interactions. We present the Flow Poke Transformer (FPT), a novel framework for directly predicting the distribution of local motion, conditioned on spa…

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2024

CTRLorALTer: Conditional LoRAdapter for Efficient 0-Shot Control & Altering of T2I Models

ECCV 2024poster

"Text-to-image generative models have become a prominent and powerful tool that excels at generating high-resolution realistic images. However, guiding the generative process of these models to take into account detailed forms of conditioning reflecting style and/or structure information remains an…

2024

FMBoost: Boosting Latent Diffusion with Flow Matching

ECCV 2024oral

"Visual synthesis has recently seen significant leaps in performance, largely due to breakthroughs in generative models. Diffusion models have been a key enabler, as they excel in image diversity. However, this comes at the cost of slow training and synthesis, which is only partially alleviated by l…

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2024

Scalable High-Resolution Pixel-Space Image Synthesis with Hourglass Diffusion Transformers

ICML 2024poster

We present the Hourglass Diffusion Transformer (HDiT), an image-generative model that exhibits linear scaling with pixel count, supporting training at high resolution (e.g. $1024 \times 1024$) directly in pixel-space. Building on the Transformer architecture, which is known to scale to billions of p…