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Vincent Sitzmann

28 accepted papers

2025

Dataset Distillation for Pre-Trained Self-Supervised Vision Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

The task of dataset distillation aims to find a small set of synthetic images such that training a model on them reproduces the performance of the same model trained on a much larger dataset of real samples. Existing distillation methods focus on synthesizing datasets that enable training randomly i…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

History-Guided Video Diffusion

ICML 2025poster

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a key technique for improving conditional generation in diffusion models, enabling more accurate control while enhancing sample quality. It is natural to extend this technique to video diffusion, which generates video conditioned on a variable number of context fram…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2025

Locality in Image Diffusion Models Emerges from Data Statistics

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Recent work has shown that the generalization ability of image diffusion models arises from the locality properties of the trained neural network. In particular, when denoising a particular pixel, the model relies on a limited neighborhood of the input image around that pixel, which, according to th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Diffusion Forcing: Next-token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion

NeurIPS 2024poster

This paper presents Diffusion Forcing, a new training paradigm where a diffusion model is trained to denoise a set of tokens with independent per-token noise levels. We apply Diffusion Forcing to sequence generative modeling by training a causal next-token prediction model to generate one or several…

2024

DittoGym: Learning to Control Soft Shape-Shifting Robots

ICLR 2024poster

Robot co-design, where the morphology of a robot is optimized jointly with a learned policy to solve a specific task, is an emerging area of research. It holds particular promise for soft robots, which are amenable to novel manufacturing techniques that can realize learned morphologies and actuators…

2024

Intrinsic Image Diffusion for Indoor Single-view Material Estimation

CVPR 2024poster

We present Intrinsic Image Diffusion a generative model for appearance decomposition of indoor scenes. Given a single input view we sample multiple possible material explanations represented as albedo roughness and metallic maps. Appearance decomposition poses a considerable challenge in computer vi…

2024

Neural Isometries: Taming Transformations for Equivariant ML

NeurIPS 2024poster

Real-world geometry and 3D vision tasks are replete with challenging symmetries that defy tractable analytical expression. In this paper, we introduce Neural Isometries, an autoencoder framework which learns to map the observation space to a general-purpose latent space wherein encodings are related…

2024

Score Distillation via Reparametrized DDIM

NeurIPS 2024poster

While 2D diffusion models generate realistic, high-detail images, 3D shape generation methods like Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) built on these 2D diffusion models produce cartoon-like, over-smoothed shapes. To help explain this discrepancy, we show that the image guidance used in Score Distil…

2024

pixelSplat: 3D Gaussian Splats from Image Pairs for Scalable Generalizable 3D Reconstruction

CVPR 2024poster

We introduce pixelSplat a feed-forward model that learns to reconstruct 3D radiance fields parameterized by 3D Gaussian primitives from pairs of images. Our model features real-time and memory-efficient rendering for scalable training as well as fast 3D reconstruction at inference time. To overcome…

2023

DeLiRa: Self-Supervised Depth, Light, and Radiance Fields

ICCV 2023poster

Differentiable volumetric rendering is a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, standard volume rendering approaches struggle with degenerate geometries in the case of limited viewpoint diversity, a common scenario in robotics applications. In this work, we propos…

Cited by 4PDFScholar
2023

Diffusion with Forward Models: Solving Stochastic Inverse Problems Without Direct Supervision

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Denoising diffusion models are a powerful type of generative models used to capture complex distributions of real-world signals. However, their applicability is limited to scenarios where training samples are readily available, which is not always the case in real-world applications. For example, in…

Cited by 95SourcePDFScholar
2023

FlowCam: Training Generalizable 3D Radiance Fields without Camera Poses via Pixel-Aligned Scene Flow

NeurIPS 2023poster

Reconstruction of 3D neural fields from posed images has emerged as a promising method for self-supervised representation learning. The key challenge preventing the deployment of these 3D scene learners on large-scale video data is their dependence on precise camera poses from structure-from-motion,…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

Learning To Render Novel Views From Wide-Baseline Stereo Pairs

CVPR 2023poster

We introduce a method for novel view synthesis given only a single wide-baseline stereo image pair. In this challenging regime, 3D scene points are regularly observed only once, requiring prior-based reconstruction of scene geometry and appearance. We find that existing approaches to novel view synt…

Cited by 75SourcePDFScholar
2023

Neural Groundplans: Persistent Neural Scene Representations from a Single Image

ICLR 2023poster

We present a method to map 2D image observations of a scene to a persistent 3D scene representation, enabling novel view synthesis and disentangled representation of the movable and immovable components of the scene. Motivated by the bird’s-eye-view (BEV) representation commonly used in vision and r…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2022

Decomposing NeRF for Editing via Feature Field Distillation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Emerging neural radiance fields (NeRF) are a promising scene representation for computer graphics, enabling high-quality 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis from image observations. However, editing a scene represented by a NeRF is challenging, as the underlying connectionist representations…

Cited by 373SourcePDFScholar
2022

Kubric: A Scalable Dataset Generator

CVPR 2022poster

Data is the driving force of machine learning, with the amount and quality of training data often being more important for the performance of a system than architecture and training details. But collecting, processing and annotating real data at scale is difficult, expensive, and frequently raises a…

Cited by 249PDFcodeScholar
2022

Neural Descriptor Fields: SE(3)-Equivariant Object Representations for Manipulation

ICRA 2022poster

We present Neural Descriptor Fields (NDFs), an object representation that encodes both points and relative poses between an object and a target (such as a robot gripper or a rack used for hanging) via category-level descriptors. We employ this representation for object manipulation, where given a ta…

Cited by 184SourcecodeScholar
2021

3D Neural Scene Representations for Visuomotor Control

CoRL 2021oral

Humans have a strong intuitive understanding of the 3D environment around us. The mental model of the physics in our brain applies to objects of different materials and enables us to perform a wide range of manipulation tasks that are far beyond the reach of current robots. In this work, we desire t…

Cited by 155SourceScholar
2021

Learning Signal-Agnostic Manifolds of Neural Fields

NeurIPS 2021poster

Deep neural networks have been used widely to learn the latent structure of datasets, across modalities such as images, shapes, and audio signals. However, existing models are generally modality-dependent, requiring custom architectures and objectives to process different classes of signals. We leve…

Cited by 48SourcePDFScholar
2021

Light Field Networks: Neural Scene Representations with Single-Evaluation Rendering

NeurIPS 2021spotlight

Inferring representations of 3D scenes from 2D observations is a fundamental problem of computer graphics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Emerging 3D-structured neural scene representations are a promising approach to 3D scene understanding. In this work, we propose a novel neural sce…

Cited by 329SourcePDFScholar
2021

Single-Shot Scene Reconstruction

CoRL 2021poster

We introduce a novel scene reconstruction method to infer a fully editable and re-renderable model of a 3D road scene from a single image. We represent movable objects separately from the immovable background, and recover a full 3D model of each distinct object as well as their spatial relations in…

Cited by 18SourceScholar
2020

Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions

NeurIPS 2020oral

Implicitly defined, continuous, differentiable signal representations parameterized by neural networks have emerged as a powerful paradigm, offering many possible benefits over conventional representations. However, current network architectures for such implicit neural representations are incapable…

2020

MetaSDF: Meta-Learning Signed Distance Functions

NeurIPS 2020poster

Neural implicit shape representations are an emerging paradigm that offers many potential benefits over conventional discrete representations, including memory efficiency at a high spatial resolution. Generalizing across shapes with such neural implicit representations amounts to learning priors ove…

2019

DeepVoxels: Learning Persistent 3D Feature Embeddings

CVPR 2019oral

In this work, we address the lack of 3D understanding of generative neural networks by introducing a persistent 3D feature embedding for view synthesis. To this end, we propose DeepVoxels, a learned representation that encodes the view-dependent appearance of a 3D scene without having to explicitly…

Cited by 725PDFScholar
2019

Scene Representation Networks: Continuous 3D-Structure-Aware Neural Scene Representations

NeurIPS 2019oral

Unsupervised learning with generative models has the potential of discovering rich representations of 3D scenes. While geometric deep learning has explored 3D-structure-aware representations of scene geometry, these models typically require explicit 3D supervision. Emerging neural scene representati…

Cited by 1441SourcePDFScholar