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Welcome to the Computer Vision Group at RWTH Aachen University!
The Computer Vision group has been established at RWTH Aachen University in context with the Cluster of Excellence "UMIC - Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication" and is associated with the Chair Computer Sciences 8 - Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Multimedia. The group focuses on computer vision applications for mobile devices and robotic or automotive platforms. Our main research areas are visual object recognition, tracking, self-localization, 3D reconstruction, and in particular combinations between those topics.
We offer lectures and seminars about computer vision and machine learning.
You can browse through all our publications and the projects we are working on.
Professor Leibe will be on sabbatical leave during the upcoming summer semester of 2023. Unfortunately, this means that we will be unable to offer the Advanced Machine Learning course for the semester.
News
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GCPR'23 Two papers have been accepted for publication at the German Conference on Pattern Recognition 2023 (GCPR): |
Aug. 10, 2023 |
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ICCV'23 We have two papers accepted at the 2023 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV): |
July 16, 2023 |
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CVPR'23 Our TarVIS approach has been accepted as a highlighted paper (top 2.5%) at the 2023 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): |
March 31, 2023 |
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ICRA'23 We have one paper accepted at the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): |
Jan. 18, 2023 |
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WACV'23 We have two papers accepted at the 2023 Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV): |
Dec. 29, 2022 |
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ECCV'22 We have one paper accepted at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022, AVVision Workshop: Furthermore, we will present a live demo: |
Sept. 30, 2022 |
Recent Publications
![]() DynaMITe: Dynamic Query Bootstrapping for Multi-object Interactive Segmentation Transformer International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Most state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods rely on large amounts of pixel-precise ground-truth annotations for training, which are expensive to create. Interactive segmentation networks help generate such annotations based on an image and the corresponding user interactions such as clicks. Existing methods for this task can only process a single instance at a time and each user interaction requires a full forward pass through the entire deep network. We introduce a more efficient approach, called DynaMITe, in which we represent user interactions as spatio-temporal queries to a Transformer decoder with a potential to segment multiple object instances in a single iteration. Our architecture also alleviates any need to re-compute image features during refinement, and requires fewer interactions for segmenting multiple instances in a single image when compared to other methods. DynaMITe achieves state-of-the-art results on multiple existing interactive segmentation benchmarks, and also on the new multi-instance benchmark that we propose in this paper. ![]() |
![]() TarVis: A Unified Approach for Target-based Video Segmentation Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023 (Highlight) The general domain of video segmentation is currently fragmented into different tasks spanning multiple benchmarks. Despite rapid progress in the state-of-the-art, current methods are overwhelmingly task-specific and cannot conceptually generalize to other tasks. Inspired by recent approaches with multi-task capability, we propose TarViS: a novel, unified network architecture that can be applied to any task that requires segmenting a set of arbitrarily defined 'targets' in video. Our approach is flexible with respect to how tasks define these targets, since it models the latter as abstract 'queries' which are then used to predict pixel-precise target masks. A single TarViS model can be trained jointly on a collection of datasets spanning different tasks, and can hot-swap between tasks during inference without any task-specific retraining. To demonstrate its effectiveness, we apply TarViS to four different tasks, namely Video Instance Segmentation (VIS), Video Panoptic Segmentation (VPS), Video Object Segmentation (VOS) and Point Exemplar-guided Tracking (PET). Our unified, jointly trained model achieves state-of-the-art performance on 5/7 benchmarks spanning these four tasks, and competitive performance on the remaining two. ![]() |
![]() 3D Segmentation of Humans in Point Clouds with Synthetic Data International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023 Segmenting humans in 3D indoor scenes has become increasingly important with the rise of human-centered robotics and AR/VR applications. In this direction, we explore the tasks of 3D human semantic-, instance- and multi-human body-part segmentation. Few works have attempted to directly segment humans in point clouds (or depth maps), which is largely due to the lack of training data on humans interacting with 3D scenes. We address this challenge and propose a framework for synthesizing virtual humans in realistic 3D scenes. Synthetic point cloud data is attractive since the domain gap between real and synthetic depth is small compared to images. Our analysis of different training schemes using a combination of synthetic and realistic data shows that synthetic data for pre-training improves performance in a wide variety of segmentation tasks and models. We further propose the first end-to-end model for 3D multi-human body-part segmentation, called Human3D, that performs all the above segmentation tasks in a unified manner. Remarkably, Human3D even outperforms previous task-specific state-of-the-art methods. Finally, we manually annotate humans in test scenes from EgoBody to compare the proposed training schemes and segmentation models. ![]() |