Computer Vision and Machine Learning at MPI Informatics

🎉 Our group is heading to #ECCV2026 in Malmö (September 8–12) with five papers across the main conference and workshops, including one Spotlight! Come find us at the posters, and a big thank you to all our collaborators!

🚀New preprint: DAVE — Distribution-aware Attribution via ViT Gradient DEcomposition. 1/11 🔍 What’s new: We fix a persistent issue in ViT explainability: unstable, artifact-heavy pixel attributions. DAVE yields fine-grained pixel-level maps without patch-grid saliency.

ICCV 2025 kicks off tomorrow! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Hawaii 🌺

Are you using DINOv2 for tasks that require semantic features? DIY-SC might be the alternative! It refines DINOv2 or SD+DINOv2 features and achieves a new SOTA on the semantic correspondence dataset SPair-71k when not relying on annotated keypoints! [1/6] genintel.github.io/DIY-SC

Super excited to introduce ✨ AnyUp: Universal Feature Upsampling 🔎 Upsample any feature - really any feature - with the same upsampler, no need for cumbersome retraining. SOTA feature upsampling results while being feature-agnostic at inference time. 🌐 wimmerth.github.io/anyup/

🚨 Call for Questions! 🚨 We are inviting the community and the stakeholders to submit questions, which will be discussed with our experts at the workshop! 🎤💡 👉 Submit your questions: forms.gle/8cYb4Ce3dGHi... Workshop: excv-workshop.github.io @iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025 #eXCV

Kurt Mehlhorn, Founding Director of MPI for Informatics, was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit yesterday by Minister President Anke Rehlinger. The award recognizes his life’s work, from advancing algorithmic research to mentoring researchers and helping build key institutions. More: sic.link/merit

Are you an XAI researcher attending #ICCV2025? Submit your recently published work — at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc. — to the eXCV Workshop for the opportunity to further showcase your work! Published papers can be submitted as is, no rewriting necessary. @iccv.bsky.social

🚀 UTD is now fully released! Code ✅ Models ✅ 2M video descriptions ✅ Debiased splits for 12 datasets ✅ Everything you need to benchmark video models more fairly is now public: 🔗 github.com/ninatu/utd-p... 🎥 Let’s make video understanding actually about video understanding.

People often use synthetic corruptions to test model robustness, but do these reflect real-world challenges? We explore this in detail in our CVPR 2025 Workshop paper: Are Synthetic Corruptions A Reliable Proxy For Real-World Corruptions? arxiv.org/abs/2505.04835 by: @margretkeuper.bsky.social

🚨Deadline Extension Alert! Our Non-proceedings track is open till August 15th for the eXCV workshop at ICCV. Our nectar track accepts published papers, as is. More info at: excv-workshop.github.io @iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025

⏳Still need to wait for your last experiment results? 📣 We're pleased to announce that the deadline for non-proceeding track #CV4DC at @iccv.bsky.social has been extended to August 15, 2025 Looking forward to your submissions! cv4dc.github.io/2025/

📣 Proceeding track's results are out. 🎉 Congratulations to all the authors whose papers were accepted. We can't wait to meet you at @iccv.bsky.social in Hawaii on Oct 19th. ⏰ Our non-proceeding track is still accepting submissions until July 20th! Details in the comments

🎉 Congrats to Yue Fan on defending his PhD: "Improving Representation Learning from Data and Model Perspectives: Semi-Supervised Learning and Foundation Models" 🧑‍🎓 He is now at Genmo.ai as a Research Engineer working on video generation! 🚀 More: yue-fan.github.io All the best!

Congratulations to our PhD alumna @annakukleva.bsky.social for being awarded the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal by @maxplanck.de! 🎉

🚀 Just accepted to ICCV 2025! In DIY-SC, we improve foundational features using a light-weight adapter trained with carefully filtered and refined pseudo-labels. 🔧 Drop-in alternative to plain DINOv2 features! 📦 Code + pre-trained weights available now. 🔥 Try it in your next vision project!

Submission deadline is today!

Submission Deadline is extended by 6 days. #ICCV2025 @iccv.bsky.social

Join us in taking stock of the state of the field of explainability in computer vision, at our Workshop on Explainable Computer Vision: Quo Vadis? at #ICCV2025! @iccv.bsky.social

At #CVPR2025 and working on consistency in video and multi-view generative models? Come and visit our poster on Friday afternoon, where I present 𝗠𝗘𝘁𝟯𝗥: 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 @mohammadasim98.bsky.social @wimmerthomas.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de @cvml.mpi-inf.mpg.de