Talking Papers Podcast

The PhD Advisor Hunt - A Student's Perspective Choosing the right PhD advisor is a game-changer for your academic journey. In this episode, Derek and Itzik break down everything you need to know when selecting the perfect advisor — from assessing their mentoring style to understanding lab culture and research alignment. 🧠✨ Key Takeaways : How to evaluate an advisor’s support, availability,...

🎙️ Welcome to the latest episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this exciting installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Dale Decatur, a talented 3rd year PhD student from the University of Chicago's 3DL lab, where he studies computer graphics, 3D computer vision, and deep learning. 📄 In this episode, we delved into Dale's groundbreaking paper titled "3D Paintbrush: Local Styliz...

🎙️ **Unveiling 3DInAction with Yizhak Ben-Shabat | Talking Papers Podcast** 🎙️ 📚 *Title:* 3DInAction: Understanding Human Actions in 3D Point Clouds   📅 *Published In:* CVPR 2024   👤 *Guest:* Yizhak (Itzik) Ben-Shabat Welcome back to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in academic research directly from early career academics and P...

 Talking Papers Podcast Episode: "Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion" with Jason Zhang Welcome to the latest episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! This week's guest is Jason Zhang, a PhD student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University who joined us to discuss his paper, "Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion". The paper was pub...

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this episode, I had the pleasure of hosting Jiahao Li, a talented PhD student at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), who discussed his groundbreaking research paper titled "Instant3D: Fast Text-to-3D with Sparse-View Generation and Large Reconstruction Model". This paper, published in ICLR 2024, introduce...

In this exciting episode of #TalkingPapersPodcast, we have the pleasure of hosting Ana Dodik, a second-year PhD student at MIT. We delve into her research paper titled "Variational Barycentric Coordinates." Published in SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023, this paper significantly contributes to our understanding of the optimization of generalized barycentric coordinates. The paper introduces a robust v...

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this episode, we delve into the fascinating world of self-supervised learning with our special guest, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv. Together, we explore and dissect their research paper titled "Reverse Engineering Self-Supervised Learning," published in NeurIPS 2023. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a game-changing t...

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting the brilliant Zoë Marschner as we delved into the fascinating world of Constructive Solid Geometry on Neural Signed Distance Fields. This exceptional research paper, published in SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, explores the cutting-edge potential of neural networks in shaping geometric represe...

🎙️Join us on this exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast as we sit down with the talented Sadegh Aliakbarian to explore his groundbreaking ICCV 2023 paper "HMD-NeMo: Online 3D Avatar Motion Generation From Sparse Observations" . Our guest, will take us on a journey through this pivotal research that addresses a crucial aspect of immersive mixed reality experiences. 🌟 The quality...

Join us on this exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast as we sit down with the brilliant Jeong Joon Park to explore his groundbreaking paper, "CC3D: Layout-Conditioned Generation of Compositional 3D Scenes," just published at ICCV 2023. Discover CC3D, a game-changing conditional generative model redefining 3D scene synthesis. Unlike traditional 3D GANs, CC3D boldly crafts complex...

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Chengfenfg Xu to discuss his paper "NeRF-Det: Learning Geometry-Aware Volumetric Representation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection" which was published at ICCV2023. In recent times, NeRF has gained widespread prominence, and the field of 3D detection has encountered well-...

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Tomas Jakab to discuss his paper "MagicPony: Learning Articulated 3D Animals in the Wild" which was published at CVPR 2023. The motivation behind the MagicPony methodology stems from the challenge posed by the scarcity of labeled data, particularly when dealing with real-...

All links are available in this blog post Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Shir Iluz to discuss her groundbreaking paper titled "Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography" which won the SIGGRAPH 2023 Honorable Mention award. This scientific paper introduces an innovative approach for text morphing based on s...

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Yawar Siddiqui to chat about his CVPR 2023 paper "Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields". All links are available in the blog post . In this paper, they proposed a new method for "lifting" 2D panoptic segmentation into a 3D volume represented as neural fields using in-the-wild scene images. While t...

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Kejie Li to chat about his CVPR 2023 paper "MobileBrick: Building LEGO for 3D Reconstruction on Mobile Devices". All links are available in the blog post . In this paper, they proposed a new dataset and paradigm for evaluating 3D object reconstruction. It is very difficult to create a digital twin of 3D objects, even with expensive...

All links are available in the blog post . In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Jiahao Zhang to chat about our CVPR 2023 paper "Aligning Step-by-Step Instructional Diagrams to Video Demonstrations". furniture assembly diagram. To do that, we collected and annotated a brand new dataset: "IKEA Assembly in the Wild" where we aligned YouTube videos with IKEA&apos...

All links are available in the blog post: https://www.itzikbs.com/inr2vec/ In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Luca De Luigi. We had a great chat about his paper “Deep Learning on Implicit Neural Representations of Shapes”, AKA INR2Vec, published in ICLR 2023 . In this paper, they take implicit neural representations to the next level and use them as input signals for neural ne...

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Yael Vinker. We had a great chat about her paper " CLIPasso: SEmantically-Aware Object Sketching ”, SIGGRAPH 2022 best paper award winner.  In this paper, they convert images into sketches with different levels of abstraction. They avoid the need for sketch datasets by using the well-known CLIP model to distil the semantic concepts from...

All links are available in the blog post . In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, we hosted Amir Belder. We had a great chat about his paper "Random Walks for Adversarial Meshes”, published in SIGGRAPH 2022. In this paper, they take on the task of creating an adversarial attack for triangle meshes. This is a non-trivial task since meshes are irregular. To solve the irregularity they u...

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast , I hosted Silvia Sellán . We had a great chat about her paper " Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction ”, published in SIGGRAPH Asia 2022.  In this paper, they take on the task of surface reconstruction with a probabilistic twist. They take the well-known Poisson Surface reconstruction algorithm and generalize it to give it a full statistical...

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Sameera Ranasinghe. We had a great chat about his paper " Beyond Periodicity: Towards a Unifying Framework for Activations in Coordinate-MLPs ”, published in ECCV 2022 as an oral presentation.  In this paper, they propose a new family of activation functions for coordinate MLPs and provide a theoretical analysis of their effectiveness. T...

 In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Marko Mihajlovic . We had a great chat about his paper " KeypointNeRF: Generalizing Image-based Volumetric Avatars using Relative Spatial Encoding of Keypoints ”, published in ECCV 2022. In this paper, they create a generalizable NeRF for virtual avatars. To get a high-fidelity reconstruction of humans (from sparse observations), they l...

 In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted David B. Lindell to chat about his paper " BACON: Band-Limited Coordinate Networks for Multiscale Scene Representation ”, published in CVPR 2022.  In this paper, they took on training a coordinate network. They do this by introducing a new type of neural network architecture that has an analytical Fourier spectrum. This allows them to d...

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu to chat about his paper " Learning Smooth Neural Functions via Lipschitz Regularization ”, published in SIGGRAPH 2022.  In this paper, they took on the unique task of enforcing smoothness on Neural Fields (modelled as a neural network). They do this by introducing a regularization term that forces the Lipschitz constan...

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage to chat about OUR paper "DiGS: Divergence guided shape implicit neural representation for unoriented point clouds”, published in CVPR 2022. In this paper, we took on the task of surface reconstruction using a novel divergence-guided approach.  Unlike previous methods, we do not use normal vectors for supervisio...