Publications

EgoForce: Forearm-Guided Camera-Space 3D Hand Pose from a Monocular Egocentric Camera
Christen Millerdurai, Shaoxiang Wang, Yaxu Xie, Vladislav Golyanik, Didier Stricker, Alain Pagani,
In: Proc. of. ACM Siggraph (Siggraph-2026), ACM, 2026.
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Probing the Reliability of Driving VLMs: From Inconsistent Responses to Grounded Temporal Reasoning
Chun-Peng Chang, Chen-Yu Wang, Holger Caesar, Alain Pagani,
In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2026), Autonomous Understanding Through Open-world Perception and Integrated Language Models for On-road Tasks, Denver, Colorado, USA, IEEE, 6/2026.
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Multi-Partner Project: dAIEDGE – A Network of Excellence for Distributed, Trustworthy, Efficient and Scalable AI at the Edge
Alain Pagani, Jose Cano, Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos, Aysajan Abidin, Mhd Rashed Al Koutayni, Luca Benini, Angelos Bilas, Alessandro Capotondi, Roberto Cavicchioli, Brian Clerkin, Oscar Deniz, Margaux Divernois, Baptiste Dupertuis, Dorvan Favre, Giulio Gambardella, Ander Garcia Gangoiti, Carlo Augusto Grazia, Dominik Gunzel, Jude Haris, Klodjan K. Hidri, Maick Huguenin, Manal Jammal, Paul Kling, Christos Kozanitis, Xavier Lessage, Srikanth Mandapati, Philippe Massonet, Alfio Di Mauro, Varesh Mishra, Juan Odriozola, Javier Parra Dominguez, Nuria Pazos, Viviane Potocnik, Miguel de Prado, Rohit Prasad, Spyridon Raptis, Gregoire Rebstein, Ignacio Sanudo Olmedo, Mohamed Selim, Chinmay Satish Shrivastav, Noelia Vallez, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Micaela Verrucchi, Enrico Vincenzi, Damian Vizar, Devendra Vyas, Stefan Wiehle,
In: Proc. of. Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE-2026), IEEE Xplore, 2026.
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ReLaGS: Relational Language Gaussian Splatting
Yaxu Xie, Abdalla Elsayed Abdou Elsayed Mohamed Arafa, Alireza Javanmardi, Christen Millerdurai, Jia Cheng Hu, Shaoxiang Wang, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proc. of. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2026), IEEE/CVF, 2026.
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TinyIceNet: Low-Power SAR Sea Ice Segmentation for On-Board FPGA Inference
Mhd Rashed Al Koutayni, Mohamed Selim, Gerd Reis, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proceedings of the 2026 Computer Vision Conference (CVC). Computer Vision Conference (CVC-2026), May 21-22, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Springer, 2026.
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Inpaint360GS: Efficient Object-Aware 3D Inpainting via Gaussian Splatting for 360° Scenes
Shaoxiang Wang, Shihong Zhang, Christen Millerdurai, Rüdiger Westermann, Didier Stricker, Alain Pagani,
In: Proc. of. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-2026), IEEE/CVF, 2026.
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TalkingPose: Efficient Face and Gesture Animation with Feedback-guided Diffusion Model
Alireza Javanmardi, Pragati Jaiswal, Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial, Christen Millerdurai, Shaoxiang Wang, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proc. of. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-2026), IEEE/CVF, 2026.
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OptSplat: Recurrent Optimization for Generalizable Reconstruction and Novel View Renderings
Vemburaj Yadav, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proc. of. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC-2025), BMVA, 2025.
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Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Model for Satellite Imagery
Prathap Kashyap, Alireza Javanmardi, Pragati Jaiswal, Alain Pagani, Gerd Reis,
In: Proceedings of The Eleventh International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment (RSCy). Workshop in Artificial Intelligence Applications in Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, located at RSCy 2025, March 19, Paphos, Cyprus, SPIE, 2025.
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Exploring Avatar Utilization in Workplace and Educational Environments: A Study on User Acceptance, Preferences, and Technostress
Cristina Gasch, Alireza Javanmardi, Ameer Khan, Azucena Garcia-Palacios, Alain Pagani,
In: Applied Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 6, Pages 1-15, MDPI, 3/2025.
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Uni-SLAM: Uncertainty-Aware Neural Implicit SLAM for Real-Time Dense Indoor Scene Reconstruction
Shaoxiang Wang, Yaxu Xie, Chun-Peng Chang, Christen Millerdurai, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proc. of. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-2025), IEEE/CVF, 2025.
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3D Spatial Understanding in MLLMs: Disambiguation and Evaluation
Chun-Peng Chang, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proc. of. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2025), IEEE, 2025.
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Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality
Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona, Gabriel Zachmann, Monica Bordegoni, Jian Chen, Giannis Karaseitanidis, Alain Pagani, Patrick Bourdot (Hrsg.),
EuroXR International Conference (EuroXR-2024), 21st EuroXR International Conference, November 27-29, Athens, Greece, ISBN 978-3-031-78592-4, Springer, 11/2024.
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Augmented telecommunication in factory setting
Narek Minaskan, Bastian Krayer, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proceedings of. EuroXR International Conference (EuroXR-2024), VTT, 2024.
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G3FA: Geometry-guided GAN for Face Animation
Alireza Javanmardi, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proc. of the. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC-2024), BMVA, 2024.
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SG-PGM: Partial Graph Matching Network with Semantic Geometric Fusion for 3D Scene Graph Alignment and Its Downstream Tasks
Yaxu Xie, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2024), June 17-24, Seattle, WA, USA, IEEE, 2024.
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MiKASA: Multi-Key-Anchor & Scene-Aware Transformer for 3D Visual Grounding
Chun-Peng Chang, Wang Shaoxiang, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: Proceedings of. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2024), June 17-21, Seattle, WA, USA, IEEE/CVF, 2024.
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Avatar quality: A study on presence and user preference
Cristina Gasch, Alireza Javanmardi, Azucena Garcia-Palacios, Alain Pagani,
In: Proceedings of. IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Extended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR-2024), IEEE, 2024.
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SphereCraft: A Dataset for Spherical Keypoint Detection, Matching and Camera Pose Estimation
Christiano Couto Gava, Yunmin Cho, Federico Raue, Sebastian Palacio, Alain Pagani, Andreas Dengel,
In: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-2024), January 4-8, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, IEEE, 1/2024.
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Polar-Ano: Surface Anomaly Detection via Deep Polarization Imaging and Data Synthesis with Physic-based Rendering
Yaxu Xie, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker,
In: 2023 17th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems. International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS-2023), November 8-10, Bangkok, Thailand, IEEE, 2023.
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