About me

I am part of the THOTH team at INRIA and MIAI Grenoble Alpes as a Junior Research Chair for "Perception and Interaction". Before joining MIAI I was Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Berlin and part of the Excellence Cluster Science of Intelligence and the RBO Lab. My research lies at the intersection of computer vision and robotics. Personally I am interested in developing visual intelligence that allows agents to perceive and understand their environment. To this end, my work makes use of known physical information about the real world to enable learning systems to tackle changes and variation in the environment, while minimizing human supervision. Thinking of future, I am hoping agents will be able to safely interact with their environment and peers.

In February 2020 I graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), where I was lucky to be advised by Prof. Erik Learned-Miller. I got my M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). After my Abitur I studied in a dual degree program, that included a three year vocational education at Siemens as an Electrician for Automation Technology and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, - which was the starting point to exciting research at the edge between computer vision and robotics.

News

• [Nov.'25] New paper accepted at WACV 2026 in Arizona - Congratulations Runfeng!
  An arXiv version of "Salience - Scene Graph Generation (SGG)" will be available very soon. Stay tuned.

• [Nov.'25] We are participating in the international workshop on AI for Robotics at NaverLab.  Two posters will be presented:

  • "Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Object Grasping with Planner and Sensor Delays", Bilal Yagiz Gundeger, Iñaki Roman Martinez, Pia Bideau 🤖

  • "Decoupling Object and Grasp Represention Learning for Generalizable Grasp Pose Synthesis", Amogh Tiwari, Karteek Alahari, Pia Bideau 🦾

• [Nov.'25] Welcome Bilal! I'm thrilled to announce that Bilal is joining the team to collaborate on research on dynamic grasping as part of my MIAI research chair. 

• [Jan.'25] New paper on event-based distance estimation accepted at WACV 2025 - Congratulations Nan Cai!

• [Jan.'25] Big Congratulations to Dr. Florian Blume, who successfully defended his Thesis!

• [June'24] Two interesting workshop papers accepted at CVPR with oral presentations! A hearfelt thanks to the amazing co-authers who contributed their expertise in collective animal behavior and cognitive psychology.

  • 🐟 🐟 Watching Swarm Dynamics from Above 🐟 🐟 at CV4Animals and,

  • 😀 😮 Multi-Task Multi-Modal Self-Supervised Learning for Facial Expression Recognition 😏 😲 at ABAW.

• [Aug.'23] The first SCIoI Summer School on Embodied Intelligence - Perception and Learning in Nature and Robotics is taking place in Berlin.

• [Sept.'22] Please checkout our Workshop at ECCV 2022 "What is motion for?"

• [Sept.'22] New paper accepted at ECCV 2022 - Congratulations Marah Halawa!