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Hermann Blum

@hermannblum.bsky.social
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ML & CV for robot perception assistant professor @ Uni Bonn & Lamarr Institute interested in self-learning & autonomous robots, likes all the messy hardware problems of real-world experiments rpl.uni-bonn.de hermannblum.net

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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A new result that I am very excited about: A self-supervised visuospatial representation with better 3D awareness. If you have RGB-D inputs (robots usually have), our model makes use of the depth to give you better semantic and geometric features than DINO. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2608.27226
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
CroCoDL Workshop at #ICCV, next talk coming up in Room 301B: 16.30 - 17.00: @sattlertorsten.bsky.social on Vision Localization Across Modalities full schedule: localizoo.com/workshop
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In 30 mins! CroCoDL Poster Session (posters #248-#257), during the official coffee break 3pm - 4pm. Contributed works cover Visual Localization, Visual Place Recognition, Room Layout Estimation, Novel View Synthesis, 3D Reconstruction
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
CroCoDL Workshop at #ICCV, next talk coming up in Room 301B: 14.15 - 14.45: @ayoungk.bsky.social on Bridging heterogeneous sensors for robust and generalizable localization full schedule: localizoo.com/workshop/
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
CroCoDL Workshop at #ICCV, next talk coming up in Room 301B: 13.15 - 13.45: @gabrielacsurka.bsky.social on Privacy Preserving Visual Localization full schedule: buff.ly/kM1Ompf
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Attending #ICCV? Join the CroCoDL workshop this afternoon! localizoo.com/workshop Speakers: @gabrielacsurka.bsky.social, @ayoungk.bsky.social, David Caruso, @sattlertorsten.bsky.social w/ @zbauer.bsky.social @mihaidusmanu.bsky.social @linfeipan.bsky.social @marcpollefeys.bsky.social
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Today a delivery arrived that marks an exciting milestone for my lab: our first research grant!
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
📰Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.04597 🔥Code: github.com/cvg/Frontier... 🌍Page: boysun045.github.io/FrontierNet-... w/ Boyang Sun, Hanzhi Chen, Stefan Leutenegger, Cesar Cadena, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We just released code, models, and data for FrontierNet! Key idea 💡Instead of detecting froniers in a map, we directly predict them from images. Hence, FrontierNet can implicitly learn visual semantic priors to estimate information gain. That speeds up exploration compared to geometric heuristics.
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Honestly ICCV2025 was the first time for me that I had great papers on my review pile that matched my interests & expertise. WAY better matching in my case than for the last 2 CVPRs. ofc my standards are low coming from robotics where matching is based on keywords like „vision for robotics“ 🙈
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is the first time in a while I am creating a new talk. This will be fun! I'll be up later today at the Visual SLAM workshop at @roboticsscisys.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/ADHxPsX
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Special thanks to Tjark for creating this beautiful Lost & Found poster that we presented at the #CV4MR workshop.
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Posters presented: Guangda presented ARKitLabelMaker buff.ly/XcJHcz2 @haofeixu.bsky.social presented DepthSplat buff.ly/T0oWIdi Dennis presented FunGraph, now accepted to IROS buff.ly/UvgZUzP @zbauer.bsky.social‬ , @mihaidusmanu.bsky.social‬ and I presented CroCoDL buff.ly/ZHN2Ir4
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Finally arriving home today after attending @cvprconference.bsky.social . This was the first #CVPR that I could attend in person! I expected it to be super crowded but was surprised - lots of time and space for chats at the poster session and the 15min talks could really go into detail.
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Zuria Bauer @zbauer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Do you want to learn more about our novel dataset for Cross-device localization? Come by poster 121 and meet CroCoDL 🐊 cc @marcpollefeys.bsky.social @hermannblum.bsky.social @mihaidusmanu.bsky.social @cvprconference.bsky.social @ethz.ch
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We just extended our submission deadline for 8-page paper submissions until June 30. Accepted submissions go into ICCV WS proceedings 📄
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
all set for our poster lineup at the cv4mr.github.io #cvpr workshop
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I‘ll be at CVPR this week and I am actively looking for PhD students (job announcement will go out the week after). Just send me a message if you are interested to meet up.
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Haofei Xu @haofeixu.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Excited to present our #CVPR2025 paper DepthSplat next week! DepthSplat is a feed-forward model that achieves high-quality Gaussian reconstruction and view synthesis in just 0.6 seconds. Looking forward to great conversations at the conference!
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
looking forward to it!
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
If you‘re watching #eurovision tonight, look out for the robots from ETH! Really cool to see something I could work with during my PhD featured as a swiss highlight 🤖
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We are organizing the 1st Workshop on Cross-Device Visual Localization at #ICCV #ICCV2025 Localizing multiple phones, headsets, and robots to a common reference frame is so far a real problem in mixed-reality applications. Our new challenge will track progress on this issue. ⏰ paper deadline: June 6
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Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🏠 Introducing DepthSplat: a framework that connects Gaussian splatting with single- and multi-view depth estimation. This enables robust depth modeling and high-quality view synthesis with state-of-the-art results on ScanNet, RealEstate10K, and DL3DV. 🔗 haofeixu.github.io/depthsplat/
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Exciting news for LabelMaker! 1️⃣ ARKitLabelMaker, the largest annotated 3D dataset, was accepted to CVPR 2025! This was an amazing effort of Guangda Ji 👏 🔗 labelmaker.org 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2410.13924 2️⃣ Mahta Moshkelgosha extended the pipeline to generate 3D scene graphs: 👩‍💻 github.com/cvg/LabelMak...
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LabelMaker 🎨
LabelMaker
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We are thinking about a bit similar setup and it seems you can record RGB-D really quite easily record3d.app What is the advantage of final cut pro?
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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
RA-L is a great model IMO: submit anytime, rapid-publishing (max 6 months including 1 month for revision), journal-style review process yields much better papers, accepted papers are automatically presented at the next ICRA/IROS. www.ieee-ras.org/publications...
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RA-L - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Focus is on both applied and theoretical issues in robotics and automation. Robotics is here defined to include intelligent machines and systems; whereas automation includes the use of automated metho...
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Andrew Davison @ajdavison.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Open source code now available MASt3R-SLAM: the best dense visual SLAM system I've ever seen. Real-time and monocular, and easy to run with a live camera or on videos without needing to know the camera calibration. Brilliant work from Eric and Riku.
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We have an excellent opportunity for a tenured, flagship AI professorship at @unibonn.bsky.social and lamarr-institute.org Application Deadline is End of March. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...
uni-bonn.de
Full Professorship (W3) in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
W3 Professorship
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I don‘t doubt humanoids will get to where quadrupeds are right now, but my impression is that there is a gap of some years.
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
When I asked their sales team multiple times if they sell any humanoid robot that can walk stairs they would only confirm that the hardware is capable of that.
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
is it tough? When unitree showed their robots at RSS last year they could walk around a few steps on flat ground. I have yet to witness any of such agile movements in a real-world demo in uncontrolled environment, and then let‘s see if it is w/o safety harnish.
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
ORBSLAM3 is from 2021 and is still crazy good, but can run on even less than a MBPro. We did some experiments lately using all the sota SfM stuff for loop closures and still on a number of recordings we could not beat ORBSLAM3
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
in all fairness, I have seen more CMT and openreview crashes at conference deadlines than papercept crashes There are some advantages of a system that does not allow PDFs >10MB 😃
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Very proud of Boyang for this work, great to see first shoutouts! The gist is that exploration has always been treated as a geometric problem, but we show visual cues are really helpful to detect frontiers and predict their info gain. W/ FrontierNet, you can get RGB-only exploration/object search/+
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Just seeing this now, is there still space for me?
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
w/ @zbauer.bsky.social @marcpollefeys.bsky.social at @ethzurich.bsky.social and Uni Bonn
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Turns out aria-glasses are a very useful tool to demonstrate actions to robots: Based on egocentric video we track dynamic changes in a scene graph and use the representation to replay or plan interactions for robots 🔗 behretj.github.io/LostAndFound/ 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2411.19162 📺 youtu.be/xxMsaBSeMXo
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have been waiting for a while that something happens here on bluesky, thanks for welcoming so many new arrivals! Would you mind adding me?
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I‘m not sure its overselling, but we need to recalibrate. The common excuse for overfitting on your lab setup was that it was a much harder bar than any dataset, so it helped to find what works. Now it got easier to make things work and generalisation is the issue, which needs different tests.
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Applications are open for student researcher positions at Google DeepMind for 2025! Due date Dec 13 www.google.com/about/career...
google.com
Student Researcher, 2025 — Google Careers
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Matías Mattamala @mmattamala.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Reposting the SLAM Handbook again for the robotics people arriving here :)
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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Are you also a bit exhausted after #ICRA submission week? Let us brighten your day with a real "SpotLight" 💡 🔗 timengelbracht.github.io/SpotLight/ 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2409.11870 We detect and generate interaction for almost any light switch and can then map which switch turns on which light #Robotics
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