3 papers
cs.CV2026
HiddenObjects: Scalable Diffusion-Distilled Spatial Priors for Object Placement
Marco Schouten, Ioannis Siglidis, Serge Belongie +1
We propose a method to learn explicit, class-conditioned spatial priors for object placement in natural scenes by distilling the implicit placement knowledge encoded in text-condit…
cs.AI2025
Sherlock Your Queries: Learning to Ask the Right Questions for Dialogue-Based Retrieval
Dong Yun, Marco Schouten, Dim Papadopoulos
User queries in information retrieval are often ambiguous, making it challenging for systems to identify a user's target from a single query. While recent dialogue-based interactiv…
cs.CV2025
POEM: Precise Object-level Editing via MLLM control
Marco Schouten, Mehmet Onurcan Kaya, Serge Belongie +1
Diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-image generation, producing high-quality, realistic images from textual descriptions. Beyond generation, object-level image edi…