Niculae Sebe

Full Professor

About

The main research interests relate to the investigation and implementation of new techniques in the fields of computer vision and multimedia. Specifically, in computer vision, I address a large spectrum of themes including human-behavior analysis, action recognition, 2D/3D object detection, large-scale event detection and video analysis, etc. In multimedia, my research focuses on three aspects: multimedia information retrieval, social signals processing and affective computing.

The specific research topics include cross media retrieval, multi-modal learning, social media analysis, emotion recognition, multimodal brain-computer interfaces, etc.

Papers

CVPR 2025

Multi-focal Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Person Image Synthesis

Authors: Jiaqi Liu, Jichao Zhang, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe

ICLR 2025

Gyrogroup Batch Normalization

Authors: Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Xiao-Jun Wu, Niculae Sebe

ICLR 2025

Understanding Matrix Function Normalizations in Covariance Pooling from the Lens of Riemannian Geometry

Authors: Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Xiaojun Wu, Gaowen Liu, Niculae Sebe

ACM Multimedia 2024

UVMap-ID: A Controllable and Personalized UV Map Generative Model

Authors: Weijie Wang, Jichao Zhang, Chang Liu, Xia Li, Xingqian Xu, Humphrey Shi, Niculae Sebe, Bruno Lepri

CVPR 2024

OpenBias: Open-set Bias Detection in Text-to-Image Generative Models

Authors: Moreno D’Incà, Elia Peruzzo, Massimiliano Mancini, Dejia Xu, Vidit Goel, Xingqian Xu, Zhangyang Wang, Humphrey Shi, Niculae Sebe

CVPR 2024

PAIR-Diffusion: A Comprehensive Multimodal Object-Level Image Editor

Authors: Vidit Goel, Elia Peruzzo, Yifan Jiang, Dejia Xu, Xingqian Xu, Niculae Sebe, Trevor Darrell, Zhangyang Wang, Humphrey Shi

CVPR 2024

Riemannian Multinomial Logistics Regression for SPD Neural Networks

Authors: Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella, Xiaojun Wu, Niculae Sebe

ICLR 2024

A Lie Group Approach to Riemannian Batch Normalization

Authors: Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Yunmei Liu, Niculae Sebe

ICLR 2024

Democratizing Fine-grained Visual Recognition with Large Language Models

Authors: Mingxuan Liu, Subhankar Roy, Wenjing Li, Zhun Zhong, Niculae Sebe, Elisa Ricci

TIP 2024

Adaptive Log-Euclidean Metrics for SPD Matrix Learning

Authors: Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Tianyang Xu, Zhiwu Huang, Xiao-Jun Wu, Niculae Sebe

WACV 2024

Improving Fairness using Vision-Language Driven Image Augmentation

Authors: Moreno D'Incà, Christos Tzelepis, Ioannis Patras, Niculae Sebe

WACV 2024

SpectralCLIP: Preventing Artifacts in Text-Guided Style Transfer from a Spectral Perspective

Authors: Zipeng Xu, Songlong Xing, Enver Sangineto, Niculae Sebe

ACM MM 2023

FedVQA: Personalized Federated Visual Question Answering over Heterogeneous Scenes

Authors: Mingrui Lao, Nan Pu, Zhun Zhong, Niculae Sebe, Michael S. Lew

ACM MM 2023

Multi-Domain Lifelong Visual Question Answering via Self-Critical Distillation

Authors: Mingrui Lao, Nan Pu, Yu Liu, Zhun Zhong, Erwin M. Bakker, Niculae Sebe, Michael S. Lew

CVPR 2023

Attribute-preserving Face Dataset Anonymization via Latent Code Optimization

Authors: Barattin , Simone , Christos Tzelepis, Ioannis Patras, Niculae Sebe

CVPR 2023

Dynamic Conceptional Contrastive Learning for Generalized Category Discovery

Authors: Nan Pu, Zhun Zhong, Niculae Sebe

CVPR 2023

Dynamically Instance-Guided Adaptation: A Backward-Free Approach for Test-Time Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

Authors: Wei Wang, Zhun Zhong, Weijie Wang, Xi Chen, Charles Ling, Boyu Wang, Niculae Sebe

CVPR 2023

Masked Jigsaw Puzzle: A Versatile Position Embedding for Vision Transformers

Authors: Bin Ren, Yahui Liu, Yue Song, Wei Bi, Rita Cucchiara, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

ICASSP 2023

PI-Trans: Parallel-ConvMLP and Implicit-Transformation Based GAN for Cross-View Image Translation

Authors: Bin Ren, Hao Tang, Yiming Wang, Xia Li, Wei Wang, Niculae Sebe

ICCV 2023

Householder Projector for Unsupervised Latent Semantics Discovery

Authors: Yue Song, Jichao Zhang, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

ICCV 2023

StylerDALLE: Language-Guided Style Transfer Using a Vector-Quantized Tokenizer of a Large-Scale Generative Model

Authors: Zipeng Xu, Enver Sangineto, Niculae Sebe

ICML 2023

Latent Traversals in Generative Models as Potential Flows

Authors: Yue Song, T. Anderson Keller, Niculae Sebe, Max Welling

IEEE Access 2023

Unleashing the Transferability Power of Unsupervised Pre-Training for Emotion Recognition in Masked and Unmasked Facial Images

Authors: Moreno D'Incà, Cigdem Beyan, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Simone Barattin, Niculae Sebe

IEEE TPAMI 2023

A Memorizing and Generalizing Framework for Lifelong Person Re-Identification

Authors: Nan Pu, Zhun Zhong, Niculae Sebe, Michael S. Lew

IEEE TPAMI 2023

Compositional Semantic Mix for Domain Adaptation in Point Cloud Segmentation

Authors: Cristiano Saltori, Fabio Galasso, Giuseppe Fiameni, Niculae Sebe, Fabio Poiesi, Elisa Ricci

IEEE TPAMI 2023

Towards Robust Person Re-Identification by Defending Against Universal Attackers

Authors: Fengxiang Yang, Juanjuan Weng, Zhun Zhong, Hong Liu, Zheng Wang, Zhiming Luo, Donglin Cao, Shaozi Li, Shin'ichi Satoh, Niculae Sebe

NeurIPS 2023

Flow Factorized Representation Learning

Authors: Yue Song, T. Anderson Keller, Niculae Sebe, Max Welling

WACV 2023

Overlap-guided Gaussian Mixture Model for Point Cloud Registration

Authors: Guofeng Mei, Fabio Poiesi, Cristiano Saltori, Jian Zhang, Elisa Ricci, Niculae Sebe

BMVC 2022

Data Augmentation-free Unsupervised Learning for 3D Point Cloud Understanding

Authors: Guofeng Mei, Cristiano Saltori, Fabio Poiesi, Jian Zhang, Elisa Ricci, Niculae Sebe, Qiang Wu

CVIU 2022

Low-budget label query through domain alignment enforcement

Authors: Jurandy Almeida, Cristiano Saltori, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe

CVPR 2022

Hyperbolic Vision Transformers: Combining Improvements in Metric Learning

Authors: Aleksandr Ermolov, Leyla Mirvakhabova, Valentin Khrulkov, Niculae Sebe, Ivan Oseledets

CVPR 2022

Novel Class Discovery in Semantic Segmentation

Authors: Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Niculae Sebe, Gim Hee Lee

CVPR 2022

Predict, Prevent, and Evaluate: Disentangled Text-Driven Image Manipulation Empowered by Pre-Trained Vision-Language Model

Authors: Zipeng Xu, Tianwei Lin, Hao Tang, Fu Li, Dongliang He, Niculae Sebe, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool, Errui Ding

ECCV 2022

3D-Aware Semantic-Guided Generative Model for Human Synthesis

Authors: Jichao Zhang, Enver Sangineto, Hao Tang, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Zhun Zhong, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

ECCV 2022

Batch-efficient Eigen Decomposition for Small and Medium Matrices

Authors: Yue Song, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

ECCV 2022

Class-incremental Novel Class Discovery

Authors: Subhankar Roy, Mingxuan Liu, Zhun Zhong, Niculae Sebe, Elisa Ricci

ECCV 2022

CoSMix: Compositional Semantic Mix for Domain Adaptation in 3D LiDAR Segmentation

Authors: Cristiano Saltori, Fabio Galasso, Giuseppe Fiameni, Niculae Sebe, Elisa Ricci, Fabio Poiesi

ECCV 2022

GIPSO: Geometrically Informed Propagation for Online Adaptation in 3D LiDAR Segmentation

Authors: Cristiano Saltori, Evgeny Krivosheev, Stéphane Lathuilière, Niculae Sebe, Fabio Galasso, Giuseppe Fiameni, Elisa Ricci, Fabio Poiesi

ECCV 2022

Style-Hallucinated Dual Consistency Learning for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation.

Authors: Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Na Zhao, Niculae Sebe, Gim Hee Lee

ICLR 2022

Fast Differentiable Matrix Square Root

Authors: Yue Song, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

ICPR 2022

Temporal Alignment for History Representation in Reinforcement Learning

Authors: Aleksandr Ermolov, Enver Sangineto, Niculae Sebe

ICPR 2022

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Video Transformers in Action Recognition

Authors: Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Giacomo Zara, Paolo Rota, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Niculae Sebe, Vittorio Murino, Elisa Ricci

IEEE TPAMI 2022

Fast Differentiable Matrix Square Root and Inverse Square Root

Authors: Yue Song, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

IEEE TPAMI 2022

On the Eigenvalues of Global Covariance Pooling for Fine-grained Visual Recognition

Authors: Yue Song, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

IEEE TPAMI 2022

Orthogonal SVD Covariance Conditioning and Latent Disentanglement.

Authors: Yue Song, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

IEEE Trans. Image Process. 2022

Joint Representation Learning and Keypoint Detection for Cross-view Geo-localization

Authors: Jinliang Lin, Zhedong Zheng, Zhun Zhong, Zhiming Luo, Shaozi Li, Yi Yang, Niculae Sebe

IEEE Trans. Multimedia 2022

ISF-GAN: An Implicit Style Function for High Resolution Image-to-Image Translation

Authors: Yahui Liu, Yajing Chen, Linchao Bao, Niculae Sebe, Bruno Lepri, Marco De Nadai

IJCV 2022

Curriculum Learning: A Survey

Authors: Petru Soviany, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe

NeurIPS 2022

Adversarial Style Augmentation for Domain Generalized Urban-Scene Segmentation

Authors: Zhun Zhong, Yuyang Zhao, Gim Hee Lee, Niculae Sebe

NeurIPS 2022

RankFeat: Rank-1 Feature Removal for Out-of-distribution Detection

Authors: Yue Song, Niculae Sebe, Wei Wang

TCSVT 2022

Source-Free Open Compound Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation

Authors: Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Zhiming Luo, Gim Hee Lee, Niculae Sebe

WACV 2022

Dual-Head Contrastive Domain Adaptation for Video Action Recognition

Authors: Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Giacomo Zara, Paolo Rota, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Niculae Sebe, Vittorio Murino, Elisa Ricci

AAAI 2021

Learning to Attack Real-World Models for Person Re-identification via Virtual-Guided Meta-Learning

Authors: Fengxiang Yang, Zhun Zhong, Hong Liu, Zheng Wang, Zhiming Luo, Shaozi Li, Niculae Sebe, Shin'ichi Satoh

CVIU 2021

Curriculum self-paced learning for cross-domain object detection

Authors: Petru Soviany, Radu Ionescu, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe

WACV 2021

Coarse-to-Fine Gaze Redirection with Numerical and Pictorial Guidance

Authors: Jingjing Chen, Jichao Zhang, Enver Sangineto, Jiayuan Fan, Tao Chen, Niculae Sebe

3DV 2020

SF-UDA<sup>3D</sup>: Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection

Authors: Cristiano Saltori, Stéphane Lathuiliére, Niculae Sebe, Elisa Ricci, Fabio Galasso

ACM MM 2020

Dual In-painting Model for Unsupervised Gaze Correction and Animation in the Wild

Authors: Jichao Zhang, Jingjing Chen, Hao Tang, Wei Wang, Yan Yan, Enver Sangineto, Niculae Sebe

ACM Multimedia 2020

Class-Aware Modality Mix and Center-Guided Metric Learning for Visible-Thermal Person Re-Identification

Authors: Yongguo Ling, Zhun Zhong, Zhiming Luo, Paolo Rota, Shaozi Li, Niculae Sebe

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) 2020

Learning How to Smile: Expression Video Generation with Conditional Adversarial Recurrent Nets

Authors: Wei Wang, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Dan Xu, Elisa Ricci, Niculae Sebe

NeurIPS 2020

Latent World Models For Intrinsically Motivated Exploration

Authors: Aleksandr Ermolov, Niculae Sebe

arXiv 2020

Whitening for Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Authors: Aleksandr Ermolov, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Enver Sangineto, Niculae Sebe

arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00238 2020

Low-Budget Unsupervised Label Query through Domain Alignment Enforcement

Authors: Jurandy Almeida, Cristiano Saltori, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe

CVPR 2019

Unsupervised domain adaptation using feature-whitening and consensus loss

Authors: Subhankar Roy, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Enver Sangineto, Samuel Rota Bulo, Niculae Sebe, Elisa Ricci

ICIAP 2019

Regularized Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Neural Topology Search

Authors: Cristiano Saltori, Subhankar Roy, Niculae Sebe, Giovanni Iacca

IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 41(3), pp. 712-725, 2019

Self-Paced Deep Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Detection

Authors: Enver Sangineto, Moin Nabi, Dubravko Culibrk, Niculae Sebe

CVPR 2018

Every Smile is Unique: Landmark-Guided Diverse Smile Generation

Authors: Wei Wang, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Dan Xu, Pascal Fua, Elisa Ricci, Niculae Sebe

TIP 2018

Flexible Manifold Learning With Optimal Graph for Image and Video Representation

Authors: Wei Wang, Yan Yan, Feiping Nie, Shuicheng Yan, Niculae Sebe

TPAMI 2018

Recurrent Convolutional Shape Regression

Authors: Wei Wang, Sergey Tulyakov, Niculae Sebe

TPAMI 2018

Recurrent Face Aging with Hierarchical Autoregressive Memory

Authors: Wei Wang, Yan Yan, Zhen Cui, Jiashi Feng, Shuicheng Yan, Niculae Sebe