Norman Müller

Member of the Technical Staff in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

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mail[at]normanm[dot]de

Hi, I’m Norman! I am a Member of the Technical Staff at Microsoft AI in Zurich, working on reinforcement learning for agentic models. Previously, I worked as a Senior AI Researcher on generative models for 3D and reconstruction.

I completed my PhD at the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence group at the Technical University of Munich, advised by Prof. Matthias Niessner. Before my PhD, I graduated at the top of my class from RWTH Aachen University, earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in both Informatics and Mathematics with high distinction.

My background also includes R&D experience in robotics and VR at BMW Munich, and research internships with Peter Kontschieder at Meta Zurich.

Academic Service

  • Area Chair: CVPR (2026)
  • Reviewer: CVPR (since 2022), ICCV (since 2023)

news

Aug 11, 2026 MAI-Thinking-1 is out! I contributed to its agentic coding capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance in its weight class.
Mar 13, 2026 Our paper LuxRemix: Lighting Decomposition and Remixing for Indoor Scenes was accepted to CVPR 2026!
Jan 05, 2026 I started at Microsoft AI as a Member of the Technical Staff!
Nov 30, 2025 MapAnything accepted to 3DV 2025!
Jun 29, 2025 3 Papers accepted to ICCV 2025: FlowR (Spotlight), GGS, and Easy3D (Oral)

selected publications

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    MAI
    MAI-Thinking-1
    Microsoft AI
    Contributed to its agentic coding capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance in its weight class
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    CVPR26
    LuxRemix: Lighting Decomposition and Remixing for Indoor Scenes
    Ruofan Liang , Norman Müller, Ethan Weber , and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2026
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    3DV26
    MapAnything: Universal Feed-Forward Metric 3D Reconstruction
    Nikhil Keetha , Norman Müller, Johannes Schönberger , and 14 more authors
    In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) , 2026
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    ICCV25
    (Spotlight)
    FlowR: Flowing from Sparse to Dense 3D Reconstructions
    Tobias Fischer , Samuel Rota Bulò , Yung-Hsu Yang , and 7 more authors
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [Spotlight], 2025
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    ICCV25
    (Oral)
    Easy3D: A Simple Yet Effective Method for 3D Interactive Segmentation
    Andrea Simonelli , Norman Müller, and Peter Kontschieder
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [Oral], 2025
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    ICCV25
    Generative Gaussian splatting: Generating 3D scenes with video diffusion priors
    Katja Schwarz , Norman Müller, and Peter Kontschieder
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
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    NEURIPS24
    Coherent 3D Scene Diffusion From a Single RGB Image
    Manuel Dahnert , Angela Dai , Norman Müller, and 1 more author
    In The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , 2024
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    CVPR24
    MultiDiff: Consistent Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image
    Norman Müller, Katja Schwarz , Barbara Rössle , and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , Jun 2024
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    CVPR24
    ViewDiff: 3D-Consistent Image Generation with Text-To-Image Models
    Lukas Höllein , Aljaž Božič , Norman Müller, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , Jun 2024
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    SA23
    Ganerf: Leveraging discriminators to optimize neural radiance fields
    Barbara Roessle , Norman Müller, Lorenzo Porzi , and 3 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Jun 2023
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    CVPR23
    (Spotlight)
    DiffRF: Rendering-Guided 3D Radiance Field Diffusion
    Norman Müller, Yawar Siddiqui , Lorenzo Porzi , and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Spotlight] , Jun 2023
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    CVPR23
    (Spotlight)
    Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields
    Yawar Siddiqui , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota Buló , and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Spotlight] , Jun 2023
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    CVPR23
    AutoRF: Learning 3D Object Radiance Fields From Single View Observations
    Norman Müller, Andrea Simonelli , Lorenzo Porzi , and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , Jun 2022
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    CVPR21
    Seeing Behind Objects for 3D Multi-Object Tracking in RGB-D Sequences
    Norman Müller, Yu-Shiang Wong , Niloy J. Mitra , and 2 more authors
    In Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE , Jun 2021
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