Highlights

Awards, academic honors, and research recognized with oral, highlight, and spotlight presentations.

Awards & honors

  • 2024

    MDSI Best Paper of the Year Award

    First place for DiffRF, awarded by the Munich Data Science Institute.

  • 2016

    Springorum Medal

    For excellent academic performance in the Master's degree in Mathematics at RWTH Aachen.

  • 2016

    Springorum Medal

    For excellent academic performance in the Master's degree in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen.

  • 2013

    Schöneborn Award

    For outstanding achievements in the Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen.

Recognized research

2025

  1. FlowR: Flowing from Sparse to Dense 3D Reconstructions
    ICCV 2025 Highlight

    FlowR: Flowing from Sparse to Dense 3D Reconstructions

    Tobias Fischer , Samuel Rota Bulò , Yung-Hsu Yang , and
    7 more authors Nikhil Varma Keetha, Lorenzo Porzi, Norman Müller, Katja Schwarz, Jonathon Luiten, Marc Pollefeys, Peter Kontschieder
    Citation
    @article{fischer2025flowr,
      author = {Fischer, Tobias and Bul{\`o}, Samuel Rota and Yang, Yung-Hsu and Keetha, Nikhil Varma and Porzi, Lorenzo and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Schwarz, Katja and Luiten, Jonathon and Pollefeys, Marc and Kontschieder, Peter},
      title = {{FlowR}: Flowing from Sparse to Dense 3D Reconstructions},
      journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [Highlight]},
      year = {2025},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01647},
      eprint = {2504.01647}
    }
    
  2. Easy3D: A Simple Yet Effective Method for 3D Interactive Segmentation
    ICCV 2025 Oral presentation

    Easy3D: A Simple Yet Effective Method for 3D Interactive Segmentation

    Andrea Simonelli , Norman Müller, and Peter Kontschieder
    Citation
    @article{simonelli2025easy3d,
      title = {Easy3D: A Simple Yet Effective Method for 3D Interactive Segmentation},
      author = {Simonelli, Andrea and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Kontschieder, Peter},
      journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [Oral]},
      year = {2025},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11024},
      eprint = {2504.11024}
    }
    

2023

  1. DiffRF: Rendering-Guided 3D Radiance Field Diffusion
    CVPR 2023 Spotlight MDSI Best Paper 2024

    DiffRF: Rendering-Guided 3D Radiance Field Diffusion

    Generate 3D radiance fields directly with rendering-guided diffusion.

    Norman Müller, Yawar Siddiqui , Lorenzo Porzi , and
    3 more authors Samuel Rota Bulò, Peter Kontschieder, Matthias Nießner
    Citation
    @inproceedings{muller2023diffrf,
      title = {DiffRF: Rendering-Guided 3D Radiance Field Diffusion},
      author = {M{\"u}ller, Norman and Siddiqui, Yawar and Porzi, Lorenzo and Bul{\`o}, Samuel Rota and Kontschieder, Peter and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Spotlight]},
      pages = {12568--12577},
      year = {2023},
    }
    
  2. Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields
    CVPR 2023 Spotlight

    Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields

    Yawar Siddiqui , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota Buló , and
    4 more authors Norman Müller, Matthias Nießner, Angela Dai, Peter Kontschieder
    Citation
    @inproceedings{siddiqui2022panoptic,
      title = {Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields},
      author = {Siddiqui, Yawar and Porzi, Lorenzo and Bul{\'o}, Samuel Rota and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias and Dai, Angela and Kontschieder, Peter},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) [Spotlight]},
      pages = {12568--12577},
      year = {2023},
    }
    

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