Publications

Research in agentic models, controllable video generation, 3D generation, reconstruction, and visual understanding.

2026

  1. MAI-Thinking-1
    Microsoft AI

    MAI-Thinking-1

    Microsoft AI
    Contributed to its agentic coding capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance in its weight class
    Citation
    @misc{microsoft2026maithinking1,
      title = {{MAI-Thinking-1}},
      author = {{Microsoft AI}},
      year = {2026},
      note = {Contributed to its agentic coding capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance in its weight class}
    }
    
  2. LuxRemix: Lighting Decomposition and Remixing for Indoor Scenes
    CVPR 2026

    LuxRemix: Lighting Decomposition and Remixing for Indoor Scenes

    Edit individual light sources in a captured scene, consistently across viewpoints.

    Ruofan Liang , Norman Müller, Ethan Weber , and
    4 more authors Duncan Zauss, Nandita Vijaykumar, Peter Kontschieder, Christian Richardt
    Citation
    @inproceedings{liang2026luxremix,
      title = {LuxRemix: Lighting Decomposition and Remixing for Indoor Scenes},
      author = {Liang, Ruofan and Müller, Norman and Weber, Ethan and Zauss, Duncan and Vijaykumar, Nandita and Kontschieder, Peter and Richardt, Christian},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      year = {2026},
      url = {https://luxremix.github.io/},
    }
    
  3. MapAnything: Universal Feed-Forward Metric 3D Reconstruction
    3DV 2026

    MapAnything: Universal Feed-Forward Metric 3D Reconstruction

    Recover metric 3D geometry from images and optional camera or depth inputs.

    Nikhil Keetha , Norman Müller, Johannes Schönberger , and
    14 more authors Lorenzo Porzi, Yuchen Zhang, Tobias Fischer, Arno Knapitsch, Duncan Zauss, Ethan Weber, Nelson Antunes, Jonathon Luiten, Manuel Lopez-Antequera, Samuel Rota Bulò, Christian Richardt, Deva Ramanan, Sebastian Scherer, Peter Kontschieder
    Citation
    @inproceedings{keetha2026mapanything,
      title = {{MapAnything}: Universal Feed-Forward Metric {3D} Reconstruction},
      author = {Keetha, Nikhil and M\"{u}ller, Norman and Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes and Porzi, Lorenzo and Zhang, Yuchen and Fischer, Tobias and Knapitsch, Arno and Zauss, Duncan and Weber, Ethan and Antunes, Nelson and Luiten, Jonathon and Lopez-Antequera, Manuel and Bul\`{o}, Samuel Rota and Richardt, Christian and Ramanan, Deva and Scherer, Sebastian and Kontschieder, Peter},
      booktitle = {International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)},
      year = {2026},
      organization = {IEEE},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13414},
    }
    

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}
    }
    
  3. Generative Gaussian splatting: Generating 3D scenes with video diffusion priors
    ICCV 2025

    Generative Gaussian splatting: Generating 3D scenes with video diffusion priors

    Katja Schwarz , Norman Müller, and Peter Kontschieder
    Citation
    @article{schwarz2025generative,
      title = {Generative Gaussian splatting: Generating 3D scenes with video diffusion priors},
      author = {Schwarz, Katja and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Kontschieder, Peter},
      journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
      year = {2025},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13272},
      eprint = {2503.13272}
    }
    

2024

  1. Coherent 3D Scene Diffusion From a Single RGB Image
    NeurIPS 2024

    Coherent 3D Scene Diffusion From a Single RGB Image

    Manuel Dahnert , Angela Dai , Norman Müller, and
    1 more author Matthias Nießner
    Citation
    @inproceedings{dahnert2024coherent,
      title = {Coherent 3D Scene Diffusion From a Single {RGB} Image},
      author = {Dahnert, Manuel and Dai, Angela and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias},
      booktitle = {The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=lckAdnVzsT},
    }
    
  2. L3DG: Latent 3D Gaussian Diffusion
    SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

    L3DG: Latent 3D Gaussian Diffusion

    Barbara Roessle , Norman Müller, Lorenzo Porzi , and
    4 more authors Samuel Rota Bulò, Peter Kontschieder, Angela Dai, Matthias Nießner
    Citation
    @inproceedings{roessle2024l3dg,
      title = {{L3DG}: Latent {3D} Gaussian Diffusion},
      author = {Roessle, Barbara and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Porzi, Lorenzo and Rota Bul{\`o}, Samuel and Kontschieder, Peter and Dai, Angela and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias},
      booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Papers},
      pages = {1--11},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  3. Surf-D: High-Quality Surface Generation for Arbitrary Topologies using Diffusion Models
    ECCV 2024

    Surf-D: High-Quality Surface Generation for Arbitrary Topologies using Diffusion Models

    Zhengming Yu , Zhiyang Dou , Xiaoxiao Long , and
    8 more authors Cheng Lin, Zekun Li, Yuan Liu, Norman Müller, Taku Komura, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt, others
    Citation
    @inproceedings{yu2023surf,
      title = {Surf-D: High-Quality Surface Generation for Arbitrary Topologies using Diffusion Models},
      author = {Yu, Zhengming and Dou, Zhiyang and Long, Xiaoxiao and Lin, Cheng and Li, Zekun and Liu, Yuan and Müller, Norman and Komura, Taku and Habermann, Marc and Theobalt, Christian and others},
      booktitle = {The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
      year = {2024},
      month = sep,
    }
    
  4. MultiDiff: Consistent Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image
    CVPR 2024

    MultiDiff: Consistent Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image

    Norman Müller, Katja Schwarz , Barbara Rössle , and
    4 more authors Lorenzo Porzi, Samuel Rota Bulò, Matthias Nießner, Peter Kontschieder
    Citation
    @inproceedings{muller2024multidiff,
      title = {MultiDiff: Consistent Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image},
      author = {M\"uller, Norman and Schwarz, Katja and R\"ossle, Barbara and Porzi, Lorenzo and Bul\`o, Samuel Rota and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias and Kontschieder, Peter},
      year = {2024},
      month = jun,
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}
    }
    
  5. ConsistDreamer: 3D-Consistent 2D Diffusion for High-Fidelity Scene Editing
    CVPR 2024

    ConsistDreamer: 3D-Consistent 2D Diffusion for High-Fidelity Scene Editing

    Jun-Kun Chen , Samuel Rota Bulò , Norman Müller, and
    3 more authors Lorenzo Porzi, Peter Kontschieder, Yu-Xiong Wang
    Citation
    @inproceedings{consistdreamer,
      title = {{ConsistDreamer}: {3D}-Consistent {2D} Diffusion for High-Fidelity Scene Editing},
      author = {Chen, Jun-Kun and Rota Bulò, Samuel and Müller, Norman and Porzi, Lorenzo and Kontschieder, Peter and Wang, Yu-Xiong},
      booktitle = {CVPR},
      year = {2024},
    }
    
  6. ViewDiff: 3D-Consistent Image Generation with Text-To-Image Models
    CVPR 2024

    ViewDiff: 3D-Consistent Image Generation with Text-To-Image Models

    Lukas Höllein , Aljaž Božič , Norman Müller, and
    5 more authors David Novotny, Hung-Yu Tseng, Christian Richardt, Michael Zollhöfer, Matthias Nießner
    Citation
    @inproceedings{hollein2024viewdiff,
      title = {ViewDiff: 3D-Consistent Image Generation with Text-To-Image Models},
      author = {H{\"o}llein, Lukas and Bo\v{z}i\v{c}, Alja\v{z} and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Novotny, David and Tseng, Hung-Yu and Richardt, Christian and Zollh{\"o}fer, Michael and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
      year = {2024},
    }
    

2023

  1. Ganerf: Leveraging discriminators to optimize neural radiance fields
    SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

    Ganerf: Leveraging discriminators to optimize neural radiance fields

    Barbara Roessle , Norman Müller, Lorenzo Porzi , and
    3 more authors Samuel Rota Bulò, Peter Kontschieder, Matthias Nießner
    Citation
    @article{roessle2023ganerf,
      title = {Ganerf: Leveraging discriminators to optimize neural radiance fields},
      author = {Roessle, Barbara and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Porzi, Lorenzo and Bul{\`o}, Samuel Rota and Kontschieder, Peter and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias},
      journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
      volume = {42},
      number = {6},
      pages = {1--14},
      year = {2023},
      publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA}
    }
    
  2. 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},
    }
    
  3. 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},
    }
    

2022

  1. AutoRF: Learning 3D Object Radiance Fields From Single View Observations
    CVPR 2022

    AutoRF: Learning 3D Object Radiance Fields From Single View Observations

    Learn 3D object representations from single-view observations.

    Norman Müller, Andrea Simonelli , Lorenzo Porzi , and
    3 more authors Samuel Rota Bulò, Matthias Nießner, Peter Kontschieder
    Citation
    @inproceedings{Muller_2022_CVPR,
      title = {AutoRF: Learning 3D Object Radiance Fields From Single View Observations},
      author = {M\"uller, Norman and Simonelli, Andrea and Porzi, Lorenzo and Bul\`o, Samuel Rota and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias and Kontschieder, Peter},
      year = {2022},
      month = jun,
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      pages = {3971--3980}
    }
    
  2. arXiv 2022

    3D Multi-Object Tracking with Differentiable Pose Estimation

    Dominik Schmauser , Zeju Qiu , Norman Müller, and
    1 more author Matthias Nießner
    Citation
    @article{schmauser20223d,
      title = {3D Multi-Object Tracking with Differentiable Pose Estimation},
      author = {Schmauser, Dominik and Qiu, Zeju and M{\"u}ller, Norman and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias},
      journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.13785},
      year = {2022}
    }
    

2021

  1. Seeing Behind Objects for 3D Multi-Object Tracking in RGB-D Sequences
    CVPR 2021

    Seeing Behind Objects for 3D Multi-Object Tracking in RGB-D Sequences

    Norman Müller, Yu-Shiang Wong , Niloy J. Mitra , and
    2 more authors Angela Dai, Matthias Nießner
    Citation
    @inproceedings{mueller2021completetracking,
      title = {Seeing Behind Objects for 3D Multi-Object Tracking in RGB-D Sequences},
      author = {M{\"u}ller, Norman and Wong, Yu-Shiang and Mitra, Niloy J. and Dai, Angela and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias},
      year = {2021},
      booktitle = {Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE}
    }
    

2016

  1. Statistics 2016

    Hypotheses testing for generalized order statistics with simple order restrictions on model parameters under the alternative

    Norman Müller Stefan Bedbur , and Udo Kamps
    Citation
    @article{doi:10.1080/02331888.2015.1094070,
      author = {Stefan Bedbur, Norman Müller and Kamps, Udo},
      title = {Hypotheses testing for generalized order statistics with simple order restrictions on model parameters under the alternative},
      journal = {Statistics},
      volume = {50},
      number = {4},
      pages = {775--790},
      year = {2016},
      publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
      doi = {10.1080/02331888.2015.1094070}
    }