Felix Wimbauer

I am a third-year ELLIS PhD student at the Computer Vision Group co-supervised by Prof. Daniel Cremers (Technical University of Munich) and Prof. Christian Rupprecht (VGG, University of Oxford).
Before that, I finished my M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. During my B.Sc. at TUM, I also spent a semester abroad at the National University of Singapore.

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Updates

June 2025 I started a Student Researcher position in Federico Tombari's group at Google Zurich on generative 3D.

June 2025 Three papers, Back-on-Track, Dream-to-Recon, and SceneDINO, were accepted at ICCV 2025.

February 2025 AnyCam was accepted at CVPR 2025.

February 2024 Cache Me if You Can, alongside ControlRoom3D and Multiview Behind the Scenes were accepted at CVPR 2024.

December 2023 I completed my internship at Meta and the resulting paper Cache Me if You Can is out on ArXiv.

October 2023 Our work S4C on self-supervised semantic scene completion was accepted to 3DV 2024.

August 2023 I started a 14 week internship at Meta GenAI with Jialiang Wang in Menlo Park.

June 2023 Check out our video presentation and demo video of Behind the Scenes.

February 2023 Behind the Scenes was accepted at CVPR 2023.

More updates

January 2023 Pre-Print of new paper Behind the Scenes is online.

April 2022 Started Ph.D. in Computer Vision at the chair of Daniel Cremers.

March 2022 De-render3D was accepted at CVPR 2022.

September 2021 Finished M.Sc. Computer Science at University of Oxford.

March 2021 MonoRec was accepted at CVPR 2021. Check out our video and open-source code.

October 2020 Started M.Sc. Computer Science at University of Oxford.

October 2020 Finished ADL4CV. Check out our video presentation here.

March 2020 Finished my B.Sc. Informatik at TUM.

Research

My aim is to develop methods to understand the 3D world from images and videos. Specifically, I work on methods that can be trained with weak or even no supervision. Through this, I hope to enable more wide-spread applications of such methods, and to improve accuracy by training on large, unlabeled datasets.

Dream-to-Recon: Monocular 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion-Depth Distillation from Single Images Philipp Wulff, Felix Wimbauer, Dominik Muhle, Daniel Cremers ICCV, 2025 project page / arXiv

We leverage a diffusion model and a depth predictor to generate high-quality scene geometry from a single image. Then, we distill a feed-forward scene reconstruction model, which performs on par with reconstruction methods trained with multi-view supervision.

Back on Track: Bundle Adjustment for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Weirong Chen, Ganlin Zhang, Felix Wimbauer, Rui Wang, Nikita Araslanov, Andrea Vedaldi, Daniel Cremers ICCV, 2025 (Oral) project page / arXiv

A method for consistent dynamic scene reconstruction via motion decoupling, bundle adjustment, and global refinement.

Feed-Forward SceneDINO for Unsupervised Semantic Scene Completion Aleksandar Jevtić*, Christoph Reich*, Felix Wimbauer, Oliver Hahn, Christian Rupprecht, Stefan Roth, Daniel Cremers ICCV, 2025 project page / arXiv / code / demo

SceneDINO is unsupervised and infers 3D geometry and features from a single image in a feed-forward manner. Distilling and clustering SceneDINO's 3D feature field results in unsupervised semantic scene completion predictions. SceneDINO is trained using multi-view self-supervision.

AnyCam: Learning to Recover Camera Poses and Intrinsics from Casual Videos Felix Wimbauer, Weirong Chen, Dominik Muhle, Christian Rupprecht, Daniel Cremers CVPR, 2025 project page / paper / code

A method for learning camera poses and intrinsics from dynamic casual videos.

Cache Me if You Can: Accelerating Diffusion Models through Block Caching Felix Wimbauer, Bichen Wu, Edgar Schoenfeld, Xiaoliang Dai, Ji Hou, Zijian He, Artsiom Sanakoyeu, Peizhao Zhang, Sam Tsai, Jonas Kohler, Christian Rupprecht, Daniel Cremers, Peter Vajda, Jialiang Wang CVPR, 2024 project page / arXiv / video

We reuse layer computations from previous timesteps to make image generation with diffusion models more efficient.

Boosting Self-Supervision for Single-View Scene Completion via Knowledge Distillation Keonhee Han*, Dominik Muhle*, Felix Wimbauer, Daniel Cremers CVPR, 2024 project page / arXiv / video / code

Leveraging multi-view supervision and distillation training to improve volumetric reconstruction from a single image.

ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxy Rooms Jonas Schult, Sam Tsai, Lukas Höllein, Bichen Wu, Jialiang Wang, Chih-Yao Ma, Kunpeng Li, Xiaofang Wang, Felix Wimbauer, Zijian He, Peizhao Zhang, Bastian Leibe, Peter Vajda, Ji Hou CVPR, 2024 project page / arXiv / video

ControlRoom3D creates diverse and plausible 3D room meshes aligning well with user-defined room layouts and textual descriptions of the room style.

S4C: Self-Supervised Semantic Scene Completion with Neural Fields Adrian Hayler*, Felix Wimbauer*, Dominik Muhle, Christian Rupprecht, Daniel Cremers 3DV, 2024 (Spotlight) project page / arXiv / code

A self-supervised method for semantic scene completion, that rivals supervised approaches.

Behind the Scenes: Density Fields for Single View Reconstruction Felix Wimbauer, Nan Yang, Christian Rupprecht, Daniel Cremers CVPR, 2023 project page / arXiv / code / video

A self-supervised method for implicit volumetric reconstruction from a single image.

De-rendering 3D Objects in the Wild Felix Wimbauer, Shangzhe Wu, Christian Rupprecht CVPR, 2022 project page / arXiv / code / video

A self-supervised method for intrinsic image decomposition.

MonoRec: Semi-Supervised Dense Reconstruction in Dynamic Environments from a Single Moving Camera Felix Wimbauer, Nan Yang, Lukas von Stumberg, Niclas Zeller, Daniel Cremers CVPR, 2021 project page / arXiv / code / video

A state-of-the-art semi-supervised monocular dense reconstruction system, that utilizes a multi-view stereo approach with a filter for moving objects to predict depth maps in dynamic environments.