Kris M. Kitani
Associate Research Professor
Studies computer vision for understanding human activity, including egocentric vision and human motion forecasting.
Kris M. Kitani's lab at CMU works on video understanding and embodied & active vision. 59 papers since 2023, 50 at top venues, mostly CVPR and ICCV. 3 PhD students. 8 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 15/ year
- at T1 venues
- 85%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 16 papers2026 · T1 12 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 8
- 19 papers2024 · T1 17
- 15 papers2023 · T1 13
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- human16 papers
- Video understanding9 papers
- egocentric4 papers
- Embodied & active vision1 paper
- human activity1 paper
Paper list
From DBLP.
202616 papers
- ICLR (T1)BFM-Zero: A Promptable Behavioral Foundation Model for Humanoid Control Using Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- 3DVBodyContact4D: A Multi-view Video Dataset for Understanding Human and Environment Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.CacheFlow: Fast Human Motion Prediction by Cached Normalizing Flow (opens in a new tab)
- 3DVContact4D: A Video Dataset for Whole-Body Human Motion and Finger Contact in Dexterous Operations (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)DuoMo: Dual Motion Diffusion for World-Space Human Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)DyaDiT: A Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Socially Favorable Dyadic Gesture Generation (opens in a new tab)
- 3DVEgoMDM: Diffusion-Based Human Motion Synthesis from Sparse Egocentric Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Faster Vision Transformers with Adaptive Patches (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)FPS-Bench: A Benchmark for High Frame-Rate Video Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Ground Reaction Inertial Poser: Physics-based Human Motion Capture from Sparse IMUs and Insole Pressure Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Grounded Latents for Entity-Centric 4D Scene Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)InterPet4D: A Multimodal 4D Human-Pet Interaction Dataset for Pet Motion Generation (opens in a new tab)
20259 papers
- ICCV (T1)ATLAS: Decoupling Skeletal and Shape Parameters for Expressive Parametric Human Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- IJCV (T1)Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Ego4D: Around the World in 3,600 Hours of Egocentric Video (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)ExpertAF: Expert Actionable Feedback from Video (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)HOIGPT: Learning Long-Sequence Hand-Object Interaction with Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.Joint Diffusion for Universal Hand-Object Grasp Generation (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Leveraging Temporal Cues for Semi-Supervised Multi-View 3D Object Detection (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Origami Sensei: A Mixed Reality AI-Assistant (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)ZeroGrasp: Zero-Shot Shape Reconstruction Enabled Robotic Grasping (opens in a new tab)
202419 papers
- AAMAS (T1)Bootstrapping Linear Models for Fast Online Adaptation in Human-Agent Collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Don't Look Twice: Faster Video Transformers with Run-Length Tokenization (opens in a new tab)
- ISMAR-AdjunctDual-Modal 3D Human Pose Estimation using Insole Foot Pressure Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR WorkshopEgoSG: Learning 3D Scene Graphs from Egocentric RGB-D Sequences (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Flexible Depth Completion for Sparse and Varying Point Densities (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)G-HOP: Generative Hand-Object Prior for Interaction Reconstruction and Grasp Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Harmony4D: A Video Dataset for In-The-Wild Close Human Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)JaywalkerVR: A VR System for Collecting Safety-Critical Pedestrian-Vehicle Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Learning Human-to-Humanoid Real-Time Whole-Body Teleoperation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)MGF: Mixed Gaussian Flow for Diverse Trajectory Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Multi-Object Tracking by Hierarchical Visual Representations (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Omnigrasp: Grasping Diverse Objects with Simulated Humanoids (opens in a new tab)
202315 papers
- CVPR (T1)Azimuth Super-Resolution for FMCW Radar in Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Cost-Aware Evaluation and Model Scaling for LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ICIPDeep OC-Sort: Multi-Pedestrian Tracking by Adaptive Re-Identification (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)Deformer: Dynamic Fusion Transformer for Robust Hand Pose Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)EgoHumans: An Egocentric 3D Multi-Human Benchmark (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)Joint Metrics Matter: A Better Standard for Trajectory Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Observation-Centric SORT: Rethinking SORT for Robust Multi-Object Tracking (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Designing Interactive SystemsOrigami Sensei: Mixed Reality AI-Assistant for Creative Tasks Using Hands (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)Perpetual Humanoid Control for Real-time Simulated Avatars (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)ST-MVDNet++: Improve Vehicle Detection with Lidar-Radar Geometrical Augmentation via Self-Training (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)TEMPO: Efficient Multi-View Pose Estimation, Tracking, and Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Time Will Tell: New Outlooks and A Baseline for Temporal Multi-View 3D Object Detection (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went8 listed
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
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