Alexander Mathis
Associate Professor
Leads a group combining computational neuroscience and machine learning to model animal behaviour, including markerless pose estimation (DeepLabCut) and motor control.
Alexander Mathis's lab at EPFL works on neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces and computational neuroscience & cognition. 13 papers since 2023, 13 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and CVPR. 10 PhD students. 5 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 100%
- PhD students
- 10
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 5
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 3
- 4 papers2024 · T1 4
- 3 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, ICLR, ICCV
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- pose estimation2 papers
- Neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces0 papers
- Computational neuroscience & cognition0 papers
- markerless0 papers
- motor control0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20263 papers
- ICRA (T1)KINESIS: Motion Imitation for Human Musculoskeletal Locomotion (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)LLaVAction: evaluating and training multi-modal large language models for action understanding (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)Prompting-MammAlps: Fine-Grained Text-to-Video Retrieval for Camera-Trap Data (opens in a new tab)
20253 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)EPFL-Smart-Kitchen: An Ego-Exo Multi-Modal Dataset for Challenging Action and Motion Understanding in Video-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)MammAlps: A Multi-view Video Behavior Monitoring Dataset of Wild Mammals in the Swiss Alps (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)PICLe: Pseudo-annotations for In-Context Learning in Low-Resource Named Entity Detection (opens in a new tab)
20244 papers
- ECCV (T1)Elucidating the Hierarchical Nature of Behavior with Masked Autoencoders (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)HOISDF: Constraining 3D Hand-Object Pose Estimation with Global Signed Distance Fields (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)ODEFormer: Symbolic Regression of Dynamical Systems with Transformers (opens in a new tab)
- IJCV (T1)WildCLIP: Scene and Animal Attribute Retrieval from Camera Trap Data with Domain-Adapted Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
20233 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)AmadeusGPT: a natural language interface for interactive animal behavioral analysis (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Latent exploration for Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)Rethinking pose estimation in crowds: overcoming the detection information bottleneck and ambiguity (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went5 listed
Apply to EPFLFall 2027
EDIC Computer and Communication Sciences PhD
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- TOEFL 100 / IELTS 7.0
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