Amir Bar
Assistant Professor
Teaches computers to perceive, reason and act from visual data with little supervision, focusing on self-supervised learning and visual world models.
Amir Bar's lab at Imperial works on generative & foundation models. 19 papers since 2023, 17 at top venues, mostly ECCV and CVPR. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 89%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 7 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 5
- 5 papers2024 · T1 5
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ECCV, CVPR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Generative & foundation models7 papers
- visual3 papers
- little0 papers
- visual data0 papers
- reason0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20268 papers
- ICLR World Models WorkshopA Lightweight Library for Energy-Based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures
- CVPR (T1)From Generated Human Videos to Physically Plausible Robot Trajectories
- ECCV (T1)Lifting Embodied World Models for Planning and Control
- ICLR (T1)OpenApps: Simulating Environment Variations to Measure UI-Agent Reliability
- ICML (T1)Parallel Stochastic Gradient-Based Planning for World Models
- CVPR (T1)TV2TV: A Unified Framework for Interleaved Language and Video Generation
- ECCV (T1)V-JEPA 2.1: Unlocking Dense Features in Video Self-Supervised Learning
- ECCV (T1)World Models Can Leverage Human Videos for Dexterous Manipulation
20256 papers
- Our conditional diffusion transformer (CDiT) generates videos that enable planning, counterfactual reasoning, and actionBest Paper Honorable Mention
- ACL (T1)Forgotten Polygons: Multimodal Large Language Models are Shape-Blind
- EMNLP (T1)Pixels Versus Priors: Controlling Knowledge Priors in Vision-Language Models through Visual Counterfacts
- ICCV (T1)Scaling Language-Free Visual Representation Learning
- ICML (T1)Vision-Language Models Create Cross-Modal Task Representations
- NeurIPS (T1)Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
20245 papers
- ECCV (T1)EgoPet: Egomotion and Interaction Data from an Animal's Perspective
- ECCV (T1)Finding Visual Task Vectors
- TMLR (T1)IMProv: Inpainting-based Multimodal Prompting for Computer Vision Tasks
- CVPR (T1)Sequential Modeling Enables Scalable Learning for Large Vision Models
- ICML (T1)Stochastic Positional Embeddings Improve Masked Image Modeling
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to Imperial2027 (Apr/Oct)
Computing PhD
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