Max Argus PhD Student Computer Vision Lab Department of Computer Science University of Freiburg Germany Office location: Georges-Köhler-Allee, Building 052, Room 1-19 D-79110, Freiburg im Breisgau Phone: +49 761 203 97630 E-Mail:

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Brief Bio

I received my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics degree at the University of Heidelberg. My master's thesis was completed with Bjoer Ommer.
In October 2017 I joined the Computer Vision Group in Freiburg under Prof. Thomas Brox where I worked together with Wolfram Burgard on computer vision for robot manipulation. I completed my PhD in February 2022, and have worked as a postdoc in the group since then.

Scientific Interests

Publications

2024

Conference

CrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity   Paper

A. Bhatt, D. Palenicek, B. Belousov, Max Argus, Artemij Amiranashvili, Thomas Brox, J. Peters

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

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Compositional Servoing by Recombining Demonstrations  

Max Argus, A. Nayak, M. Büchner, Silvio Galesso, A. Valada, Thomas Brox

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

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Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations   doi> Code/data

Simon Schrodi, Karim Farid, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2024

 

2023

Conference

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Far Away in the Deep Space: Dense Nearest-Neighbor-Based Out-of-Distribution Detection   Paper

Silvio Galesso, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Workshops, 2023

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Climate-sensitive Urban Planning through Optimization of Tree Placements   Paper Code/data

Simon Schrodi, F. Briegel, Max Argus, A. Christen, Thomas Brox

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2023

 

2022

Conference

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Conditional Visual Servoing for Multi-Step Tasks   Paper

S. Izquierdo, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022

 

2021

Conference

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Temporal shift GAN for large scale video generation   Paper

A. Munoz, Mohammadreza Zolfaghari, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021

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Contrastive Representation Learning for Hand Shape Estimation   Paper Project

Christian Zimmermann, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2021

 

2020

Conference

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FlowControl: Optical Flow Based Visual Servoing   Paper

Max Argus, L. Hermann, J. Long, Thomas Brox

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

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Adaptive Curriculum Generation from Demonstrations for Sim-to-Real Visuomotor Control   Paper

L. Hermann, Max Argus, A. Eitel, Artemij Amiranashvili, W. Burgard, Thomas Brox

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

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Miscellaneous

• One of our robots was featured in this university project video.