Andrés Romero

I am a Computer Vision / Machine Learning Team Leader in a Stealth mode Startup. Unfortunately, I can share the details of my position, but we are working heavily on Generative AI, Diffusion Models, and 3D reconstruction. I am fully remote now!

Before, I was a Senior Computer Vision Developer at Gixel GmbH aiming at changing the way we meet using cutting-edge optics for hardware, and state-of-the-art 3D avatar creation.

Before, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Vision Lab (CVL) at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, working with prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Radu Timofte. Before joining CVL, I spent 5 delightful years in the Biomedical Computer Vision (BCV) group working closely with prof. Pablo Arbelaez at the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia).

My main research interests are Computer Vision generative problems such as image-to-image translation, image editing, semantic manipulations, language-guided transformations, image/video enhancement, and super-resolution. I have also worked in the past with Facial Expression Recognition/Manipulation and Facial Analysis.

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Reviewer Experience

I have served as a reviewer for top venue Computer Vision conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, and ACCV, as well as journals such as TPAMI and Computer and Graphics.

 

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Non-academical interests:

I am very much into the photography world. As to the date, I own a Sony α7III, and I love to shoot with an 18-35mm lens. You can check some of my pictures below.
In a very different scenario, I am a backpack traveler, a gym and nutritionist enthusiast with empirical background, and a not-so-pro Ultimate Frisbee player.

• RePaint: Inpainting using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
  Andreas Lugmayr, Martin Danelljan, Andres Romero, Fisher Yu, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool.
  CVPR, 2022.
   

• GANmut: Learning Interpretable Conditional Space for Gamut of Emotions.
  Stefano d’Apolito, Danda Pani Paudel, Zhiwu Huang, Andres Romero, Luc Van Gool.
  CVPR, 2021.
   

• Unsupervised Multimodal Video-to-Video Translation via Self-Supervised Learning.
  Kangning Liu, Shuhang Gu, Andrés Romero, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte.
  WACV, 2021.
  

• Zero-Pair Image to Image Translation Using Domain Conditional Normalization.
  Samarth Shukla, Andrés Romero, Radu Timofte.
  WACV, 2021.
   

• SMILE: Semantically-guided Multi-attribute Image and Layout Editing.
  Andrés Romero, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte.
  ICCV, AIM Workshop, 2021.
   

• DeepSEE: Deep Disentangled Semantic Explorative Extreme Super-Resolution.
  Marcel C. Bühler, Andrés Romero, Radu Timofte.
  ACCV, 2020.
   
  
  
• UltraGAN: Ultrasound Enhancement Through Adversarial Generation.
  Maria Escobar, Ángela Castillo, Andrés Romero, Pablo Arbeláez.
  MICCAI, Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, 2020.
   
  
  
• SESAME: Semantic Editing of Scenes by Adding, Manipulating or Erasing Objects.
  Evangelos Ntavelis, Andrés Romero, Iason Kastanis,  Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte.
  ECCV, 2020.
   
  
  
• SMIT: Stochastic Multi-Label Image-to-Image Translation (2019).
  Andrés Romero, Pablo Arbeláez, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte.
  ICCV, AIM Workshop, 2019.
   
  
  
• Multi-View Dynamic Facial Action Unit Detection (2018).
  Andrés Romero, Juan León, Pablo Arbeláez.
  Image and Vision Computing, 2018.