Biography
Iro Laina joined the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford as a PDRA in 2020 and became a Departmental Lecturer in Computer Vision in 2023. She has received her PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, and her PhD dissertation has been recognized with the ECVA PhD Award. Before that, she completed a Msc in Biomedical Computing at TUM and a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
Her research focuses on developing perception systems for understanding images, videos, and the 3D world, via unsupervised and language-supervised learning.
Research Interests
- Computer Vision
- Unsupervised, self-supervised, and language-supervised learning
- Semantic and geometric understanding
Research Groups
Rethinking Image Super-Resolution from Training Data Perspectives
Ohtani G, Tadokoro R, Yamada R, Asano YM, Laina I et al. (2025), 15075, 19-36
BibTeX
@misc{rethinkingimage-2025/,
title={Rethinking Image Super-Resolution from Training Data Perspectives},
author={Ohtani G, Tadokoro R, Yamada R, Asano YM, Laina I et al.},
year = "2025"
}
Scaling Backwards: Minimal Synthetic Pre-Training?
Nakamura R, Tadokoro R, Yamada R, Asano YM, Laina I et al. (2025), 15073, 153-171
BibTeX
@misc{scalingbackward-2025/,
title={Scaling Backwards: Minimal Synthetic Pre-Training?},
author={Nakamura R, Tadokoro R, Yamada R, Asano YM, Laina I et al.},
year = "2025"
}
N2F2: hierarchical scene understanding with nested neural feature fields
Bhalgat Y, Laina I, Henriques J, Zisserman A & Vedaldi A (2024), Computer Vision ??? ECCV 2024 18th European Conference, Milan, Italy, September 29???October 4, 2024, Proceedings, Part LIX, 197-214
BibTeX
@inproceedings{nfhierarchicals-2024/11,
title={N2F2: hierarchical scene understanding with nested neural feature fields},
author={Bhalgat Y, Laina I, Henriques J, Zisserman A & Vedaldi A},
booktitle={20th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)},
pages={197-214},
year = "2024"
}
Contrastive lift: 3D object instance segmentation by slow-fast contrastive fusion
Bhalgat Y, Laina I, Henriques J, Zisserman A & Vedaldi A (2024), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36, 9092
BibTeX
@inproceedings{contrastivelift-2024/10,
title={Contrastive lift: 3D object instance segmentation by slow-fast contrastive fusion},
author={Bhalgat Y, Laina I, Henriques J, Zisserman A & Vedaldi A},
booktitle={37th Conference in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)},
pages={9092},
year = "2024"
}
Diffusion models for open-vocabulary segmentation
Karazija L, Laina I, Vedaldi A & Rupprecht C (2024), Computer Vision ??? ECCV 2024: 18th European Conference, Milan, Italy, September 29???October 4, 2024, Proceedings, Part V, 299-317
BibTeX
@inproceedings{diffusionmodels-2024/10,
title={Diffusion models for open-vocabulary segmentation},
author={Karazija L, Laina I, Vedaldi A & Rupprecht C},
booktitle={20th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)},
pages={299-317},
year = "2024"
}
Splatt3R: Zero-shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs
Smart B, Zheng C, Laina I & Prisacariu VA (2024)
BibTeX
@misc{splattrzeroshot-2024/8,
title={Splatt3R: Zero-shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs},
author={Smart B, Zheng C, Laina I & Prisacariu VA},
year = "2024"
}
3D-Aware Instance Segmentation and Tracking in Egocentric Videos
Bhalgat Y, Tschernezki V, Laina I, Henriques JF, Vedaldi A et al. (2024)
BibTeX
@misc{dawareinstances-2024/8,
title={3D-Aware Instance Segmentation and Tracking in Egocentric Videos},
author={Bhalgat Y, Tschernezki V, Laina I, Henriques JF, Vedaldi A et al.},
year = "2024"
}
SHAP-EDITOR: instruction-guided latent 3D editing in seconds
Chen M, Xie J, Laina I & Vedaldi A (2024), 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 26446-26456
BibTeX
@inproceedings{shapeditorinstr-2024/5,
title={SHAP-EDITOR: instruction-guided latent 3D editing in seconds},
author={Chen M, Xie J, Laina I & Vedaldi A},
booktitle={Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024)},
pages={26446-26456},
year = "2024"
}
When LLMs step into the 3D World: A Survey and Meta-Analysis of 3D Tasks via Multi-modal Large Language Models
Ma X, Bhalgat Y, Smart B, Chen S, Li X et al. (2024)
BibTeX
@misc{whenllmsstepint-2024/5,
title={When LLMs step into the 3D World: A Survey and Meta-Analysis of 3D Tasks via Multi-modal Large Language Models},
author={Ma X, Bhalgat Y, Smart B, Chen S, Li X et al.},
year = "2024"
}
Training-free layout control with cross-attention guidance
Chen M, Laina I & Vedaldi A (2024), 2024 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 5331-5341
BibTeX
@inproceedings{trainingfreelay-2024/4,
title={Training-free layout control with cross-attention guidance},
author={Chen M, Laina I & Vedaldi A},
booktitle={IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024)},
pages={5331-5341},
year = "2024"
}
