Anand Bhattad

@anandbhattad.bsky.social

Incoming Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University | RAP at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago | web: https://anandbhattad.github.io/ | Knowledge in Generative Image Models, Intrinsic Images, Image-based Relighting, Inverse Graphics

At #ICLR2026, Vaibhav Vavilala presented our paper, "Generative Blocks World"! This is one of my favorites from recent times. We spent two years hacking around with diffusion models to get them to do object editing. The solution turned out to be way simpler. A few blocks in 3D space is enough ...

JHU Computer Science@jhucompsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In “Generative Blocks World: Moving Things Around in Pictures,” @anandbhattad.bsky.social and UIUC researchers create a world to interact with the scene of a generated image by manipulating simple geometric abstractions 🔷: (8/12)

10 new CS professors! 🥳 @anandbhattad.bsky.social @uthsav.bsky.social @gligoric.bsky.social @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social

Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute@hopkinsdsai.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#HopkinsDSAI welcomes 22 new faculty members, who join more than 150 DSAI faculty members across @jhu.edu in advancing the study of data science, machine learning, and #AI and translation to a range of critical and emerging fields. ai.jhu.edu/news/data-sc...

I decided not to travel to #ICCV2025 because it coincides with Diwali (Oct 20). Diwali often falls near the #CVPR deadline window, but this year overlaps with ICCV. I understand it’s hard to avoid all global holidays, but I hope future conferences can keep this in mind when selecting dates.

I will be recruiting a few students for Fall 2026. In particular, I will strongly consider a PhD applicant with training in applied/computational mechanics and computer vision/machine learning. If you or someone you know has this background, please contact me.

Anand Bhattad@anandbhattad.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Computer Science (@jhucompsci.bsky.social, @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social) as an Assistant Professor this fall.

So You Want to Be an Academic? A couple of years into your PhD, but wondering: "Am I doing this right?" Most of the advice is aimed at graduating students. But there's far less for junior folks who are still finding their academic path. My candid takes: anandbhattad.github.io/blogs/jr_gra...

So You Want to Be an Academic? What I Wish I Knew Early in Graduate School

Blog for junior PhD students on work, visibility, community, and sanity—long before the faculty job market is on the horizon.

anandbhattad.github.io

All slides from the #cvpr2025 (@cvprconference.bsky.social ) workshop "How to Stand Out in the Crowd?" are now available on our website: sites.google.com/view/standou...

Anand Bhattad@anandbhattad.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧵 1/3 Many at #CVPR2024 & #ECCV2024 asked what would be next in our workshop series. We're excited to announce "How to Stand Out in the Crowd?" at #CVPR2025 Nashville - our 4th community-building workshop featuring this incredible speaker lineup! 🔗 sites.google.com/view/standou...

ZeroComp will be presented as an Oral at #WACV2025! Train a diffusion model as a renderer that takes intrinsic images as input. Once trained, we can perform zero-shot object compositing & can easily extend this to other object editing tasks, such as material swapping. arxiv.org/abs/2410.08168

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@jflalonde.bsky.social · last yr.

What better way to kickstart my bluesky account than to advertise for my student's WACV papers! Don't miss ZeroComp, where we use diffusion models as neural renderers that achieve image compositing in a zero-shot fashion: lvsn.github.io/ZeroComp/. With the great @anandbhattad.bsky.social

LumiNet is going to be at #CVPR2025! Excited about this work—fully data-driven, with zero reliance on computer graphics datasets. It builds upon our previous works—StyLitGAN provided the training data, while Latent Intrinsics abstracted lighting and albedo for diffusion models. And more to come! 🤓

Anand Bhattad@anandbhattad.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm super stoked to share LumiNet! 🎉 💡LumiNet combines latent intrinsic representations with a powerful generative image model. It lets us relight complex indoor images by transferring lighting from one image to another. It is completely data-driven: no labels, mark-up, not even depth or normals.

Encouraging to see a civilized & thoughtful discussion on a few papers in my AC batch. We need more reviewers like this! Also chasing down a few reviewers to update their justification beyond 'my concerns were not addressed in the rebuttal, so I’ll maintain my original score.' 😅 #CVPR2025

Not a big fan of Borderline ratings in the review process. They offer an easy way for reviewers to be non-committal—or even lazy. I’ve never liked this, as it rarely adds value. Clear, decisive ratings with concrete justifications of a paper’s contributions are far more constructive. #CVPR2025

It's great to see renewed interest in Barrow and Tenenbaum's seminal 1978 work on "Intrinsic Images." This foundational paper has significantly influenced the field, even though it has historically received fewer citations than it deserves.

Scholar Inbox provides the best paper recommendations—I rarely miss papers relevant to my interests or related to my work. I wish this could be integrated with paper submission services to flag missing related works.

Andreas Geiger@andreasgeiger.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share that today our paper recommender platform www.scholar-inbox.com has reached 20k users! We hope to reach 100k by the end of the year.. Lots of new features are being worked on currently and rolled out soon.