Hello! I am a Research Scientist at Google Research. Previously, I obtained my PhD at the Computer Vision Lab of ETH Zürich, where I worked with Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Jordi Pont-Tuset on scene understanding. I received my M.Eng degree from National Technical University of Athens, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I was a member of the CVSP lab working on human action recognition in videos with Prof. Petros Maragos. I have interned in Facebook AI Research (FAIR), where I worked on multi-task learning with Prof. Iasonas Kokkinos. This personal web-page will be updated with my research work.
News
New paper! Vid2CAD: CAD Model Alignment using Multi-View Constraints from Videos (accepted to T-PAMI).
Oct 2019: After 4 amazing years at ETH Zurich, I have finished my PhD, and I will be working as a Research Scientist at Google.
Aug 2019: We released the code for Attentive Single-Tasking of Multiple Tasks (ASTMT) .
Feb 2019: Our paper on multi-task learning was accepted in CVPR 2019. Work done at FAIR with Ilija Radosavovic and Iasonas Kokkinos.
May 2018: Journal extension of OSVOS accepted by T-PAMI.
Mar 2018: Deep EXTReme cut (DEXTR) was accepted in CVPR 2018! PyTorch code, pre-computed results, and models available!!
Jan 2018: Our work on 3D from CNN keypoints was accepted by Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)/ICRA! ~100μm accuracy for stereo reconstruction in retinal surgery!!
Publications
Journal Publications
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K.K. Maninis*,
S. Popov*,
M.
Niessner, and
V. Ferrari
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@Article{maninis22pami,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Stefan Popov and Matthias Nießner and Vittorio Ferrari},
Title = {Vid2CAD: CAD Model Alignment using Multi-View Constraints from Videos},
Journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Inttelligence},
Year = {2022}
}
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K.K. Maninis*,
S. Caelles*,
Y. Chen,
J. Pont-Tuset,
L. Leal-Taixé,
D. Cremers, and
L. Van Gool
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@Article{Man+18b,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Sergi Caelles and Yuhua Chen and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Laura Leal-Taixé and Daniel Cremers and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {Video Object Segmentation Without Temporal Information},
Journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)},
Year = {2018}
}
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T. Probst*,
K.K. Maninis*,
A. Chhatkuli,
M. Ourak,
E. Vander Poorten, and
L. Van Gool
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@Article{Pro+18,
Author = {Thomas Probst and Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Ajad Chhatkuli and Mouloud Ourak and Emmanuel Vander Poorten and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {Automatic Tool Landmark Detection for Stereo Vision in Robot-Assisted Retinal Surgery},
Journal = {Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
Year = {2018}
}
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K.K. Maninis,
J. Pont-Tuset,
P. Arbeláez, and
L. Van Gool
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@Article{Man+18a,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Pablo Arbel\'{a}ez and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {Convolutional Oriented Boundaries: From Image Segmentation to High-Level Tasks},
Journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)},
Year = {2018},
Volume = {40},
Number = {4},
Pages = {819 - 833}
}
Conference Publications
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K.K. Maninis,
I. Radosavovic,
I. Kokkinos |
@InProceedings{MRK19,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Ilija Radosavovic and Iasonas Kokkinos},
Title = {Attentive Single-Tasking of Multiple Tasks},
Booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
Year = {2019}
}
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K.K. Maninis*,
S. Caelles*,
J. Pont-Tuset, and
L. Van Gool
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@InProceedings{Man+18,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Sergi Caelles and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {Deep Extreme Cut: From Extreme Points to Object Segmentation},
Booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
Year = {2018}
}
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C. Ventura,
J. Pont-Tuset,
S. Caelles,
K.K. Maninis, and
L. Van Gool
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@InProceedings{Ven+18,
Author = {Carles Ventura and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Sergi Caelles and Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {Iterative Deep Learning for Road Topology Extraction},
Booktitle = {British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
Year = {2018}
}
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S. Caelles*,
K.K. Maninis*,
J. Pont-Tuset,
L. Leal-Taixé,
D. Cremers, and
L. Van Gool
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@InProceedings{Cae+17,
Author = {Sergi Caelles and Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Laura Leal-Taix\'{e} and Daniel Cremers and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {One-Shot Video Object Segmentation},
Booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
Year = {2017}
}
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K.K. Maninis,
J. Pont-Tuset,
P. Arbeláez, and
L. Van Gool
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@InProceedings{Man+16a,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Pablo Arbel\'{a}ez and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {Convolutional Oriented Boundaries},
Booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
Year = {2016}
}
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K.K. Maninis,
J. Pont-Tuset,
P. Arbeláez, and
L. Van Gool
|
@InProceedings{Man+16,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Pablo Arbel\'{a}ez and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {Deep Retinal Image Understanding},
Booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},
Year = {2016}
}
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G. Chalvatzaki,
G. Pavlakos,
K.K. Maninis,
X. Papageorgiou,
V. Pitsikalis,
C. Tzafestas, and
P. Maragos |
@InProceedings{Cha+14,
Author = {Georgia Chalvatzaki and Georgios Pavlakos and Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Xanthi Papageorgiou and Vassilis Pitsikalis and Costas Tzafestas, and Petros Maragos},
Title = {Towards an Intelligent Robotic Walker for Assisted Living using Multimodal Sensorial Data},
Booktitle = {4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth)},
Year = {2014}
}
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K.K. Maninis,
P. Koutras, and
P. Maragos |
@InProceedings{MKM14,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Petros Koutras and Petros Maragos},
Title = {Advances on Action Recognition in Videos Using an Interest Point Detector Based on Multiband Spatio-Temporal Enegies},
Booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
Year = {2014}
}
PhD Dissertation
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K.K. Maninis,
Exploiting Low-Level Features for Higher-Level Scene Understanding |
@phdthesis{Man2019,
Author = {Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis},
Title = {Exploiting Low-Level Features for Higher-Level Scene Understanding},
School = {ETH Zürich},
Year = {2019}
}
Other Publications
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S. Caelles,
A. Montes,
K.K. Maninis,
Y. Chen,
L. sPan Gool,
Federico Perazzi, and
J. Pont-Tuset |
@Article{Cae+18,
Author = {Sergi Caelles and Alberto Montes and Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Yuhua Chen and Luc Van Gool and Federico Perazzi and Jordi Pont-Tuset},
Title = {The 2018 DAVIS Challenge on Video Object Segmentation},
Journal = {arXiv:1803.00557},
Year = {2018}
}
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M. Bellver,
K.K. Maninis,
J. Pont-Tuset,
X. Giró-i-Nieto,
J. Torres, and
L. Van Gool
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@InProceedings{Bel+17,
Author = {Miriam Bellver and Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis and Jordi Pont-Tuset and Xavier Giró-i-Nieto and ordi Torres and Luc Van Gool},
Title = {Detection-aided liver lesion segmentation using deep learning},
Booktitle = {NIPS Machine Learning for Health Workshops},
Year = {2017}
}
Misc
I come from Skyros, a small island in the center of Aegean, in Greece. Skyros is popular for its ponies, its ceramics and its traditional carnival (video). Enjoy some beautiful photos in this page.