Alexander Pondaven

🎓 PhD student at Oxford’s Torr Vision Group working on controllable video generation - keen on making generations more interactive (or even playable)

🔬 Research

PhD (2023-Present): Working on controlling video diffusion models at Oxford AIMS CDT, generously funded by Snap studentship
MEng Project (2022-2023): Enhanced Stable Diffusion 2 sampling diversity using particle-based methods (project · slides)
Climate AI (2022): Developed meta-learning framework for satellite image inpainting, published at NeurIPS 2022 climate workshop (paper · project)

💼 Industry Experience

Humanising Autonomy (6 month internship in 2022): Built active learning system and AWS data pipeline for video object detection training
MathWorks (3 month internship in 2021): Developed video action recognition demo and enhanced pooling layers for spatio-temporal operations in 2022a release of MATLAB Deep Learning Toolbox

selected publications

Video Motion Transfer with Diffusion Transformers

Pondaven, Alexander, Siarohin, Aliaksandr, Tulyakov, Sergey, Torr, Philip, and Pizzati, Fabio

arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.07776 2024

arXiv Bib Code Website

@article{pondaven2024ditflow,
  title = {Video Motion Transfer with Diffusion Transformers},
  author = {Pondaven, Alexander and Siarohin, Aliaksandr and Tulyakov, Sergey and Torr, Philip and Pizzati, Fabio},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.07776},
  year = {2024},
  preview = {ditflow_preview.gif},
}

Convolutional Neural Processes for Inpainting Satellite Images: Application to Water Body Segmentation

Pondaven, Alexander, Bakler, Märt, Guo, Donghu, Hashim, Hamzah, Ignatov, Martin G, Bhatt, Samir, Flaxman, Seth, Mishra, Swapnil, Alhajjar, Elie, and Zhu, Harrison

In NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning 2022

arXiv Bib HTML Slides

@inproceedings{pondaven2022convolutional,
  title = {Convolutional Neural Processes for Inpainting Satellite Images: Application to Water Body Segmentation},
  author = {Pondaven, Alexander and Bakler, Märt and Guo, Donghu and Hashim, Hamzah and Ignatov, Martin G and Bhatt, Samir and Flaxman, Seth and Mishra, Swapnil and Alhajjar, Elie and Zhu, Harrison},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning},
  url = {https://www.climatechange.ai/papers/neurips2022/24},
  year = {2022},
  preview = {inpainted_preview.png}
}