Article accepted for publication at ISPRS 2025.
Suryansh Kumar
I am an Assistant Professor of Visual Computing and Computational Media at Texas A&M University College Station, where I also direct Visual and Spatial AI Lab. I primarily conduct research in the field of 3D computer vision, Visual AI, and Robotic Automation. As a researcher, I am fascinated by how numerical construction can precisely represent the perceptual concepts of images, such as 3D scene geometry, motions, lights, material, and color. I aim to use these mathematical concepts to enable machines for a broader adoption using visual data. My fascination led me to explore well-developed computing fields like computer vision, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and robotics. My research in computer vision and computer graphics aims to introduce new methods for visual representation learning, photogrammetry, and dynamic scene modeling. In AI and robotics, my research seeks to solve real-world robotic automation problems by leveraging the benefits of deep neural networks in learning visual representation and decision-making tasks.
Recent News
Congratulations! Jeff Morris, Corte Guiherme for Interdisciplinary AI Seed Grant.
Congratulations! Yeun Park for mini-grant award.
Selected Recent Publications
Interactive Video Generation via Domain Adaptation
arXiv 2025, Visual Spatial AI Lab, 2025 (Under Progress)
Ishaan Rawal, Suryansh Kumar
Next-Future: Sample-Efficient Policy Learning for Robotic-Arm Tasks
arXiv 2025, Visual Spatial AI Lab, 2025 (Under Progress)
Fikrican Özgür, René Zurbrügg, Suryansh Kumar
Mobile Robotic Multi-View Photometric Stereo
International Society Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) 2025, IF: 12.2
Suryansh Kumar
Stereo Risk: A Continuous Modeling Approach to Stereo Matching
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024, Vienna, Austria. [ Oral, Top 1.5% ]
Ce Liu*, Suryansh Kumar*, Shuhang Gu, Radu Timofte, Yao Yao, Luc Van Gool, (* Equal Contribution)
ICGNet: A Unified Approach for Instance-Centric Grasping
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
René Zurbrügg, Yifan Liu, Francis Engelmann, Suryansh Kumar, Marco Hutter, and others
Learning Robust Multi-Scale Representation for Neural Radiance Fields from Unposed Images
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024, IF: 11.6[ Oral, Invited ]
Nishant Jain, Suryansh Kumar*, Luc Van Gool
Enhanced Stable View-Synthesis
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023, Vancouver, Canada.
Nishant Jain*, Suryansh Kumar*, Luc Van Gool, (* Equal Contribution)
Single Image Depth Prediction Made Better: A Multivariate Gaussian Take
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023, Vancouver, Canada.
Ce Liu, Suryansh Kumar*, Shuhang Gu, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool
How To Not Train Your Dragon: Training-free Embodied Object Goal Navigation with Semantic Frontiers
Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), RSS Foundation, 2023, Daegu, South Korea.
Junting Chen, Guohao Li, Suryansh Kumar*, and others
VA-DepthNet: A Variational Approach to Single Image Depth Prediction
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023, Kigali, Rwanda.[ Spotlight Oral, Top 25% ]
Ce Liu, Suryansh Kumar*, Shuhang Gu, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool
Uncertainty Guided Policy for Active Robotic 3D Reconstruction using Neural Radiance Fields
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RAL), 2022, IF: 5.20[ Oral, ICRA 2023 ]
Soomin Lee, Le Chen, Jiahao Wang, Alex Liniger, Suryansh Kumar*, and others
Uncertainty-Driven Dense Two-View Structure from Motion
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RAL), 2023, IF: 5.20[ Oral, IROS 2023 ]
Weirong Chen, Suryansh Kumar*, and others
Organic Priors in Non-Rigid Structure from Motion
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022, Tel-Aviv, Israel. [ Oral, Top 2.7% ]
Suryansh Kumar, Luc Van Gool
A Real-Time Online Learning Framework for Joint 3D Reconstruction and Semantic Seg. of Indoor Scenes
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RAL), 2022, IF: 5.20[ Oral, ICRA 2022 ]
Davide Menini, Suryansh Kumar*, Martin Oswald, Erik Sandstrom, Cristian Sminchisescu, Luc Van Gool
Jumping Manifolds: Geometry Aware Dense Non-Rigid Structure from Motion
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019, CA, USA. [ Oral, Invited Dynavis'19 ]
Suryansh Kumar