Vicky Kalogeiton
I am a Professor (HDR, 2024 from Polytechnique) in AI at the Computer Science Laboratory (LIX) of École Polytechnique, Paris, France. I am the head of the VISTA team and an Ellis Fellow attached to the Paris Unit, I am also a contributing researcher at Archimedes and affiliated with Hi!Paris. In 2026, I received the Bronze Medal from CNRS for my research in AI and the Lovelace-Babbage prize from the French Academy of Sciences and the French Informatics Society.
My research is currently mostly supported by my ERC Starting Grant FLASH. The goal of my research goal is to develop generalizable methods applicable to various domains and my current focus is on multimodal generative AI, from the angle of efficiency, structured or multiple outputs, and medical applications! You can read more about FLASH.
At Polytechnique, I am the main genAI researcher and I publish papers in the most prestigious computer vision conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV) and top journals (T-PAMI, IJCV). I support Slow Science and Open Science.
Previously, I was a research fellow at VGG, University of Oxford, where I worked with Andrew Zisserman. I completed my PhD at the CALVIN group, University of Edinburgh and the THOTH team, INRIA Grenoble (previous name LEAR) advised by Vittorio Ferrari and Cordelia Schmid.
I am always looking for new collaborations and students! Email me, if you want to discuss or work with me!
Open positions
- If you are interested in working with me, fill this form (As I receive several emails, I have trouble answering individual e-mail applications).
News
- Oct 2026 Very honored and humbled to receive the Lovelace-Babbage prize from the French Academy of Science and the French Informatics Society!!!
- Sep 2026 So very happy to have received the ERC Starting Grant for my project FLASH (details here)
I am very excited about the project coming up!!!
- May 2026 I am truly honored and happy and humbled to have received the
CNRS Bronze Medal in AI in 2026, the highest award for junior researchers in France!!!
Thank you to all who believed in me!
Also, I am happy to have received the Outstanding Area Chair Award at CVPR 2026!
I am co-organizing this year’s CVPR@Paris 2026 (thanks to ELLIS, Hi!Paris, SCAI, DIM and CNRS for the support) and two ECCV 2026 workshops: on “Story-Level Movie Understanding and Audio Description” and the “3rd Workshop on Audio-Visual Generation & Learning”.
- Mar 2026 Big thank you to Google DeepMind and Hi!Paris for the Google Academic gift, Google Gemini 2026 award and the Hi!Paris chaire!!
- Jun 2025 So many things!! I will serve as Program Chair for CVPR 2027.
Also, I am serving as Diversity Chair & Area Chair for ICCV 2025 and I have just received a Hi!Paris chaire!
Together with the great David and Matthieu, we are organising CVPR 2025 in Paris.
Finally, Greeks in AI is almost there and is gaining serious momentum! - Jan 2025 Organising the Computer Vision Workshop at IP Paris. Details here
People
Current- 2022-2026 Julie Mordacq: PhD with Steve Oudot at Inria Saclay
- 2021-2026 Robin Courant: PhD with Marc Christie at Inria Rennes
- 2026 Kai Shinozaki-Conefrey: visitor from NYU
- 2025 Zihang He: intern
- 2025 Luc Boudier: intern
- 2021-2025 - Nicolas Dufour: PhD with David Picard at ENPC
- 2022-2025 - Thanos Delatolas: PhD with Dim Papadopoulos at DTU
- 2021-2025 - Yasser Benigmim: PhD with Slim Essid and Stéphane Lathuilière at Telecom Paris
- 2023-2025 - Xi Wang: Post-doct (now Prof at Polytechnique)
- 2022-2023 - Nefeli Andreou: PhD visitor with Victoria Fernández Abrevaya at MPI (now researcher at Amazon)
- 2021-2023 - Léo Milecki: PhD collaborator with Maria Vakalopoulou at CentraleSupelec (now post-doc at Weill Cornell)
- 2020-2023 Ariel Kwiatkowski: PhD with Marie-Paule Cani and Julien Pettre at Inria Rennes (now researcher at AI Redefined)
- 2021-2022 - Dr. ZhiSong Liu (Post-doc), Polytechnique and Hong Kong Polytechnic (after at Dell, now Assis. Prof. at LUT)
- 2020-2021 - M. Edberg, L. Walewski, L. Milikic (BSc), École Polytechnique
- 2021-2021 - Isabel Jimenez Velasco with Manuel J Marin-Jimenez at University of Cordoba
- 2019-2021 - Andrew Brown, VGG, University of Oxford (now at Meta)
- 2019-2020 - Mohita Chowdhury (MSc), VGG, University of Oxford (now at Ufonia)
Selected publications
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AR-Edit: Training-Free Autoregressive Video Editing without InversionIn The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026 -
From Proxemic Blindness Toward Geometry-Aware Proxemic Recognition in Vision-Language ModelsIn International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2026 -
MIRO: MultI-Reward cOnditioned pretraining improves T2I quality and efficiencyIn International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 -
IDES T: Assessing Self-Supervised Learning Representations via Intrinsic DimensionIn International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 -
ProxiVideoFriends: Revisiting Proxemics through Temporal and Social ReasoningIn Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) 2026 -
When Surgery Meets the Unknown: Uncertainty-Aware Open-Set Recognition for Surgery Phase ClassificationIn Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) 2026 -

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Story-level multimodal generativeAI: from understanding to generating visual data using multiple modalitiesIn Habilitation to direct research (HDR) 2024 -
Bridging Text and Image for Artist Style Transfer via Contrastive LearningIn European Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ECCV-W) 2024 -
Conditional Gradient-based Textual InversionIn European Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ECCV-W) 2024 -
Reward Function Design for Crowd Simulation via Reinforcement LearningIn Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG) 2023 -
Name Your Style: Text-Guided Artistic Style TransferIn Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPR-W) 2023 -
Name Your Style: An Arbitrary Artist-aware Image Style TransferarXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13562 2022 -
High-Level Features for Movie Style UnderstandingIn ICCV 2021 Workshop on AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding (ICCV-W) 2021 -
Real-time active SLAM and obstacle avoidance for an autonomous robot based on stereo visionCybernetics and Systems 2019 -
Programmable crossbar quantum-dot cellular automata circuitsIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 2017 -

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Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mouldInternational Journal of General Systems (IJGS) 2015 -
Biomimicry of crowd evacuation with a slime mould cellular automaton modelIn Computational Intelligence, Medicine and Biology 2015 -
Hey Physarum! Can you Perform SLAM?International Journal of Unconventional Computing 2014 -
Morphological Edge Detector Implemented in Quantum Cellular AutomataIn Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2013 IEEE International Conference on 2013 -
Automatic summarization and annotation of videos with lack of metadata informationExpert Systems with Applications 2013 -
DUTH does Probabilities of Relevance at the Legal TrackIn The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2010). National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) 2011 -
A novel video summarization method based on the compact composite descriptors and fuzzy classifierIn 4th international conference for undergraduate and postgraduate students in computer engineering, informatics, related technologies and applications 2010
Teaching
2023-2024- co-responsible MScT Artificial Intelligence & Visual Computing École Polytechnique (20 hours)
- INF581A: Advanced Deep Learning École Polytechnique (10 hours)
- INF649: Advanced Computer Vision École Polytechnique (30 hours)
- INF473V: Computer Vision with Deep Learning, École Polytechnique (60 hours)
- INF634: Advanced Computer Vision École Polytechnique (30 hours)
- Deep Learning, MVA. Guest Lecture (2 hours)
- INF473V: Computer Vision with Deep Learning, École Polytechnique (60 hours)
- Generative AI, Hi!Paris Summer School
- INF634: Advanced Computer Vision École Polytechnique (30 hours)
- VIC: Vision par Ordinateur. Guest Lecture, CentraleSupelec (2 hours)
- INF573: Image Analysis and Computer Vision, École Polytechnique (25 hours)
- INF473V: Computer Vision with Deep Learning, École Polytechnique (1.5 hours)
- INF634: Advanced Computer Vision École Polytechnique (30 hours)
- INF573: Image Analysis and Computer Vision, École Polytechnique (25 hours)
- INF473V: Computer Vision with Deep Learning, École Polytechnique (50 hours)
- Introduction to Computer Vision. Term Lecture, Oxford Royale Academy (2 hours)
- Introduction to Computer Vision. Guest Lectures Lady Margaret Hall, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, 2019
- Introduction to Computer Vision. Term Lectures, Oxford Royale Academy, 2018-2021
Misc
Service- Leadership. Program Chair, CVPR 2027; Diversity Chair, ICCV 2025; Founder of CVPR in Paris, 2025 and 2026
- Area Chair. ECCV 2026 (lead AC), CVPR 2026 (lead AC), ICCV 2025, CVPR 2025, ECCV 2024, ACCV 2024, WACV 2024, ICCV 2023, ACCV 2022, CVPR 2021
- Associate Editor. CVIU 2024--, CMBBE: Imaging & Visualization 2017-2024
- Guest Editor. IJCV special issue on audio-visual generation, 2025
- Session Chair. Greeks in AI 2026 and 2025, ECCV 2024, ICCV 2023
- Conferences Program Committee. ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, WACV, ACCV, AAAI
- Journal Reviewer. TPAMI, IJCV, CVIU, TIP, TOM, IVC/IMAVIS
- Committees. Grant evaluation panels: NCN Poland, ANR, CEFIPRA, ELLIS, and the French national GPU cluster; hiring committees (2021-2026); 23 external PhD juries and 10 thesis follow-up committees
- ERC Starting Grant (FLASH), 2026
- Lovelace-Babbage Prize, French Academy of Sciences, 2026
- CNRS Bronze Medal, 2026
- Spotlight paper at NeurIPS 2025
- Outstanding Area Chair award at CVPR 2026 and ACCV 2022
- Highlight paper (11% of papers) at CVPR 2024
- Student honorable mention award at ACCV 2022
- Best paper award at ICCV-W Creative Video Editing and Understanding, 2021.
- Outstanding Reviewer Award. ICCV 2021, ECCV 2020, ICCV 2019, CVPR 2018, "Neural Architects" ICCV-W 2019
- Emergency Reviewer Award. ICCV 2021, ECCV 2020, ICCV 2019, ECCV 2018
- Best Poster Award. Université Grenoble Alpes, France, 2016
- Best Master Thesis Award, Valedictorian. DUTh Greece, 2013
- Scholarship from the DUTh Research Committee, 2013
- Best Paper Award at EUREKA! 2010
- Scholarship for Erasmus at the University of Deusto, Spain, 2009
- Scholarship (IKY) for performance during undergraduate studies, DUTh, 2008-2009
- Press: Interview in ICCV 2017 Daily, Best of ICCV 2017, Women in computer vision, Our CVPR2019 paper in CVPR 2019 Daily, Science and Video Games Conference: AI and Cooperation 2021
- Organizing Committees: Workshops at ECCV 2026 and ICCV 2025, Real-World Computer Vision from Inputs with Limited Quality Workshop (RLQ) at ICCV 2021, Doctoral Symposium at AIMLSystems 2021, 1st Workshop on Future Video Conferencing (FVC) at CVPR 2021, ACRI 2012
- Memberships: ELLIS Fellow (2026--), CVF (2016--), IEEE (2009--)
- Outreach: High-school lectures for the CNRS NSI week (2023-2025), Deep Learning Indaba (Dakar, 2024), African Computer Vision Summer School (Rwanda, 2025), talk at the European Parliament (2025), mentoring for Women in Computer Vision (2019-2021), speed mentoring at ECCV 2024

















































