Karim Knaebel
I’m a PhD student in Computer Vision at RWTH Aachen University, advised by Prof. Bastian Leibe. My current focus is monocular 3D reconstruction; previously I worked on 3D scene understanding.
Formerly known as Karim Abou Zeid. Outside research, I enjoy motorcycles, nature, and building software tools.
Papers
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DINO in the Room: Leveraging 2D Foundation Models for 3D SegmentationKarim Knaebel, Kadir Yilmaz, Daan de Geus, Alexander Hermans, David Adrian, Timm Linder, Bastian Leibe3DV 2026
Injecting and distilling DINOv2 features into 3D segmentation models for stronger indoor and outdoor performance.
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Fine-Tuning Image-Conditional Diffusion Models is Easier than You ThinkGonzalo Martin Garcia, Karim Knaebel, Christian Schmidt, Daan de Geus, Alexander Hermans, Bastian LeibeWACV 2025
Single-step fine-tuning of diffusion models for depth and normal estimation with strong generalization.
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Benchmarks and Challenges in Pose Estimation for Egocentric Hand Interactions with ObjectsZicong Fan, Takehiko Ohkawa, Linlin Yang, Nie Lin, Zhishan Zhou, Shihao Zhou, Jiajun Liang, Zhong Gao, Xuanyang Zhang, Xue Zhang, Fei Li, Zheng Liu, Feng Lu, Karim Knaebel, Bastian Leibe, Jeongwan On, Seungryul Baek, Aditya Prakash, Saurabh Gupta, Kun He, Yoichi Sato, Otmar Hilliges, Hyung Jin Chang, Angela YaoECCV 2024
Analysis of HANDS23 challenge results for egocentric hand-object pose estimation, highlighting key challenges and effective modeling strategies.
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JointTransformerKarim Knaebel, Bastian LeibeICCV 2023 HANDS Workshop
Winner of the HANDS ARCTIC Challenge with joint reasoning over hands and objects.
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Point2Vec for Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Point CloudsKarim Knaebel, Jonas Schult, Alexander Hermans, Bastian LeibeGCPR 2023
Self-supervised pretraining on point clouds with strong downstream performance on classification and segmentation.
Code
- turm — TUI for the Slurm Workload Manager
- cfgx — Python-first config loader with parent chaining and CLI overrides
- specbuild — Registry-based object builder for nested configuration dictionaries
- trainloop — Minimal PyTorch training loop with hooks for logging and checkpoints
- itar — Tar file index for constant-time member access
- arxivit — LaTeX source cleaner with optional image resizing for arXiv uploads
- Iron — Modern weightlifting workout tracker for iOS, written in SwiftUI
- Phonograph — Material Design music player for Android
Contact
Email: hi@karimknaebel.com
