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Markus Gross
Ph.D. Student @ TU Munich
Research Associate @ Fraunhofer IVI
Affiliated Researcher @ MCML
About Me

I am a research associate at the Autonomous Aerial Systems Group of the Fraunhofer Institute, a Ph.D. student at the Computer Vision Group of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), advised by Prof. Dr. Daniel Cremers, and an affiliated researcher at the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML). Prior to that, I obtained the Master of Science with highest distinction in Computer Science from the Munich University of Applied Sciences.

My research interests include computer vision and machine learning, with their applications in mobile robotics, specifically autonomous flying and driving. I am also passionate about planetary robotics and spaceflight in general 🚀

News
2026
•   OccuFly accepted to CVPR 2026
2025
•   Affiliation with the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)
•   IPFormer accepted to NeurIPS 2025
•   Programm committee member of the CVPR 2025 DriveX Workshop
2024
•   CoHFF accepted to CVPR 2024
Education
  • Technical University of Munich
    Technical University of Munich
    Ph.D. Student
    Advisor: Prof. Daniel Cremers
    Computer Vision Group
    TUM School of CIT
    10/2024 - present
  • Munich University of Applied Sciences
    Munich University of Applied Sciences
    M. Sc. in Computer Science
    Grad. with highest distinction
    03/2020 - 07/2022
Experience
Scholarships
  • Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
    Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
    Non-financial support and financial funding
    10/2020 - 07/2022
  • Schotstek Foundation
    Schotstek Foundation
    Non-financial support
    10/2018 - 09/2019
  • The Boston Consulting Group
    The Boston Consulting Group
    Mentorship program
    10/2018 - 03/2019
Selected Publications
OccuFly: A 3D Vision Benchmark for Semantic Scene Completion from the Aerial Perspective
OccuFly: A 3D Vision Benchmark for Semantic Scene Completion from the Aerial Perspective

Markus Gross, Sai B. Matha, Aya Fahmy, Rui Song, Daniel Cremers, Henri Meeß

Accepted to CVPR 2026

OccuFly: A 3D Vision Benchmark for Semantic Scene Completion from the Aerial Perspective

Markus Gross, Sai B. Matha, Aya Fahmy, Rui Song, Daniel Cremers, Henri Meeß

Accepted to CVPR 2026

IPFormer: Visual 3D Panoptic Scene Completion with Context-Adaptive Instance Proposals
IPFormer: Visual 3D Panoptic Scene Completion with Context-Adaptive Instance Proposals

Markus Gross, Aya Fahmy, Danit Niwattananan, Dominik Muhle, Rui Song, Daniel Cremers, Henri Meeß

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025

IPFormer: Visual 3D Panoptic Scene Completion with Context-Adaptive Instance Proposals

Markus Gross, Aya Fahmy, Danit Niwattananan, Dominik Muhle, Rui Song, Daniel Cremers, Henri Meeß

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025