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Pattern Recognition and Image Processing

Dept. of Computer Science Faculty of Engineering

Max Argus

PhD Student

Computer Vision Lab
Department of Computer Science
University of Freiburg
Germany

Office location:
Georges-Köhler-Allee, Building 052, Room 1-19
D-79110, Freiburg im Breisgau

Phone: +49 761 203 97630
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Brief Bio

I received my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics degree at the University of Heidelberg. My master's thesis was completed with Bjoer Ommer.
In October 2017 I joined the Computer Vision Group in Freiburg under Prof. Thomas Brox where I worked together with Wolfram Burgard on computer vision for robot manipulation. I completed my PhD in February 2022, and have worked as a postdoc in the group since then.

Scientific Interests

Computer Vision for Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Vision and Language

Learning from Demonstration
Visual Servoing
XAI (Explainable AI)

Publications

2025

Journal

Selective Concept Bottleneck Models Without Predefined Concepts Paper doi> Code/data

Simon Schrodi, J. Schur, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), May 2025

Conference

When and How Does CLIP Enable Domain and Compositional Generalization? Paper doi> Code/data

Elias Kempf, Simon Schrodi, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Models Paper doi> Code/data

Simon Schrodi, David T. Hoffmann, Max Argus, V. Fischer, Thomas Brox

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

2024

Conference

CrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity Paper

A. Bhatt, D. Palenicek, B. Belousov, Max Argus, Artemij Amiranashvili, Thomas Brox, J. Peters

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

Compositional Servoing by Recombining Demonstrations

Max Argus, A. Nayak, M. B?chner, Silvio Galesso, A. Valada, Thomas Brox

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations Paper doi> Code/data

Simon Schrodi, Karim Farid, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2024

2023

Conference

Far Away in the Deep Space: Dense Nearest-Neighbor-Based Out-of-Distribution Detection Paper

Silvio Galesso, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Workshops, 2023

Climate-sensitive Urban Planning through Optimization of Tree Placements Paper Code/data

Simon Schrodi, F. Briegel, Max Argus, A. Christen, Thomas Brox

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2023

2022

Conference

Conditional Visual Servoing for Multi-Step Tasks Paper

S. Izquierdo, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022

2021

Conference

Temporal shift GAN for large scale video generation Paper

A. Munoz, Mohammadreza Zolfaghari, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021

Miscellaneous

One of our robots was featured in this university project video.