Talking Papers Podcast

Talking Papers Podcast

🎙️ Welcome to the Talking Papers Podcast: Where Research Meets Conversation 🌟 Are you ready to explore the fascinating world of cutting-edge research in computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, graphics, and beyond? Join us on this podcast by researchers, for researchers, as we venture into the heart of groundbreaking academic papers. At Talking Papers, we've reimagined the way research is shared. In each episode, we engage in insightful discussions with the main authors of academic papers, offering you a unique opportunity to dive deep into the minds behind the innovation. 📚 Structure That Resembles a Paper 📝 Just like a well-structured research paper, each episode takes you on a journey through the academic landscape. We provide a concise TL;DR (abstract) to set the stage, followed by a thorough exploration of related work, approach, results, conclusions, and a peek into future work. 🔍 Peer Review Unveiled: "What Did Reviewer 2 Say?" 📢 But that's not all! We bring you an exclusive bonus section where authors candidly share their experiences in the peer review process. Discover the insights, challenges, and triumphs behind the scenes of academic publishing. 🚀 Join the Conversation 💬 Whether you're a seasoned researcher or an enthusiast eager to explore the frontiers of knowledge, Talking Papers Podcast is your gateway to in-depth, engaging discussions with the experts shaping the future of technology and science. 🎧 Tune In and Stay Informed 🌐 Don't miss out on the latest in research and innovation. Subscribe and stay tuned for our enlightening episodes. Welcome to the future of research dissemination – welcome to Talking Papers Podcast! Enjoy the journey! 🌠 #TalkingPapersPodcast #ResearchDissemination #AcademicInsights

Episodes

February 17, 2025 97 mins

The PhD Advisor Hunt - A Student's Perspective
Choosing the right PhD advisor is a game-changer for your academic journey. In this episode, Derek and Itzik break down everything you need to know when selecting the perfect advisor — from assessing their mentoring style to understanding lab culture and research alignment. 🧠✨

Key Takeaways:

How to evaluate an advisor’s support, availability, and career guid...

Mark as Played

🎙️ Welcome to the latest episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this exciting installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Dale Decatur, a talented 3rd year PhD student from the University of Chicago's 3DL lab, where he studies computer graphics, 3D computer vision, and deep learning.

📄 In this episode, we delved into Dale's groundbreaking paper titled "3D Paintbrush: Local Stylization of 3D Shapes with ...

Mark as Played
June 3, 2024 30 mins

🎙️ **Unveiling 3DInAction with Yizhak Ben-Shabat | Talking Papers Podcast** 🎙️

📚 *Title:* 3DInAction: Understanding Human Actions in 3D Point Clouds  
📅 *Published In:* CVPR 2024  
👤 *Guest:* Yizhak (Itzik) Ben-Shabat

Welcome back to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in academic research directly from early career academics and PhD stud...

Mark as Played
March 13, 2024 42 mins

 Talking Papers Podcast Episode: "Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion" with Jason Zhang


Welcome to the latest episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! This week's guest is Jason Zhang, a PhD student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University who joined us to discuss his paper, "Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion". The paper was published in the highly-...

Mark as Played
February 16, 2024 52 mins

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this episode, I had the pleasure of hosting Jiahao Li, a talented PhD student at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), who discussed his groundbreaking research paper titled "Instant3D: Fast Text-to-3D with Sparse-View Generation and Large Reconstruction Model". This paper, published in ICLR 2024, introduces a novel method that revolutionize...

Mark as Played

In this exciting episode of #TalkingPapersPodcast, we have the pleasure of hosting Ana Dodik, a second-year PhD student at MIT. We delve into her research paper titled "Variational Barycentric Coordinates." Published in SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023, this paper significantly contributes to our understanding of the optimization of generalized barycentric coordinates.

The paper introduces a robust variational technique that...

Mark as Played
November 22, 2023 68 mins

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this episode, we delve into the fascinating world of self-supervised learning with our special guest, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv. Together, we explore and dissect their research paper titled "Reverse Engineering Self-Supervised Learning," published in NeurIPS 2023.

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a game-changing technique in the field of m...

Mark as Played
November 9, 2023 59 mins

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting the brilliant Zoë Marschner as we delved into the fascinating world of Constructive Solid Geometry on Neural Signed Distance Fields. This exceptional research paper, published in SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, explores the cutting-edge potential of neural networks in shaping geometric representations.

In our conversat...

Mark as Played
September 29, 2023 35 mins

🎙️Join us on this exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast as we sit down with the talented Sadegh Aliakbarian to explore his groundbreaking ICCV 2023 paper "HMD-NeMo: Online 3D Avatar Motion Generation From Sparse Observations" . Our guest, will take us on a journey through this pivotal research that addresses a crucial aspect of immersive mixed reality experiences.

🌟 The quality of these experiences hin...

Mark as Played
September 28, 2023 56 mins

Join us on this exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast as we sit down with the brilliant Jeong Joon Park to explore his groundbreaking paper, "CC3D: Layout-Conditioned Generation of Compositional 3D Scenes," just published at ICCV 2023.

Discover CC3D, a game-changing conditional generative model redefining 3D scene synthesis. Unlike traditional 3D GANs, CC3D boldly crafts complex scenes with multiple obje...

Mark as Played
September 6, 2023 29 mins

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Chengfenfg Xu to discuss his paper "NeRF-Det: Learning Geometry-Aware Volumetric Representation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection" which was published at ICCV2023.

In recent times, NeRF has gained widespread prominence, and the field of 3D detection has encountered well-recognized challenges. The...

Mark as Played
August 9, 2023 50 mins

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Tomas Jakab to discuss his paper "MagicPony: Learning Articulated 3D Animals in the Wild" which was published at CVPR 2023.

The motivation behind the MagicPony methodology stems from the challenge posed by the scarcity of labeled data, particularly when dealing with real-world scenarios involving ...

Mark as Played
July 20, 2023 26 mins

All links are available in this blog post

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Shir Iluz to discuss her groundbreaking paper titled "Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography" which won the SIGGRAPH 2023 Honorable Mention award.

This scientific paper introduces an innovative approach for text morphing based on semantic context. ...

Mark as Played
July 10, 2023 45 mins

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Yawar Siddiqui to chat about his CVPR 2023 paper "Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields".

All links are available in the blog post.

In this paper, they proposed a new method for "lifting" 2D panoptic segmentation into a 3D volume represented as neural fields using in-the-wild scene images. While the semantic segmen...

Mark as Played
June 13, 2023 46 mins

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Kejie Li to chat about his CVPR 2023 paper "MobileBrick: Building LEGO for 3D Reconstruction on Mobile Devices".

All links are available in the blog post.

In this paper, they proposed a new dataset and paradigm for evaluating 3D object reconstruction. It is very difficult to create a digital twin of 3D objects, even with expensive sensors. They intr...

Mark as Played
May 17, 2023 34 mins

All links are available in the blog post.

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Jiahao Zhang to chat about our CVPR 2023 paper "Aligning Step-by-Step Instructional Diagrams to Video Demonstrations".

furniture assembly diagram. To do that, we collected and annotated a brand new dataset: "IKEA Assembly in the Wild" where we aligned YouTube videos with IKEA's instruction man...

Mark as Played
March 29, 2023 49 mins

All links are available in the blog post: https://www.itzikbs.com/inr2vec/

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Luca De Luigi. We had a great chat about his paper “Deep Learning on Implicit Neural Representations of Shapes”, AKA INR2Vec, published in ICLR 2023 .

In this paper, they take implicit neural representations to the next level and use them as input signals for neural networks to solve m...

Mark as Played
March 13, 2023 45 mins

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Yael Vinker. We had a great chat about her paper "CLIPasso: SEmantically-Aware Object Sketching”, SIGGRAPH 2022 best paper award winner. 

In this paper, they convert images into sketches with different levels of abstraction. They avoid the need for sketch datasets by using the well-known CLIP model to distil the semantic concepts from sketches and images. There is no netwo...

Mark as Played

All links are available in the blog post.

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, we hosted Amir Belder. We had a great chat about his paper "Random Walks for Adversarial Meshes”, published in SIGGRAPH 2022.

In this paper, they take on the task of creating an adversarial attack for triangle meshes. This is a non-trivial task since meshes are irregular. To solve the irregularity they use random walks ...

Mark as Played
December 6, 2022 40 mins

In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Silvia Sellán. We had a great chat about her paper "Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction”, published in SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. 

In this paper, they take on the task of surface reconstruction with a probabilistic twist. They take the well-known Poisson Surface reconstruction algorithm and generalize it to give it a full statistical formalism. Essentially their method quan...

Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    Welcome to Bookmarked by Reese’s Book Club — the podcast where great stories, bold women, and irresistible conversations collide! Hosted by award-winning journalist Danielle Robay, each week new episodes balance thoughtful literary insight with the fervor of buzzy book trends, pop culture and more. Bookmarked brings together celebrities, tastemakers, influencers and authors from Reese's Book Club and beyond to share stories that transcend the page. Pull up a chair. You’re not just listening — you’re part of the conversation.

    Dateline NBC

    Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

    On Purpose with Jay Shetty

    I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.

    Cold Case Files: Miami

    Joyce Sapp, 76; Bryan Herrera, 16; and Laurance Webb, 32—three Miami residents whose lives were stolen in brutal, unsolved homicides.  Cold Case Files: Miami follows award‑winning radio host and City of Miami Police reserve officer  Enrique Santos as he partners with the department’s Cold Case Homicide Unit, determined family members, and the advocates who spend their lives fighting for justice for the victims who can no longer fight for themselves.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.