Saman Motamed

Doctoral Student

About me

I am Saman (Sam) Motamed, a first year PhD student at the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology, Sofia University from April 2023. I am supervised by Prof. Luc Van Gool.

Broadly speaking, my interests revolve around generative vision models, unsupervised learning, and harnessing the power of large vision and language models towards personalised tasks.

Education

  • KAUST, September 2022 – Feb 2023
    Visiting Researcher
  • Carnegie Mellon University, August 2021 – November 2022
    Visiting Researcher
  • University of Toronto, September 2019 – June 2021
    M.S in Medical Science 
  • University of Toronto, September 2014 – July 2019
    H.B.Sc. in Computer Science (With High Distinction)

Awards

Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Open Fellowship Award (Top 5% of department) – 2021

Canada Graduate Scholarship – NSERC – 2020

Publications

Generative Visual Prompt: Unifying Distributional Control of Pre-Trained Generative Models
Chen Henry Wu, Saman Motamed, Shaunak Srivastava, Fernando De La Torre
NeurIPS 2022

Saman Motamed, Patrik Rogalla, Farzad Khalvati

Nature Scientific Reports

Saman Motamed, Patrik Rogalla, Farzad Khalvati

Informatics In Medicine Unlocked

Saman Motamed, Farzad Khlvati

IEEE EMBC 2021

Saman Motamed, Farzad Khalvati

IEEE EMBC 2021

2024

Saman Motamed; Wouter Van Gansbeke; Luc Van Gool
Investigating the Effectiveness of Cross-Attention to Unlock Zero-Shot Editing of Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
In: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2024) (workshop)

Reni Paskaleva, Mykyta Holubakha, Andela Ilic, Saman Motamed, Luc Van Gool, Danda Paudel
A Unified and Interpretable Emotion Representation and Expression Generation.
In: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2024)

Saman Motamed, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool
Lego: Learning to Disentangle and Invert Concepts Beyond Object Appearance in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
In: The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)

2023

Saman Motamed, Jianjin Xu, Chen Henry Wu, Christian Hane, Jean-Charles Bazin, Fernando de la Torre
PATMAT: Person Aware Tuning of Mask-Aware Transformer for Face inpainting
In: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)