Ayce Idil Aytekin

I am a PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department.

My research focuses on 3D hand-object interaction and scene understanding from visual and tactile input. I have also worked on physics-based 3D human pose estimation, diffusion model efficiency, and medical imaging. Ultimately, I aim to enable intuitive human-robot interaction through robust 3D perception.

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Research
Follow My Hold: Hand-Object Interaction Reconstruction through Geometric Guidance
Ayce Idil Aytekin, Helge Rhodin, Rishabh Dabral, Christian Theobalt,
ArXiv, 2025
[project page] [code]
Physics-based Human Pose Estimation from a Single Moving RGB Camera
Ayce Idil Aytekin, Chuqiao Li, Diogo Luvizon, Rishabh Dabral, Martin Oswald, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt,
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) Workshops, 2025
[code]
COVID-19 Detection from Respiratory Sounds with Hierarchical Spectrogram Transformers
Ayce Idil Aytekin, Onat Dalmaz, Kaan Gonc, Haydar Ankishan, Emine U Saritas, Ulas Bagci, Haydar Celik, Tolga Cukur,
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023
[project page] [code]
Detecting COVID-19 from respiratory sound recordings with transformers
Ayce Idil Aytekin, Onat Dalmaz, Haydar Ankishan, Emine U. Saritas, Ulas Bagci, Tolga Cukur, Haydar Celik,
Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2022: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 2022
Multi-Contrast MRI Synthesis with Channel-Exchanging-Network
Onat Dalmaz, Ayce Idil Aytekin, Salman Ul Hassan Dar, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Tolga Cukur,
30th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2022
Education
PhD student, MPII & Saarland University
July 2024 - present
PhD student (preparatory phase), Saarland University via cs@maxplanck program
October 2022 - June 2024
BSc Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University
Sept 2018 - June 2022
Ranked 3rd among 2022 graduates with GPA 3.96/4.00
Work experience
UMRAM
Undergraduate researcher working on COVID-19 detection and multi-contrast MRI synthesis
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Mentor: Prof Tolga Cukur
ASELSAN
Digital design intern
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021

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