Ayce Idil Aytekin

I am a PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department, advised by Prof. Christian Theobalt.

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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News

Nov 2025: Our paper FollowMyHold was accepted to 3DV 2026.
Apr 2025: Our paper PhysDynPose was accepted to CVPR Rhobin Workshop 2025.

Research

	Follow My Hold: Hand-Object Interaction Reconstruction through Geometric Guidance Ayce Idil Aytekin, Helge Rhodin, Rishabh Dabral, Christian Theobalt 3D Vision (3DV) 2026, Vancouver [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 CVPRW 2025, Nashville [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, San Diego California
	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, Safranbolu

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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