Marco Schouten

PhD student @ Technical University of Denmark, Research Affiliate @ Pioneer Centre for AI

I am a PhD student at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and research affiliate at the Pioneer Centre for AI. I am co-advised by Dim P. Papadopoulos and Serge Belongie. Previously, I was a research intern at Aptiv and TU Delft, earned my M.Sc. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and my B.Sc. from the University of Genoa.

My research focuses on personalization and control of generative models in computer vision, with applications to image generation, and editing.

marscho [at] dtu [dot] dk

Copenhagen 🇩🇰

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Research

POEM: Precise Object-level Editing via MLLM control
Marco Schouten, M. Onurcan Kaya, Serge Belongie, Dim P. Papadopoulos
SCIA, 2025
webpage | arXiv

POEM generates precise object masks from user-provided image editing instructions, enabling fine-grained control through intuitive text-based commands.