Marco Schouten

About

Hi, I'm Marco. I'm doing my PhD at DTU, where I'm lucky to be advised by Dim P. Papadopoulos and Serge Belongie. Before landing in Copenhagen, I studied Machine Learning at KTH in Stockholm and Computer Engineering at the University of Genoa.

Recently I have been intersted in:

• GenAI, Precise Image Editing
• LLM Agentic frameworks for creative processes.

When I'm not coding, you'll find me on a tennis court or sketching.

News

• 2026 — Off to Paris 🇫🇷 for a Research Scientist Internship at Adobe, working on LLM Agents in computer graphics
• 2025 — Summer school at ICVSS 2025 in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹
• 2023 — Moved to Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to start my PhD at DTU and join the Belongie Lab
• 2023 — Research Intern at Aptiv, Germany 🇩🇪
• 2022 — Research Intern at the Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre, Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪
• 2021 — Exchange at TU Delft, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Publications

• 
  HiddenObjects: Diffusion-Distilled Dense Spatial Priors for Object Placement Marco Schouten, Ioannis Siglidis, Serge Belongie, Dim P. Papadopoulos Under Review, 2026 — webpage
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  Instruction-Guided Precise Image Editing Using Multimodal LLMs Marco Schouten, M. Onurcan Kaya, Serge Belongie, Dim P. Papadopoulos CVEU @ CVPR Workshop - SCIA, 2025 — webpage
• 
  Sherlock Your Queries: Learning to Ask the Right Questions for Dialogue-Based Retrieval Dong Yun*, Marco Schouten*, Dim P. Papadopoulos (* equal contribution) arXiv, 2025 — arXiv

Service & Honors

Reviewer, IJCV (2026) · Hattrick Award, KTH (2020) · Member, LeadTheFuture (2020) · Scholarship, University of Genoa (2018–2020)

Always up for a a coffee chat — and a tennis rally.