Marco Schouten

PhD Candidate in Computer Vision · DTU & Pioneer Centre for AI

marscho [at] dtu [dot] dk · Google Scholar · GitHub · LinkedIn

I am a PhD candidate at DTU and the Pioneer Centre for AI, advised by Prof. Dim P. Papadopoulos and Prof. Serge Belongie (Belongie Lab). My research focuses on visual computing: generative models, multimodal learning, and scene understanding.

Previously, research intern at Aptiv and the Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre.

Outside work I enjoy drawing

I will join Adobe in Paris as a Research Scientist Intern for summer 2026.

Publications

	HiddenObjects: Diffusion-Distilled Dense Spatial Priors for Object Placement Marco Schouten, Ioannis Siglidis, Serge Belongie, Dim P. Papadopoulos Under Review, 2026 — webpage
	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) · Selected, ICVSS (2025) · Hattrick Award, KTH (2020) · Selected, LeadTheFuture (2020) · Scholarship, University of Genoa (2018–2020)