Marco Schouten

About

I am a PhD student at DTU advised by Prof. Dim P. Papadopoulos and Prof. Serge Belongie. I completed my master's degree in Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Genoa.

The topics I particularly like are as follows:

• Controllable image synthesis and editing
• LLMs and agentic visual reasoning

News

• 2026 — Research Scientist Intern at Adobe, Paris 🇫🇷, working on LLM agents in computer graphics
• 2025 — Attended ICVSS 2025 in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹
• 2023 — Moved to Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to join DTU and Belongie Lab for my PhD
• 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
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  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)