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Ziya
Erkoç

Computer Graphics & Vision

Email address

Ziya Erkoç

Publications

  • WorldAgents: Can Foundation Image Models be Agents for 3D World Models?

    Ziya Erkoç   Angela Dai   Matthias Nießner

    Technical University of Munich

    ECCV 2026
    Project Page Arxiv Video
    WorldAgents teaser

  • DreamEdit3D: Personalization of Multi-View Diffusion Models for 3D Editing

    Jinxin Ai   Matthias Nießner   Ziya Erkoç

    Technical University of Munich

    ECCV 2026
    Project Page Arxiv Video
    DreamEdit3D teaser

  • TriFlow: Generating Artist-Like 3D Mesh Topology via Nearest-Vertex Vector Fields

    Haoxuan Li 1   Ziya Erkoç 1   Daniele Sirigatti 2   Vladislav Rosov 2   Lei Li 3
    Angela Dai 1   Matthias Nießner 1

    1 TUM   2 AUDI AG   3 University of Virginia

    ECCV 2026
    Project Page Arxiv Video
    TriFlow teaser

  • MeshPad: Interactive Sketch-Conditioned Artist-Designed Mesh Generation and Editing

    Haoxuan Li 1   Ziya Erkoç 1   Lei Li 1   Daniele Sirigatti 2   Vladislav Rosov 2
    Angela Dai 1   Matthias Nießner 1

    1 TUM   2 AUDI AG

    ICCV 2025
    Project Page Arxiv Video
    MeshPad teaser

  • PrEditor3D: Fast and Precise 3D Shape Editing

    Ziya Erkoç 1   Can Gümeli 1   Chaoyang Wang 2   Matthias Niessner 1   Angela Dai 1
    Peter Wonka 2,3   Hsin-Ying Lee 2   Peiye Zhuang 2

    1 TUM   2 Snap Inc   3 KAUST

    CVPR 2025
    Project Page Arxiv Video
    PrEditor3D teaser

  • HyperDiffusion: Generating Implicit Neural Fields with Weight-Space Diffusion

    Ziya Erkoç 1   Fangchang Ma 2   Qi Shan 2   Matthias Nießner 1   Angela Dai 1

    1 TUM   2 Apple

    ICCV 2023
    Project Page Arxiv Video
    HyperDiffusion teaser

  • Skeleton-based Personality Recognition using Laban Movement Analysis

    Ziya Erkoç 1+   Serkan Demirci 1+   Sinan Sonlu 1   Uğur Güdükbay 1

    1 Bilkent University   + equal contribution

    Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions, PMLR 2022
    Publisher's Page PDF

  • Out-of-core Constrained Delaunay Tetrahedralizations for Large Scenes

    Ziya Erkoç 1   Aytek Aman 1   Uğur Güdükbay 1   Hang Si 2

    1 Bilkent University   2 WIAS-Berlin

    NUMGRID 2021
    Publisher's Page PDF
    Tetrahedralization of a crowded scene Tetrahedralization of the Armadillo model

Education

Technical University of Munich
Aug 2022 – Now
PhD Student
Advised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Nießner.
Bilkent University
Jan 2021 – Jul 2022
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Uğur Güdükbay.
Bilkent University
Aug 2016 – Jan 2021
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering · Valedictorian
My Valedictorian Speech

Experience

Snap Research
Jul 2024 – Oct 2024
Research Intern
Worked in the Creative Vision team. This internship resulted in PrEditor3D, published at CVPR 2025.
Bilkent University
Oct 2019 – Jan 2021
Undergraduate Researcher
Worked on an out-of-core constrained tetrahedralization algorithm under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Uğur Güdükbay.
TaleWorlds Entertainment
Jun 2020 – Aug 2020
Software Engineering Intern
Worked on game modding tools.
Google Summer of Code · cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
May 2019 – Aug 2019
Student
Modified a cancer pathway visualizer called PathwayMapper and embedded it into cBioPortal.
Demo Project Page Proceeding
Sabancı University
Jun 2018 – Aug 2018
Undergraduate Researcher
Worked on the visualization of Machine Learning algorithms.

Teaching Service

Technical University of Munich
Sep 2023 – Now
Teaching Assistant
Advanced Deep Learning for Computer Vision (ADL4CV) course.
Bilkent University
Sep 2021 – May 2022
Teaching Assistant
Organized project tasks and lab assignments and graded students for CS 102 – Algorithms and Programming II.
Bilkent University
Jan 2021 – Jun 2021
Teaching Assistant
Graded students and prepared lab assignments for CS 224 – Computer Organization.
Bilkent University
Feb 2019 – May 2019
Lab Assistant / Tutor
Tutored students of CS 224 – Computer Organization during lab sessions and collaborated with the instructor on preparing lab tasks.
TÜSİAD & Bilkent University
May 2018 – Jan 2019
Instructor
Taught coding (Scratch by MIT) to middle-school children.