Mert Karaoglu
@mertkaraoglu
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Studying 3D vision problems for robotic surgery. PhD Candidate @TumCamp | Senior Research Engineer @ImFusionGmbH 🟦
Munich, Bavaria
Joined May 2011
🧵LiteTracker is accepted to MICCAI 2025! LiteTracker is a low-latency tissue tracking method designed for real-time surgical applications.
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STIR Challenge 2025 is a wrap! Slides here: https://t.co/4MKhSJd6iK If you submitted and want to update, or if you didn't make it in time: you have until December 15th to participate! Thanks to our sponsors @IntuitiveSurg @ImFusionGmbH , and my co-organizer, @mertkaraoglu
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STIR Challenge 2025 update! We have extended the deadline to August 31. Submission details at
Our point tracking in surgery challenge deadline has been extended to August 31! See details above.
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📄 arXiv: https://t.co/KrxcILzF1G 💻 Code: https://t.co/iOtQ6zgg99 Many thanks to all collaborators at @ImFusionGmbH and @TumCamp : Wenbo Ji, Ahmed Abbas, @NassirNavab , @BusamBenjamin , and Alexander Ladikos. See you all in Daejeon 🇰🇷 #MICCAI2025
github.com
Official code repository for LiteTracker: Leveraging Temporal Causality for Accurate Low-latency Tissue Tracking; published at MICCAI 2025. - ImFusionGmbH/lite-tracker
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Key highlights: 🎞️ Frame-by-frame, low-latency tracking on commercial GPUs 🚀 >7× faster than its predecessor and >2× faster than current SOTA 🤝 Compatible with CoTracker3 weights — no retraining needed 📊 High accuracy tracking & occlusion prediction on STIR and SuPer
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It reframes tissue tracking as a long-term point tracking problem, extending the CoTracker3 architecture with a set of training-free, runtime optimizations — addressing the latency-accuracy tradeoff bottleneck head-on.
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🔗 STIR Dataset: https://t.co/T5wu2oFfNq 🔗 Baseline results on the last year's challenge: - https://t.co/ocWHaxXOPi - https://t.co/nWoOOXtwZO Many thanks to our sponsors @ImFusionGmbH and @IntuitiveSurg for their support and to @MICCAI_Society and @endo_vis for their hosting!
arxiv.org
Tissue tracking plays a critical role in various surgical navigation and extended reality (XR) applications. While current methods trained on large synthetic datasets achieve high tracking...
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🔗 Details on the submission, tasks and prizes: https://t.co/O5RXIJH9RD 🔗 Dataset from last year's challenge: https://t.co/kNcOlxTji3
#MICCAI2025 #EndoVis #STIRChallenge
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🧵STIR Challenge returns for MICCAI 2025 We're inviting researchers to submit their point tracking methods on our challenging surgical tissue tracking benchmark. If you're working on robust and efficient point tracking, this is a great opportunity to benchmark and compete.
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2025 STIR challenge update: - prizes posted - validation is open Modify, train, tweak any tracker of your choice and submit it! Register at https://t.co/gEM69Y80FQ to participate Final submissions are due August 20. #MICCAI2025 #EndoVis @endo_vis
@IntuitiveSurg
@ImFusionGmbH
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📢 Exciting news! Check out DynaMoN, our new paper on motion-aware, robust camera localization for dynamic neural radiance fields, now accepted to #IEEE RA-L! Huge thanks to the team for the amazing effort! 👉 https://t.co/GoCkHObSJH
@ImFusionGmbH @TumCamp @TUM_MIRMI #FAU
I am very excited to announce our paper “DynaMoN: Motion-Aware Fast and Robust Camera Localization for Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields” has been accepted to IEEE RA-L. (1/n)
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Paper Alert 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 NeRFtrinsic Four: An End-To-End Trainable NeRF Jointly Optimizing Diverse Intrinsic and Extrinsic Camera Parameters has been accepted to #CVIU!!! (1/4)
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📢 The challenge is officially over, but we are still open for submissions! Send in your method until Dec. 15 to contribute to our benchmark. Post-MICCAI submissions will also be invited to join in the summary paper. 🔗 For more details:
📢 Exciting news! We are organizing the STIR point tracking challenge this year at #MICCAI2024 @MICCAI_Society as a part of @endo_vis. 🔗 https://t.co/SNOf1jivTX
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🎉 The STIR Challenge presented this Oct. 10th in #endovis at #MICCAI2024 A huge thanks to co-organizers @mertkaraoglu, Soham & Jonathan; sponsors @ImFusionGmbH @nvidia @IntuitiveSurg, and participants! 📊 Results + slides are on our synapse page: https://t.co/EgnEjhtmkh
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It was a pleasure to organize the STIR challenge at @MICCAI_Society 2024 with @adam_thaddius and Jonathan McLeod. Many thanks to our sponsors @ImFusionGmbH, @IntuitiveSurg, and @nvidia, as well as @endo_vis for their great support and hosting. Congratulations to the winners!
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📣 We'll be presenting our point tracking challenge, STIR ( https://t.co/2Xy9ouRtbD) tomorrow, October 10th, at #MICCAI24 as part of the #endovis challenge! We've attached a map. Opening remarks: 8:00am STIR: 8:10am Sponsors: @IntuitiveSurg, @ImFusionGmbH, @nvidia
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Point tracking in surgery? Get ready for the STIR Challenge! We're presenting this Thursday, October 10. as part of @endo_vis at #MICCAI24 EndoVis opening remarks are at 8am, and we start at 8:10am. https://t.co/2Xy9ouRtbD
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📣 Vision community! We are extending the STIR Challenge deadline until Monday, September 16th; join us with your submissons at @MICCAI_Society 2024 in Morocco 🇲🇦 🔗
The STIR Challenge deadline has been extended to September 16th!
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All point tracking methods! Submission instructions are now posted for the STIR Point-Tracking Challenge! #EndoVis #MICCAI2024 Deadline: September 9th Details & Prizes: https://t.co/2Xy9ouRtbD
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