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Leo Segre

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, advised by Prof. Shai Avidan, and currently a Research Intern at the NVIDIA Research Israel AI Lab.

My research interests include AI, machine learning, and computer vision. More specifically, I work on 3D reconstruction methods such as NeRF and 3D Gaussian splatting, multi-view foundation models, and geometric correspondence in complex real-world scenes.


Publications

Multi-View Foundation Models teaser

Multi-View Foundation Models

Under Review
Leo Segre*, Or Hirschorn*, Shai Avidan

We introduce multi-view foundation models that equip powerful 2D vision backbones with the ability to reason jointly across multiple camera views. By explicitly incorporating camera geometry, our approach produces 3D-consistent semantic representations without per-scene optimization, enabling scalable 3D understanding and correspondence.

Scene Grounding in The Wild teaser

Scene Grounding in The Wild

CVPR 2026
Tamir Cohen, Leo Segre, Shay Shomer Chai, Shai Avidan, Hadar Averbuch-Elor

We address the problem of grounding partial, in-the-wild 3D reconstructions in a globally consistent reference model. By representing the reference scene as a feature-augmented 3D Gaussian Splatting model and solving an inverse feature-based optimization, our method recovers a global 6DoF pose and scale for each reconstruction — yielding consistent alignment even across disconnected scenes with no visual overlap.

Frequency Aware Gaussian Splatting Decomposition teaser

Frequency Aware Gaussian Splatting Decomposition

3DV 2026
*Yishai Lavi, *Leo Segre, Shai Avidan

We propose a frequency-aware decomposition of 3D Gaussian splatting that disentangles low- and high-frequency content in a scene. This separation improves rendering quality and robustness, and yields a more interpretable representation that is particularly useful for downstream tasks such as editing, cleanup, and reconstruction refinement.

Optimize the Unseen teaser

Optimize the Unseen

NeurIPS 2025
Leo Segre

We address the challenge of cleaning and improving neural 3D reconstructions in regions that are poorly observed or entirely unseen. Our method leverages semantic priors and multi-view consistency to hallucinate plausible geometry and appearance, yielding cleaner, more coherent reconstructions that generalize beyond the input views.

VF-NeRF teaser

VF-NeRF: Viewshed Fields for Rigid NeRF Registration

ECCV 2024
Leo Segre

We introduce VF-NeRF, a viewshed-based approach for rigid NeRF registration. By modeling which parts of a scene are visible from each camera pose, our method robustly aligns NeRFs to reference geometry, even in the presence of partial observations and large-scale outdoor environments.

Shape-Consistent GANs teaser

Shape-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-Modal Medical Segmentation Maps

ISBI 2022
Leo Segre*, Or Hirschorn*, Dvir Ginzburg, Dan Raviv

We propose a shape-consistent GAN framework for cross-modality adaptation between CT and MRI whole-heart scans. By enforcing geometric consistency across modalities, our method improves semantic segmentation performance when labeled data is limited or available only in one modality.

Talks

3D-Consistent Representations

University of Haifa Computer Science Department Seminar
May 17, 2026

3D-Consistent Representations

NVIDIA Israel Research Group
January 4, 2026

Understanding Scenes as 3D-Consistent Representations

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Pixel Club Seminar
December 16, 2025

Understanding Scenes as 3D-Consistent Representations

Weizmann Institute of Science Vision and AI Seminar
November 27, 2025

VF-NeRF: Viewshed Fields for Rigid NeRF Registration

Tel-Aviv University Computer Vision Seminar
June 18, 2024

VF-NeRF: Viewshed Fields for Rigid NeRF Registration

Tel-Aviv University Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
March 27, 2024