Dominik Schnaus

I am passionate about self-supervised learning, multi-modality, and generative models in computer vision and beyond. Currently, I am pursuing my Ph.D. at the Computer Vision Group at TUM supervised by Prof. Daniel Cremers under the lead of Dr. Xi Wang. Before that, I completed my my M.Sc. in Mathematics in Data Science and my B.Sc. in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science at TUM.

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Updates

May 2025 The code for It's A (Blind) Match! was released on Github.

March 2025 The pre-print of our new paper It's A (Blind) Match! is now online.

February 2025 It's A (Blind) Match! was accepted at CVPR 2025.

More updates

September 2023 The code for Learning Expressive Priors for Generalization and Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks and Kronecker-Factored Optimal Curvature was released on Github.

July 2023 The pre-print of our new paper Learning Expressive Priors for Generalization and Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks is now online.

April 2023 Learning Expressive Priors for Generalization and Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks was accepted at ICML 2023.

April 2022 Started Ph.D. in Computer Vision at the Computer Vision Group at TUM supervised by Prof. Daniel Cremers,

November 2021 Kronecker-Factored Optimal Curvature was accepted at the Bayesian Deep Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2022.

October 2021 Finished M.Sc. Mathematics in Data Science at TUM.

October 2019 Started M.Sc. Mathematics in Data Science at TUM.

October 2019 Finished my B.Sc. Mathematics at TUM.

Publications

It's a (Blind) Match! Towards Vision-Language Correspondence without Parallel Data
Dominik Schnaus, Nikita Araslanov, Daniel Cremers
CVPR, 2025
project page / paper / arXiv / code

Vision-Language models need a lot of paired training data. Can we match vision and language without any supervision? Our work shows that it could be indeed feasible.

On multi-scale Graph Representation Learning
Christian Koke, Dominik Schnaus, Yuesong Shen, Abhishek Saroha, Marvin Eisenberger, Bastian Rieck, Michael M Bronstein, Daniel Cremers
LMRL at ICLR, 2024
paper

We show that existing graph neural networks struggle with graphs at different resolutions. We propose a modification of the message passing paradigm to overcome this issue.

Ramp Rate Metric Suitable for Solar Forecasting
Bijan Nouri, Yann Fabel, Niklas Blum, Dominik Schnaus, Luis F. Zarzalejo, Andreas Kazantzidis, Stefan Wilbert
Solar RRL, 2024
paper

We propose a new ramp rate metric for solar irradiance forecasting.

Combining Deep Learning and Physical Models: A Benchmark Study on All-Sky Imager-Based Solar Nowcasting Systems
Yann Fabel, Bijan Nouri, Stefan Wilbert, Niklas Blum, Dominik Schnaus, Rudolph Triebel Luis F. Zarzalejo, Enrique Ugedo, Julia Kowalski, Robert Pitz-Paal
Solar RRL, 2024
paper

We introduce a transformer model for solar irradiance nowcasting from all-sky imagers.

Learning Expressive Priors for Generalization and Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks
Dominik Schnaus, Jongseok Lee, Daniel Cremers, Rudolph Triebel
ICML, 2023
paper / arXiv / poster / code

We use Laplace approximation to learn expressive priors for neural networks. This improves the uncertainty estimation and PAC-Bayes generalization bounds.

Kronecker-Factored Optimal Curvature
Dominik Schnaus, Jongseok Lee, Daniel Cremers, Rudolph Triebel
BDL at NeurIPS, 2021
paper / poster / code

Leveraging the power method for finding better Kronecker-factored approximations of the Fisher Information matrix.