Hedvig Kjellström

I am a Professor in the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH, and also affiliated with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Swedish e-Science Research Centre, and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany. A short bio is found here.

I do research in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. The general theme of my research is methods for enabling artificial agents to interpret human and animal behavior. As outlined in the Portfolio pages, these ideas are applied in the study of human aesthetic bodily expressions such as in music and dance, modeling and interpreting human communicative behavior, and the understanding of animal behavior and experiences. In order to accomplish this we develop methods for agents to perceive the world and build representations of it through vision.

Currently I am a Program Chair for CVPR 2025.

I teach in the Bachelor program Engineering Mathematics and in the Master programs Machine Learning, Computer Science and Systems, Control and Robotics at KTH. My current courses are found below.

In my free time I play the double bass in different settings, more info here.

News

	On December 19, 2024, I took part in the radio show Förmiddag med Louise Epstein and talked about how AI and humans can live together. Here is the espisode (in Swedish).
	Since 2023 I am part of the AI exhibition at Tekniska museet in Stockholm (in Swedish with English subtitles). I can really recommend a visit to this incredibly exciting museum, crossing science, technology, and art.
	On September 14, 2023, I featured in the UR documentary series Sverige Forskar and talked about our research on computer analysis of horse behavior. Here is the espisode (in Swedish).
	NEW PAPER: Ci Li, Yi Yang, Zehang Weng, Elin Hernlund, Silvia Zuffi, and Hedvig Kjellström. Dessie: Disentanglement for articulated 3D horse shape and pose estimation from images.In Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2024. Data and code
	NEW PAPER: Ci Li, Ylva Mellbin, Johanna Krogager, Senya Polikovsky, Martin Holmberg, Nima Ghorbani, Michael J. Black, Hedvig Kjellström, Silvia Zuffi, and Elin Hernlund. The Poses for Equine Research Dataset (PFERD). Nature Scientific Data 11, 497, 2024. Data and code
	NEW PAPER: Silvia Zuffi, Ylva Mellbin, Ci Li, Markus Hoeschle, Hedvig Kjellström, Senya Polikovsky, Elin Hernlund, and Michael J. Black. VAREN: Very accurate and realistic equine network. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024. Videos and code