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Martin Büchner

PhD Student
Postal address:

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Technische Fakultät
Robot Learning Lab
Georges-Köhler-Allee 080
D-79110 Freiburg i. Br., Germany

Office: 080-00-022
Email: buechner@cs.uni-freiburg.de

About me

Research Interests

  • Learning on Graph Structures
  • 3D Scene Graphs, Vision-Language Navigation & Manipulation, Open-Vocabulary Perception
  • State Estimation for Robotics

Teaching

Students

  • Elias Greve: Collaborative Panoptic Mapping (Oct 22)
  • Amrutha Venkatesan: 3D Multi-Agent Multi-Object Tracking (May 22)
  • Abdelrhman Werby: Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Scene Graphs (Jun 23)
  • Simon Dorer: Learning Lane Graphs Using Transformers from Aerial Imagery (Oct 23)
  • Rishabh Verma: 3D Scene Graph Filtering for Robotic Planning Using Graph Neural Networks (Nov 23)
  • Yusuf Salcan: Grasping Pairs of Points Using Graph Neural Networks (Apr 24)
  • Tim Steinke: Collaborative Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs for Automated Driving
  • Amrutha Venkatesan: Multi-Modal Data Association in 3D Multi-Object Tracking using Graph Transformers (Mercedes Benz AG)
  • Abdelrhman Werby: TBA
  • Lennart Koenig: TBA

Publications

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  • Abdelrhman Werby*, Martin Büchner*, Adrian Röfer*, Chenguang Huang, Wolfram Burgard, Abhinav Valada,
    Articulated Object Estimation in the Wild
    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025.
    Best Paper Award Runner-Up: RSS'25 Workshop on Egocentric Perception and Action for Robot Learning.
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  • Christina Kassab*, Sacha Morin*, Martin Büchner*, Matías Mattamala, Kumaraditya Gupta, Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull, Maurice Fallon,
    OpenLex3D: A Tiered Evaluation Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Representations
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.19764, 2025.
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  • Mohammad Mohammadi, Daniel Honerkamp, Martin Büchner, Matteo Cassinelli, Tim Welschehold, Fabien Despinoy, Igor Gilitschenski, Abhinav Valada,
    MORE: Mobile Manipulation Rearrangement Through Grounded Language Reasoning
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
    RSS Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Emerging Opportunities & Contemporary Challenges, 2025.
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  • Martin Büchner, Liza Dahiya, Simon Dorer, Vipul Ramtekkar, Kenji Nishimiya, Daniele Cattaneo, Abhinav Valada,
    Visual Loop Closure Detection Through Deep Graph Consensus
    International Conference on Robots and Intelligent Systems (IROS), 2025.
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  • Tim Steinke*, Martin Büchner*, Niclas Vödisch*, Abhinav Valada,
    Collaborative Dynamic 3D Scene Graphs for Open-Vocabulary Scene Understanding
    International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
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  • Christina Kassab, Matías Mattamala, Sacha Morin, Martin Büchner, Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull, Maurice Fallon,
    The Bare Necessities: Designing Simple, Effective Open-Vocabulary Scene Graphs
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.01539, 2024.
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  • Martin Büchner*, Simon Dorer*, Abhinav Valada
    Learning Lane Graphs from Aerial Imagery Using Transformers
    RSS 2024 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles Across Scales (AVAS)
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  • Abdelrhman Werby*, Chenguang Huang*, Martin Büchner* , Abhinav Valada, Wolfram Burgard
    Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs for Language-Grounded Robot Navigation
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2024.
    ICRA 2024 Workshop on Vision and Language Models for Navigation and Manipulation (VLMNM)
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  • Daniel Honerkamp*, Martin Büchner*, Fabian Despinoy, Tim Welschehold, Abhinav Valada
    Language-Grounded Dynamic Scene Graphs for Interactive Object Search with Mobile Manipulation
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024.
    Spotlight Talk: RSS 2024 1st Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics (SemRob)
    Spotlight Talk: ICRA 2024 Workshop on Vision and Language Models for Navigation and Manipulation (VLMNM)
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  • Elias Greve*, Martin Büchner*, Niclas Vödisch*, Wolfram Burgard, Abhinav Valada
    Collaborative Dynamic 3D Scene Graphs for Automated Driving
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 🇯🇵
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  • Max Argus*, Abhijeet Nayak*, Martin Büchner, Silvio Galesso, Abhinav Valada , Thomas Brox
    Compositional Servoing by Recombining Demonstrations
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 🇯🇵
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  • Raphael Trumpp*, Martin Büchner*, Abhinav Valada, Marco Caccamo
    Efficient Learning of Urban Driving Policies Using Bird's-Eye-View Representations
    IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2023
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  • Martin Büchner*, Jannik Zürn*, Ion-George Todoran, Abhinav Valada, Wolfram Burgard
    Learning and Aggregating Lane Graphs for Urban Automated Driving
    IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023.
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  • Martin Büchner, Abhinav Valada
    3D Multi-Object Tracking Using Graph Neural Networks with Cross-Edge Modality Attention
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022 + IROS.
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  • Ana Petrovska, Malte Neuss, Sebastian Bergemann, Martin Buechner, M. Ansab Shohab,
    Smart Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems: How can Exploration and Learning Improve Performance in a Partially Observable Multi-Agent Context?
    ADAPTIVE 2021: The Thirteenth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications, 2021.
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