Sagie Benaim

About

I am an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an Amazon Scholar. I'm honored to be a 2024 Alon Scholarship Recipient. Previously, I was a postdoc at DIKU working with Prof. Serge Belongie and a member of the Pioneer Center for AI. Before that, I completed my PhD at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Lior Wolf. My research is focused on 3D and Generative AI. In particular, I aim to find efficient methods for reconstructing, generating, and understanding the dynamic 3D world. To this end, I use tools from computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics. I am always seeking excellent students and postdocs. If you are interested, please contact me! As an ELLIS Scholar, I also we

Education

• Ph.D., Tel Aviv University

Selected publications

• GlobalSplat: Efficient Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting via Global Scene Tokens
• MV-Forcing: Long Multi-View Video Generation via 4D-Grounded Spatio-Temporal Self-Forcing
• DyPE: Dynamic Position Extrapolation for Ultra High Resolution Diffusion
• LaMI: Augmenting Large Language Models via Late Multi-Image Fusion
• Let It Snow! Animating 3D Gaussian Scenes with Dynamic Weather Effects via Physics-Guided Score Distillation
• RAD: Retrieval-Augmented Monocular Metric Depth Estimation for Underrepresented Classes
• SemanticMoments: Training-Free Motion Similarity via Third Moment Features
• Splat and Distill: Augmenting Teachers with Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction for 3D-Aware Distillation
• Structurally Disentangled Feature Fields Distillation for 3D Understanding and Editing
• Lang3D-XL: Language Embedded 3D Gaussians for Large-scale Scenes