Anagh Malik

I am a fourth-year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Toronto, supervised by David Lindell. I am affiliated with both the Toronto Computational Imaging Group and the Vector Institute. My work has been previously recognized with the CVPR 2025 Best Student Paper Award.

Previously, I completed my MRes at the Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial College London, where I worked on self-supervised segmentation, under the supervision of Andrew Davison and Ronald Clark.

Email:
anagh [at] cs [dot] toronto [dot] edu


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News
2026-05
Velox and Dark3R accepted to CVPR 2026!
2026-01
I was featured in a Veritasium video, discussing Flying with Photons!
2025-09
I was featured in The Executive Code podcast!
2025-06
Organizing the Physics-inspired 3D Vision and Imaging (Pi3DVI) workshop at CVPR 2025.
2025-04
Gave talks at the Stanford Graphics Seminar and the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab.
2025-04
Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light accepted to CVPR 2025 as an Oral!
2025-03
Started an internship at Apple Machine Learning Research in Cupertino!
2024-09
Flying with Photons accepted to ECCV 2024 as an Oral!
2023-10
TransientNeRF accepted to NeurIPS 2023 as a Spotlight!
Research

I am broadly interested in scene understanding. That is using visual cues to infer properites of objects and scenes.

Velox: Learning Representations of 4D Geometry and Appearance
Anagh Malik, Dorian Chan, Xiaoming Zhao, David B. Lindell, Oncel Tuzel, Jen-Hao Rick Chang
CVPR, 2026
project page / arXiv / code

A framework for learning compact latent representations of dynamic 4D objects from unstructured point clouds, enabling video-to-4D generation, cloth simulation, and 3D point tracking.

Dark3R: Learning Structure from Motion in the Dark
Andrew Y. Guo, Anagh Malik, SaiKiran Tedla, Yutong Dai, Yiqian Qin, Zach Salahe, Benjamin Attal, Sotiris Nousias, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, David B. Lindell
CVPR, 2026   (Highlight)
project page / arXiv / code

Recovers camera pose and depth maps from noisy low-light raw images for dense neural reconstruction, enabling accurate 3D scene recovery in extremely low-light conditions.

Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light
Anagh Malik*, Benjamin Attal*, Andrew Xie, Matthew O'Toole, David B. Lindell
CVPR, 2025   (Oral Presentation, Best Student Paper Award 🏆)
project page / arXiv / code

Time-resolved relighting and geometry estimation through radiance caching.

Opportunistic Single‑Photon Time of Flight
Sotiris Nousias*, Mian Wei*, Howard Xiao, Maxx Wu, Shahmeer Athar, Kevin J. Wang, Anagh Malik, David A. Barmherzig, David B. Lindell, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
CVPR, 2025   (Oral Presentation)
project page

We propose a passive single‑photon method that opportunistically recovers time‑of‑flight from ambient pulsed light sources.

Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light
Anagh Malik, Noah Juravsky, Ryan Po, Gordon Wetzstein, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, David B. Lindell
ECCV, 2024   (Oral Presentation)
project page / video / arXiv / code

Novel view synthesis of arbitrary light propagation videos - including effects such as scattering or interreflections.

Transient Neural Radiance Fields for Lidar View Synthesis and 3D Reconstruction
Anagh Malik, Parsa Mirdehghan, Sotiris Nousias, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, David B. Lindell
NeurIPS, 2023   (Spotlight)
project page / video / arXiv / code

We introduce a method to do novel view lidar synthesis, allowing sparse view scene reconstruction.

clean-usnob Exploring Neural Representations for Self-Supervised Segmentation
Anagh Malik
Master's Thesis, 2022

We develop a method for self-supervised segmentation through agreement and self-distillation.

clean-usnob SegDIP: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Randomly-Initialized CNNs for Interactive Segmentation
Anagh Malik, Shuaifeng Zhi, Marwan Taher, Ronald Clark, Andrew Davison
Technical Report 2021

We train an encoder-decoder network to map from xy-coordinates to RGB values and semantic classes, allowing real-time segmentation of an image.


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