Maximilian Luz

PhD Student, Robot Learning Lab, University of Freiburg

Linux Kernel Maintainer

I am a PhD student at the Robot Learning Lab of the University of Freiburg, interested in Computer Vision, Robotics, and Machine Learning in general.

In my spare time, I am a Linux Kernel maintainer for Microsoft Surface devices.

News

Oct 2026Recognized as Top Reviewer at NeurIPS 2026.
Sep 2026WayPOP was accepted as a poster at NeurIPS 2026.
Sep 2026SGE was selected as a Best Paper Award finalist at IROS 2026.
Jun 2026SGE was accepted at IROS 2026.
May 2026LaGS was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

Selected PublicationsAll publications

Teaser for SGE

Streaming Gaussian Encoding for 4D Panoptic Occupancy Tracking

Maximilian Luz, Thomas Nürnberg, Yakov Miron, and Abhinav Valada

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026

Best Paper Award Finalist arXiv Website Code

Teaser for LaGS

Latent Gaussian Splatting for 4D Panoptic Occupancy Tracking

Maximilian Luz, Rohit Mohan, Thomas Nürnberg, Yakov Miron, Daniele Cattaneo, and Abhinav Valada

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026

arXiv IEEE Xplore Website Video Code

Teaser for MS-RAFT+

MS-RAFT+: High Resolution Multi-Scale RAFT

Azin Jahedi, Maximilian Luz, Marc Rivinius, Lukas Mehl, and Andrés Bruhn

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2023

1st Place, RVC 2022 Optical Flow Springer/IJCV Code

Awards & Honors

Oct 2026
Top Reviewer, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026
Certificate
Sep 2026
Best Paper Award Finalist, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026for Streaming Gaussian Encoding for 4D Panoptic Occupancy Tracking
Certificate arXiv Website Code
Oct 2022
1st Place, Optical Flow, Robust Vision Challenge 2022, in conjunction with ECCV 2022for MS-RAFT+: High Resolution Multi-Scale RAFT
Certificate Report Springer/IJCV Code

Open Source

I strive to publish the code for all of my papers. You can find it linked with each publication.

Maintainer of several Microsoft Surface platform drivers in the mainline Linux kernel, including the Surface System Aggregator Module (SSAM) subsystem.
Core maintainer of and contributor to the linux-surface project.