Maximilian Denninger

Deep learning engineer at Apple. Former PhD cand. at German Aerospace Center (DLR). All opinions are my own.

[Markus Knauer @KnauerMarkus]

🚀 New paper in IEEE RA-L!

IROSA: Interactive Robot Skill Adaptation using Natural Language

Tell a robot "go faster" or "there's an obstacle" - it adapts. The LLM selects validated tool functions, no direct robot control: a zero-shot, local LLM.
#robotics #LLM #IROS2026 #HRI
👇

[Markus Knauer @KnauerMarkus]

Check out our paper presented at #ICRA2025

How can robotic systems articulate truthful answers about their internal knowledge in natural language? 🤖

📅 Presentation: May 20th, 2025, at 16:45 EDT in Room A314
📍 Poster session: Immediately following the talks

[Markus Knauer @KnauerMarkus]

🚀 Exciting news! Our work has been published in IEEE 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢����𝘥 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 (𝘙𝘈-𝘓).

See links in comments.

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

Starting my dream job at Apple today! I am so excited working on new and challenging problems.

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

BlenderProc 2.5.0 is out!

Features:
- segmentations now in the same rendering call
- support for MatterPort3d
- a Kinect depth noise model
- intersecting spotlights with the camera frustum, creating hard lighting situations

And much more!

https://t.co/iohDcBwsPb

[Martin Sundermeyer @ma_sundermeyer]

Submit your results to the #BOP Challenge in the next 4 weeks and show the world that your method works outside the LineMod/YCBV playground! Awards are golden this year 😉

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

BlenderProc 2.4.0 is out!

It now supports URDF files, so you can load and manipulate your own robot!

https://t.co/dLTV362Mc7

[Eric Brachmann @eric_brachmann]

Got a 6D pose paper accepted to #CVPR2022 or #ECCV2022? Great! You convinced the reviewers, now convince everyone else. The #BOP challenge accepts your submission until 14th Oct.

https://t.co/EqLpdkwzSs

@ma_sundermeyer @tomhodan @eccvconf

Your paper was rejected? 🧵👇

[Martin Sundermeyer @ma_sundermeyer]

The Benchmark on Object Pose Estimation 2022 is open! What is the actual best method today?
https://t.co/8wWpVNPB9D

Submit your results until 14.10.22 📅
Win awards at our R6D workshop @ECCV22 ���
https://t.co/dGjLX8AFmC

#CVPR #BOP #sim2real @tomhodan

[Martin Sundermeyer @ma_sundermeyer]

Our new work presents a very efficient 6-DoF object tracker & refiner. Looking forward to a real conference @ #CVPR2022 :)

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

@5trobl This is one of the reasons why it is so much faster now. It also makes it so much easier to use. Win-win!

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

BlenderProc 2.2.0 now supports blender 3.0.0! This means improved render times, making the generation of the perfect dataset even faster.

Go check it out yourself:

https://t.co/dLTV362Mc7
#MachineLearning #datasets #blender3d

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

@sebastianfeistl https://t.co/yjFzNL1w0G

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

BlenderProc 2.2.0 now supports blender 3.0.0! This means improved render times, making the generation of the perfect dataset even faster.

Go check it out yourself:

https://t.co/dLTV362Mc7
#MachineLearning #datasets #blender3d

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

BlenderProc got to a 1.000 stars on GitHub today. I can’t believe we got so far, when I started this years ago, I never imagined that so many people would use BlenderProc!

https://t.co/dLTV362Mc7

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

@Omar35478667 Can you please open an issue on the GitHub for BlenderProc with more details! We will help you there.

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

BlenderProc2 is out! So many new features a full python API and an easy command line interface. Explore it now, with a simple command: pip install blenderproc

https://t.co/dLTV362Mc7

#blenderproc #blender #deeplearning #machinelearning

[Klaus H. Strobl @5trobl]

Contributing to #BlenderProc you end up contributing to yourself. The tidy, well-organized code, their programming rules, and first and foremost the supportive and fun authors made this contribution my favorite task of the year @DenningerMax @ma_sundermeyer @cornerfarmer

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

Check out what @5trobl helped us to achieve:

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

BlenderProc 2.1.0 is out!

Blender excels in photometric realism w.r.t. actual images; now BlenderProc 2.1.0 adds pixel-accurate geometric realism as measured by geometric camera calibration.

https://t.co/dLTV362Mc7

#blender #blenderproc #deeplearning #machinelearning

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

PS: Check we did even more, for full details check out our change log:
https://t.co/iohDcBeRqB

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

BlenderProc 2.1.0 is out!

Blender excels in photometric realism w.r.t. actual images; now BlenderProc 2.1.0 adds pixel-accurate geometric realism as measured by geometric camera calibration.

https://t.co/dLTV362Mc7

#blender #blenderproc #deeplearning #machinelearning

[Maximilian Denninger @DenningerMax]

We have a nice example to show it is done:

https://t.co/lcz5evsRfp