I am an associate professor at CTU in Prague and a researcher leading a team at the Visual Recognition Group (VRG). I received my PhD in December 2013 from NTUA, Greece, under the supervision of Yannis Avrithis and Stefanos Kollias. From 2014 to 2015, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Rennes, France, working with Hervé Jégou. In 2015, I moved to Prague for a postdoc at CTU with Ondřej Chum.
My team has been supported by a 5 years "Junior Star" starting grant (2021-2025) from the Czech science foundation (GACR), a Standard GACR grant (2026-2028), and two MSCA post-doctoral fellowships. My research focuses on computer vision, particularly on visual representation learning and crafting, vision-language models, as well as large-scale object retrieval and recognition, among other topics. I also care about the responsible use of AI and remain opposed to potential military and surveillance applications. Despite my work with digital images, my heart still belongs to analog photography and the darkroom, where I continue to enjoy working with film.
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| Aug 10, 2026 | send me CV, transcripts, and motivation letter if you are interested in pursuing PhD or internship |
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| Jun 30, 2026 | one paper accepted at ECCV 2026. |
| Jun 25, 2026 | one paper accepted at TMLR. |
| Jun 15, 2026 | organizing the CV4GOOD workshop at ECCV 2026 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | organizing the instance-level recognition and generation workshop at ECCV 2026 |
| Feb 25, 2026 | three papers accepted at CVPR 2026 (one oral and award candidate, one highlight) and one at the findings workshop. |
| Feb 20, 2026 | two papers accepted at ICLR 2026. |
| Nov 10, 2025 | received a 3 year grant from the Czech Science Foundation (Standard GACR Grant) |
| Oct 20, 2025 | received a google grant (googler-initiated research gift) |
| Sep 1, 2025 | one paper accepted at ICCV 2025 as highlight. |
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@article{wu2026instance,
title={Instance-Level Generation for Representation Learning},
author={Wu, Yankun and Laskar, Zakaria and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Garcia, Noa and Tolias, Giorgos},
journal={TMLR},
year={2026}
}@inproceedings{stojnic2026eccv,
title={Invisible Shortcuts: Why Vision Encoders Know Your Camera},
author={Stojnić, Vladan and Ramos, Ryan and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Garcia, Noa and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={ECCV},
year={2026},
}@inproceedings{aravanis2026cvpr,
title = {Retrieve and Segment: Are a Few Examples Enough to Bridge the Supervision Gap in Open-Vocabulary Segmentation?},
author = {Aravanis, Tilemachos and Stojnic, Vladan and Psomas, Bill and Komodakis, Nikos and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle = {CVPR},
year = {2026},
}@inproceedings{kombol2026cvpr,
title = {{SPAR}: Single-Pass Any-Resolution {ViT} for Open-vocabulary Segmentation},
author = {Kombol, Naomi and Martinovic, Ivan and Segvic, Sinisa and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle = {CVPR},
year = {2026},
}@inproceedings{wei2026cvpr,
title = {Global-Aware Edge Prioritization for Pose Graph Initialization},
author = {Wei, Tong and Tolias, Giorgos and Matas, Jiri and Barath, Daniel},
booktitle = {CVPR},
year = {2026},
}@inproceedings{tharwat2026cvprw,
title = {Indexing Multimodal Language Models for Large-scale Image Retrieval},
author = {Tharwat, Bahey and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Suma, Pavel and Reid, Ian and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle = {CVPRW},
year = {2026},
}@inproceedings{psomas2026iclr,
title = {Attention, Please! Revisiting Attentive Probing Through the Lens of Efficiency},
author = {Psomas, Bill and Christopoulos, Dionysis and Baltzi, Eirini and Kakogeorgiou, Ioannis and Aravanis, Tilemachos and Komodakis, Nikos and Karantzalos, Konstantinos and Avrithis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle = {ICLR},
year = {2026},
page={https://vrg.fel.cvut.cz/ep/}
}@inproceedings{suma2026iclr,
title = {{ELViS}: Efficient Visual Similarity from Local Descriptors that Generalizes Across Domains},
author = {Suma, Pavel and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Kalantidis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle = {ICLR},
year = {2026},
}@inproceedings{psomas2025neurips,
title={Instance-Level Composed Image Retrieval},
author={Psomas, Bill and Retsinas, George and Efthymiadis, Nikos and Filntisis, Panagiotis and Avrithis, Yannis and Maragos, Petros and Chum, Ondrej and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={NeurIPS},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{ramos2025iccv,
title={Processing and acquisition traces in visual encoders: What does CLIP know about your camera?},
author={Ramos, Ryan and Stojnić, Vladan and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Nakashima, Yuta and Tolias, Giorgos and Garcia, Noa},
booktitle={ICCV},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{khan2025bmvc,
title={Category-level Text-to-Image Retrieval Improved: Bridging the Domain Gap with Diffusion Models and Vision Encoders},
author={Khan, Faizan Farooq and Stojnić, Vladan and Laskar, Zakaria and Elhoseiny, Mohamed and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={BMVC},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{kordopatis2025cvpr,
title={ILIAS: Instance-Level Image retrieval At Scale},
author={Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Stojnić, Vladan and Manko, Anna and Šuma, Pavel and Ypsilantis, Nikolaos-Antonios and Efthymiadis, Nikos and Laskar, Zakaria and Matas, Jiří and Chum, Ondřej and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{stojnic2025cvpr,
title={LPOSS: Label Propagation Over Patches and Pixels for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation},
author={Stojnic, Vladan and Kalantidis, Yannis and Matas, Jiri and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{xiao2025cvpr,
title={LOCORE: Image Re-ranking with Long-Context Sequence Modeling},
author={Xiao, Zilin and Suma, Pavel and Sachdeva, Ayush and Wang, Hao-Jen and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Tolias, Giorgos and Ordonez, Vicente},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{laskar2025cvpr,
title={A Dataset for Semantic Segmentation in the Presence of Unknowns},
author={Laskar, Zakaria and Vojir, Tomas and Grcic, Matej and Melekhov, Iaroslav and Gangisettye, Shankar and Kannala, Juho and Matas, Jiri and Tolias, Giorgos and Jawahar, C.V.},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{efthymiadis2025wacva,
title={Composed Image Retrieval for Training-Free Domain Conversion},
author={Efthymiadis, Nikos and Psomas, Bill and Laskar, Zakaria and Karantzalos, Konstantinos and Avrithis, Yannis and Chum, Ondřej and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={WACV},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{efthymiadis2025wacvb,
title={Crafting Distribution Shifts for Validation and Training in Single Source Domain Generalization},
author={Efthymiadis, Nikos and Tolias, Giorgos and Chum, Ondrej},
booktitle={WACV},
year={2025},
}@inproceedings{suma2024eccv,
title={AMES: Asymmetric and Memory-Efficient Similarity Estimation for Instance-level Retrieval},
author={Suma, Pavel and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Iscen, Ahmet and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={ECCV},
year={2024},
}@inproceedings{stojnic2024cvpr,
title={Label Propagation for Zero-shot Classification with Vision-Language Models},
author={Stojnic, Vladan and Kalantidis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2024},
}@article{wang2024ijcv,
title={HSCNet++: Hierarchical Scene Coordinate Classification and Regression for Visual Localization with Transformer},
author={Wang, Shuzhe and Laskar, Zakaria and Melekhov, Iaroslav and Li, Xiaotian and Zhao, Yi and Tolias, Giorgos and Kannala, Juho},
journal={IJCV},
year={2024},
}@inproceedings{stojnic2024wacv,
title={Training Ensembles with Inliers and Outliers for Semi-supervised Active Learning},
author={Stojnic, Vladan and Laskar, Zakaria and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={WACV},
year={2024},
}@inproceedings{psomas2024igrass,
title={Composed Image Retrieval for Remote Sensing},
author={Psomas, Bill and Kakogeorgiou, Ioannis and Efthymiadis, Nikos and Tolias, Giorgos and Chum, Ondrej and Avrithis, Yannis and Karantzalos, Konstantinos},
booktitle={IGRASS},
year={2024},
}@article{pizzi2024cviu,
title={The 2023 Video Similarity Dataset and Challenge},
author={Pizzi, Ed and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Patel, Hiral and Postelnicu, Gheorghe and Ravindra, Sugosh Nagavar and Gupta, Akshay and Papadopoulos, Symeon and Tolias, Giorgos and Douze, Matthijs},
journal={CVIU},
year={2024},
}@inproceedings{bertrand2023neurips,
title={Test-time Training for Matching-based Video Object Segmentation},
author={Bertrand, Juliette and Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Kalantidis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={NeurIPS},
year={2023},
}@inproceedings{kordopatis2023cvprw,
title={Self-Supervised Video Similarity Learning},
author={Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos and Tolias, Giorgos and Tzelepis, Christos and Kompatsiaris, Ioannis and Patras, Ioannis and Papadopoulos, Symeon},
booktitle={CVPR workshop - L3D-IVU},
year={2023},
}@inproceedings{efthymiadis2022icpr,
title={Edge Augmentation for Large-Scale Sketch Recognition without Sketches},
author={Efthymiadis, Nikos and Tolias, Giorgos and Chum, Ondrej},
booktitle={ICPR},
year={2022},
}@inproceedings{ypsilantis2021neurips,
title={The Met Dataset: Instance-level Recognition for Artworks},
author={Ypsilantis, Nikolaos and Garcia, Noa and Han, Guangxing and Ibrahimi, Sarah and Van Noord, Nanne and Tolias, Giorgos},
booktitle={NeurIPS (Track Datasets and Benchmarks)},
year={2021},
}@inproceedings{tolias2020eccv,
title={Learning and aggregating deep local descriptors for instance-level recognition},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Jenicek, Tomas and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={ECCV},
year={2020},
}@inproceedings{iscen2020eccv,
title={Graph convolutional networks for learning with few clean and many noisy labels},
author={Iscen, Ahmet and Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Chum, Ondřej and Schmid, Cordelia},
booktitle={ECCV},
year={2020},
}@inproceedings{tolias2019iccv,
title={Targeted Mismatch Adversarial Attack: Query with a Flower to Retrieve the Tower},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Radenovic, Filip and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={ICCV},
year={2019},
}@inproceedings{mukundan2019cvpr,
title={Explicit Spatial Encoding for Deep Local Descriptors},
author={Mukundan, Arun and Tolias, Giorgos and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2019},
}@article{simeoni2019mva,
title={Graph-based particular object discovery},
author={Siméoni, Oriane and Iscen, Ahmet and Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Chum, Ondřej},
journal={Machine and Vision Applications (MVA)},
year={2019},
}@inproceedings{iscen2018accv,
title={Hybrid Diffusion: Spectral-Temporal Graph Filtering for Manifold Ranking},
author={Iscen, Ahmet and Avrithis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos and Furon, Teddy and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={ACCV},
year={2018},
}@article{tolias2018ivc,
title={Efficient Contour Match Kernel},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Chum, Ondřej},
journal={Image and Vision Computing},
year={2018},
}@inproceedings{radenovic2018cvpr,
title={Revisiting Oxford and Paris: Large-Scale Image Retrieval Benchmarking},
author={Radenovic, Filip and Iscen, Ahmet and Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2018},
}@inproceedings{iscen2018cvprb,
title={Fast Spectral Ranking for Similarity Search},
author={Iscen, Ahmet and Avrithis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos and Furon, Teddy and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2018},
}@inproceedings{simeoni2018wacv,
title={Unsupervised object discovery for instance recognition},
author={Siméoni, Oriane and Iscen, Ahmet and Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={WACV},
year={2018},
}@inproceedings{iscen2017cvpr,
title={Efficient Diffusion on Region Manifolds: Recovering Small Objects with Compact CNN Representations},
author={Iscen, Ahmet and Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Furon, Teddy and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2017},
}@inproceedings{tolias2017cvpr,
title={Asymmetric Feature Maps with Application to Sketch Based Retrieval},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2017},
}@inproceedings{iscen2017icmr,
title={Panorama to panorama matching for location recognition},
author={Iscen, Ahmet and Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Furon, Teddy and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={ICMR},
year={2017},
}@inproceedings{mukundan2017scia,
title={Robust Data Whitening as an Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares Problem},
author={Mukundan, Arun and Tolias, Giorgos and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={SCIA},
year={2017},
}@inproceedings{radenovic2016eccv,
title={CNN Image Retrieval Learns from BoW: Unsupervised Fine-Tuning with Hard Examples},
author={Radenovic, Filip and Tolias, Giorgos and Chum, Ondřej},
booktitle={ECCV},
year={2016},
}@inproceedings{tolias2016iclr,
title={Particular object retrieval with integral max-pooling of CNN activations},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Sicre, Ronan and Jégou, Hervé},
booktitle={ICLR},
year={2016},
}@article{tolias2015cviu,
title={Rotation and translation covariant match kernels for image retrieval},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Bursuc, Andrei and Furon, Teddy and Jégou, Hervé},
journal={CVIU},
year={2015},
}@article{iscen2015tip,
title={A comparison of dense region detectors for image search and fine-grained classification},
author={Iscen, Ahmet and Tolias, Giorgos and Gosselin, Phillipe and Jégou, Hervé},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
year={2015},
}@inproceedings{bursuc2015icmr,
title={Kernel local descriptors with implicit rotation matching},
author={Bursuc, Andrei and Tolias, Giorgos and Jégou, Hervé},
booktitle={ICMR},
year={2015},
}@article{tolias2015ijcv,
title={Image search with selective match kernels: aggregation across single and multiple images},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Jégou, Hervé},
journal={IJCV},
year={2015},
}@article{tolias2014pr,
title={Visual query expansion with or without geometry: refining local descriptors by feature aggregation},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Jégou, Hervé},
journal={Pattern Recognition},
year={2014},
}@article{avrithis2014ijcv,
title={Hough Pyramid Matching: Speeded-up geometry re-ranking for large scale image retrieval},
author={Avrithis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos},
journal={IJCV},
year={2014},
}@article{tolias2014cviu,
title={Towards large-scale geometry indexing by feature selection},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Kalantidis, Yannis and Avrithis, Yannis and Kollias, Stefanos},
journal={CVIU},
year={2014},
}@inproceedings{tolias2013iccv,
title={To aggregate or not to aggregate: Selective match kernels for image search},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Jégou, Hervé},
booktitle={ICCV},
year={2013},
}@inproceedings{tolias2012acmmm,
title={SymCity: Feature Selection by Symmetry for Large Scale Image Retrieval},
author={Tolias, Giorgos and Kalantidis, Yannis and Avrithis, Yannis},
booktitle={ACM Multimedia},
year={2012},
}@article{kalantidis2011mtap,
title={VIRaL: Visual Image Retrieval and Localization},
author={Kalantidis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos and Avrithis, Yannis and Phinikettos, Marios and Spyrou, Evagelos and Mylonas, Phivos and Kollias, Stefanos},
journal={MTAP},
year={2011},
}@inproceedings{avrithis2010acmmma,
title={Feature Map Hashing: Sub-linear Indexing of Appearance and Global Geometry},
author={Avrithis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos and Kalantidis, Yannis},
booktitle={ACM Multimedia},
year={2010},
}@inproceedings{avrithis2010acmmmb,
title={Retrieving Landmark and Non-Landmark Images from Community Photo Collections},
author={Avrithis, Yannis and Kalantidis, Yannis and Tolias, Giorgos and Spyrou, Evagelos},
booktitle={ACM Multimedia},
year={2010},
}@inproceedings{papadopoulos2010icip,
title={Image clustering through community detection on hybrid image similarity graphs},
author={Papadopoulos, Symeon and Zigkolis, Christos and Tolias, Giorgos and Kalantidis, Yannis and Mylonas, Phivos and Kompatsiaris, Yiannis and Vakali, Athena},
booktitle={ICIP},
year={2010},
}