Thies Peer Kersten
PhD student in Computer Vision · University of Amsterdam / 3DUniversum
I am a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam, working with 3DUniversum. My research is on change detection, spatial AI and scene understanding: how machines can build 3D maps of the world and keep them up to date as it changes. Before that I did an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at UvA and a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Münster.
News
- 2026GaME accepted to CVPR 2026.
- 2025Graduated cum laude from the MSc AI at UvA.
- 2024[Re] GNNInterpreter published in TMLR.
- 2024Teaching assistant for Computer Vision 1 at UvA.
Publications
GaME: Gaussian Mapping for Evolving Scenes
Vladimir Yugay, Thies Kersten, Luca Carlone, Theo Gevers, Martin R. Oswald, Lukas Schmid
CVPR 2026 · A Gaussian Splatting based mapping system that keeps a scene representation up to date under long-term changes.
[Re] GNNInterpreter: A Probabilistic Generative Model-Level Explanation for Graph Neural Networks
Ana-Maria Vasilcoiu, Thijs Stessen, Thies Kersten, Batu Helvacioğlu
TMLR 2024 · A reproducibility study of GNNInterpreter, showing that several of its claims do not reliably hold.
Education
- 2025 –PhD, Computer Vision
University of Amsterdam / 3DUniversum - 2023 – 2025MSc Artificial Intelligence, cum laude
University of Amsterdam - 2019 – 2023BSc Computer Science, minor in Mathematics
University of Münster