Hidir Yesiltepe

PhD Student at Virginia Tech

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I am a PhD student at Virginia Tech, affiliated with the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, where I am advised by Pinar Yanardag. My research specializes in controllable video generation where I have explored broad spectrum of topics including Motion Transfer, Semantic Video Editing, Video Super-Resolution, Autoregressive Video Distillation, and Novel View Synthesis. Previously, I was interned as a Research Intern at Adobe and Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon.

Prior to my PhD, I graduated from METU Computer Engineering. During my Bachelor's, I had the opportunity to conduct generative modeling research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and University of Edinburgh in UK.


News

Sep, 2025 Dynamic View Synthesis as an Inverse Problem has been accepted at NeurIPS 2025!
Sep, 2025 LoRAShop has been accepted at NeurIPS 2025 as a Spotlight paper!
May, 2025 Joined Adobe as a Research Intern.
May, 2025 Recognized as a Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR 2025.
May, 2025 Our proposal for Personalization in Generative AI Workshop at ICCV’25 has been accepted!
Sep, 2024 StyleBreeder has been accepted at NeurIPS 2024!
May, 2024 Joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern.
Feb 2024 RAVE has been accepted as a Highlight paper at CVPR 2024!
Aug, 2023 Started PhD at Virginia Tech.

Selected Publications

  1. NeurIPS
    Dynamic View Synthesis as an Inverse Problem
    Hidir Yesiltepe, Pinar Yanardag
    NeurIPS, 2025
  2. LoRAShop: Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Generation and Editing with Rectified Flow Transformers
    Yusuf Dalva, Hidir Yesiltepe, Pinar Yanardag
    NeurIPS, 2025 (Spotlight - Top 3%)
  3. Stylebreeder: Exploring and Democratizing Artistic Styles Through Text-to-Image Models
    Matthew Zheng, Enis Simsar, Hidir Yesiltepe, Federico Tombari,  Joel Simon, Pinar Yanardag
    NeurIPS, 2024
  4. CVPR
    RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models
    Ozkur Kara, Bariscan Kurtkaya, Hidir Yesiltepe, James M. Rehg, Pinar Yanardag
    CVPR, 2024 (Highlight)