Mohammad Mohammadi

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where I am advised by Prof. Igor Gilitschenksi. I’m currently a research intern at the Samsung AI Center in Toronto. Previously, I interned at the Robot Learning Lab at the University of Freiburg.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. During my Bachelor, I had the chance to intern at EPFL, Max-Planck Institute, and CUHK.

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Research

Generally, I am interested in designing intelligent systems, e.g. active agents, with high performance in real-world. My current research spans low-level vision (event-based vision, computational photography) and robotics.

News

  • July 2026: Why Low-Light Cameras Go Color Blind is accepted at ICCP 2026 and recommended to a Special Issue of PAMI! 🎉
  • October 2025: I am attending IROS 2025, presenting MORE and TESPEC! TESPEC is presented at ICCV as well. 🎉
  • July 2025: Invited talk on event cameras at the Toronto Robotics Conference.
  • June 2025: MORE is accepted at IROS 2025! 🎉
  • June 2025: MORE is accepted at RSS 2025 Workshop on Mobile Manipulation!

Publications and Pre-prints

Why Low-Light Cameras Go Color Blind: Removing Color Bias in Raw Denoising
Mohammad Mohammadi, Sina Honari, Stavros Tsogkas, Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong, Michael S. Brown, Iqbal Mohomed, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Alex Levinshtein, Igor Gilitschenski
ICCP, 2026 (Recommended to Special Issue, PAMI)
project page, arXiv, code (coming soon)

We identify a systematic color shift in low-light raw denoising: the black level a camera reports in its metadata can be inaccurate, violating the zero-mean noise assumption behind raw denoisers and baking a color bias into their output. We model this black-level error and supervise its estimation with a two-pass network, erasing the bias and setting a new state of the art among blind raw denoising methods. We also trace a similar color shift in the SIDD ground truth and release SIDD-CC, a color-corrected version of the dataset.


TESPEC: Temporally-Enhanced Self-Supervised Pretraining for Event Cameras
Mohammad Mohammadi, Ziyi Wu, Igor Gilitschenksi
ICCV, 2025
project page, Code and Checkpoints

We propose TESPEC, a self-supervised pretraining framework designed to capture long-term spatio-temporal information from event data. Unlike existing approaches that pretrain feedforward models on short event streams, TESPEC is tailored for recurrent models and leverages long event sequences. Using a masked image modeling strategy and a novel event accumulation method, TESPEC reconstructs pseudo-grayscale videos. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance in downstream tasks such as object detection, semantic segmentation, and monocular depth estimation


MORE: Mobile Manipulation Rearrangement Through Grounded Language Reasoning
Mohammad Mohammadi *, Daniel Honerkamp*, Martin Büchner*, Matteo Cassinelli*, Tim Welschehold, Fabien Despinoy, Igor Gilitschenski, Abhinav Valada
IROS, 2025
project page, code (coming soon)

We tackle mobile manipulation rearrangement tasks from the Behavior-1k dataset, where a robot is required to solve complex tasks requiring exploration, navigation, and manipulation in multi-room environments. The goal is to rearrange objects in a scene based on natural language instructions. We introduce MORE, a novel framework that leverages a large language model to reason about high-level planning, combined with low-level real-world subpolicies.


Implicit Poisoning Attacks in Two-Agent Reinforcement Learning...
Mohammad Mohammadi *, Jonathan Nöther *, Debmalya Mandal, Adish Singla, Goran Radanovic
AAMAS, 2023

We study targeted poisoning attacks in a two-agent setting, where an attacker implicitly poisons the effective environment of one agent by modifying the policy of its peer. We provide the computational complexity analysis alongside an approximate algorithm.


PALMER: Perception-Action Loop with Memory for Long-Horizon Planning
Onur Beker, Mohammad Mohammadi, Amir Zamir
NeurIPS, 2022
project page

We introduce PALMER, a long-horizon planning method that directly operates on high-dimensional sensory input observable by an agent on its own (e.g., images from an onboard camera).

More about me!

I’m a big fan of stand-up comedy (Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr are my all-time favorites). I enjoy playing tennis, reading non-fiction, and cooking Persian dishes. I'm also on a mission to find the best coffee in Toronto ☕.


Design and source code from Jon Barron's website.