Hey

I'm Tim, I do research in computer vision, especially on SSL and ViTs.
Currently, I'm a PhD student at FAIR Paris (Meta) and Inria, advised by Maxime Oquab, Julien Mairal and Piotr Bojanowski.

Publications

Main author

- Darcet et al. "Cluster and Predict Latent Patches for Improved Masked Image Modeling", under review
- Darcet et al. "Vision transformers need registers" ICLR 2024 oral
- Oquab*, Darcet*, Moutakanni* et al. "DINOv2: Learning robust visual features without supervision" TMLR 2024 featured certification

Other

- Jose et al. "DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image-and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment", submitted to CVPR 2025
- Vo et al. "Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach." ArXiv 2024

Awards

ICLR 2024 outstanding paper award, for "Vision transformers need registers"
TMLR 2024 outstanding certification finalist, for "DINOv2: Learning robust visual features without supervision"

Socials / contacts

- timothee dot darcet at gmail dot com
- twitter.com/timdarcet
- bsky.app/profile/timdarcet.bsky.social
- linkedin.com/in/timdarcet