Hello, I'm Maksim Kukushkin

I’m a PhD Student in the Neuromorphic Information Processing Group at Leipzig University. In addition, I work as a Research Associate in the Digital Research Methods in Medicine Group at Martin Luther University. My PhD is supervised by Jun.-Prof. Thomas Schmid and Prof. Martin Bogdan.

I was also a visiting PhD student in the MaVi Group and worked with Prof. Tilo Burghardt and Prof. Majid Mirmehdi.

My research interests span the broad area of deep learning, computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, multimodal learning, and action recognition.

Before PhD, I worked @CHECK24 and @Posterlounge.

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News

Feb 2025:
One paper accepted to CVPR’25! 🎉
Dec 2025:
One co-authored paper accepted to Multimedia Tools and Applications! 🎉
Jul 2024:
I joined Digital Methods in Medicine group at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
May 2024:
Excited to start my 3-month research stay with the MaVi Group at the University of Bristol! 🇬🇧
May 2024:
One paper accepted to ECML-PKDD’24! 🎉
Apr 2024:
One paper accepted to PBVS@CVPR’24! 🎉

Selected publications

The PanAf-FGBG Dataset: Understanding the Impact of Backgrounds in Wildlife Behaviour Recognition

Otto Brookes*, Maksim Kukushkin*, Majid Mirmehdi, Colleen Stephens, Paula Dieguez, Thurston C. Hicks, Sorrel Jones, Kevin Lee, Maureen S. McCarthy, Amelia Meier, Emmanuelle Normand, Erin G. Wessling, Roman M. Wittig, Kevin Langergraber, Klaus Zuberbühler, Lukas Boesch, Thomas Schmid, Mimi Arandjelovic, Hjalmar Kühl, Tilo Burghardt

CVPR, 2025 Best Paper Award Candidate, Oral Presentation

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BiMAE-A Bimodal Masked Autoencoder Architecture for Single-Label Hyperspectral Image Classification

Maksim Kukushkin, Martin Bogdan, Thomas Schmid

PBVS@CVPR, 2024

[ Paper ] [ Poster ] [ Code ]

BiCAE – A Bimodal Convolutional Autoencoder for Seed Purity Testing

Maksim Kukushkin, Martin Bogdan, Thomas Schmid

ECML PKDD, 2024 Oral Presentation

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Deep dive into KABR: a dataset for understanding ungulate behavior from in-situ drone video

Maksim Kholiavchenko, Jenna Kline, Maksim Kukushkin, Otto Brookes, Samuel Stevens, Isla Duporge, Alec Sheets, Reshma R. Babu, Namrata Banerji, Elizabeth Campolongo, Matthew Thompson, Nina Van Tiel, Jackson Miliko, Eduardo Bessa, Majid Mirmehdi, Thomas Schmid, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Tilo Burghardt, Charles V. Stewart

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 Journal Paper

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Miscellaneous

Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2025
Supervisor:

M. Schirmer (2024), Master thesis "Spectrum of Knowledge: Pre-Training of Transformer-Based Masked Autoencoders for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Applications"