Publications

2026

1. 

   Steerable Visual Representations

   Jona Ruthardt*, Manu Gaur*, Deva Ramanan, Makarand Tapaswi, and Yuki M. Asano

   European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Apr 2026

   Bib HTML PDF Code Oral

   @article{ruthardt_steervit_2026,
     author = {Ruthardt*, Jona and Gaur*, Manu and Ramanan, Deva and Tapaswi, Makarand and Asano, Yuki M.},
     title = {Steerable Visual Representations},
     journal = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
     year = {2026},
     month = apr,
   }

2. 

   MissionBench: Zero-Shot Mission-Level Evaluation for Aerial MLLM Agents

   Suman Navaratnarajah*, Taehyoung Kim*, Jona Ruthardt*, Ishaan Bhimwal, Ryousuke Yamada, Yannik Blei, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22014, Jul 2026

   Bib HTML PDF Code

   @article{navaratnarajah_missionbench_2024,
     title = {MissionBench: Zero-Shot Mission-Level Evaluation for Aerial MLLM Agents},
     author = {Navaratnarajah*, Suman and Kim*, Taehyoung and Ruthardt*, Jona and Bhimwal, Ishaan and Yamada, Ryousuke and Blei, Yannik and Burgard, Wolfram and Asano, Yuki M.},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22014},
     year = {2026},
     month = jul,
   }

3. 

   Better Language Models Exhibit Higher Visual Alignment

   Jona Ruthardt, Gertjan J. Burghouts, Serge Belongie, and Yuki M. Asano

   Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), Jan 2026

   Bib HTML PDF Code

   @article{ruthardt_sharelock_2024,
     author = {Ruthardt, Jona and Burghouts, Gertjan J. and Belongie, Serge and Asano, Yuki M.},
     title = {Better Language Models Exhibit Higher Visual Alignment},
     journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)},
     year = {2026},
     month = jan,
   }

2023

1. 

   [Re] On the Reproducibility of CartoonX

   Elias Dubbeldam*, Aniek Eijpe*, Jona Ruthardt*, and Robin Sasse*

   ReScience C, Jul 2023

   Bib HTML PDF

   @article{elias_dubbeldam_2023_8173672,
     author = {Dubbeldam*, Elias and Eijpe*, Aniek and Ruthardt*, Jona and Sasse*, Robin},
     title = {[Re] On the Reproducibility of CartoonX},
     journal = {ReScience C},
     year = {2023},
     volume = {9},
     number = {2},
     month = jul,
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8173672},
   }

2022

1. 

   A System-driven Automatic Ground Truth Generation Method for DL Inner-City Driving Corridor Detectors

   Jona Ruthardt, and Thomas Michalke

   In 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Jul 2022

   Bib HTML PDF

   @inproceedings{egolane,
     author = {Ruthardt, Jona and Michalke, Thomas},
     booktitle = {2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)},
     title = {A System-driven Automatic Ground Truth Generation Method for DL Inner-City Driving Corridor Detectors},
     year = {2022},
   }