Dimitris Tzionas

Dimitris Tzionas

Assistant Professor

University of Amsterdam

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor for 3D Computer Vision at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) since June 2022.

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Earlier, I was a Research Scientist at the Perceiving Systems (PS) department at MPI for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS).

Even earlier, I was a PostDoc at the same department (PS @ MPI-IS) advised by Michael Black.

I received a PhD from the University of Bonn for my thesis on Hand-Object Interaction advised by Juergen Gall.

I studied Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki advised by L. Hadjileontiadis.

 

Research Direction

I conduct research on the intersection of Computer Vision (CV), Computer Graphics (CG) and Machine Learning (ML). My motivation is to understand and model how people look, move and interact with the physical world and with each other to perform tasks.

This involves (1) accurately “capturing” real people and their whole-body interactions with scenes and objects, (2) modeling their shape, pose and interaction relationships, (3) applying these models to reconstruct real-life actions in 3D/4D, and (4) using these models to generate realistic interacting avatars in 3D/4D.

Potential applications include Ambient Intelligence, Virtual Assistants, Human-Computer/Robot Interaction, Mixed Reality and the “Metaverse”.

The long-term goal is to develop human-centered AI that perceives humans, understands their behavior and helps them to achieve their goals.

Recent News

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Feb 2024:   I will give a talk @ ‘UvA Interdisciplinary Seminar on AI & Culture; Creative labour vis-à-vis generative AI’.       Tentative date: (05/2024).

Jan 2024:   Accepted paper at IJCV (special issue) - InterCap. Congrats Yinghao et al.!

Dec 2023:George Paschalidis starts his PhD – welcome on board!

Dec 2023:   Co-organizer for the CVPR'24 workshop: Rhobin challenge (with a great group of colleagues).

Oct 2023:   Accepted papers at 3DV 2024: POCO (congrats Sai et al.!) and GRIP (congrats Omid et al.!)

Sep 2023:   I serve as an Area Chair for 3DV 2024.

The above is news from the last 6 months. For the rest of news please click here.

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Assistant Professor
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
June 2022 – Present Amsterdam
Establishing a new research direction at the UvA on 3D Virtual Humans (3D/4D perception from images/videos, and 3D/4D synthesis). Teaching ‘Introduction to Computer Vision’ for the BSc in AI. Embedded in the Computer Vision lab.
 
 
 
 
 
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS)
Research Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS)
October 2018 – May 2022 Tübingen
The Research Scientist role (see description) in research institutes is roughly equivalent to an Assistant Professor at universities. Co-advising PhDs and co-leading part of the PS department’s research agenda.
 
 
 
 
 
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS)
PostDoc
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS)
October 2016 – October 2018 Tübingen
Working on 3D hand modeling (MANO, whole-body modeling and registration to 4D scans (SMPL+H), and 3D hand+object reconstruction from a color image (ObMan). Working at the PS department with Michael J. Black and Javier Romero.
 
 
 
 
 
University of Bonn
PhD
University of Bonn
May 2012 – August 2016 Bonn
PhD thesis on ‘Capturing Hand-Object Interaction and Reconstruction of Manipulated Objects’ from RGB-D input. Working under the advice of Prof. Juergen Gall.

Awards & Funding

Awards

Memberships

  • ELLIS society member since April 2022. Endorsed by Otmar Hilliges (ETH) & Marc Pollefeys (ETH).

Funding

  • 1 PhD (350k€, 4 years, 2024–), ELLIS-Amsterdam call. Co-supervised with Otmar Hilliges (ETH) through ELLIS.
  • 1 PhD (350k€, 4 years, 2023–), UvA, Part of tenure-track position. Co-supervised with Theo Gevers.
  • 1 PhD & 1 PostDoc (140k€, 1 year, 2022), BMBF, ‘Machine Learning for Interacting Human Avatars’.
  • 1 PhD (195k€ , 3 years, 2019–), BMBF, ‘Robust 3D Hand-Object Interaction’. Co-supervised with Michael J. Black (MPI-IS) & Cordelia Schmid (INRIA).

Press / Media

Service

Program Committee

 

Tutorials / Workshops

 

PhD Defence Committee

Name (Dr.)AffiliationDateNote
Enric CoronaPhD defense at UPC (Barcelona)16/11/2023External committee member
Yahui ZhangPhD defense at UvA (Amsterdam)20/12/2022Internal committee member
Vasileios ChoutasPhD defense at ETH (Zurich)02/12/2022I co-advised this thesis with M. J. Black at MPI-IS

 

Reviewer

NameConference / JournalYear(s)
CVPRConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition2016, 2019, 2020*, 2021*, 2023*
ICCVInternational Conference on Computer Vision2019*, 2021
ECCVEuropean Conference on Computer Vision2020
IJCVTransactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence2022-23
TPAMITransactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence2016-17, 2020, 2023-24
*Outstanding reviewer award

Other: IJCV 2023, ICRA ( 2017, 2019 ), IROS 2017 , RA - L 2018 , NeurIPS 2018 , IEEE VR 2020, HRI 2016, IJCAI 2019.

 

Teaching

Team

PhD candidates

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George Paschalidis

01/2024 - now @ UvA

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Dimitrije Antić

03/2023 - now @ UvA

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Sai Kumar Dwivedi

05/2021 - now @ MPI-IS

Co-advising with M. J. Black

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Yuliang Xiu

11/2020 - now @ MPI-IS

Co-advising with M. J. Black
Interned as PhD: Ubisoft, Meta (soon)
Soon: Assist. Prof. @ Westlake University

PhD alumni

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Omid Taheri

07/2018 - 04/2024 @ MPI-IS

Co-advising with M. J. Black
Interned as PhD: Adobe
Finalist for Meta PhD Scholarship
Next: PostDoc @ MPI-IS

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Vasileios Choutas

05/2018 - 12/2022 @ MPI-IS

Co-advising with M. J. Black
Interned as PhD: Microsoft, Meta
Next: Research Scientist @ Google

Long-term PhD collaborators

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Shashank Tripathi

10/2021 - now @ MPI-IS

PhD of M. J. Black
During our collaboration:
- PhD Scholar @ Meta
- Intern @ EPIC

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Mohamed Hassan

01/2018 - 06/2020 @ MPI-IS

PhD of M. J. Black @ MPI-IS
After our collab: Intern @ Adobe

PhD interns

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Yixin Chen

06/2022 - 12/2022 @ MPI-IS (remotely)

PhD of Song-Chun Zhu @ UCLA

Students (MSc/BSc)

#MSc theses:
Rick AkkermanUvA11/2023-Co-advised with V. F. Abrevaya.
Alex LabroUvA11/2023 -Co-advised with G. Paschalidis.
Romana WilschutUvA11/2022 - 08/2023
David HoffmannMPI04/2018 - 01/2020Co-advised with Siyu Tang.Next: PhD @ Uni-Freiburg/Bosch.
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Benjamin van AltenaUvA04/2023 - 07/2023Co-advised with Dimitrije Antić
Roan van BlankenUvA04/2023 - 07/2023Co-advised with Dimitrije AntićNext: MSc in AI @ UvA

Recent Publications

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