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.
Aug 2023: Two BSc theses and a MSc thesis submitted (UvA). Congrats Benjamin, Roan & Romana!
Jul 2023: Open PhD position at the UvA (Deadine is over).
Jul 2023: Accepted paper at ICCV 2023: DECO – congrats Shashank et al.!
Jun 2023: Guest lecture (1h) on 3D perception of humans at UvA’s “Computer Vision II” course.
May 2023: Outstanding Reviewer award for CVPR 2023 (top 3.5%).
Apr 2023: Congrats to Shashank & Omid for their distinctions in the Meta 2023 fellowship program!
Mar 2023: Dimitrije Antic starts his PhD – welcome on board!
Feb 2023: Accepted papers at CVPR 2023: HOT (congrats Yixin et al.!), IPMAN (congrats Shashank et al.!), ECON (congrats Yuliang et al.!), ARCTIC (congrats Alex et al.!), and SGNify (congrats Paola et al.!).
Feb 2023: The New York Times (NYT) uses our ICON software in an interactive article for reconstructing key goals at the 2023 Super Bowl (American football league).
Dec 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Choutas for a successful PhD defence!
Nov 2022: The New York Times (NYT) uses our ICON software for reconstructing key goals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Technical article (NYT R&D team), Interactive articles for games 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Oct 2022: Talk (pptx) at the “Observing and Understanding Hands in Action” workshop at ECCV 2022. Thanks Angela & Linlin for the invite!
Sep 2022: InterCap received the “honorable mention” award at GCPR 2022. Congrats Yinghao et al.!
Aug 2022: I serve as an Area Chair for BMVC 2022.
Jul 2022: Open PhD position at UvA (application deadline has passed).
Jul 2022: Accepted paper at ECCV 2022: SUPR. Congrats Ahmed et al.!
Jul 2022: Accepted paper at GCPR 2022: InterCap. Congrats Yinghao et al.!
Jun 2022: SHAPY was a best paper finalist at CVPR 2022 (33 papers shortlisted out of 2064 ones).
Jun 2022: Joined the University of Amsterdam (Computer Vision group) as an Assistant Professor.
April 2022: Raised 140k EUR from BMBF for the 2022 project “Machine Learning for Interacting Human Avatars” (PS MEWE 103Z (BMBF/Tü AI)).
April 2022: Joined the ELLIS society as a member.
Mar 2022: Accepted papers at CVPR 2022: GOAL (congrats Omid et al.), ICON (congrats Yuliang et al.), SHAPY (congrats Lea and Vassilis et al.) and MOVER (congrats Hongwei et al.).
Oct 2021: Accepted paper at 3DV 2021: PIXIE. Congrats Yao & Vassilis et al.!
Oct 2021: Talk at the University of Bristol, Department of Computer Science.
Sep 2021: Talk at the University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute.
Aug 2021: I serve as an Area Chair for 3DV 2021.
Jun 2021: Talk at Microsot Mixed Reality & AI Lab.
Jun 2021: We organize the full-day tutorial “SMPL made Simple” at CVPR 2021.
May 2021: Outstanding Reviewer award for CVPR 2021 (top 20.3%).
Mar 2021: Talk at Imperial College London, Intelligent Systems and Networks Group.
Mar 2021: Accepted paper at CVPR 2021: POSA. Congrats Mohamed et al.!
Feb 2021: Talk at Dima Damen’s computer vision group (\in VILab, Uni. of Bristol).
Oct 2020: Outstanding Reviewer award for ECCV 2020 (top 7.6%).
Jul 2020: Accepted papers at ECCV 2020: GRAB & ExPose. Congrats Omid et al. and Vassilis et al.!
Jun 2020: Outstanding Reviewer award for CVPR 2020 (top 3.9%).
Jan 2020: Accepted paper at IJCV: “Learning Multi-Human Optical Flow”. Congrats Anurag and David et al.!
Sep 2019: Successfully raised 195k EUR from BMBF for the 3-year project “Robust 3D Hand-Object Interaction” (PS MEWE 103Z (BMBF/Tü AI)), for 1 PhD-candidate co-advised with M. J. Black.
Sep 2019: Outstanding Reviewer award for ICCV 2019 (top 3.6%).
Jul 2019: Accepted paper at ICCV 2019: PROX. Congrats Mohamed et al.!
Jul 2019: Accepted paper at GCPR 2019: “Learning to Train with Synthetic Humans”. Congrats David et al.!
Mar 2019: Accepted papers at CVPR 2019: ObMan & SMPLify-X. Congrats Yana, George, Vassilis et al.!
Oct 2018: Continuing as Research-Scientist at PS/MPI-IS.
Sep 2018: Accepted paper at SIGA 2017: MANO and SMPL+H. Congrats Javier et al.!
Jan 2017: PhD defense at Uni-Bonn. Thanks Juergen!
Oct 2016: Starting as Post-Doc at PS/MPI-IS.