News

Jun 2024:   I serve as an Area Chair for ECCV 2024.

May 2024: POCO featured in RSIP Computer Vision NewsRalph Anzarouth interviews Sai K. Dwivedi & me.

Feb 2024:   I will give a talk @ ‘UvA Interdisciplinary Seminar on AI & Culture’. Date: 21/05 Postponed for Fall 2024.

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

Jan 2024: 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.

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.