Justus Thies

Justus Thies is a full professor for 3D Graphics & Vision at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Before joining TU Darmstadt, he was an independent research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen (2021-2024). He received his doctoral degree from the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2017 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Munich (2017-2021). His group works at the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning. Specifically, he is interested in AI-based methods to capture and to (re-)synthesize the real world using commodity hardware to enable teleconferencing and collaborative working in VR/AR. He has a strong focus on marker-less motion capturing of facial performances, human bodies, and general non-rigid objects, as well as AI-based synthesis techniques that allow for photorealistic image and video synthesis. He was recently awarded with the German Pattern Recognition Award 2024, the Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2024 and an ERC Starting Grant 2024.