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Perceiving Systems Conference Paper GenLit: Reformulating Single Image Relighting as Video Generation Bharadwaj, S., Feng, H., Becherini, G., Abrevaya, V. F., Black, M. J. In SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers ’25, Association for Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH Asia, December 2025 (To be published) Project Page Paper DOI URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper BEDLAM2.0: Synthetic humans and cameras in motion Tesch, J., Becherini, G., Achar, P., Yiannakidis, A., Kocabas, M., Patel, P., Black, M. J. Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, December 2025 (In press) Project Paper Video URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Pose Estimation: Application to Sign Language Forte, M. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, November 2025, Department of Computer Science (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Contact-Aware Refinement of Human Pose Pseudo-Ground Truth via Bioimpedance Sensing Forte, M., Athanasiou*, N., Ballardini*, G., Bartels, U., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Black, M. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, USA, October 2025, Nikos Athanasiou and Giulia Ballardini contributed equally to this publication (Published) pdf BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Generative Zoo Niewiadomski, T., Yiannakidis, A., Cuevas-Velasquez, H., Sanyal, S., Black, M. J., Zuffi, S., Kulits, P. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, HI, International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV, October 2025 (Published) project page code demo pdf BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MagicHOI: Leveraging 3D Priors for Accurate Hand-object Reconstruction from Short Monocular Video Clips Wang, S., He, H., Parelli, M., Gebhardt, C., Fan, Z., Song, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), ICCV, October 2025 (Published) Project Video Code URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MoGA: 3D Generative Avatar Prior for Monocular Gaussian Avatar Reconstruction Dong, Z., Duan, L., Song, J., Black, M. J., Geiger, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf project code video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SDFit: 3D Object Pose and Shape by Fitting a Morphable SDF to a Single Image Antić, D., Paschalidis, G., Tripathi, S., Gevers, T., Dwivedi, S. K., Tzionas, D. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) Project arXiv Code Video Poster BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ETCH: Generalizing Body Fitting to Clothed Humans via Equivariant Tightness Li, B., Feng, H., Cai, Z., Black, M. J., Xiu, Y. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) project arXiv code video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Im2Haircut: Single-view Strand-based Hair Reconstruction for Human Avatars Vanessa, S., Egor, Z., Malte, P., Giorgio, B., Michael, B., Justus, T. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, USA, October 2025 (Accepted) arXiv project code BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PRIMAL: Physically Reactive and Interactive Motor Model for Avatar Learning Zhang, Y., Feng, Y., Cseke, A., Saini, N., Bajandas, N., Heron, N., Black, M. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf project code video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper St4RTrack: Simultaneous 4D Reconstruction and Tracking in the World Feng, H., Zhang, J., Wang, Q., Ye, Y., Yu, P., Black, M., Darrell, T., Kanazawa, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025 (Published) pdf arXiv project code demo video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Reconstructing Animals and the Wild Kulits, P., Black, M. J., Zuffi, S. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv code BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models Rosu, R. A., Wu, K., Feng, Y., Zheng, Y., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project paper code dataset BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper InterDyn: Controllable Interactive Dynamics with Video Diffusion Models Akkerman, R., Feng, H., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D., Abrevaya, V. F. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects Cseke, A., Tripathi, S., Dwivedi, S. K., Lakshmipathy, A. S., Chatterjee, A., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv video code dataset BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ChatGarment: Garment Estimation, Generation and Editing via Large Language Models Bian, S., Xu, C., Xiu, Y., Grigorev, A., Liu, Z., Lu, C., Black, M. J., Feng, Y. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) project arXiv video code data BibTeX
Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ChatHuman: Chatting about 3D Humans with Tools Lin, J., Feng, Y., Liu, W., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 8150-8161, June 2025 (Published) project pdf Paper DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper InteractVLM: 3D Interaction Reasoning from 2D Foundational Models Dwivedi, S. K., Antić, D., Tripathi, S., Taheri, O., Schmid, C., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 22605-22615, June 2025 (Published) Project Paper Code Video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery Wang, Y., Sun, Y., Patel, P., Daniilidis, K., Black, M. J., Kocabas, M. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025 (Published) arXiv project video BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Estimating Human and Camera Motion From RGB Data Kocabas, M. April 2025 (Published) Thesis PDF BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Understanding Human-Scene Interaction through Perception and Generation Yi, H. April 2025 (Published) thesis BibTeX
Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Can Large Language Models Understand Symbolic Graphics Programs? Qiu, Z., Liu, W., Feng, H., Liu, Z., Xiao, T. Z., Collins, K. M., Tenenbaum, J. B., Weller, A., Black, M. J., Schölkopf, B. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025 (Published) arXiv Paper BibTeX
Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Efficient Diversity-Preserving Diffusion Alignment via Gradient-Informed GFlowNets Liu, Z., Xiao, T. Z., Liu, W., Bengio, Y., Zhang, D. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2025 (Published) arXiv BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Wrist-to-Wrist Bioimpedance Can Reliably Detect Discrete Self-Touch Forte, M., Vardar, Y., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 74(4006511):1-11, April 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Democratizing 3D Human Digitization Xiu, Y. March 2025 (Published) Thesis BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Gaussian Garments: Reconstructing Simulation-Ready Clothing with Photo-Realistic Appearance from Multi-View Video Rong, B., Grigorev, A., Wang, W., Black, M. J., Thomaszewski, B., Tsalicoglou, C., Hilliges, O. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, March 2025 (Published) arXiv project video URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper CameraHMR: Aligning People with Perspective Patel, P., Black, M. J. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, March 2025 (Published) arXiv project BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper CHOIR: A Versatile and Differentiable Hand-Object Interaction Representation Morales, T., Taheri, O., Lacey, G. In Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), February 2025 (Published) GitHub Paper URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper OpenCapBench: A Benchmark to Bridge Pose Estimation and Biomechanics Gozlan, Y., Falisse, A., Uhlrich, S., Gatti, A., Black, M., Chaudhari, A. In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) , January 2025 (Published) arXiv code/data URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Thesis Dynamic 3D Synthesis: From Video-Based Animatable Head Avatars to Text-Guided 4D Content Creation Zheng, Y. 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Joker: Conditional 3D Head Synthesis with Extreme Facial Expressions Prinzler, M., Zakharov, E., Sklyarova, V., Kabadayi, B., Thies, J. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), International Conference on 3D Vision, 2025 (Published) project page arxiv BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MotionFix: Text-Driven 3D Human Motion Editing Athanasiou, N., Cseke, A., Diomataris, M., Black, M. J., Varol, G. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Proceedings, ACM, SIGGRAPH Asia , December 2024 (Published) Code (GitHub) Website Data Exploration ArXiv URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Article PuzzleAvatar: Assembling 3D Avatars from Personal Albums Xiu, Y., Liu, Z., Tzionas, D., Black, M. J. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 43(6):1-15, ACM, December 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SPARK: Self-supervised Personalized Real-time Monocular Face Capture Baert, K., Bharadwaj, S., Castan, F., Maujean, B., Christie, M., Abrevaya, V., Boukhayma, A. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Proceedings, SIGGRAPH Asia, December 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Article StableNormal: Reducing Diffusion Variance for Stable and Sharp Normal Ye, C., Qiu, L., Gu, X., Zuo, Q., Wu, Y., Dong, Z., Bo, L., Xiu, Y., Han, X. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 43(6):1-18, ACM, December 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Beyond the Surface: Statistical Approaches to Internal Anatomy Prediction Keller, M. University of Tübingen, November 2024 (Published) pdf URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Aerial Markerless Motion Capture Saini, N. November 2024 (Published) thesis BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Learning Digital Humans from Vision and Language Feng, Y. ETH Zürich, October 2024 (Published) pdf DOI URL BibTeX
Neural Capture and Synthesis Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Stable Video Portraits Ostrek, M., Thies, J. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), LNCS, Springer Cham, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), October 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX
Neural Capture and Synthesis Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Synthesizing Environment-Specific People in Photographs Ostrek, M., O’Sullivan, C., Black, M., Thies, J. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), LNCS, Springer Cham, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), October 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper HUMOS: Human Motion Model Conditioned on Body Shape Tripathi, S., Taheri, O., Lassner, C., Black, M. J., Holden, D., Stoll, C. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), LNCS, Springer Cham, October 2024 (Published) project arXiv BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Realistic Digital Human Characters: Challenges, Models and Algorithms Osman, A. A. A. University of Tübingen, September 2024 (Published) Thesis DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Benchmarks and Challenges in Pose Estimation for Egocentric Hand Interactions with Objects Fan, Z., Ohkawa, T., Yang, L., Lin, N., Zhou, Z., Zhou, S., Liang, J., Gao, Z., Zhang, X., Zhang, X., et al. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), 428-448, LNCS, Springer Cham, September 2024 (Published) Paper Leaderboard DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Explorative Inbetweening of Time and Space Feng, H., Ding, Z., Xia, Z., Niklaus, S., Fernandez Abrevaya, V., Black, M. J., Zhang, X. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), 378-395, LNCS, Springer Cham, September 2024 (Published) Paper Website DOI URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Generating Human Interaction Motions in Scenes with Text Control Yi, H., Thies, J., Black, M. J., Peng, X. B., Rempe, D. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), 246-263, LNCS, Springer Cham, September 2024 (Published) pdf project DOI URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Leveraging Unpaired Data for the Creation of Controllable Digital Humans Sanyal, S. Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, November 2024 (Published) download BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Article Localization and recognition of human action in 3D using transformers Sun, J., Huang, L., Hongsong Wang, C. Z. J. Q., Islam, M. T., Xie, E., Zhou, B., Xing, L., Chandrasekaran, A., Black, M. J. Nature Communications Engineering , 13(125), September 2024 (Published) paper DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Conference Paper AWOL: Analysis WithOut synthesis using Language Zuffi, S., Black, M. J. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), LNCS, Springer Cham, September 2024 (Published) Paper URL BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Article EarthRanger: An Open-Source Platform for Ecosystem Monitoring, Research, and Management Wall, J., Lefcourt, J., Jones, C., Doehring, C., O’Neill, D., Schneider, D., Steward, J., Krautwurst, J., Wong, T., Jones, B., et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, British Ecological Society, September 2024 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX