DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


Research Groups

Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Robot Learning

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Autonomous Learning

Robotics

AI

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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), June 2025, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) arXiv URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper CHOIR: A Versatile and Differentiable Hand-Object Interaction Representation Morales, T., Taheri, O., Lacey, G. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), February 2025, Accepted (Accepted) 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, Accepted (Accepted) arXiv 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, Accepted (Accepted) 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

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, November 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper On predicting 3D bone locations inside the human body Dakri, A., Arora, V., Challier, L., Keller, M., Black, M. J., Pujades, S. In 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), October 2024 (Published) Project page 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 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

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper GraspXL: Generating Grasping Motions for Diverse Objects at Scale Zhang, H., Christen, S., Fan, Z., Hilliges, O., Song, J. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), Part XXVI:386-403, LNCS, Springer Cham, September 2024 (Published) Code Video Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Technical Report 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. August 2024, To be published (To be published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Re-Thinking Inverse Graphics with Large Language Models Kulits, P., Feng, H., Liu, W., Abrevaya, V., Black, M. J. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, August 2024 (Published) pdf URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ContourCraft: Learning to Resolve Intersections in Neural Multi-Garment Simulations Grigorev, A., Becherini, G., Black, M., Hilliges, O., Thomaszewski, B. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Papers, :1-10, SIGGRAPH ’24, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, July 2024 (Published) paper arXiv project video code DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behavior Analysis Price, E., Ahmad, A. Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAS2024), 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAS2024), June 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper A Unified Approach for Text- and Image-guided 4D Scene Generation Zheng, Y., Li, X., Nagano, K., Liu, S., Hilliges, O., Mello, S. D. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, June 2024 (Published) paper project code BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Generative Proxemics: A Prior for 3D Social Interaction from Images Müller, L., Ye, V., Pavlakos, G., Black, M., Kanazawa, A. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :9687-9697, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) arXiv project code data DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Multi-Track Timeline Control for Text-Driven 3D Human Motion Generation Petrovich, M., Litany, O., Iqbal, U., Black, M. J., Varol, G., Peng, X. B., Rempe, D. In CVPR Workshop on Human Motion Generation, Seattle, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) code website paper-arxiv video URL BibTeX

Neural Capture and Synthesis Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Neuropostors: Neural Geometry-aware 3D Crowd Character Impostors Ostrek, M., Mitra, N. J., O’Sullivan, C. In 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Springer, 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), June 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Real-time Monocular Full-body Capture in World Space via Sequential Proxy-to-Motion Learning Zhang, H., Zhang, Y., Hu, L., Zhang, J., Yi, H., Zhang, S., Liu, Y. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, June 2024 (Published) arxiv project BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Neural Capture and Synthesis Human-centric Vision & Learning Conference Paper Text-Conditioned Generative Model of 3D Strand-based Human Hairstyles Sklyarova, V., Zakharov, E., Hilliges, O., Black, M. J., Thies, J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, June 2024 (Published) ArXiv Code URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper 4D-DRESS: A 4D Dataset of Real-World Human Clothing With Semantic Annotations Wang, W., Ho, H., Guo, C., Rong, B., Grigorev, A., Song, J., Zarate, J. J., Hilliges, O. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, June 2024 (Published) arXiv project code data BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper AMUSE: Emotional Speech-driven 3D Body Animation via Disentangled Latent Diffusion Chhatre, K., Daněček, R., Athanasiou, N., Becherini, G., Peters, C., Black, M. J., Bolkart, T. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :1942-1953, June 2024 (Published) Project Paper Code URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper ChatPose: Chatting about 3D Human Pose Feng, Y., Lin, J., Dwivedi, S. K., Sun, Y., Patel, P., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, June 2024 (Published) Arxiv Project URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper EMAGE: Towards Unified Holistic Co-Speech Gesture Generation via Expressive Masked Audio Gesture Modeling Liu, H., Zhu, Z., Becherini, G., Peng, Y., Su, M., Zhou, Y., Zhe, X., Iwamoto, N., Zheng, B., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :1144-1154, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) arXiv project dataset code gradio colab video DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper HIT: Estimating Internal Human Implicit Tissues from the Body Surface Keller, M., Arora, V., Dakri, A., Chandhok, S., Machann, J., Fritsche, A., Black, M. J., Pujades, S. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :3480-3490, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) Project page Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper HOLD: Category-agnostic 3D Reconstruction of Interacting Hands and Objects from Video Fan, Z., Parelli, M., Kadoglou, M. E., Kocabas, M., Chen, X., Black, M. J., Hilliges, O. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :494-504, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) Paper Project Code DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper HUGS: Human Gaussian Splats Kocabas, M., Chang, R., Gabriel, J., Tuzel, O., Ranjan, A. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, June 2024 (Published) arXiv Github Project Page YouTube Poster BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper MonoHair: High-Fidelity Hair Modeling from a Monocular Video Wu, K., Yang, L., Kuang, Z., Feng, Y., Han, X., Shen, Y., Fu, H., Zhou, K., Zheng, Y. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :24164-24173, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) Project Arxiv DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SCULPT: Shape-Conditioned Unpaired Learning of Pose-dependent Clothed and Textured Human Meshes Sanyal, S., Ghosh, P., Yang, J., Black, M. J., Thies, J., Bolkart, T. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :2362-2371, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) Project page Data Code Video Arxiv DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SMIRK: 3D Facial Expressions through Analysis-by-Neural-Synthesis Retsinas, G., Filntisis, P. P., Danecek, R., Abrevaya, V. F., Roussos, A., Bolkart, T., Maragos, P. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :2490-2501, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) arxiv project code DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper TokenHMR: Advancing Human Mesh Recovery with a Tokenized Pose Representation Dwivedi, S. K., Sun, Y., Patel, P., Feng, Y., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :1323-1333, CVPR, June 2024 (Published) Paper Project Code Poster Video DOI URL BibTeX