News & Awards

Perzeptive Systeme Award 21-10-2025 2025 Mark Everingham Prize The PAMI Mark Everingham Prize For Contributions to the Computer Vision Community was awarded at ICCV 2025 to "The SMPL body model team (Michael J. Black, Naureen Mahmood, Matthew Loper, Javier Romero, Gerard Pons-Moll) for a family of foundation models that have enabled body pose research." Michael J. Black Naureen Mahmood Matthew Loper Javier Romero Gerard Pons-Moll

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Award 16-10-2025 Doctoral student Maria-Paola Forte is recognized as a NeurIPS 2025 Top Reviewer She is awarded a non-transferable complimentary registration to attend the conference. Maria-Paola Forte

Perceiving Systems Blog Post Michael J. Black 3 minute read 09-04-2025 The AI tariff? The societies that will "win" the AI race will not be those that develop the technology first. It will be those that are best able to manage the long-term social disruption AI will cause. Michael J. Black

Perceiving Systems Award 03-12-2024 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Test-of-Time Award 2024 For the paper "MoSh: Motion and shape capture from sparse markers", published at SIGGRAPH Asia 2014. Co-authors: Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Michael J. Black. Michael J. Black Matthew Loper Naureen Mahmood

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 9 minute read 03-12-2024 MoSh: Motion and Shape Capture in the Age of AI Test-of-Time Award Winner, SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Michael J. Black Naureen Mahmood Matthew Loper

Perceiving Systems Blog Post Michael J. Black 33 minute read 08-11-2024 Writing a good scientific paper

Perceiving Systems Award 25-09-2024 Sai Kumar Dwivedi and Peter Kulits receive Outstanding Reviewer Awards, ECCV 2024.

Perceiving Systems Blog Post Michael J. Black 14 minute read 16-07-2024 Ask me anything -- July 2024 Conversations on X about vision and careers Michael J. Black

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 3 minute read 16-07-2024 Good-enough AI and the commoditization of intelligence

Perceiving Systems Award 11-07-2024 Aamir Ahmad is one of the 2024 KI Champions Baden-Württemberg for the project "WildCap: Intelligente Flugroboter für den Wildtierschutz", funded by Cyber Valley.

Perceiving Systems Award 05-07-2024 Marilyn Keller wins Honorable Mention for the 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize.

Perceiving Systems Award 04-07-2024 Yao Feng was selected as WiGRAPH Rising Stars in Computer Graphics.

Perceiving Systems Award 01-07-2024 Eric Price and Aamir Ahmad, won Best Paper for "Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behaviour Analysis" at the 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAs) conference at IIT Bombay, India.

Perceiving Systems Award 01-07-2024 Eric Price, Michael Black, and Aamir Ahmad receive the Uni Stuttgart Best Faculty Paper award for the paper "Viewpoint Driven Formation Control of Airships for Cooperative Target Tracking," in IEEE RA-L.

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 5 minute read 02-06-2024 Embodiment in virtual humans and robots SMPL as "robot"

Perceiving Systems Blog Post Michael J. Black 2 minute read 27-04-2024 The Fallacy of the Perfect Career Path Maximize impact by maximizing fun

Perceiving Systems Blog Post Michael J. Black 7 minute read 26-04-2024 Startup Research: Oxymoron or Key to Success? Should AI startups do research?

Perceiving Systems Blog Post Michael J. Black 3 minute read 21-04-2024 Build what you need and use what you build An approach to impactful science

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 4 minute read 28-01-2024 Scientific communication in the age of influencers

Perceiving Systems Award 13-12-2023 Marilyn Keller, Keenon Werling, Soyong Shin, Scott Delp, Sergi Pujades, C. Karen Liu, and Michael J. Black receive Honorable Mention for Best Paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 for the paper "From Skin to Skeleton: Towards Biomechanically Accurate 3D Digital Humans".

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 7 minute read 04-12-2023 Third wave 3D human pose and shape estimation Beyond 3D to understanding humans

Perceiving Systems Award 24-11-2023 Soubhik Sanyal receives the NeurIPS 2023 Top Reviewer Award.

Perceiving Systems Award 03-10-2023 Michael J. Black receives the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award at ICCV 2023.

Perceiving Systems News 27-07-2023 Virtual Reality-Brille erlaubt Blick in eine gesunde Zukunft Selbstwahrnehmung bei Magersucht Der Alltag von Menschen mit Magersucht ist geprägt von der Angst vor Gewichtszunahme und den Maßnahmen, eine Zunahme zu verhindern. Entsprechend schwierig ist es für die Betroffenen, die medizinisch dringend geratene Gewichtszunahme zu erreichen. Simone Behrens Michael Black Joachim Tesch

Perceiving Systems Award 14-07-2023 Lea Müller receives Honorable Mention for the MPI-IS 2023 Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize

Perceiving Systems News 14-06-2023 Meshcapade raises $6M seed round The spin-off from Perceiving Systems Meshcapade is training foundation models for the analysis and generation of 3D humans Matrix leads seed round to expand Meshcapade's market-leading AI solutions that transform pictures, videos, text, and sensor data into 3D humans in the SMPL Standard body format. Meshcapade's technology and founding team spun out from the MPI for Intelligent Systems. Michael Black Naureen Mahmood Talha Zaman

Perceiving Systems Award 16-05-2023 Michael J. Black, Timo Bolkart, Jinlong Yang, Xu Chen, and Mathis Petrovich receive Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2023.

Perceiving Systems Award 05-04-2023 Shashank Tripathi receives the Meta PhD Research Fellowship Award 2023.

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 6 minute read 10-12-2022 Redefining plagiarism in the age of AI Adapting the ethics of scientific publication to address large language models

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 4 minute read 01-11-2022 Peer Review, Plagiarism, and Authorship in the Age of Large Language Models How do we retain public trust in science when it becomes easy to cheat?

Perceiving Systems News 31-10-2022 The Koenderink Prize at ECCV 2022 From cartoons to science: The Sintel dataset at 10 years The Sintel optical flow dataset appeared at ECCV 2012. Ten years later, at ECCV 2022, it was awarded the Koenderink Prize for work that has stood the test of time. Michael Black Jonas Wulff Daniel Butler Garrett Stanley

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 10 minute read 25-10-2022 From cartoons to science: The Sintel dataset at 10 years The Koenderink Prize at ECCV 2022. The Sintel optical flow dataset appeared at ECCV 2012 and at ECCV 2022 it was awarded the Koenderink Prize for work that has stood the test of time. What makes a paper stand the test of time? What makes a good dataset? What made Sintel special?

Perceiving Systems Award 25-10-2022 Michael J. Black et al: Koenderink Prize at ECCV 2022 for work that has stood the test of time. Awarded for the paper "A naturalistic open source movie for optical flow evaluation," by Butler, D. J., Wulff, J., Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J., which appeared at the European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), pages: 611-625, Part IV, LNCS 7577, October 2012

Perceiving Systems Award 24-10-2022 Ahmed A. A. Osman received Outstanding Reviewer Award from the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.

Perceiving Systems Award 27-09-2022 Huang, Y., Taheri, O., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. received Honorable mention for best paper: "InterCap: Joint Markerless 3D Tracking of Humans and Objects in Interaction", GCPR 2022.

Perceiving Systems Award 27-09-2022 Partha Ghosh, Dominik Zietlow, Michael J. Black, Larry Davis, and Xiaochen Hu win Best Paper, German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2022, for the paper "InvGAN: Invertible GANs"

Perceiving Systems Award 21-06-2022 Vassilis Choutas, Lea Müller, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, Siyu Tang, Dimitris Tzionas, and Michael J. Black were noimated for the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2022 for the paper: "Accurate 3D Body Shape Regression using Metric and Semantic Attributes".

Perceiving Systems Award 21-06-2022 Naureen Mahmood, Talha Zaman, and Michael J. Black: Max Planck Foundation Prize of the Stifterverband, 2022 Science Prize in the Entrepreneurship category, for the Meshcapade GmbH team, in recognition of this successful spin-off and the particularly high impact on society. Berlin, June 21, 2022.

Perceiving Systems Appointment 01-06-2022 Dimitrios Tzionas becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam

Perceiving Systems News 28-03-2022 Max Planck spin-off Meshcapade wins new startup award Newly established prize by the Max Planck Society and the Stifterverband aims to promote start-up culture in science Naureen Mahmood Talha Zaman Michael Black

Perceiving Systems Award 03-02-2022 Yufeng Zheng receives the Meta PhD Research Fellowship Award 2022.

Perceiving Systems Award 10-11-2021 Vassilis Choutas and Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya, outstanding reviewers at 3DV 2021.

Perceiving Systems Award 31-08-2021 Timo Bolkart and Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya are recognized as ICCV 2021 Outstanding Reviewers.

Perceiving Systems Award 30-07-2021 Michael J. Black, Simone Behrens, Javier Romero, Stephan Streuber, and Anne Thaler: Their paper ``Body size estimation of self and others in females varying in BMI'' reached in July 2021 the PLoS ONE top 10% most cited papers, for papers published in 2018.

Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems News 26-06-2021 Better decisions, more control: “Best Paper Award” for Tübingen researchers Two Cyber Valley researchers awarded for best scientific paper at world-renowned conference Great success for two AI researchers from the Cyber Valley ecosystem: Michael Niemeyer, PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger from the University of Tübingen were honored with the ‘Best Paper Award’ at this year’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) for their paper ‘GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields’. Andreas Geiger Michael Niemeyer

Perceiving Systems Award 21-06-2021 Best Paper Candidate, IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021, for the paper "SCANimate: Weakly Supervised Learning of Skinned Clothed Avatar Networks" by Saito, S., Yang, J., Ma, Q., and Black, M. J.

Perceiving Systems Award 21-06-2021 Best Paper Candidate, IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021, for the paper "On Self-Contact and Human Pose" by Lea Müller, Ahmed Osman, Siyu Tang, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, and Michael Black.

Perceiving Systems Award 19-05-2021 Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya, Nikos Athanasiou, Michael Black, Timo Bolkart, Arjun Chandrasekaran, Vassilis Choutas, Partha Ghosh, Nikos Kolotouros, Dimitrios Tzionas, are recognized as CVPR 2021 Outstanding Reviewers.

Perceiving Systems Award 31-03-2021 Michael Black is elected to the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina.

Perceiving Systems Award 02-12-2020 Soubhik Sanyal is recognized as an outstanding reviewer for ACCV 2020.