NOTE: In September 2017 I moved to MPI-Informatics in Saarbrücken where I am heading the group "Real Virtual Humans".

For recent news, job offers, projects and publications, please visit my research group website.

I continue to collaborate with MPI-PS and I am an affilated researcher. This website however is not up to date. 

News:

• NEW! Awarded a starting grant (1.25 million euros for 5 years) from the ZD.B. to establish a research group on the topic Real Virtual Humans (RVHu). 7 proposals out 82 were accepted, 8.5%. RVHu was ranked 1st. Declined due to private reasons. 
• NEW! Günter Enderle Best Paper Award at Eurographics 2017 for the paper Sparse Inertial  Poser, see paper
• NEW! Two papers accepted at SIGGRAPH 2017! papers are up, videos coming soon!
• NEW! I will organize with Jonatahn Taylor the ICCV 2017 Workshop "PeopleCap: capturing and modelling human bodies, faces and hands". Submission deadline: July 19th. 
• NEW! Lecturer at the Center for Learning Systems (MPI-ETH) research summer school. School is open to all Master students or recently graduated. Application deadline is April 30!
• NEW! Two papers accepted at CVPR 2017! 1 oral and 1 spotlight.
• NEW! Motion Capture from only 6 IMUs! Check our Eurographics paper
• NEW! Keynote speaker at workshop on social virtual interaction
• If you are at SIGGRAPH 2016 do not miss our tutorial on human body modelling! Modeling Human Bodies
• I will co-organize a tutorial at ICCV 2015 on how to build a digital human together with my colleagues in the body group! Modelling Human Bodies
• Press coverage for Dyna, our recent SIGGRAPH 2015 paper: wired, theverge, phys.org
• New paper at CVPR 2014, Posebits for Monocular Human Pose Estimation
• Best Science Paper Award BMVC 2013 for the paper Metric Regression Forests for Human Pose Estimation
• Research intern at Microsoft Research, Cambridge working on Human Pose Estimation from Kinect, July 2012 - September 2012
• Research stay at the Vision Group at the University of Toronto with Prof. David Fleet from January until June 2012.
• Slides of ICCV tutorial Looking at People: Generative Human Pose Estimation are available for download, pptx_and_videos , PDF_Slides
• Book chapter on Model Based Pose Estimation together with Bodo Rosenhahn, to appear in Guide to Visual Analysis of Humans : Looking at People. T. Moeslund, A. Hilton, V. Krueger, L. Sigal (eds.), Springer, 2011

Education:

• 2015 Sept.- Research scientist at Max Planck Instititute for Intelligent Systems.
• 2013 Sept. Postodctoral researcher at Max Planck Instititute for Intelligent Systems.
• 2012 Summer research internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge, hosts: Jamie Shotton and Andrew Fitzgibbon
• 2012 Visiting researcher at University of Toronto (UofT), Canada, host David J. Fleet
• 2009-2013 PhD Student, Leibniz University of Hannover, TNT lab, supervisor Bodo Rosenhahn
• 2007-2008  Master Thesis at Northeastern University, Boston, USA
• 2007 Telecomunications Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia, UPC

Teaching:

Lectures take place at the University of Tübingen and can be attended by all Master and PhD students of the University and MPI Tübingen.

• Summer term 2016: Computer Vision SS16 (jointly with Andreas Geiger and Javier Romero)