News & Awards

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

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 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 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 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 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.

Perceiving Systems Empirical Inference Award 26-11-2020 Best Paper Award, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020, for the paper "Grasping Field: Learning Implicit Representations for Human Grasps", by Karunratanakul, K., Yang, J., Zhang, Y., Black, M., Muandet, K., Tang, S.

Perceiving Systems Award 26-10-2020 Partha Ghosh, Shashank Tripathi, and Dimitrios Tzionas receive the Outstanding Reviewer Award, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Probabilistic Learning Group News 10-09-2020 ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems offers an interdisciplinary PhD program. The ELLIS PhD program is a key element of the ELLIS initiative and its goal is to foster and educate the best talent in machine learning related research areas by pairing outstanding students with leading academic and industrial researchers in Europe. The program supports excellent PhDs across Europe by giving them access to leading research through boot camps, summer schools and workshops of the ELLIS programs. Every PhD student is supervised by one ELLIS fellow/scholar and one ELLIS member from a different country and conducts a 1 year exchange at the other location.

Perceiving Systems News 17-06-2020 New video-based approach to 3D motion capture makes virtual avatars more realistic than ever With Video Inference for Body Pose and Shape Estimation (VIBE), scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a neural network that makes video-based 3D motion capture more accurate, faster, and less expensive. Michael Black Nikos Athanasiou Muhammed Kocabas Valerie Callaghan

Perceiving Systems Award 16-06-2020 Nikos Kolotouros and Dimitrios Tzionas are recognized as CVPR 2020 Outstanding Reviewers.

Perceiving Systems News 16-06-2020 Michael J. Black awarded “test of time” prize at the 2020 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Black, a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), has been awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize. The award honors research that has made a significant impact in the research field of computer vision. Michael Black Valerie Callaghan

Perceiving Systems Award 16-06-2020 Michael J. Black: receives 2020 Longuet-Higgins Prize at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). The prize is given annually for "Contributions in Computer Vision that Have Withstood the Test of Time." Given for the paper: Sun, D., Roth, S., Black, M. J., "Secrets of optical flow estimation and their principles," In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2432–2439, IEEE, June 2010

Perceiving Systems News 24-04-2020 Scientists in Tübingen develop 3D head model that can be used to design better-fitting protective gear The FLAME model makes it possible to create realistic 3D head shapes capable of accurately mimicking human facial expressions. It could help designers come up with more comfortable protective masks for faces of different shapes and sizes. Michael Black Timo Bolkart Joachim Tesch Valerie Callaghan

Perceiving Systems Appointment 01-03-2020 Aamir Ahmad becomes Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Perceiving Systems Appointment 01-01-2020 Siyu Tang becomes Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich

Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems News 21-11-2019 Andreas Geiger selected as Top 40 under 40 Andreas Geiger has been selected as top 40 under 40 by the capital magazine. Andreas Geiger

Perceiving Systems Award 27-10-2019 Dimitrios Tzionas is recognized as an ICCV 2019 Outstanding Reviewer.

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision News 25-10-2019 Color patch could throw self-driving vehicles off track Researchers send wake-up call to the car industry A team of researchers in Tübingen show that optical flow systems based on deep neural networks – a likely component of future autonomous cars – are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. The computer vision experts are shaking up the automotive industry by warning car manufacturers around the globe that it could take a simple color pattern to put the brakes on computer vision systems in autonomous cars. Michael Black Andreas Geiger Anurag Ranjan Joel Janai

Perceiving Systems News 26-07-2019 Siyu Tang appointed Tenure-track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich The research group leader in the Perceiving Systems Department specializes in the development of computer-aided processes for the perception and digitisation of people and their activities in crowded scenes Siyu Tang

Perceiving Systems Embodied Vision News 26-07-2019 Ten papers accepted at ICCV 2019 The Perceiving Systems Department, the Embodied Vision Group and the Autonomous Vision Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems are well represented at one of the world’s leading computer vision conferences taking place in Seoul in October. Michael Black Andreas Geiger Jörg Stückler

Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems News 12-03-2019 3rd Computational Vision Summer School - Apply now! From 30.6. to 7.7.2019 Application deadline: April 15, 2019 We are organizing the 3rd Computational Vision Summer School from 30.6. to 7.7.2019 in the beautiful black forest, Germany. It is aimed at PhD students and Postdocs with an interest in vision science research. Previous editions were fun, intellectually rewarding events for students and faculty alike. The summer school spans the entire spectrum of vision research from neuroscience and psychophysics to computer vision and fosters discussions at the intersection of biological and artificial vision systems. The school is unique in bringing together people from diverse disciplines in a very familiar atmosphere (only 60 people in total). CVSS is tuition free and accomodation is sponsored by the CRC/1233 Robust Vision. Andreas Geiger Michael Black Siyu Tang

Perceiving Systems News 29-11-2018 Michael Black receives UBC Computer Science Department Alumni Research Award 2018 Michael Black was awarded the University of British Columbia, Computer Science Department, Alumni Research Award 2018. Michael Black