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Professor for Visual Computing & Artificial Intelligence @TU Munich, Co-Founder @synthesiaIO https://niessnerlab.org/publications.html
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๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข ๐€๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ‘๐ซ ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข Avat3r creates high-quality 3D head avatars from just a few input images in a single forward pass with a new dynamic 3DGS reconstruction model. youtu.be/P3zNVx15gYs tobias-kirschstein.github.io/avat3r Great work by Tobias Kirschstein with J. Romero, A. Sevastopolsky, S. Saito.

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ETH starts a series of exciting guest talks on Robotics, Vision, and Controls this week. Tomorrow at 12:00 Zurich time, @adai.bsky.social from TU Munich will give a talk titled "From Quantity to Quality for 3D Perception." robotics-talks.com #robotics

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Happening now! Join us if you want to more about #diffusion #stablediffusion #flux and many more :)

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Tomorrow in our TUM AI - Lecture Series with none other than Robin Rombach, CEO Black Forest Labs. He'll talk about "๐…๐‹๐”๐—: Flow Matching for Content Creation at Scale". Live stream: youtube.com/live/nrKKLJX... 6pm GMT+1 / 9am PST (Mon Feb 17rd)

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(1/n) ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข ๐๐ž๐‘๐’๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฏ๐Ÿ ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ ๐‘๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข Head captures of 7.1MP from 16 cameras at 73fps: * More recordings (425 people) * Better color calibration * Convenient download scripts github.com/tobias-kirsc...

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Excited to bring back the 2nd ScanNet++ Novel View Synthesis and 3D Semantic Understanding Challenge at #CVPR 2025! Submit to our new benchmark, now with over 1000 high-fidelity scans of real-world scenes: kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/ Check it out: kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/cv...

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Happening now - join us if you like 3D Gaussian Splatting!!!

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Tomorrow in our TUM AI - Lecture Series with none other than George Drettakis. He'll talk about "๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ‘๐ƒ ๐†๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐’๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž: ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ, ๐…๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž". Live stream: youtube.com/live/DjOqkVI... 5pm GMT+1 / 8am PST (Mon Feb 3rd)

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๐Ÿ“ข ScanNet++ v2 Benchmark Release! ๐Ÿ† Test your state-of-the-art models on: ๐Ÿ”น Novel View Synthesis ๐Ÿ“ธโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ ๐Ÿ”น 3D Semantic & Instance Segmentation ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ•ถ๏ธ Shoutout to @awhiteguitar.bsky.social & Yueh-Cheng Liu for their incredible work๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿš€Check it out: kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/

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๐Ÿš€ ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ - Registration is Open! ๐Ÿ’ป๐ŸŽจ Join us in London, May 12-16, 2025, for one of the leading Computer Graphics conferences in the world and an incredible week of research innovation! ๐Ÿ”— Register now: eg25.cs.ucl.ac.uk/main/registr...

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With DeepSeek, opinions are shifting from "winning in AI needs infinite compute" to "all cutting-edge models are cheap and free". It's somewhat obvious that brute-force compute was a bad idea, while at the same time, training big models still takes significant resources.

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Winter is coming on our TUM campus in Garching :)

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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays๐ŸŽ…๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ May your tokens generate well, noise diffuse smoothly, splats shine with radiance, and your GPUs burn bright - but not out! Splat-acular holidays everyone!

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Excited to announce ScanNet++ v2!๐ŸŽ‰ @awhiteguitar.bsky.social & Yueh-Cheng Liu have been working tirelessly to bring: ๐Ÿ”น1006 high-fidelity 3D scans ๐Ÿ”น+ DSLR & iPhone captures ๐Ÿ”น+ rich semantics Elevating 3D scene understanding to the next level!๐Ÿš€ w/ @niessner.bsky.social kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp

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Reviewers were just assigned and someone already submitted a #CVPR review - commendable! Don't wait till the last minute :)

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(1/2) ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข๐†๐€๐…: ๐†๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐€๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐•๐ข๐๐ž๐จ๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐ข๐š ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข-๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ ๐ƒ๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข We reconstruct animatable Gaussian head avatars from monocular videos captured by commodity devices such as smartphones.

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Super happy to present our #NeurIPS paper ๐‚๐จ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐Ÿ‘๐ƒ ๐’๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ž ๐ƒ๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐š ๐’๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐‘๐†๐ ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž in Vancouver. Come to our poster #2804 on Wednesday 11am - 2pm in East Exhibit Hall, if you want to learn more about 3D Scene Diffusion! See you tomorrow! Project Page: manuel-dahnert.com/research/sce...

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๐Ÿ“ข ๐๐ซ๐„๐๐ข๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐Ÿ‘๐ƒ: ๐…๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ‘๐ƒ ๐’๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ž ๐„๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ“ข We propose a training-free 3D shape editing approach that rapidly and precisely edits the regions intended by the user and keeps the rest as is.

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๐Ÿ“ขDNF: Generating 4D animations with dictionary-based neural fields! Xinyi Zhang presents a new dictionary-based neural field for unconditional 4D generation of deforming shapes -- generating motions with high-quality shape and temporal consistency. xzhang-t.github.io/project/DNF/

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My students are also happy! #ERC

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(1/2) Our proposal ๐†๐ž๐ง๐Ÿ‘๐ƒ: ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐•๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ was awarded the #ERC Consolidator Grant! The grant comes with 2.75M โ‚ฌ in funding and will facilitate cutting-edge research on generative AI methods for 3D content creation.

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Presenting super exciting papers at SIGGRAPH Asia: L3DG: Latent 3D Gaussian Diffusion lnkd.in/edAiSaqZ GGHead: Fast and Generalizable 3D Gaussian Heads lnkd.in/erKhanNC NPGA: Neural Parametric Gaussian Avatars lnkd.in/ePwA6mtP Work by B. Rรถssle, S. Giebenhain, T. Kirschstein

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(1/3) ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข ๐†๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐š๐ง๐’๐ฉ๐ž๐ž๐œ๐ก: Audio-Driven Gaussian Avatars ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข We synthesize photorealistic and 3D-consistent talking human head avatars driven directly from spoken audio. shivangi-aneja.github.io/projects/gau... youtu.be/2VqYoFlYcwQ

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Kicking off our TUM AI - Lecture Series tomorrow with none other than Jiaming Song, CSO @LumaLabsAI. He'll be talking about "Dream Machine: Emergent Capabilities from Video Foundation Models". Live stream: youtu.be/oilWwsXZamA 7pm GMT+1 / 10am PST (Mon Dec 2nd)

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(1/4) I will present GGHead next week at SIGGRAPH Asia in Tokyo! Swing by in the Gaussian Humans session if you are interested. Also, we have released the training code now ๐ŸŽ‰ Check it out: github.com/tobias-kirsc...

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Christmas market in #Munich is open๐ŸŽ…๐ŸŽ„ On the photo you can see the city council with its famous glockenspiel and stunning appearance - perfect time of the year to enjoy some Glรผhwein :)

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(1/2) Daytrip to #Neuschwanstein - the famous fairytale castle built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria ๐Ÿฐ It offers stunning views overlooking the Alpsee & Schwansee at the foot of the Alps - quite remarkable! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschw...

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Official promotion to ๐…๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ Thanks so much to everyone who has been with me on this exciting journey, in particular my amazing PhD students, PostDocs, collaborators, every other supporter! Let's see what's next - just getting started :)

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Want to work on cutting-edge research in #AI? We have several ๐๐ก๐ƒ & ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ƒ๐จ๐œ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ in our Visual Computing & AI Lab in Munich! Topics have a strong focus on GenAI, including 3DGs, NeRFs, Diffusion Models, LLMs, etc. Share & apply :) application.vc.in.tum.de

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Excited to announce the second iteration of our TUM AI Lecture series! We'll be having a lineup of top-notch speakers across areas in AI from both academia and industry. Talks will be streamed live and and remain available online - check out prev talks: niessner.github.io/TUM-AI-Lectu...

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Good overview of notable AI models wrt training compute: epoch.ai/data/notable... Can sort by all kinds of criteria such as model size, compute budget, etc. The largest models take between 1e24 to 1e26 FLOPs. Obviously, scale of models has exploded in the recent years :)

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Success of social media ultimately depends on the quality of content and who sees it. When platforms start out, they tend to do a pretty good job - they connect people with their interests. Major issues arise when trying squeeze out engagement with all sorts of garbage...

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Finally the ๐Œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ก๐†๐๐“ code is online: github.com/audi/MeshGPT Also shoutout to the recent mesh generators such as MeshAnything, MeshXL, EdgeRunner, LLaMA-Mesh, and many more. It's a super exciting research area - 3D meshes for the win!!!

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