Computer science professor Justus Thies receives Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2024
The European Association for Computer Graphics has awarded TU Computer Science Professor Justus Thies the prestigious Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2024. The prize is considered one of the most important awards in Europe for computer graphics and is awarded annually to two promising young scientists.
Thies was honored in particular for his groundbreaking work in the field of markerless motion capture and synthesis in computer graphics. His research on facial reenactment and video manipulation has been widely recognized.
This’ research group works at the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision and machine learning. The new AI-based methods focus on markerless motion capture of facial expressions, human bodies and non-rigid objects in general.
Justus Thies has been a full professor for ‘3D Graphics & Vision’ at the Technical University of Darmstadt since 2023 and independently heads the ‘Neural Capture & Synthesis’ research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen. He received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2017 with a thesis on markerless motion capture of facial representations and its applications. In addition, Justus Thies is part of hessian.AI’s RAI research collective, which is dedicated to the further development of current DL-based AI systems towards “Reasonable AI”.
