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2025

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111
Citations
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World Ranking
216
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Christian Theobalt is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany. Their academic work spans primarily the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics, and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.

Theobalt's research topics cover a broad spectrum within these areas, including:

  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Human Motion and Animation
  • Face Recognition and Analysis

Theobalt has contributed to many publications across different venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Several notable papers authored or co-authored by Theobalt include:

  • NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Non-Rigid Neural Radiance Fields: Reconstruction and Novel View Synthesis of a Dynamic Scene From Monocular Video, 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Advances in Neural Rendering, 2022, Computer Graphics Forum
  • Neural actor, 2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • StyleNeRF: A Style-based 3D-Aware Generator for High-resolution Image Synthesis, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in their work include Vladislav Golyanik, Marc Habermann, Lingjie Liu, Ayush Tewari, and Mohamed Elgharib.

Best Publications

  • Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos

    Justus Thies;Michael Zollhofer;Marc Stamminger;Christian Theobalt

  • VNect: real-time 3D human pose estimation with a single RGB camera

    Dushyant Mehta;Srinath Sridhar;Oleksandr Sotnychenko;Helge Rhodin

  • Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation in the Wild Using Improved CNN Supervision

    Dushyant Mehta;Helge Rhodin;Dan Casas;Pascal Fua

  • Free-viewpoint video of human actors

    Joel Carranza;Christian Theobalt;Marcus A. Magnor;Hans-Peter Seidel

  • BundleFusion: real-time globally consistent 3D reconstruction using on-the-fly surface re-integration

    Angela Dai;Matthias Nießner;Michael Zollhöfer;Shahram Izadi

  • A data-driven approach for real-time full body pose reconstruction from a depth camera

    Andreas Baak;Meinard Muller;Gaurav Bharaj;Hans-Peter Seidel

  • Performance capture from sparse multi-view video

    Edilson de Aguiar;Carsten Stoll;Christian Theobalt;Naveed Ahmed

  • Deep video portraits

    Hyeongwoo Kim;Pablo Garrido;Ayush Tewari;Weipeng Xu

  • NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction

    Peng Wang;Lingjie Liu;Yuan Liu;Christian Theobalt

  • Motion capture using joint skeleton tracking and surface estimation

    Juergen Gall;Carsten Stoll;Edilson de Aguiar;Christian Theobalt

  • MoFA: Model-Based Deep Convolutional Face Autoencoder for Unsupervised Monocular Reconstruction

    Ayush Tewari;Michael Zollhofer;Hyeongwoo Kim;Pablo Garrido

  • GANerated Hands for Real-Time 3D Hand Tracking from Monocular RGB

    Franziska Mueller;Florian Bernard;Oleksandr Sotnychenko;Dushyant Mehta

  • Neural Sparse Voxel Fields

    Lingjie Liu;Jiatao Gu;Kyaw Zaw Lin;Tat-Seng Chua

  • Real-time non-rigid reconstruction using an RGB-D camera

    Michael Zollhöfer;Matthias Nießner;Shahram Izadi;Christoph Rehmann

  • Video Based Reconstruction of 3D People Models

    Thiemo Alldieck;Marcus Magnor;Weipeng Xu;Christian Theobalt

  • 3D shape scanning with a time-of-flight camera

    Yan Cui;Sebastian Schuon;Derek Chan;Sebastian Thrun

  • XNect: real-time multi-person 3D motion capture with a single RGB camera

    Dushyant Mehta;Oleksandr Sotnychenko;Franziska Mueller;Weipeng Xu

  • Single-Shot Multi-person 3D Pose Estimation from Monocular RGB

    Dushyant Mehta;Oleksandr Sotnychenko;Franziska Mueller;Weipeng Xu

  • Real-time expression transfer for facial reenactment

    Justus Thies;Michael Zollhöfer;Matthias Nießner;Levi Valgaerts

  • Multi-Garment Net: Learning to Dress 3D People From Images

    Bharat Bhatnagar;Garvita Tiwari;Christian Theobalt;Gerard Pons-Moll

  • StyleRig: Rigging StyleGAN for 3D Control Over Portrait Images

    Ayush Tewari;Mohamed Elgharib;Gaurav Bharaj;Florian Bernard

  • Face2Face: real-time face capture and reenactment of RGB videos

    Justus Thies;Michael Zollhöfer;Marc Stamminger;Christian Theobalt

  • Demo of Face2Face: real-time face capture and reenactment of RGB videos

    Justus Thies;Michael Zollhöfer;Marc Stamminger;Christian Theobalt

  • Advances in neural rendering

    A. Tewari;O. Fried;J. Thies;V. Sitzmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Seidel
Hans-Peter Seidel Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Michael Zollhöfer
Michael Zollhöfer Stanford University
Marcus Magnor
Marcus Magnor Technische Universität Braunschweig
Gerard Pons-Moll
Gerard Pons-Moll University of Tübingen
Matthias Nießner
Matthias Nießner Technical University of Munich
Justus Thies
Justus Thies Technical University of Munich
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun Stanford University
Jan Kautz
Jan Kautz Nvidia (United States)
Didier Stricker
Didier Stricker German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

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