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Tomas Simon

Tomas Simon

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Computer Science

D-Index
34
Citations
19185
World Ranking
11867
National Ranking
403

Overview

Tomas Simon is a researcher affiliated with META Group in Italy. Their academic work spans fields primarily within Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Human-Computer Interaction, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Their research topics cover various areas such as Advanced Vision and Imaging, 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis, Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, Face Recognition and Analysis, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Human Pose and Action Recognition, and Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts.

The publication record of Tomas Simon includes papers in prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University) with 17 publications, ACM Transactions on Graphics with 11 publications, and Computer Graphics Forum with 2 publications.

Recent representative papers include:

  • Advances in Neural Rendering, 2022, Computer Graphics Forum
  • Mixture of Volumetric Primitives for Efficient Neural Rendering, 2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • Authentic Volumetric Avatars from a Phone Scan, 2022, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • Deep Relightable Appearance Models for Animatable Faces, 2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • The Eyes Have It, 2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics

The researcher has collaborated frequently with other academics. Notable coauthors include Jason Saragih, Yaser Sheikh, Stephen Lombardi, Shunsuke Saito, and Gabriel Schwartz.

Best Publications

  • Realtime Multi-person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields

    Zhe Cao;Tomas Simon;Shih-En Wei;Yaser Sheikh

  • OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields

    Zhe Cao;Gines Hidalgo;Tomas Simon;Shih-En Wei

  • Hand Keypoint Detection in Single Images Using Multiview Bootstrapping

    Tomas Simon;Hanbyul Joo;Iain Matthews;Yaser Sheikh

  • Neural volumes: learning dynamic renderable volumes from images

    Stephen Lombardi;Tomas Simon;Jason Saragih;Gabriel Schwartz

  • PIFuHD: Multi-Level Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization

    Shunsuke Saito;Tomas Simon;Jason Saragih;Hanbyul Joo

  • OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields

    Zhe Cao;Gines Hidalgo;Tomas Simon;Shih-En Wei

  • Total Capture: A 3D Deformation Model for Tracking Faces, Hands, and Bodies

    Hanbyul Joo;Tomas Simon;Yaser Sheikh

  • Panoptic Studio: A Massively Multiview System for Social Interaction Capture

    Hanbyul Joo;Tomas Simon;Xulong Li;Hao Liu

  • State of the Art on Neural Rendering

    Ayush Tewari;Ohad Fried;Justus Thies;Vincent Sitzmann

  • Advances in Neural Rendering

    Ayush Tewari;Justus Thies;Ben Mildenhall;Pratul Srinivasan

  • Deep appearance models for face rendering

    Stephen Lombardi;Jason Saragih;Tomas Simon;Yaser Sheikh

  • Mixture of volumetric primitives for efficient neural rendering

    Stephen Lombardi;Tomas Simon;Gabriel Schwartz;Michael Zollhoefer

  • 3D object manipulation in a single photograph using stock 3D models

    Natasha Kholgade;Tomas Simon;Alexei Efros;Yaser Sheikh

  • Authentic volumetric avatars from a phone scan

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  • Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields

    Zhe Cao;Tomas Simon;Shih-En Wei;Yaser Sheikh

  • Hand Keypoint Detection in Single Images using Multiview Bootstrapping

    Tomas Simon;Hanbyul Joo;Iain Matthews;Yaser Sheikh

  • Bilinear spatiotemporal basis models

    Ijaz Akhter;Tomas Simon;Sohaib Khan;Iain Matthews

  • SimPoE: Simulated Character Control for 3D Human Pose Estimation

    Ye Yuan;Shih-En Wei;Tomas Simon;Kris Kitani

  • VR facial animation via multiview image translation

    Shih-En Wei;Jason Saragih;Tomas Simon;Adam W. Harley

  • Action unit detection with segment-based SVMs

    Tomas Simon;Minh Hoai Nguyen;Fernando De La Torre;Jeffrey F. Cohn

  • Drivable Volumetric Avatars using Texel-Aligned Features

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  • Learning Compositional Radiance Fields of Dynamic Human Heads

    Ziyan Wang;Timur Bagautdinov;Stephen Lombardi;Tomas Simon

  • Pixel Codec Avatars

    Shugao Ma;Tomas Simon;Jason Saragih;Dawei Wang

  • Advances in neural rendering

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

  • Single-Network Whole-Body Pose Estimation

    Gines Hidalgo Martinez;Yaadhav Raaj;Haroon Idrees;Donglai Xiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yaser Sheikh
Yaser Sheikh Facebook (United States)
Jason Saragih
Jason Saragih Facebook (United States)
Iain Matthews
Iain Matthews University of East Anglia
Michael Zollhöfer
Michael Zollhöfer Stanford University
Fernando De la Torre
Fernando De la Torre Carnegie Mellon University
Gordon Wetzstein
Gordon Wetzstein Stanford University
Christian Theobalt
Christian Theobalt Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Justus Thies
Justus Thies Technical University of Munich
Maneesh Agrawala
Maneesh Agrawala Stanford University
Jun-Yan Zhu
Jun-Yan Zhu Carnegie Mellon University

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