Vasileios Choutas

GNM Head teaser: generative head model driving photorealistic and neural rendering results

GNM Head: A Generative aNthropometric Model of the human head New
Stylianos Ploumpis, Jan Bednarik, Gaspard Zoss, Ruslan Guseinov, Luca Prasso, Prashanth Chandran, Oliver Boyne, Vasileios Choutas, Timo Bolkart, Daoye Wang, Menglei Chai, Di Qiu, Sebastian Winberg, Gilles Rainer, Lewis Bridgeman, Delio Vicini, Jérémy Riviere, Yannick Boetzel, Alexander Koumis, Stylianos Moschoglou, Jay Busch, Cynthia Herrera, Jacob Still, Scott Ysebert, Peter Lincoln, Sergio Orts Escolano, Christoph Rhemann, Erroll Wood, Thabo Beeler, Stefanos Zafeiriou
arXiv preprint, 2026
[arxiv] [PDF]

[bibtex]

@misc{Ploumpis2026GNMHead, title = {GNM Head: A Generative aNthropometric Model of the human head}, author = {Ploumpis, Stylianos and Bednarik, Jan and Zoss, Gaspard and Guseinov, Ruslan and Prasso, Luca and Chandran, Prashanth and Boyne, Oliver and Choutas, Vasileios and Bolkart, Timo and Wang, Daoye and Chai, Menglei and Qiu, Di and Winberg, Sebastian and Rainer, Gilles and Bridgeman, Lewis and Vicini, Delio and Riviere, J\'er\'emy and Boetzel, Yannick and Koumis, Alexander and Moschoglou, Stylianos and Busch, Jay and Herrera, Cynthia and Still, Jacob and Ysebert, Scott and Lincoln, Peter and Orts Escolano, Sergio and Rhemann, Christoph and Wood, Erroll and Beeler, Thabo and Zafeiriou, Stefanos}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2607.23687}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, primaryClass = {cs.CV} }

A generative anthropometric model of the human head, face, neck, eyeballs, teeth and tongue.

DCGrasp: Distance-aware Controllable Grasp Generation New
Hiroyasu Akada, Jesús Pérez, Emre Aksan, Vasileios Choutas, Cristian Romero, Alberto Garcia-Garcia, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt, Thabo Beeler
SIGGRAPH Asia, 2026
Accepted
[arxiv] [PDF]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{Akada2026DCGrasp, title = {DCGrasp: Distance-aware Controllable Grasp Generation}, booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Conference Papers}, author = {Akada, Hiroyasu and P\'erez, Jes\'us and Aksan, Emre and Choutas, Vasileios and Romero, Cristian and Garcia-Garcia, Alberto and Golyanik, Vladislav and Theobalt, Christian and Beeler, Thabo}, year = {2026} }

Diffusion-based generation of physically plausible, controllable 3D hand grasps using a distance-aware profile between hand and object.

BimArt: A Unified Approach for the Synthesis of 3D Bimanual Interaction with Articulated Objects
Wanyue Zhang, Rishabh Dabral, Vladislav Golyanik, Vasileios Choutas, Eduardo Alvarado, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
[Project Page] [arxiv] [PDF] [Supplementary]

[bibtex]

@InProceedings{Zhang_2025_CVPR, author = {Zhang, Wanyue and Dabral, Rishabh and Golyanik, Vladislav and Choutas, Vasileios and Alvarado, Eduardo and Beeler, Thabo and Habermann, Marc and Theobalt, Christian}, title = {BimArt: A Unified Approach for the Synthesis of 3D Bimanual Interaction with Articulated Objects}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2025}, pages = {27694-27705} }

Synthesize physically plausible bimanual hand interactions with articulated objects such as kitchen appliances.

Learning to Stabilize Faces
Jan Bednarik, Erroll Wood, Vasileios Choutas, Timo Bolkart, Daoye Wang, Chenglei Wu, Thabo Beeler
Eurographics, 2024
[Project Page] [PDF] [Supplementary]

[bibtex]

@proceedings{bednarik2024stabilization, author = {Jan Bednarik and Erroll Wood and Vassilis Choutas and Timo Bolkart and Daoye Wang and Chenglei Wu and Thabo Beeler}, title = {Learning to Stabilize Faces}, booktitle = {Eurographics}, year={2024}}

Remove rigid head motion and jitter from captured facial performances for stable animation.

HMP: Hand Motion Priors for Pose and Shape Estimation from Video
Enes Duran, Muhammed Kocabas, Vasileios Choutas,
Zicong (Alex) Fan, Michael J. Black
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024
[PDF] [arxiv] [code]

[bibtex]

@article{HMP, title = {HMP: Hand Motion Priors for Pose and Shape Estimation from Video}, author = {Duran, Enes and Kocabas, Muhammed and Choutas, Vasileios and Fan, Zicong and Black, Michael J.}, journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, year = {2024}, doi = {} }

Learn a motion prior for hands to improve 3D pose and shape estimation from video.

SGNify: Reconstructing Signing Avatars teaser

Reconstructing Signing Avatars from Video Using Linguistic Priors
Maria Paola Forte , Chun-Hao Paul Huang, Peter Kulits,
Vasileios Choutas, Dimitris Tzionas,
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Michael J. Black
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
[PDF] [arxiv] [project page] [code]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{Forte23-CVPR-SGNify, title = {Reconstructing Signing Avatars from Video Using Linguistic Priors}, author = {Forte, Maria-Paola and Kulits, Peter and Huang, Chun-Hao Paul and Choutas, Vasileios and Tzionas, Dimitrios and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J. and Black, Michael J.}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conf.~on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, pages = {12791--12801}, month = jun, year = {2023}, doi = {10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.01230}, month_numeric = {6} }

Reconstruct expressive signing avatars from video using linguistic priors from sign language.

Reconstructing Expressive 3D Humans from RGB Images
Vasileios Choutas
ETH Zürich, 2022
[PDF] [ETH research collection]

[bibtex]

@thesis{Choutas:Thesis:2022, title = {Reconstructing Expressive {3D} Humans from {RGB} Images}, author = {Choutas, Vasileios}, school = {ETH Zurich}, address = {Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and ETH Zurich}, month = dec, year = {2022}, doi = {}, month_numeric = {12} }

Doctoral thesis on reconstructing expressive 3D bodies, hands, and faces from RGB images.

Spatio-Temporal Action Detection Under Large Motion teaser

Spatio-Temporal Action Detection Under Large Motion
Gurkirt Singh, Vasileios Choutas, Suman Saha, Fisher Yu, Luc Van Gool
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023
[PDF] [arxiv] [slides] [challenge]

[bibtex]

@InProceedings{Singh_2023_WACV, author = {Singh, Gurkirt and Choutas, Vasileios and Saha, Suman and Yu, Fisher and Van Gool, Luc}, title = {Spatio-Temporal Action Detection Under Large Motion}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, month = {January}, year = {2023}, pages = {6009-6018} }

Use tracking to improve action detection.

Learning to Fit Morphable Models
Vasileios Choutas, Federica Bogo, Jingjing Shen Julien Valentin
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
[project page] [PDF] [arxiv] [poster] [video]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{Choutas:ECCV:2022, author = {Vasileios Choutas and Federica Bogo and Jingjing Shen and Julien Valentin}, title = {Learning to Fit Morphable Models}, booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, month = {October}, year = {2022}, }

Neural optimizer inspired from Levenberg-Marquadt.

SHAPY teaser: accurate 3D body shape regression

Accurate 3D Body Shape Regression using Metric and Semantic Attributes
Vasileios Choutas*, Lea Müller*, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, Siyu Tang, Dimitris Tzionas, Michael J. Black
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
Oral Presentation
Best paper candidate
[project page] [PDF] [arxiv] [code] [video]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{Shapy:CVPR:2022, author = {Choutas, Vasileios and M\"uller, Lea and Huang, Chun-Hao P. and Tang, Siyu and Tzionas, Dimitrios and Black, Michael J.}, title = {Accurate 3D Body Shape Regression Using Metric and Semantic Attributes}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2022}, pages = {2718-2728} }

Linguistic attribute scores and anthropometric body measurements are effective proxies for 3D body shape supervision.

GOAL teaser: generating 4D whole-body motion for hand-object grasping

GOAL: Generating 4D Whole-Body Motion for Hand-Object Grasping
Omid Taheri, Vasileios Choutas, Michael J. Black, Dimitris Tzionas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
[project page] [PDF ] [arxiv] [code]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{Taheri_2022_CVPR, author = {Taheri, Omid and Choutas, Vasileios and Black, Michael J. and Tzionas, Dimitrios}, title = {GOAL: Generating 4D Whole-Body Motion for Hand-Object Grasping}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2022}, pages = {13263-13273} }

Generate grasping motion for a target object.

PIXIE teaser: collaborative regression of expressive bodies

Collaborative Regression of Expressive Bodies using Moderation
Yao Feng *, Vasileios Choutas*, Timo Bolkart, Dimitris Tzionas, Michael J. Black
International Conference on 3D Vision, 2021
[project page] [PDF] [supplementary] [code]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{PIXIE:2021, title={Collaborative Regression of Expressive Bodies using Moderation}, author={Yao Feng and Vasileios Choutas and Timo Bolkart and Dimitrios Tzionas and Michael J. Black}, booktitle={International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)}, year={2021}, pages={792-804}, }

Reconstruct expressive 3D humans from a single RGB image by adaptively aggregating information from part experts.

Monocular Expressive Body Regression through Body-Driven Attention
Vasileios Choutas, Georgios Pavlakos, Timo Bolkart, Dimitris Tzionas, Michael J. Black
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
[project page] [PDF] [supplementary] [arxiv] [Long video] [Short video] [code]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{ExPose:2020, title = {Monocular Expressive Body Regression through Body-Driven Attention}, author = {Choutas, Vasileios and Pavlakos, Georgios and Bolkart, Timo and Tzionas, Dimitrios and Black, Michael J.}, booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, volume = {LNCS 12355}, pages = {20--40}, year = {2020} }

Regression-based expressive capture of 3D humans from a single RGB image.

Resolving 3D Human Pose Ambiguities with 3D Scene Constraints
Mohamed Hassan, Vasileios Choutas, Dimitris Tzionas, Michael J. Black
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
[project page] [PDF] [arxiv] [video] [code]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{PROX:2019, title = {Resolving {3D} Human Pose Ambiguities with {3D} Scene Constraints}, author = {Hassan, Mohamed and Choutas, Vasileios and Tzionas, Dimitrios and Black, Michael J.}, booktitle = {Proceedings International Conference on Computer Vision}, pages = {2282--2292}, publisher = {IEEE}, month = oct, year = {2019}, url = {https://prox.is.tue.mpg.de}, month_numeric = {10} }

Leveraging scene constraints to improve 3D human pose and shape estimation

Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face and Body from a Single Image
Georgios Pavlakos*, Vasileios Choutas*, Nima Ghorbani, Ahmed A. A. Osman, Timo Bolkart, Dimitris Tzionas, Michael J. Black
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
Oral Presentation
[project page] [PDF] [supplementary] [arxiv] [video] [poster] [code]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{SMPL-X:2019, title = {Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face, and Body from a Single Image}, author = {Pavlakos, Georgios and Choutas, Vasileios and Ghorbani, Nima and Bolkart, Timo and Osman, Ahmed A. A. and Tzionas, Dimitrios and Black, Michael J.}, booktitle = {Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, pages = {10975--10985}, month = jun, year = {2019}, url = {http://smpl-x.is.tue.mpg.de}, month_numeric = {6} }

Expressive capture of bodies, hands and faces from a single RGB image.

PoTion: Pose MoTion Representation for Action Recognition
Vasileios Choutas, Philippe Weinzaepfel, Jérome Revaud and Cordelia Schmid
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
[project page] [PDF]

[bibtex]

@inproceedings{Choutas_2018_CVPR, author = {Choutas, Vasileios and Weinzaepfel, Philippe and Revaud, Jérôme and Schmid, Cordelia}, title = {PoTion: Pose MoTion Representation for Action Recognition}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2018} pages = {7024-7033}, }

A representation that encodes human motion in videos.