• 05.07.2021: The source code of PhysCap is now available here.
• 03.05.2021: I am starting a research group on 4D and quantum computer vision and accepting now applications for PhD positions, post-doc positions and internships (including theses internships and remote internships).
• 29.04.2020: An article accepted at SIGGRAPH 2021 ("Neural Physcap").
• 19.04.2020: Our work on monocular template-based non-rigid 3D tracking from a single event stream is accepted at CVPR 2021 Workshop on Event-based Vision.
• 30.03.2021: We are going to present three papers at CVPR 2021 (on quantum multi-matching, human motion transfer and human animation from a single image).
• 18.02.2021: Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, SS 2021, Saarland University.
• 04.02.2021: The source code of PatchNets is now available (github link).
• 30.12.2020: The source code of Non-Rigid Neural Radiance Fields (NR-NeRF) is available (github link).
• 15.10.2020: Three papers accepted to 3DV 2020 (dense NRSfM, quantum graph matching and point set alignment).
• 29.09.2020: Our work on egocentric videoconferencing using a new device with a fisheye camera is accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020.
• 27.08.2020: Our work on physically principled 3D human motion capture in real time is accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia.
• 24.08.2020: Our paper "Neural Re-Rendering of Humans from a Single Image" is featured in "ECCV 2020 Daily".

• PhD positions, post-doc positions and internships are available.

• Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, SS 2021, Saarland University.
• If you are interested in a bachelor/master thesis, an internship, research immersion lab (RIL) or a HiWi position on one of the topics listed below, do not hesitate to reach me out.

I am currently leading "4D and Quantum Vision" group at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, D6 Department. The focus of our team lies on 3D reconstruction and analysis of general deformable scenes, 3D reconstruction of the human body and matching problems on point sets and graphs. We are interested in neural approaches (both supervised and unsupervised), physics-based methods as well as new hardware and sensors (e.g., quantum computers and event cameras).

Many research questions at the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision and machine learning involve challenging search problems (e.g., graph matching) or the optimisation of non-convex objectives. For such problems, we develop new algorithmic formulations that can be solved on modern adiabatic quantum annealers or universal quantum computers and investigate which advantages these approaches offer compared to existing classical methods.

Our reserach interests include (but are not limited to):
• 3D Reconstruction and Tracking of Rigid and Non-Rigid Scenes and Objects
• Neural Rendering
• Point Set Registration and Matching Problems
• Quantum Algorithms for Computer Vision and Graphics
• Event-based Approaches in Vision and Graphics

2021

Neural Monocular 3D Human Motion Capture with Physical Awareness. ("Neural PhysCap") S. Shimada, V. Golyanik, W. Xu, P. Pérez and C. Theobalt. SIGGRAPH, 2021. [paper] [arXiv] [bibtex] [project page]

Quantum Permutation Synchronization. T. Birdal*, V. Golyanik*, C. Theobalt and L. Guibas. * equal contribution. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021. [paper] [arXiv] [project page] [project page (github)]

High-Fidelity Neural Human Motion Transfer from Monocular Video. M. Kappel, V. Golyanik, M. Elgharib, J.-O. Henningson, H.-P. Seidel, S. Castillo, C. Theobalt and M. Magnor. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021; Oral. [paper] [project page]

Pose-Guided Human Animation from a Single Image in the Wild. J. S. Yoon, L. Liu, V. Golyanik, K. Sarkar, H. S. Park, and C. Theobalt. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021. [paper] [project page] [video]

Differentiable Event Stream Simulator for Non-Rigid 3D Tracking. J. Nehvi, V. Golyanik, F. Mueller, H.-P. Seidel, M. Elgharib and C. Theobalt. CVPR Workshop on Event-based Vision, 2021. [paper] [arXiv] [supplement] [source code (coming soon)] [bibtex] [project page]

Fast Gravitational Approach for Rigid Point Set Registration with Ordinary Differential Equations. S. A. Ali, K. Kahraman, C. Theobalt, D. Stricker and V. Golyanik. IEEE Access, 2021. [paper] [arXiv] [project page] [bibtex]

Technical Reports

Q-Match: Iterative Shape Matching via Quantum Annealing. M. Seelbach Benkner, Z. Lähner, V. Golyanik, C. Wunderlich, C. Theobalt and M. Moeller. arXiv.org, 2021. [paper] [project page] [bibtex]

Style and Pose Control for Image Synthesis of Humans from a Single Monocular View. K. Sarkar, V. Golyanik, L. Liu and C. Theobalt. arXiv.org, 2021. [paper] [project page]

HumanGAN: A Generative Model of Human Images. K. Sarkar, L. Liu, V. Golyanik, and C. Theobalt. arXiv.org, 2021. [paper] [project page]

EventHands: Real-Time Neural 3D Hand Reconstruction from an Event Stream. V. Rudnev, V. Golyanik, J. Wang, H.-P. Seidel, F. Mueller, M. Elgharib and C. Theobalt. Technical Report on arXiv.org, 2020. [paper] [project page]

Non-Rigid Neural Radiance Fields: Reconstruction and Novel View Synthesis of a Deforming Scene from Monocular Video. E. Tretschk, A. Tewari, V. Golyanik, M. Zollhöfer, C. Lassner and C. Theobalt. Technical Report on arXiv.org, 2020. [project page] [source code]

2020

PhysCap: Physically Plausible Monocular 3D Motion Capture in Real Time. S. Shimada, V. Golyanik, W. Xu and C. Theobalt. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2020. [paper (arXiv.org)] [bibtex] [project page]

Egocentric Videoconferencing. M. Elgharib*, M. Mendiratta*, J. Thies, M. Nießner, H.-P. Seidel, A. Tewari, V. Golyanik and C. Theobalt. * equal contribution. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2020. [draft] [supplement] [bibtex] [project page]

Fast Simultaneous Gravitational Alignment of Multiple Point Sets. V. Golyanik, S. Shimada and C. Theobalt. 3DV, 2020; Oral. [draft] [bibtex] [project page]

Adiabatic Quantum Graph Matching with Permutation Matrix Constraints. M. Seelbach Benkner, V. Golyanik, C. Theobalt and M. Moeller. 3DV, 2020. [draft] [supplement] [bibtex] [project page]

Intrinsic Dynamic Shape Prior for Dense Non-Rigid Structure from Motion. V. Golyanik, A. Jonas, D. Stricker and C. Theobalt. 3DV, 2020. [draft] [bibtex] [extended version (arXiv)] [3DV talk] [project page]

Neural Dense Non-Rigid Structure from Motion with Latent Space Constraints. V. Sidhu, E. Tretschk, V. Golyanik, A. Agudo and C. Theobalt. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. [paper] [supplement] [video] [bibtex] [project page (includes the ECCV talks)]

HTML: A Parametric Hand Texture Model for 3D Hand Reconstruction and Personalization. N. Qian, J. Wang, F. Müller, F. Bernard, V. Golyanik and C. Theobalt. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. [paper] [supplement] [video] [bibtex] [project page]

PatchNets: Patch-Based Generalizable Deep Implicit 3D Shape Representations. E. Tretschk, A. Tewari, V. Golyanik, M. Zollhöfer, C. Stoll and C. Theobalt. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. [paper] [supplement] [video] [bibtex] [project page (includes the ECCV talks)] [source code]

DEMEA: Deep Mesh Autoencoders for Non-Rigidly Deforming Objects. E. Tretschk, A. Tewari, M. Zollhöfer, V. Golyanik and C. Theobalt. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020; Spotlight [paper] [supplement] [bibtex] [arXiv] [project page (includes the ECCV talks)]

Neural Re-Rendering of Humans from a Single Image. K. Sarkar, D. Mehta, W. Xu, V. Golyanik and C. Theobalt. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. Featured in "ECCV 2020 Daily" (link) [paper] [supplement] [video] [bibtex] [project page]

A Quantum Computational Approach to Correspondence Problems on Point Sets. V. Golyanik and C. Theobalt. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020. [paper] [slides] [poster] [bibtex] [arXiv] [project page]

EventCap: Monocular 3D Capture of High-Speed Human Motions using an Event Camera. L. Xu, W. Xu, V. Golyanik, M. Habermann, L. Fang and C. Theobalt. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020; Oral [paper] [supplement] [bibtex] [arXiv] [project page]

HandVoxNet: Deep Voxel-Based Network for 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single Depth Map. J. Malik, I. Abdelaziz, A. Elhayek, S. Shimada, S. A. Ali, V. Golyanik, C. Theobalt and D. Stricker. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020. [paper] [supplement] [bibtex] [arXiv] [project page]

Robust Methods for Dense Monocular Non-Rigid 3D Reconstruction and Alignment of Point Clouds. Doctoral Dissertation, TU Kaiserslautern. V. Golyanik. Springer Vieweg Verlag, 2020. DAGM MVTec Dissertation Award 2020 [Springer] [Springer Link] [Book Flyer]

2019

Structure from Articulated Motion: Accurate and Stable Monocular 3D Reconstruction without Training Data. O. Kovalenko, V. Golyanik, J. Malik, A. Elhayek and D. Stricker. Sensors (Volume 19, Issue 20), 2019. [paper] [project page]

Accelerated Gravitational Point Set Alignment with Altered Physical Laws. V. Golyanik, C. Theobalt and D. Stricker. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019; [paper] [supplementary material] [poster] [bibtex] [project page]

A Shape Completion Component for Monocular Non-Rigid SLAM. Y. Su, V. Golyanik, N. Minaskan, S. A. Ali and D. Stricker. International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2019. [paper] [supplement (video, 15 MB)] [MSCC Dataset] [bibtex]

DispVoxNets: Non-Rigid Point Set Alignment with Supervised Learning Proxies. S. Shimada, V. Golyanik, E. Tretschk, D. Stricker and C. Theobalt. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2019; Oral [paper] [poster] [presentation] [project page] [arXiv] [bibtex]

Optimising for Scale in Globally Multiply-Linked Gravitational Point Set Registration Leads to Singularities. V. Golyanik and C. Theobalt. In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2019; Spotlight [paper] [supplement (pdf)] [poster] [video] [bibtex]

FACE IT!: A Pipeline For Real-Time Performance-Driven Facial Animation. J. M. Dı́az Barros, V. Golyanik, K. Varanasi and D. Stricker. International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, 2019; Oral (Lecture) [paper] [bibtex]

IsMo-GAN: Adversarial Learning for Monocular Non-Rigid 3D Reconstruction. S. Shimada, V. Golyanik, C. Theobalt and D. Stricker. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (Photogrammetric Computer Vision Workshop), 2019; Oral [paper] [bibtex] [arXiv] [project page]

Consolidating Segmentwise Non-Rigid Structure from Motion. V. Golyanik, A. Jonas and D. Stricker. Machine Vision Applications (MVA), 2019; Oral [paper] [project page] [bibtex]

2018

NRGA: Gravitational Approach for Non-Rigid Point Set Registration. S. A. Ali. V. Golyanik and D. Stricker. International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2018; Oral [paper] [Supplementary Video (Download, YouTube)] [poster] [bibtex]

HDM-Net: Monocular Non-Rigid 3D Reconstruction with Learned Deformation Model. V. Golyanik, S. Shimada, K. Varanasi and D. Stricker. EuroVR, 2018; Oral (Long Paper) [paper] [HDM-Net data set] [bibtex]

Improving Time-Of-Flight Sensor for Specular Surfaces With Shape from Polarozation. T. Yoshida, V. Golyanik, O. Wasenmüller and D. Stricker. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018. [paper] [bibtex]

Classification of LIDAR Sensor Contaminations with Deep Neural Networks. J. K. James, G. Puhlfürst, V. Golyanik and D. Stricker. ACM Chapters Computer Science in Cars Symposium (CSCS), 2018; Oral [paper] [bibtex]

2017

Multiframe Scene Flow with Piecewise Rigid Motion. V. Golyanik, K. Kim, R. Maier, M. Nießner, D. Stricker and J. Kautz. International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017; Spotlight Oral [paper] [arXiv] [supplementary material] [poster] [bibtex]

Scalable Dense Monocular Surface Reconstruction. M.D.Ansari, V. Golyanik and D. Stricker. International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017. [paper] [arXiv] [bibtex]

High-Dimensional Model for Dense Monocular Surface Recovery. V. Golyanik and D. Stricker. International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017. [paper] [bibtex]

Introduction to Coherent Depth Fields for Dense Monocular Surface Recovery. V. Golyanik, T. Fetzer and D. Stricker. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2017. [paper] [supplementary video] [bibtex]

Towards Scheduling Hard Real-Time Image Processing Tasks on a Single GPU. V. Golyanik, M. Nasri and D. Stricker. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017. [paper] [bibtex]

A Framework for an Accurate Point Cloud Based Registration of Full 3D Human Body Scans. V. Golyanik, G. Reis, B. Taetz and D. Stricker. Machine Vision Applications (MVA), 2017. [paper] [bibtex]

Dense Batch Non-Rigid Structure from Motion in a Second. V. Golyanik and D. Stricker. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2017. [paper] [supplementary video] [poster] [bibtex]

Accurate 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes from Monocular Image Sequences with Severe Occlusions. V. Golyanik, T. Fetzer and D. Stricker. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2017. [paper] [supplementary material] [poster] [arXiv] [bibtex]

2016

NRSfM-Flow: Recovering Non-Rigid Scene Flow from Monocular Image Sequences. V. Golyanik, A. S. Mathur and D. Stricker. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2016. [paper] [extended abstract] [poster] [supplementary video] [bibtex]

Joint Pre-Alignment and Robust Rigid Point Set Registration. V. Golyanik, B. Taetz and D. Stricker. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2016. [paper] [bibtex]

Gravitational Approach for Point Set Registration. V. Golyanik, S. A. Ali and D. Stricker. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016. [paper] [supplementary material] [bibtex]

Extended Coherent Point Drift Algorithm with Correspondence Priors and Optimal Subsampling. V. Golyanik, B. Taetz, G. Reis and D. Stricker. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016. [paper] [poster] [bibtex] [WACV Talk]

Occlusion-Aware Video Registration for Highly Non-Rigid Objects. B. Taetz, G. Bleser, V. Golyanik and D. Stricker. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016. Best Paper Award. [paper] [supplementary material] [bibtex] [WACV Talk]

2015

Precise and Automatic Anthropometric Measurement Extraction using Template Registration. O. Wasenmüller, J. C. Peters, V. Golyanik and D. Stricker. International Conference on 3D Body Scanning Technologies (3DBST), 2015. [paper] [bibtex]

• since Sept.2018:
  Researcher at Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics
• Jan.2016 - Sept.2018:
  Researcher at German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI),
  Augmented Vision Department, Kaiserslautern, Germany
• Oct.2016 - April.2017:
  Visiting Research Intern at NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA
• March.2014 - Dec.2015:
  Researcher at the University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Computer Science,
  Augmented Vision Lab (operated in cooperation with DFKI)