Dr. Marc Habermann
Position
Tenured Senior Researcher / Scientific Manager of the Real Virtual Lab
Office
Campus E1 4, Room 216, Saarland Informatics Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Email
mhaberma@mpi-inf.mpg.de
Phone
+49 681 9325-4507
Fax
+49 681 9325-4099
Scholar
Google Scholar
Research Interests
I am a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics where I head the Graphics and Vision for Digital Humans group. My research interests lie in the field of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Machine Learning. In particular, my work focuses on real-time human performance capture from single RGB videos, physical plausibility of the surface deformations and the human motion, photo-realistic animation synthesis, and learning generative 3D human characters from video.
In summary, my research interests include (but are not limited to):
- Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning
- Human Performance Capture and Synthesis
- Reconstruction of Non-Rigid Deformations from RGB Video
- Neural Rendering
- Motion Capture
For more details, please visit my group page!
Recent Publications
Invited Talks / News
- 2026-04-01Our research on digital avatars got featured in Bild der Wissenschaft.
- 2025-09-30Our works on digital humans got featured in Max Planck Forschung.
- 2025-05-16Marc Habermann was appointed a Saarland University Associate Fellow.
- 2025-05-12Joint Tutorial on Virtual Humans meet Event-based and Quantum-enhanced Vision @ Eurographics 2025 [conference]
- 2024-10-16We got featured by Spektrum der Wissenschaft! [article]
- 2024-09-10Joint Tutorial on Virtual Humans and Quantum-enhanced Vision @ GCPR/VMV 2024 [conference]
- 2023-05-03Digital Humans @ Saarland Informatics Campus Lecture Series [video]
- 2022-07-11Human Performance Capture and Synthesis @ Adobe [video]
- 2021-09-28Real-time Deep Dynamic Characters @ Google Zuerich [video]
- 2020-10-29DeepCap @ Computer Vision Reading Group EPFL [video]
Awards & Honors
- August 2023
SCA 2023 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, Los Angeles, USA - June 2023
Otto Hahn Medal 2022, Goettingen, Germany - September 2022
DAGM MVTec Dissertation Award 2022, Konstanz, Germany - April 2022
Eurographics PhD Award 2022, Reims, France - June 2020
CVPR 2020 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, Seattle, USA - November 2017
Günter-Hotz-Medal for the best Master graduates in Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany
Education & Recent Positions
- December 2024 – nowTenured senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
- November 2021 – nowScientific manager of the Real Virtual Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
- January 2024 – December 2024Tenured research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
- November 2021 – December 2023Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
- October 2021Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in Computer Science, Max Planck Institute for Informatics / Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- September 2017 – October 2021PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department, Saarbrücken, Germany
- April 2016 – November 2017Master Studies in Computer Science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Title of Master's Thesis (Diplomarbeit): RONDA - Reconstruction of Non-rigid Surfaces from High Resolution Video (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt) (PDF) - October 2012 – April 2016Bachelor Studies in Computer Science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Title of Bachelor's Thesis: Drone Path Planning (supervisor: Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ritschel) (PDF) - July 2012Abitur at the Albertus Magnus Gymnasium, Sankt Ingbert, Germany
Teaching
- October 2024 – February 2025Lecturer for Advanced Topics in Neural Rendering and Reconstruction, Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Dr. Rishabh Dabral, Dr. Vladislav Golyanik, Dr. Thomas Leimkühler, Dr. Marc Habermann at the Saarland University
- April 2024 – August 2024Lecturer for Classical Concepts of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics in the Neural Age, Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Dr. Marc Habermann, Dr. Thomas Leimkühler, Dr. Rishabh Dabral at the Saarland University
- October 2023 – February 2024Lecturer for Advanced Topics in Neural Rendering and Reconstruction, Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Dr. Mohamed Elgharib, Dr. Vladislav Golyanik, Dr. Thomas Leimkühler, Dr. Marc Habermann at the Saarland University
- April 2022 – August 2022Lecturer for Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Dr. Marc Habermann, Dr. Thomas Leimkühler at the Saarland University
- April 2021 – August 2021Supervisor for Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Dr. Mohamed Elgharib, Dr. Vladislav Golyanik at the Saarland University
- April 2020 – August 2020Supervisor for Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Dr. Mohamed Elgharib, Dr. Vladislav Golyanik at the Saarland University
- April 2019 – August 2019Supervisor for Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Dr. Mohamed Elgharib, Dr. Vladislav Golyanik at the Saarland University
- April 2018 – August 2018Supervisor for 3D Shape Analysis, Lecturer: Dr. Florian Bernard and Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt at the Saarland University
- September 2016 – June 2018Tutor for Seminarfach 3D Modellierung at the Leibniz Gymnasium/Albertus Magnus Gymnasium, Sankt Ingbert, Germany
- July 2013 – September 2016Tutor for 3D Modellierung Alte Schmelz, Sankt Ingbert, Germany
Community Service
Area Chair / Program Committee
- CVPR (2026)
- 3DV (2025, 2026)
- Eurographics (2026)
- SCA (2025)
Associate Editor
- TVCG (since 2025)
Reviewer
- SIGGRAPH
- SIGGRAPH Asia
- CVPR
- ECCV
- CRV
- ToG
- TPAMI
- IJCV
- TVCG
- TCSVT
- CVIU
- PG
- 3DV
- Neurips
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