Hi, I am Navami Kairanda. I am a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Vladislav Golyanik and Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt in the 4DQV group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

• Physics-based, Neuroexplicit Approaches in Vision and Graphics
• Modelling and Simulation of Clothes
• 3D Reconstruction and Tracking of Deformable Objects

• 12.06.2025: [New] Invited student lightning talk at the CVPR 2025 Workshop on Vision Meets Physics.
• 30.05.2025: [New] Curious about our research or what it's like to work and collaborate at our institute? Hear from me and other MPI researchers in the short film.
• 24.10.2024: Our works got featured in the latest issue of Google's Aufbruch Magazine (#31) and I contributed to the cover photo!
• 12.09.2024: The source code of NeuralClothSim is now available here: GitHub link.

Thin-Shell-SfT: Fine-Grained Monocular Non-rigid 3D Surface Tracking with Neural Deformation Fields Navami Kairanda, Marc Habermann, Shanthika Naik, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025, Nashville [paper] [project page] [video] [source code (coming soon)]

NeuralClothSim: Neural Deformation Fields Meet the Thin Shell Theory Navami Kairanda, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024, Vancouver [paper] [project page] [video] [source code]

State of the Art in Dense Monocular Non-Rigid 3D Reconstruction Edith Tretschk*, Navami Kairanda*, Mallikarjun B R, Rishabh Dabral, Adam Kortylewski, Bernhard Egger, Marc Habermann, Pascal Fua, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik (* equal contribution) Eurographics (STAR Report), 2023, Saarbrücken [paper] [project page] [talk]

φ-SfT: Shape-from-Template with a Physics-based Deformation Model Navami Kairanda, Edith Tretschk, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022, New Orleans [paper] [project page] [video] [source code] [dataset] Master Thesis, Saarland University [pdf]

Feature Engineering on Forest Cover Type Data with Ensemble of Decision Trees HR Pruthvi*, Nisha KK*, Chandana TL*, Navami Kairanda*, Biju R Mohan (* equal contribution) IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2015, Bangalore [paper] Bachelor Thesis, National Institute of Techonology Karnataka [pdf]

• September 2020 -- September 2021:
  Student assistant in Graphics, Vision & Video (group leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt) at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
• August 2019 -- January 2020:
  Student assistant in Real Virtual Humans (group leader: Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll) at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
• May 2014 -- July 2014:
  Research internship at Samsung Research & Development Institute India, Bangalore, India

• March 2022 -- present:
  Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
  
• April 2019 -- February 2022:
  Masters in Visual Computing at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
  
• July 2011 -- May 2015:
  Bachelors in Informations Technology at the National Institute of Techonology Karnataka, Surathkal, India

• Reviewing (Conferences):
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024, 2025; International Conference on Computer Vision 2025; Neural Information Processing Systems 2025
• Reviewing (Journal):
  Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2023; Computer Vision and Image Understanding 2023

• Seminars:
  SS2025: Advanced Topics of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Saarland University
  SS2024: Classical Concepts of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics in the Neural Age, Saarland University
  SS2023: Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, Saarland University
  SS2022: Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, Saarland University

• Shanthika Naik, Oct 2023 - Oct 2024 (MSc student intern, currently research fellow at IIT Jodhpur)
  
• Takuya Nakabayashi, Sept 2024 - ongoing (PhD student intern, Keio University)