263-5702-00L  Seminar on Digital Humans

SemesterAutumn Semester 2022
LecturersM. Gross, B. Solenthaler, S. Tang, R. Wampfler
Periodicityyearly recurring course
Language of instructionEnglish
CommentNumber of participants limited to 24.

The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the third week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.


AbstractThis seminar covers advanced topic in digital humans with a focus on the latest research results. Topics include estimating human pose and motion from images, human motion synthesis, learning-based human avatar creation, learning neural implicit representations for humans, modeling, animations, artificial intelligence for digital characters, and others. A collection of research papers is selected.
Learning objectiveThe goal is to get an overview of actual research topics in the field of digital humans and to improve presentation and critical analysis skills.
ContentThis seminar covers advanced topics in digital humans including both seminal research papers as well as the latest research results. A collection of research papers are selected covering topics such as estimating human pose and motion from images, human motion synthesis, learning-based human avatar creation, learning neural implicit representations for humans, modeling, animations, artificial intelligence for digital characters, and others. Each student presents one paper to the class and leads a discussion about the paper. All students read the papers and participate in the discussion.
LiteratureIndividual research papers are selected each term. See https://vlg.inf.ethz.ch/ and http://graphics.ethz.ch/ for example papers.