Justus Thies is heading the independent research group `Neural Capture and Synthesis' at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS). Before joining the MPI-IS in 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he helped to build up the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Group of Prof. Matthias Nießner. He received his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2017 for his research on marker-less motion capturing of facial performances and its applications. His research group focuses on AI-based performance capturing of humans (digital humans), the reconstruction of scenes and non-rigid objects, humans are interacting with, and the synthesis of photo-realistic image and video content which allows for video editing/synthesis, as well as interactions in AR/VR (e.g., telepresence in VR). Thus, his work combines methods from the Computer Vision, the Machine Learning and the Computer Graphics field. He publishes regularly at top tier conferences with broad impact not only in the research community but also in public media.

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