Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll

Gerard Pons-Moll is a Professor at the University of Tübingen endowed by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, at the department of Computer Science. He is also core faculty at the Tübingen AI Center and head of the Emmy Noether independent research group „Real Virtual Humans“, senior researcher at the Max Planck for Informatics (MPII) in Saarbrücken, Germany, and faculty at the IMPRS-IS (International Max Planck Research School – Intelligent Systems in Tübingen) and faculty at Saarland Informatics Campus. His research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning — with special focus on analyzing people in videos, and creating virtual human models by „looking“ at real ones. His research has produced some of the most advanced statistical human body models of pose, shape, soft-tissue and clothing (which are currently used for a number of applications in industry and research), as well as algorithms to track and reconstruct 3D people models from images, video, depth, and IMUs.