Timo Bolkart

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(MATCH) Feed-forward Gaussian Registration for Head Avatar Creation and Editing

Malte Prinzler, Paulo Gotardo, Siyu Tang, Timo BolkartConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026[project page] [video] [bibtex]

How to Build Digital Humans? From Priors to Photorealistic Avatars

Wojciech Zielonka*, Tobias Kirschstein*, Timo Bolkart*, Simon Giebenhain, Vanessa Sklyarova, Xiang Deng, Donglai Xiang, Shunsuke Saito, Yebin Liu, Matthias Niessner, Justus Thies* (*equal contribution)Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics State-of-the-Art Report)[project page] [code] [bibtex]

TeGA: Texture Space Gaussian Avatars for High-Resolution Dynamic Head Modeling

Gengyan Li, Paulo Gotardo, Timo Bolkart, Stephan Garbin, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Abhimitra Meka, Alexandros Lattas, Thabo BeelerSIGGRAPH, 2025[project page] [bibtex]

Pixels2Points: Fusing 2D and 3D Features for Facial Skin Segmentation

Victoria Y. Chen , Daoye Wang, Stephan Garbin, Jan Bednarik, Sebastian Winberg, Timo Bolkart, Thabo BeelerEUROGRAPHICS (short paper), 2025

(GEM) Gaussian Eigen Models for Human Heads

Wojciech Zielonka, Timo Bolkart, Thabo Beeler, Justus ThiesConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025[project page] [video] [code] [bibtex]

(SynShot) Synthetic Prior for Few-Shot Drivable Head Avatar Inversion

Wojciech Zielonka, Stephan J. Garbin, Alexandros Lattas, George Kopanas, Paulo Gotardo, Thabo Beeler, Justus Thies, Timo BolkartConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025[project page] [video] [bibtex]

OFER: Occluded Face Expression Reconstruction

Pratheba Selvaraju, Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya, Timo Bolkart, Rick Akkerman, Tianyu Ding, Faezeh Amjadi, Ilya ZharkovConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025[project page] [bibtex]

(SMIRK) 3D Facial Expressions through Analys-by-Neural-Synthesis

George Retsinas, Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Radek Daněček, Victoria F. Abrevaya, Anastasios Roussos, Timo Bolkart, Petros MaragosConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024[project page] [video] [code] [bibtex]

SCULPT: Shape-conditioned unpaired learning of pose-dependent clothed and textured human meshes

Soubhik Sanyal, Partha Ghosh, Jinlong Yang, Michael J. Black, Justus Thies, Timo BolkartConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024[project page] [video] [code] [bibtex]

(AMUSE) Emotional Speech-driven 3D Body Animation via Disentangled Latent Diffusion

Kiran Chhatre, Radek Daněček, Nikos Athanasiou, Giorgio Becherini, Christopher Peters, Michael J. Black, Timo BolkartConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024[project page] [video] [code] [bibtex]

Learning to Stabilize Faces

Jan Bednarik, Erroll Wood, Vassilis Choutas, Timo Bolkart, Daoye Wang, Chenglei Wu, Thabo BeelerComputer Graphics Forum (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS), 2024[bibtex]

(EMOTE) Emotional Speech-Driven Animation with Content-Emotion Disentanglement

Radek Daněček, Kiran Chhatre, Shashank Tripathi, Yandong Wen, Michael J. Black, Timo BolkartSIGGRAPH Asia (SA), 2023[project page] [video] [code] [bibtex]

(TEMPEH) Instant Multi-View Head Capture through Learnable Registration

Timo Bolkart, Tianye Li, Michael J. BlackConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023[project page] [supplementary material] [video] [code] [bibtex]

(INSTA) Instant Volumetric Head Avatars

Wojciech Zielonka, Timo Bolkart, Justus ThiesConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023[project page] [video] [code] [bibtex]

(SHOW/TalkSHOW) Generating Holistic 3D Human Motion from Speech

Hongwei Yi, Hualin Liang, Yifei Liu, Qiong Cao, Yandong Wen, Timo Bolkart, Dacheng Tao, Michael J. BlackConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023[project page] [video] [code SHOW] [code TalkSHOW] [bibtex]

(SCARF) Capturing and Animation of Body and Clothing from Monocular Video

Yao Feng, Jinlong Yang, Marc Pollefeys, Michael J. Black, Timo BolkartSIGGRAPH Asia (SA), 2022[project page] [code] [bibtex]

(MICA) Towards Metrical Reconstruction of Human Faces

Wojciech Zielonka, Timo Bolkart, Justus ThiesEuropean Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022[project page] [video] [code] [code (tracker)] [bibtex]

(TRUST) Towards Racially Unbiased Skin Tone Estimation via Scene Disambiguation

Haiwen Feng, Timo Bolkart, Joachim Tesch, Michael J. Black, Victoria AbrevayaEuropean Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022[project page] [code] [bibtex]

Human Body Measurement Estimation with Adversarial Augmentation

Nataniel Ruiz, Miriam Bellver, Timo Bolkart, Ambuj Arora, Ming C. Lin, Javier Romero, Raja BalaInternational Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2022 [project page] [bibtex]

EMOCA: Emotion Driven Monocular Face Capture and Animation

Radek Daněček, Michael J. Black, Timo BolkartConference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022[project page] [supplementary material] [video] [code] [bibtex]

The neural coding of face and body orientation in occipitotemporal cortex

Celia Foster, Mintao Zhao, Timo Bolkart, Michael J. Black, Andreas Bartels, Isabelle BülthoffNeuroImage, 2022[bibtex]

(PIXIE) Collaborative Regression of Expressive Bodies using Moderation

Yao Feng, Vasileios Choutas, Timo Bolkart, Dimitios Tzionas, Michael J. BlackInternational Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2021[project page] [supplementary material] [video] [code] [bibtex]

(SPICE) Learning Realistic Human Reposing using Cyclic Self-Supervision with 3D Shape, Pose, and Appearance Consistency

Soubhik Sanyal, Alex Vorobiov, Timo Bolkart, Matthew Loper, Betty Mohler, Larry Davis, Javier Romero, Michael J. BlackInternational Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021[supplementary material] [bibtex]

(ToFu) Topologically Consistent Multi-View Face Inference Using Volumetric Sampling

Tianye Li, Shichen Liu, Timo Bolkart, Jiayi Liu, Hao Li, Yajie ZhaoInternational Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021[project page] [supplemental] [talk] [code] [bibtex]

(DECA) Learning an Animatable Detailed 3D Face Model from In-The-Wild Images

Y. Feng, H. Feng, M. J. Black, T. BolkartTransactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) , 2021[project page] [supplementary material] [video] [code] [bibtex]

Separated and overlapping neural coding of face and body identity

C. Foster, M. Zhao, T. Bolkart, M. J. Black, A. Bartels, I. BülthoffHuman Brain Mapping , 2021[bibtex]

3D Morphable Face Models -- Past, Present and Future

B. Egger, W. A. P. Smith, A. Terwari, S. Wuhrer, M. Zollhöfer, T. Beeler, F. Bernard, T. Bolkart, A. Kortylewski, S. Romdhani, C. Theobalt, V. Blanz and T. VetterTransactions on Graphics , 2020[project page] [bibtex]

(GIF) Generative Interpretable Faces

P. Ghosh, P. S. Gupta, R. Uziel, A. Ranjan, M. J. Black, and T. BolkartInternational Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020 [project page] [video] [code] [bibtex]