Education
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems / University of Tübingen
Ph.D. Candidate in the Perceiving Systems Department, advised by Michael J. Black and Timo Bolkart.
Ph.D. Candidate in the Perceiving Systems Department, advised by Michael J. Black and Timo Bolkart.
2020 - present
ETH Zurich
M.Sc. in Visual Computing.
M.Sc. in Visual Computing.
2014 - 2016
Czech Technical University in Prague
B.Sc. in Information and Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. Graduated with honors.
B.Sc. in Information and Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. Graduated with honors.
2011 - 2014
Employment
Amazon
Part-time Research Intern at Amazon Tübingen. Extension a research project from a previous internship. Led by Raja Bala, Hiro Takeda, and Brandon Smith.
Part-time Research Intern at Amazon Tübingen. Extension a research project from a previous internship. Led by Raja Bala, Hiro Takeda, and Brandon Smith.
Dec 2024 - Present
Tübingen, Germany
Tübingen, Germany
Amazon
Research Intern in the field of 3D speech-driven avatars. Led by Raja Bala, Hiro Takeda, and Brandon Smith.
Research Intern in the field of 3D speech-driven avatars. Led by Raja Bala, Hiro Takeda, and Brandon Smith.
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Researcher / Ph.D. Candidate in the Perceiving Systems Department. Research in computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics, with emphasis on human faces. Advised by Michael J. Black and Timo Bolkart.
Researcher / Ph.D. Candidate in the Perceiving Systems Department. Research in computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics, with emphasis on human faces. Advised by Michael J. Black and Timo Bolkart.
Nov 2020 - Present
Tübingen, Germany
Tübingen, Germany
ETH Zurich / Arbrea Labs
Research Assistant in a joint program between ETH Zurich and Arbrea Labs. Developed augmented reality software for cosmetic surgery preview.
Research Assistant in a joint program between ETH Zurich and Arbrea Labs. Developed augmented reality software for cosmetic surgery preview.
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich, Switzerland
Disney Research
Research Associate working on high-fidelity face capture using deep learning. Led by Thabo Beeler and Derek Bradley.
Research Associate working on high-fidelity face capture using deep learning. Led by Thabo Beeler and Derek Bradley.
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich, Switzerland
Vizrt Switzerland
Software Engineer working on object tracking and deep learning-based systems. Also previously an intern focused on player detection and tracking for sports broadcasting.
Software Engineer working on object tracking and deep learning-based systems. Also previously an intern focused on player detection and tracking for sports broadcasting.
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich, Switzerland
ETH Zurich
Research Assistant working on publication and extension of Master’s thesis.
Research Assistant working on publication and extension of Master’s thesis.
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich, Switzerland
Vizrt Switzerland
Software Engineering Intern. Worked on real-time player detection and tracking.
Software Engineering Intern. Worked on real-time player detection and tracking.
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich, Switzerland
CTU Prague - Center for Machine Perception
Research Intern. Worked on feature detector implementation and evaluation in C/C++ and Matlab. Supervised by Prof. Jiří Matas.
Research Intern. Worked on feature detector implementation and evaluation in C/C++ and Matlab. Supervised by Prof. Jiří Matas.
Jul 2012 - Jun 2014
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
Publications
THUNDER: Supervising 3D Talking Head Avatars with Analysis-by-Audio-Synthesis
Introduces a new form of audio-based self-supervision for 3D talking head avatars.
arXiv, 2025
SMIRK: 3D Facial Expressions through Analysis-by-Neural-Synthesis
Uses neural rendering to reconstruct highly accurate 3D facial expressions.
CVPR, 2024
Emotional Speech-driven 3D Body Animation via Disentangled Latent Diffusion
Generates emotional co-speech 3D gestures using diffusion models.
CVPR, 2024
EMOTE: Emotional Speech-Driven Animation with Content-Emotion Disentanglement
Animates 3D faces with speech while controlling the emotion the animated face communicates.
SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023
EMOCA: Emotion Driven Monocular Face Capture and Animation
Reconstructs highly emotional faces from in-the-wild monocular images.
CVPR, 2022
DeepGarment: 3D Garment Shape Estimation from a Single Image
Uses CNNs to estimate 3D shape of garments from a single image.
EuroGraphics, 2017