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Michael J. Black
Google Scholar ID: 6NjbexEAAAAJ
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Computer Vision
Computer Graphics
Machine Learning
Virtual Humans
Digital Humans
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Towards in-the-wild Egocentric 3D Hand-Object Pose Estimation
2026
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IMAGIN-4D: Image-Guided Controllable Interaction Generation
2026
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UniCon3R: Contact-aware 3D Human-Scene Reconstruction from Monocular Video
2026
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UMO: Unified In-Context Learning Unlocks Motion Foundation Model Priors
2026
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Open-Vocabulary Functional 3D Human-Scene Interaction Generation
2026
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NeuralFur: Animal Fur Reconstruction From Multi-View Images
2026
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Vision-as-Inverse-Graphics Agent via Interleaved Multimodal Reasoning
2026
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FUSION: Full-Body Unified Motion Prior for Body and Hands via Diffusion
arXiv.org · 2026
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Academic Achievements
2025 Mark Everingham Prize (for the SMPL body model family)
2024 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Test-of-Time Award (for 'MoSh' paper)
2023 IEEE PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award
Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision (2022 and 2010)
2020 Longuet-Higgins Prize
2013 Helmholtz Prize
Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Research Experience
Director of Perceiving Systems at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Former positions at University of Toronto, Xerox PARC, and Brown University
Distinguished Amazon Scholar (2017–2021)
Co-founded Body Labs Inc. (acquired by Amazon in 2017)
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Meshcapade GmbH
Co-authors
176 total
Javier Romero
Reality Labs Research, Meta
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Dimitrios (Dimitris) Tzionas
University of Amsterdam, ERC StG
Timo Bolkart
Google
Gerard Pons-Moll
Professor of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
Stefan Roth
Professor of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt
Otmar Hilliges
Professor of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
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