Yaser Sheikh
Scholar

Yaser Sheikh

Google Scholar ID: Yd4KvooAAAAJ
VP, Meta Reality Labs (Pittsburgh)
Machine LearningComputer VisionComputer Graphics
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
34,261
 
H-index
53
 
i10-index
103
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
15
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Contact
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Publications
2 items
FRESA:Feedforward Reconstruction of Personalized Skinned Avatars from Few Images
2025
Cited
0
Vid2Avatar-Pro: Authentic Avatar from Videos in the Wild via Universal Prior
2025
Cited
0
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Recipient of Popular Science’s Best of What’s New Award
  • Honda Initiation Award (2010)
  • Best paper awards at WACV (2012), SAP (2012), SCA (2010), and ICCV THEMIS (2009)
  • 1st place in MSCOCO Keypoint Challenge (2016)
  • Hillman Fellowship for Excellence in Computer Science Research (2004)
  • Senior committee member at SIGGRAPH (2013, 2014), CVPR (2014, 2015), ICRA (2014, 2016), ICCP (2011)
  • Former Associate Editor of CVIU
  • Research funded by NSF, DARPA, and industry partners including Intel, Disney, Nissan, Honda, Toyota, and Samsung
  • Work featured in The New York Times, The Verge, BBC, WIRED, and others
  • Published extensively in top venues including SIGGRAPH, CVPR, and TPAMI
Co-authors
15 total
Tomas Simon
Tomas Simon
Ph.D. student, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Shih-En Wei
Shih-En Wei
Facebook Reality Labs
Jason Saragih
Jason Saragih
Research Scientist, Facebook Reality Labs
Zhe Cao
Zhe Cao
Google
Hanbyul Joo
Hanbyul Joo
Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
Takaaki Shiratori
Takaaki Shiratori
Meta Reality Labs
Jessica Hodgins
Jessica Hodgins
Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
Hyun Soo Park
Hyun Soo Park
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota