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Multimodal Conditional 3D Face Geometry Generation
Shape Modeling International
(2025)
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@article{Otto2025, title = {Multimodal Conditional 3D Face Geometry Generation}, journal = {Computers & Graphics}, volume = {132}, pages = {104325}, year = {2025}, issn = {0097-8493}, author = {Christopher Otto and Prashanth Chandran and Sebastian Weiss and Markus Gross and Gaspard Zoss and Derek Bradley}, }
Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Images
Workshop on Human-Interactive Generation and Editing
(2025)
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@misc{ji2025jointlearningdepthappearance, title={Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Image Animation}, author={Xinya Ji and Gaspard Zoss and Prashanth Chandran and Lingchen Yang and Xun Cao and Barbara Solenthaler and Derek Bradley}, year={2025}, eprint={2501.08649}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CV}, }
Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild
ICCV
(2025)
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@InProceedings{Xu_2025_ICCV, author = {Xu, Yingyan and Gadola, Kate and Chandran, Prashanth and Weiss, Sebastian and Gross, Markus and Zoss, Gaspard and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, month = {October}, year = {2025}, pages = {12078-12088} }
ScaffoldAvatar: High-Fidelity Gaussian Avatars with Patch Expressions
SIGGRAPH
(2025)
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@inproceedings{Shivangi2025Scaffold, author = {Aneja, Shivangi and Weiss, Sebastian and Baeza, Irene and Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Niessner, Matthias and Bradley, Derek}, title = {ScaffoldAvatar: High-Fidelity Gaussian Avatars with Patch Expressions}, year = {2025}, isbn = {9798400715402}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3721238.3730729}, doi = {10.1145/3721238.3730729}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Conference Papers}, articleno = {90}, numpages = {11}, keywords = {Photorealistic 3D avatars, 3D Gaussian Splatting, 3D Face Modelling}, series = {SIGGRAPH Conference Papers '25} }
Neural Facial Deformation Transfer
Eurographics
(2025)
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@inproceedings{10.2312:egs.20251036, booktitle = {Eurographics 2025 - Short Papers}, editor = {Ceylan, Duygu and Li, Tzu-Mao}, title = {Neural Facial Deformation Transfer}, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Ciccone, Loïc and Zoss, Gaspard and Bradley, Derek}, year = {2025}, publisher = {The Eurographics Association}, ISSN = {1017-4656}, ISBN = {978-3-03868-268-4}, DOI = {10.2312/egs.20251036} }
Spline-based Transformers
Europen Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
(2024)
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@InProceedings{ChandranSerifi2024, author={Chandran, Prashanth and Serifi, Agon and Gross, Markus and B{"a}cher, Moritz},
editor={Leonardis, Ale{ {s}} and Ricci, Elisa and Roth, Stefan and Russakovsky, Olga and Sattler, Torsten and Varol, G{"u}l},
title={Spline-Based Transformers},
booktitle={Computer Vision -- ECCV 2024},
year={2025},
publisher={Springer Nature Switzerland},
pages={1--17},
isbn={978-3-031-73016-0}
}
Learning a Generalized Physical Face Model From Data
Siggraph
(2024)
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@article{Yang2024, author = {Yang, Lingchen and Zoss, Gaspard and Chandran, Prashanth and Gross, Markus and Solenthaler, Barbara and Sifakis, Eftychios and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Learning a Generalized Physical Face Model From Data}, year = {2024}, issue_date = {July 2024}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, volume = {43}, number = {4}, issn = {0730-0301}, doi = {10.1145/3658189}, month = jul, articleno = {94}, numpages = {14}, }
Infinite 3D Landmarks: Improving Continuous 2D Facial Landmark Detection
Computer Graphics Forum
(2024)
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@article{Chandran2024b, author = {Chandran, P. and Zoss, G. and Gotardo, P. and Bradley, D.}, title = {Infinite 3D Landmarks: Improving Continuous 2D Facial Landmark Detection}, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, volume = {43}, number = {6}, pages = {e15126}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.15126}, year = {2024} }
Artist-Friendly Relightable and Animatable Neural Heads
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
(2024)
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@INPROCEEDINGS {Xu2024, author = { Xu, Yingyan and Chandran, Prashanth and Weiss, Sebastian and Gross, Markus and Zoss, Gaspard and Bradley, Derek }, booktitle = { 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) }, title = {Artist-Friendly Relightable and Animatable Neural Heads}, year = {2024}, pages = {2457-2467}, doi = {10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.00238}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, month =Jun }
Anatomically Constrained Implicit Face Models
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
(2024)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Chandran2024a, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard }, booktitle = { 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) }, title = {Anatomically Constrained Implicit Face Models}, year = {2024}, pages = {2220-2229}, doi = {10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.00216}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, month =Jun }
Fast Dynamic Facial Wrinkles
Eurographics
(2024)
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@inproceedings{Weiss2024B, booktitle = {Eurographics 2024 - Short Papers}, editor = {Hu, Ruizhen and Charalambous, Panayiotis}, title = {Fast Dynamic Facial Wrinkles}, author = {Weiss, Sebastian and Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Bradley, Derek}, year = {2024}, publisher = {The Eurographics Association}, ISSN = {1017-4656}, ISBN = {978-3-03868-237-0}, DOI = {10.2312/egs.20241016} }
Stylize My Wrinkles: Bridging the Gap from Simulation to Reality
Eurographics
(2024)
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@article{Weiss2024B, author = {Weiss, S. and Stanhope, J. and Chandran, P. and Zoss, G. and Bradley, D.}, title = {Stylize My Wrinkles: Bridging the Gap from Simulation to Reality}, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, volume = {43}, number = {2}, pages = {e15048}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.15048}, year = {2024} }
An Implicit Physical Face Model Driven by Expression and Style
Siggraph Asia
(2023)
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@inproceedings{Yang2023, author = {Yang, Lingchen and Zoss, Gaspard and Chandran, Prashanth and Gotardo, Paulo and Gross, Markus and Solenthaler, Barbara and Sifakis, Eftychios and Bradley, Derek}, title = {An Implicit Physical Face Model Driven by Expression and Style}, year = {2023}, isbn = {9798400703157}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, doi = {10.1145/3610548.3618156}, booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Conference Papers}, articleno = {106}, numpages = {12}, location = {, Sydney, NSW, Australia, }, series = {SA '23} }
A Perceptual Shape Loss for Monocular 3D Face Reconstruction
Pacific Graphics
(2023)
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@article{Otto2023, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {A Perceptual Shape Loss for Monocular 3D Face Reconstruction}, author = {Otto, Christopher and Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Gross, Markus and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek}, year = {2023}, publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.}, ISSN = {1467-8659}, DOI = {10.1111/cgf.14945} }
ReNeRF: Relightable Neural Radiance Fields with Nearfield Lighting
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
(2023)
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@InProceedings{Xu_2023_ICCV, author = {Xu, Yingyan and Zoss, Gaspard and Chandran, Prashanth and Gross, Markus and Bradley, Derek and Gotardo, Paulo}, title = {ReNeRF: Relightable Neural Radiance Fields with Nearfield Lighting}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, month = {October}, year = {2023}, pages = {22581-22591} }
Graph-Based Synthesis for Skin Micro Wrinkles
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing
(2023)
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@article{Weiss2023, author = {Weiss, Sebastian and Moulin, Jonathan and Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Graph-Based Synthesis for Skin Micro Wrinkles}, journal={Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Geometry Processing)}, year = {2023}, month = {6}, }
Continuous Landmark Detection With 3D Queries
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
(2023)
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@InProceedings{Chandran_2023_CVPR, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Continuous Landmark Detection With 3D Queries}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2023}, pages = {16858-16867} }
Production-Ready Face Re-Aging for Visual Effects
Siggraph Asia
(2022)
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@article{Zoss_2022, author = {Zoss, Gaspard and Chandran, Prashanth and Sifakis, Eftychios and Gross, Markus and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Production-Ready Face Re-Aging for Visual Effects}, year = {2022}, issue_date = {December 2022}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, volume = {41}, number = {6}, issn = {0730-0301}, doi = {10.1145/3550454.3555520}, journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.}, month = {nov}, articleno = {237}, numpages = {12}, keywords = {facial re-aging, image and video editing} }
Learning Dynamic 3D Geometry and Texture for Video Face Swapping
Pacific Graphics
(2022)
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@article {Ott22a, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {Learning Dynamic 3D Geometry and Texture for Video Face Swapping}, author = {Otto, Christopher and Naruniec, Jacek and Helminger, Leonhard and Etterlin, Thomas and Mignone, Graziana and Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Schroers, Christopher and Gross, Markus and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek and Weber, Romann}, year = {2022}, pages={611-622}, month={Oct}, number={7}, volume={41}, publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.}, ISSN = {1467-8659}, DOI = {10.1111/cgf.14705} }
Facial Animation with Disentangled Identity and Motion using Transformers
ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
(2022)
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@article{https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14641, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Gross, Markus and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Facial Animation with Disentangled Identity and Motion using Transformers}, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, volume = {41}, number = {8}, pages = {267-277}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14641}, year = {2022} }
MoRF: Morphable Radiance Fields for Multiview Neural Head Modeling
Siggraph
(2022)
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@article{Morf_2022, author = {Wang, Daoye and Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Bradely, Derek and Gotardo, Paulo}, title = {MoRF: Morphable Radiance Fields for Multiview Neural Head Modeling}, year = {2022}, issue_date = {July 2022}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.}, month = {jul}, numpages = {9}, }
Facial Hair Tracking for High Fidelity Performance Capture
Siggraph
(2022)
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@article{10.1145/3528223.3530116, author = {Winberg, Sebastian and Zoss, Gaspard and Chandran, Prashanth and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Facial Hair Tracking for High Fidelity Performance Capture}, year = {2022}, issue_date = {July 2022}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, volume = {41}, number = {4}, issn = {0730-0301}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3528223.3530116}, doi = {10.1145/3528223.3530116}, journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.}, month = {jul}, articleno = {165}, numpages = {12}, keywords = {hair tracking, facial hair capture, performance capture} }
Local Anatomically – Constrained Facial Performance Retargeting
Siggraph
(2022)
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@article{10.1145/3528223.3530114, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Ciccone, Loiic and Gross, Markus and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Local Anatomically-Constrained Facial Performance Retargeting}, year = {2022}, issue_date = {July 2022}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, volume = {41}, number = {4}, issn = {0730-0301}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3528223.3530114}, doi = {10.1145/3528223.3530114}, journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.}, month = {jul}, articleno = {168}, numpages = {14}, keywords = {facial animation, expression transfer, facial performance retargeting} }
Improved Lighting Models for Facial Appearance Capture
Eurographics
(2022)
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@inproceedings {10.2312:egs.20221019, booktitle = {Eurographics 2022 - Short Papers}, editor = {Pelechano, Nuria and Vanderhaeghe, David}, title = {Improved Lighting Models for Facial Appearance Capture}, author = {Xu, Yingyan and Riviere, Jérémy and Zoss, Gaspard and Chandran, Prashanth and Bradley, Derek and Gotardo, Paulo}, year = {2022}, publisher = {The Eurographics Association}, ISSN = {1017-4656}, ISBN = {978-3-03868-169-4}, DOI = {10.2312/egs.20221019} }
Shape Transformers: Topology-Independent 3D Shape Models Using Transformers
Eurographics
(2022)
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@article{https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14468, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Gross, Markus and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Shape Transformers: Topology-Independent 3D Shape Models Using Transformers}, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, volume = {41}, number = {2}, pages = {195-207}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14468}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cgf.14468}, year = {2022} }
Rendering with Style: Combining Traditional and Neural Approaches for High-Quality Face Rendering
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
(2021)
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@article{10.1145/3478513.3480509, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Winberg, Sebastian and Zoss, Gaspard and Riviere, Jeremy and Gross, Markus and Gotardo, Paulo and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Rendering with Style: Combining Traditional and Neural Approaches for High-Quality Face Rendering}, year = {2021}, issue_date = {December 2021}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, volume = {40}, number = {6}, issn = {0730-0301}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3478513.3480509}, doi = {10.1145/3478513.3480509}, journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.}, month = {dec}, articleno = {223}, }
Adaptive Convolutions for Structure-Aware Style Transfer
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
(2021)
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@InProceedings{Chandran_2021_CVPR, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Zoss, Gaspard and Gotardo, Paulo and Gross, Markus and Bradley, Derek}, title = {Adaptive Convolutions for Structure-Aware Style Transfer}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2021}, pages = {7972-7981} }
Semantic Deep Face Models
3D International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)
(2020)
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@INPROCEEDINGS {9320344, author = {P. Chandran and D. Bradley and M. Gross and T. Beeler}, booktitle = {2020 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)}, title = {Semantic Deep Face Models}, year = {2020}, pages = {345-354}, doi = {10.1109/3DV50981.2020.00044}, url = {https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/3DV50981.2020.00044}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, month = {nov} }
Attention-Driven Cropping for Very High Resolution Facial Landmark Detection
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
(2020)
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@InProceedings{Chandran_2020_CVPR, author = {Chandran, Prashanth and Bradley, Derek and Gross, Markus and Beeler, Thabo}, title = {Attention-Driven Cropping for Very High Resolution Facial Landmark Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2020} }
Road tracking using particle filters for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
(2014)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{6957884, author={Chandran, Prashanth and John, Mala and Santhosh Kumar S and Mithilesh N S R}, booktitle={17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)}, title={Road tracking using particle filters for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems}, year={2014}, pages={1408-1414}, doi={10.1109/ITSC.2014.6957884} }
Segmentation and grading of diabetic retinopathic exudates using error-boost feature selection method
2011 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies
(2011)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{6141299, author={Pradeep Kumar, A.V. and Prashanth, C. and Kavitha, G.}, booktitle={2011 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies}, title={Segmentation and grading of diabetic retinopathic exudates using error-boost feature selection method}, year={2011}, pages={518-523}, doi={10.1109/WICT.2011.6141299} }