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Gaurav Bharaj
I am Director of Research at AI Foundation, where I lead Deep Science research for generative media creation. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. Hanspeter Pfister and Masters from University of Pennsylvania. Previously, I worked at Max-Planck Institute of Informatics, Disney, Adobe, Intel and Technicolor Research. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, graphics and audio; where I apply deep learning, numerical optimization, and generative modeling to understand aspects of video-based visual - geometry, color, motion and audio content, especially for digital humans.
Internships at AI Foundation: I am looking for strong graduate students with interest in Computer Vision, Audio, and Deep Learning. If interested apply here.
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Practical Face Reconstruction via Differentiable Ray Tracing
Abdallah Dib, Gaurav Bharaj, Junghyun Ahn, Cedric Thebault, Philippe-Henri Gosselin, Marco Romeo, Louis Chevallier Eurographics (Computer Graphics Forum), 2021 |
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Deep Digital Humans
Gaurav Bharaj NVIDIA Inception, 2020 |
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StyleRig: Rigging StyleGAN for 3D Control over Portrait Images
Ayush Tewari, Mohamed Elgharib, Gaurav Bharaj, Florian Bernard, Hans-Peter Seidel, Patrick Pérez, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Oral) |
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Identification of Neural-Network-Generated Fake Images
Matthias Niessner, Gaurav Bharaj US20200160502A1, 2020 |
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Face Reflectance and Geometry Modeling via Differentiable Ray Tracing
Abdallah Dib, Gaurav Bharaj, Junghyun Ahn, Cedric Thebault, Philippe-Henri Gosselin, Louis Chevallier Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 2019 |
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FML: Face Model Learning from Videos
Ayush Tewari, Florian Bernard, Pablo Garrido, Gaurav Bharaj, Mohamed Elgharib, Hans-Peter Seidel, Patrick Pérez, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019 (Oral) |
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Metamorphs: Bistable Planar Structures
Gaurav Bharaj, Danny Kaufman, Etienne Vouga, Hanspeter Pfister Technical Report, 2018 |
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Methods in Computational Design and Optimization
Gaurav Bharaj Ph.D. Thesis, 2017 |
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Walking Machines
Bernd Bickel, Gaurav Bharaj, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros US20160059140A1, 2016 |
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Computational Design of Metallophone Contact Sounds
Gaurav Bharaj, David Levin, James Tompkin, Yun Fei, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik & Changxi Zheng ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015), 34(6) |
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Computational Design of Walking Automata
Gaurav Bharaj, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, James Tompkin, Bernd Bickel & Hanspeter Pfister ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2015) |
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Personalization and Evaluation of a
Real-time Depth-based Full Body Tracker
Thomas Helten, Andreas Baak, Gaurav Bharaj, Meinard Müller, Hans-Peter Seidel & Christian Theobalt 3D Vision (3DV 2013) |
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Automatically Rigging Multi-component Characters Gaurav Bharaj, Thorsten Thormählen, Hans-Peter Seidel & Christian Theobalt European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics 2012) |
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A Data-Driven Approach for Real-Time Full Body Pose
Reconstruction from a Depth Camera Andreas Baak, Meinard Müller, Gaurav Bharaj, Hans-Peter Seidel & Christian Theobalt IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2011) |
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Video-based Characters - Creating New Human Performances
from a Multi-view Video Database Feng Xu, Yebin Liu, Carsten Stoll, James Tompkin, Gaurav Bharaj, Qionghai Dai, Hans-Peter Seidel, Jan Kautz & Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2011) |