Prof. Dr. Otmar Hilliges (original) (raw)

About me

I am a Professor in the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich. I lead the AIT lab and serve as the head of the Institute of Intelligent Interactive Systems.

My research is in spatio-temporal understanding of how humans move within and interact with the physical world. I research algorithms, methods and representations for human- and interaction-centric understanding of our world from videos, images and other sensor data. I'm interested in many different application domains such as Augmented and Virtual Reality, Human Robot Interaction and more.

Prior to joining ETH I was a postdoc and later a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, in the I3D group(2010-2013). I was awarded a Diplom (equiv. MSc) in Computer Science from Technische Universität München and my PhD in Computer Science from LMU München, Germany (2009).

CV

Academic and Professional Activities

Grants

ERC Consolidator Grant: "AI-Perceive: Robust Human-Centric Computer Vision for Advanced AI-Agents". 2022-2027
Google Inc. Sponsored Research Agreement: "Generative Modelling of Humans". 2020-2025.
ERC Starting Grant: "OPTINT: Optimization-based Design of Interactive Technologies". 2017-2021
Microsoft Research Swiss JRC Grant: "Human-Centric-Flight II: End-user Design of High-level Robotic Behavior". 2017-2019
SNF Grant: "Deformation and Motion Modeling using Modular, Sensor-based Input Devices". 2015-2018
Google Inc. Sponsored Research Agreement: "Recognition Algorithms Using High-Speed, Wide Field-of-View, Short Range Sensors for Mobile and Wearable Computing". 2014-2016.
SNF Grant: "UFO: Semi-Autonomous Aerial Vehicles for Augmented Reality, Human-Computer Interaction and Remote Collaboration" (200021L_153644). 2015-2018
Microsoft Research Swiss JRC Grant: "Human-Centric Flight: Micro Aerial Vehicles for Interaction, Videography and 3D Reconstruction". 2014-2017

Technical Program Comittee Member

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV '22)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '23)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '22)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '20)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '20)
Eurographics (EG '20)
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '20)
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '19)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '17)
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '16)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '16)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '15)
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '14)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '14)
ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (ACM TEI '14)
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '13)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (ACM MUM '13)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '13)
ACM Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '13)
IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (IEEE Ismar '13)
IEEE Joint 3DIM/3DPVT Conference (IEEE 3DV '13)
IEEE Joint 3DIM/3DPVT Conference (IEEE 3DIMPVT '12)
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '12)
ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ACM ITS '10)
ACM Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (ACM TEI '09)

Organizing Comittee Member

General Chair, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR '18)
Keynote Chair, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '14)
Keynote Chair, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '13)
Video Co-Chair, ACM Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '13)
Demonstrations Co-Chair, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST '10 & '11)
Student Volunteer Chair, ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ACM ITS '08 & '09)

Keynote speaker

Keynote, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV ' 22)
Keynote, Graphics Interface (GI ' 19)

Reviewing

I routinely review paper for conferences and journals in computer vision (CVPR, ICCV, 3DV, TPAMI), in HCI (CHI, UIST, Ubicomp, VR, ISMAR) and Robotics (ICRA, IROS, RA-L).

Publications

2025

2024

Marcel C. Buehler,Gengyan Li, Erroll Wood, Leonhard Helminger,Xu Chen, Tanmay Shah, Daoye Wang, Stephan Garbin, Sergio Orts-Escolano,Otmar Hilliges, Dmitry Lagun, Jérémy Riviere, Paulo Gotardo, Thabo Beeler, Abhimitra Meka, Kripasindhu Sarkar

Zicong Fan*, Takehiko Ohkawa*, Linlin Yang*, Nie Lin, Zhishan Zhou, Shihao Zhou, Jiajun Liang, Zhong Gao, Xuanyang Zhang, Xue Zhang, Fei Li, Liu Zheng, Feng Lu, Karim Abou Zeid, Bastian Leibe, Jeongwan On, Seungryul Baek, Aditya Prakash, Saurabh Gupta, Kun He, Yoichi Sato,Otmar Hilliges, Hyung Jin Chang, Angela Yao

Alexey Gavryushin, Yifei Liu, Daoji Huang, Yen-Ling Kuo, Julien Valentin, Luc Van Gool,Otmar Hilliges,Xi Wang

Razvan-George Pasca, Alexey Gavryushin, Muhammad Hamza, Yen-Ling Kuo, Kaichun Mo, Luc Van Gool,Otmar Hilliges,Xi Wang

2023

Marcel C. Buehler, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Tanmay Shah,Gengyan Li, Daoye Wang, Leonhard Helminger, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Dmitry Lagun,Otmar Hilliges, Thabo Beeler, Abhimitra Meka

Korrawe Karunratanakul, Sergey Prokudin and Otmar Hilliges,Siyu Tang

2022

Emre Aksan, Shugao Ma, Akin Caliskan, Stanislav Pidhorskyi, Alexander Richard, Shih-En Wei, Jason Saragih,Otmar Hilliges

2021

2020

2019

Yuki Kubo, Yuto Koguchi, Buntarou Shizuki, Shin Takahashi,Otmar Hilliges

Oliver Glauser, Shihao Wu, Daniele Panozzo,Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Luke Taverne*, Matteo Cognolato*, Tobias Bützer, Roger Gassert,Otmar Hilliges * Equal contribution

2018

Seonwook Park,Christoph Gebhardt*, Roman Rädle*, Anna Feit, Hana Vrzakova, Niraj Dayama, Hui-Shyong Yeo, Clemens Klokmose, Aaron Quigley, Antti Oulasvirta,Otmar Hilliges * Equal contribution

2017

2016

Oliver Glauser, Wan-Chun Ma, Daniele Panozzo, Alec Jacobson,Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

2015

Vittorio Megaro, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Maurizio Nitti,Otmar Hilliges, Markus Gross, Stelian Coros

2014

Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Oliver Glauser, Cédric Pradalier,Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

2012

David Molyneaux, Shahram Izadi, David Kim,Otmar Hilliges, Steve Hodges, Xiang Cao, Alex D. Butler, Hans Gellersen

Alex D. Butler, Shahram Izadi,Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, Steve Hodges, David Kim

David Kirk, Shahram Izadi,Otmar Hilliges, Richard Banks, Stuart Taylor, Abigail Sellen

2011

Alex Butler,Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, David Molyneaux, David Kim, Danny Kong

Shahram Izadi, Richard A. Newcombe, David Kim,Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, Steve Hodges, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Andrew J. Davison, Andrew Fitzgibbon

2010

David Kirk, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Richard Banks,Otmar Hilliges

2009

Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Andrew D. Wilson, Steve Hodges, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, Andreas Butz

Mark Hancock,Otmar Hilliges, Christopher Collins, Dominikus Baur, Sheelagh Carpendale

2008

Andrew D. Wilson, Shahram Izadi,Otmar Hilliges, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, David Stanley Kirk

Lucia Terrenghi, David B. Kirk, Hendrik Richter, Sebastian Krämer,Otmar Hilliges, Andreas Butz

2007

Sebastian Boring, Manuela Altendorfer, Gregor Broll1,Otmar Hilliges, Andreas Butz

Otmar Hilliges, Peter Kunath, Alexey Pryakhin, Andreas Butz, Hans-Peter Kriegel

Otmar Hilliges, Lucia Terrenghi, Sebastian Boring, David Kim, Hendrik Richter, Andreas Butz

2006

2004

2003

Martin Bauer,Otmar Hilliges, Asa MacWilliams, Christian Sandor, Martin Wagner, Gudrun Klinker, Joe Newman, Gerhard Reitmayr, Tamer Fahmy, Thomas Pintaric, Dieter Schmalstieg