Michael Niemeyer


I am a research scientist at Google working on 3D computer vision and generative modeling. Prior to joining Google, I was a PhD student at the Max Planck Insitute for Intelligent Systems supervised by Andreas Geiger. As an undergraduate student, I studied Mathematics at the University of Cologne (Germany) and computer science as the Master's at the University of St Andrews (UK).

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Awards: In 2011, I graduated as top of my year from secondary school and received the e-fellows scholarship and was admitted to the Germany Mathematics Society and the German Physics Society. In 2017 I received the Dean's List Award for Academic Excellence for my Master's degree. During my PhD studies, I was a scholar of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). Our research projects Occupancy Networks, DVR, and ConvOnet were selected to be among the 15 most influencial CVPR / ECCV papers of 2019 and 2020. In 2021, we received the CS teaching award for our computer vision lecture as well as the AIGameDev scientific award for our GRAF project and the CVPR Best Paper Award for GIRAFFE (news coverage).

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Publications

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RadSplat: Radiance Field-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Robust Real-Time Rendering with 900+ FPS
Michael Niemeyer, Fabian Manhardt, Marie-Julie Rakotosaona, Michael Oechsle, Rama Gosula, Keisuke Tateno, John Bates, Dominik Kaeser, Federico Tombari
arXiv.org, 2024
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@InProceedings{niemeyer2024arxiv, 
	author = {Michael Niemeyer and Fabian Manhardt and Marie-Julie Rakotosaona and Michael Oechsle and Rama Gosula and Keisuke Tateno and John Bates and Dominik Kaeser and Federico Tombari}, 
	title = {RadSplat: Radiance Field-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Robust Real-Time Rendering with 900+ FPS}, 
	booktitle = {arXiv.org}, 
	year = {2024}, 
}
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InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes
Mohamad Shahbazi, Liesbeth Claessens, Michael Niemeyer, Edo Collins, Alessio Tonioni, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari
arXiv.org, 2024
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@InProceedings{shahbazi2024inserf, 
	author = {Mohamad Shahbazi and Liesbeth Claessens and Michael Niemeyer and Edo Collins and Alessio Tonioni and Luc Van Gool and Federico Tombari}, 
	title = {InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes}, 
	booktitle = {arXiv.org}, 
	year = {2024}, 
}
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UniSDF: Unifying Neural Representations for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Complex Scenes with Reflections
Fangjinhua Wang, Marie-Julie Rakotosaona, Michael Niemeyer, Richard Szeliski, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari
arXiv.org, 2023
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@InProceedings{wang2023unisdf, 
	author = {Fangjinhua Wang and Marie-Julie Rakotosaona and Michael Niemeyer and Richard Szeliski and Marc Pollefeys and Federico Tombari}, 
	title = {UniSDF: Unifying Neural Representations for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Complex Scenes with Reflections}, 
	booktitle = {arXiv.org}, 
	year = {2023}, 
}
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DNS SLAM: Dense Neural Semantic-Informed SLAM
Kunyi Li, Michael Niemeyer, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari
arXiv.org, 2023
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@InProceedings{Li2023ARXIV, 
	author = {Kunyi Li and Michael Niemeyer and Nassir Navab and Federico Tombari}, 
	title = {DNS SLAM: Dense Neural Semantic-Informed SLAM}, 
	booktitle = {arXiv.org}, 
	year = {2023}, 
}
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Open-Set 3D Scene Segmentation with Rendered Novel Views
Francis Engelmann, Fabian Manhardt, Michael Niemeyer, Keisuke Tateno, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari
Proc. of the International Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
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@InProceedings{Engelmann2024ICLR, 
	author = {Francis Engelmann and Fabian Manhardt and Michael Niemeyer and Keisuke Tateno and Marc Pollefeys and Federico Tombari}, 
	title = {Open-Set 3D Scene Segmentation with Rendered Novel Views}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, 
	year = {2024}, 
}
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TextMesh: Generation of Realistic 3D Meshes From Text Prompts
Christina Tsalicoglou, Fabian Manhardt, Alessio Tonioni, Michael Niemeyer, Federico Tombari
Proc. of the International Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), 2024
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@InProceedings{Tsalicoglou2023THREEDV, 
	author = {Christina Tsalicoglou and Fabian Manhardt and Alessio Tonioni and Michael Niemeyer and Federico Tombari}, 
	title = {TextMesh: Generation of Realistic 3D Meshes From Text Prompts}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV)}, 
	year = {2024}, 
}
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NeRFMeshing: Distilling Neural Radiance Fields into Geometrically-Accurate 3D Meshes
Marie-Julie Rakotosaona, Fabian Manhardt, Diego Martin Arroyo, Michael Niemeyer, Abhijit Kundu, Federico Tombari
Proc. of the International Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), 2024
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@InProceedings{Rakotosaona2023THREEDV, 
	author = {Marie-Julie Rakotosaona and Fabian Manhardt and Diego Martin Arroyo and Michael Niemeyer and Abhijit Kundu and Federico Tombari}, 
	title = {NeRFMeshing: Distilling Neural Radiance Fields into Geometrically-Accurate 3D Meshes}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV)}, 
	year = {2024}, 
}
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DreamBooth3D: Subject-Driven Text-to-3D Generation
Amit Raj, Srinivas Kaza, Ben Poole, Michael Niemeyer, Nataniel Ruiz, Ben Mildenhall, Shiran Zada, Kfir Aberman, Michael Rubinstein, Jonathan Barron, Yuanzhen Li, Varun Jampani
Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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@InProceedings{Raj2023ICCV, 
	author = {Amit Raj and Srinivas Kaza and Ben Poole and Michael Niemeyer and Nataniel Ruiz and Ben Mildenhall and Shiran Zada and Kfir Aberman and Michael Rubinstein and Jonathan Barron and Yuanzhen Li and Varun Jampani}, 
	title = {DreamBooth3D: Subject-Driven Text-to-3D Generation}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, 
	year = {2023}, 
}
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NEWTON: Neural View-Centric Mapping for On-the-Fly Large-Scale SLAM
Hidenobu Matsuki, Keisuke Tateno, Michael Niemeyer, Federico Tombari
arXiv.org, 2023
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@InProceedings{Matsuki2023ARXIV, 
	author = {Hidenobu Matsuki and Keisuke Tateno and Michael Niemeyer and Federico Tombari}, 
	title = {NEWTON: Neural View-Centric Mapping for On-the-Fly Large-Scale SLAM}, 
	booktitle = {arXiv.org}, 
	year = {2023}, 
}
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SDFStudio: A Unified Framework for Surface Reconstruction
Zehao Yu, Anpei Chen, Bozidar Antic, Songyou Peng, Apratim Bhattacharyya, Michael Niemeyer, Siyu Tang, Torsten Sattler, Andreas Geiger
Open Source Project, 2022
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@InProceedings{Yu2022SDFStudio, 
	author = {Zehao Yu and Anpei Chen and Bozidar Antic and Songyou Peng and Apratim Bhattacharyya and Michael Niemeyer and Siyu Tang and Torsten Sattler and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {SDFStudio: A Unified Framework for Surface Reconstruction}, 
	booktitle = {Open Source Project}, 
	year = {2022}, 
}
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MonoSDF: Exploring Monocular Geometric Cues for Neural Implicit Surface Reconstruction
Zehao Yu, Songyou Peng, Michael Niemeyer, Torsten Sattler, Andreas Geiger
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
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@InProceedings{Yu2022NEURIPS, 
	author = {Zehao Yu and Songyou Peng and Michael Niemeyer and Torsten Sattler and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {MonoSDF: Exploring Monocular Geometric Cues for Neural Implicit Surface Reconstruction}, 
	booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, 
	year = {2022}, 
}
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VoxGRAF: Fast 3D-Aware Image Synthesis with Sparse Voxel Grids
Katja Schwarz, Axel Sauer, Michael Niemeyer, Yiyi Liao, Andreas Geiger
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
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@InProceedings{Schwarz2022NEURIPS, 
	author = {Katja Schwarz and Axel Sauer and Michael Niemeyer and Yiyi Liao and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {VoxGRAF: Fast 3D-Aware Image Synthesis with Sparse Voxel Grids}, 
	booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, 
	year = {2022}, 
}
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RegNeRF: Regularizing Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis from Sparse Inputs (Oral Presentation)
Michael Niemeyer, Jonathan Barron, Ben Mildenhall, Mehdi Sajjadi, Andreas Geiger, Noha Radwan
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
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@InProceedings{Niemeyer2022CVPR, 
	author = {Michael Niemeyer and Jonathan Barron and Ben Mildenhall and Mehdi Sajjadi and Andreas Geiger and Noha Radwan}, 
	title = {RegNeRF: Regularizing Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis from Sparse Inputs}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, 
	year = {2022}, 
}
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Shape As Points: A Differentiable Poisson Solver (Oral Presentation)
Songyou Peng, Chiyu Jiang, Yiyi Liao, Michael Niemeyer, Marc Pollefeys, Andreas Geiger
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
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@InProceedings{Peng2021NEURIPS, 
	author = {Songyou Peng and Chiyu Jiang and Yiyi Liao and Michael Niemeyer and Marc Pollefeys and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {Shape As Points: A Differentiable Poisson Solver}, 
	booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, 
	year = {2021}, 
}
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GRAF: Generative Radiance Fields for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
Katja Schwarz, Yiyi Liao, Michael Niemeyer, Andreas Geiger
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020
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@InProceedings{Schwarz2020NEURIPS, 
	author = {Katja Schwarz and Yiyi Liao and Michael Niemeyer and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {GRAF: Generative Radiance Fields for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis}, 
	booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, 
	year = {2020}, 
}
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GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields (Oral Presentation, Best Paper Award)
Michael Niemeyer, Andreas Geiger
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
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@InProceedings{Niemeyer2021CVPR, 
	author = {Michael Niemeyer and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, 
	year = {2021}, 
}
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CAMPARI: Camera-Aware Decomposed Generative Neural Radiance Fields
Michael Niemeyer, Andreas Geiger
Proc. of the International Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), 2021
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@InProceedings{Niemeyer2021THREEDV, 
	author = {Michael Niemeyer and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {CAMPARI: Camera-Aware Decomposed Generative Neural Radiance Fields}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV)}, 
	year = {2021}, 
}
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Learning Implicit Surface Light Fields
Michael Oechsle, Michael Niemeyer, Christian Reiser, Lars Mescheder, Thilo Strauss, Andreas Geiger
Proc. of the International Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020
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@InProceedings{Oechsle2020THREEDV, 
	author = {Michael Oechsle and Michael Niemeyer and Christian Reiser and Lars Mescheder and Thilo Strauss and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {Learning Implicit Surface Light Fields}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV)}, 
	year = {2020}, 
}
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Convolutional Occupancy Networks (Spotlight Presentation)
Songyou Peng, Michael Niemeyer, Lars Mescheder, Marc Pollefeys, Andreas Geiger
Proc. of the European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
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@InProceedings{Peng2020ECCV, 
	author = {Songyou Peng and Michael Niemeyer and Lars Mescheder and Marc Pollefeys and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {Convolutional Occupancy Networks}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, 
	year = {2020}, 
}
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Differentiable Volumetric Rendering: Learning Implicit 3D Representations without 3D Supervision
Michael Niemeyer, Lars Mescheder, Michael Oechsle, Andreas Geiger
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
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@InProceedings{Niemeyer2020CVPR, 
	author = {Michael Niemeyer and Lars Mescheder and Michael Oechsle and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {Differentiable Volumetric Rendering: Learning Implicit 3D Representations without 3D Supervision}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, 
	year = {2020}, 
}
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Occupancy Flow: 4D Reconstruction by Learning Particle Dynamics
Michael Niemeyer, Lars Mescheder, Michael Oechsle, Andreas Geiger
Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
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@InProceedings{Niemeyer2019ICCV, 
	author = {Michael Niemeyer and Lars Mescheder and Michael Oechsle and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {Occupancy Flow: 4D Reconstruction by Learning Particle Dynamics}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, 
	year = {2019}, 
}
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Texture Fields: Learning Texture Representations in Function Space (Oral Presentation)
Michael Oechsle, Lars Mescheder, Michael Niemeyer, Thilo Strauss, Andreas Geiger
Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
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@InProceedings{Oechsle2019ICCV, 
	author = {Michael Oechsle and Lars Mescheder and Michael Niemeyer and Thilo Strauss and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {Texture Fields: Learning Texture Representations in Function Space}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, 
	year = {2019}, 
}
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Occupancy Networks: Learning 3D Reconstruction in Function Space (Oral Presentation, Best Paper Finalist)
Lars Mescheder, Michael Oechsle, Michael Niemeyer, Sebastian Nowozin, Andreas Geiger
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
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@InProceedings{Mescheder2019CVPR, 
	author = {Lars Mescheder and Michael Oechsle and Michael Niemeyer and Sebastian Nowozin and Andreas Geiger}, 
	title = {Occupancy Networks: Learning 3D Reconstruction in Function Space}, 
	booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, 
	year = {2019}, 
}

Talks

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Neural Scene Representations and Differentiable Rendering
Delft University of Technology, 2022
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Implicit Neural Scene Representations and 3D-Aware Generative Modelling
GAMES Webinar Series, 2022
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Generative Neural Scene Representations
Adobe Research, 2021
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Implicit Scene Representations and Neural Rendering
Technical University Munic - AI Lecture Series, 2021
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Generative Neural Scene Representations for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
AIT (ETH), 2021
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Generative Neural Scene Representations for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
Amazon Research, 2021
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Generative Neural Scene Representations for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021
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KI Forschung und 3D Deep Learning
Frauenhofer IAO event 100 KI Talents, 2020
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3D Deep Learning in Function Space
NVIDIA. NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), 2020
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