Michael Niemeyer
PhD Student in Computer Vision / Machine Learning

I’m Michael, a PhD student in the field of computer vision / machine learning in the AVG group at the Max Planck Insitute for Intelligent Systems.
Research Direction: My research focuses on 3D vision. I am interested in how machines can infer 3D representations from sparse observations. Further, I am big fan of neural scene representations. I currently investigate how scenes are best represented for machines using deep neural networks.
Biography: I studied BSc Mathematics at the University of Cologne, Germany. During my Bachelor studies, I spent one year at the University of Barcelona, Spain, funded by the ERASMUS program. Following my interest in computer science, I then moved to Scotland to gain my Master’s degree in Advanced Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. In October 2018, I started my PhD in computer vision / machine learning in the AVG group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, under the supervision of Andreas Geiger. In summer 2021 I joined Google Brain for an internship working with Jon Barron, Ben Mildenhall , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , and Noha Radwan.
Awards: In 2011, I graduated as top of my year from secondary school and received the e-fellows scholarship and were 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. Since 2018, I am scholar of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). Our two research projects Occupancy Networks and DVR were selected to be among the top-15 most influencial CVPR papers from 2019 and 2020, respectively. In 2021, we received the AIGameDev scientific award for GRAF andthe CVPR Best Paper Award for GIRAFFE.
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news
Mar 29, 2022 | Our RegNeRF project is accepted as oral to CVPR’22! |
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Mar 11, 2022 | Our RegNeRF project is accepted to CVPR’22! We have now released the code, models, and data. |
Jan 13, 2022 | I gave a talk at the GAMES Seminar Series with a subsequent panel discussion which was streamed to +400 people. |
Dec 7, 2021 | I was invited to give a talk at Adobe Research (Slides). |
Dec 2, 2021 | We released my internship project RegNeRF which I worked on during my time at Google Brain. |
Nov 26, 2021 | I give a lecture at the TU Munich 3D Vision series about scene representations and neural rendering. |
Oct 10, 2021 | Our CAMPARI paper got accepted to 3DV’21 |
Sep 30, 2021 | Our Computer Vision Lecture received CS teaching award! |