- University of Tübingen
Maria-von-Linden Strasse 6
72076 - 20-28/A15
- gtiwari@mpi-inf.mpg.de, garvita.tiwari@uni-tuebingen.de
About Me
I am a Ph.D. student at the Real Virtual Humans group, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), Saarbrücken and University of Tuebingen, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll. Currently, I am also collaborating with Dr. Tony Tung (Research Scientist Manager, Facebook Reality Labs).
For latest updates: My Personal Page
Education
- Ph.D: Max Planck Institute for Informatics and University of Tuebingen, December 2019 - Present
- M.Sc. in Visual Computing, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 2017 - November 2019
- B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIIT-Allahabad, India, July 2012 - May 2016
Work
- Research Scientist Intern, FAIR, Meta, London, July 2022 - November 2022
- Computer Vision Software Engineer at Infurnia Technologies, Bengaluru, India, July 2016 - May 2017
Research Interests
- Computer vision for graphics
- Geometric deep learning
- 3D Human modelling
- Clothing models and dynamics
Academic Services
- Reviewing(Conferences): CVPR(2022- Outstanding Reviewer), ICCV (2021), ECCV(2022), 3DV (2020, 2021), Eurographics (2021), SIGGRAPH (2021), UIST (2020), MVA (2021)
- Reviewing(Journals): IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics(2021), Computers & Graphics(2020, 2022), Journal of Systems & Applications in Computer Graphics(2021), PeerJ Computer Science(2021)
Awards
- Adobe Research Fellowship Program(2021)- Finalist
- Best Paper Honorable Mention(ECCV 2022)
Talks
- Learning Size Sensitive Clothing Model from Real Data @ MPI-IS -February 2021
- Modeling Human Pose Manifolds with Neural Distance Fields @ Google Research -July 2022
Supervised Master's/Bachelor's thesis
- Batuhan Ozcomlecki, Generative Modeling of 3D Human Avatars, Master's thesis, Ongoing
- Samuel Zink, Open Vocabulary 3D Clothing Segmentation, Bachelor's thesis, August'24-December'24.
- Margaret Kostyrko, Generating Textured 3D Humans with Coherent Mesh Topology, Bachelor's thesis, May'24-November'24 [Jointly supervised with Yuxuan Xue]
- Dimitrije Antic, 3D Clothing Segmentation, Master's Thesis, January'23, [Now PhD student at University of Amsterdam]
Teaching
- Virtual Humans, University of Tuebingen, WS 2022-23
- Software Engineering Team Project, University of Tuebingen, WS 2022-23
- Deep Learning for Vision and Graphics Seminar, University of Tuebingen, SS 2022
- Software Engineering Team Project, University of Tuebingen, SS 2022
Media
- Pose-NDF was featured in the BEST OF ECCV 2022 of Computer Vision News magazine
Publications

Yannan He,
Garvita Tiwari,
Tolga Birdal,
Jan Eric Lenssen,
Gerard Pons-Moll
NRDF: Neural Riemannian Distance Fields for Learning Articulated Pose Priors
in Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
Highlight, 11.9% of accepted papers
NRDF: Neural Riemannian Distance Fields for Learning Articulated Pose Priors
in Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
Highlight, 11.9% of accepted papers

Dimitrije Antić,
Garvita Tiwari,
Batuhan Ozcomlekci,
Riccardo Marin,
Gerard Pons-Moll
CloSe: A 3D Clothing Segmentation Dataset and Model
in International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2024.
CloSe: A 3D Clothing Segmentation Dataset and Model
in International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2024.

Garvita Tiwari,
Dimitrije Antic,
Jan Eric Lenssen,
Nikolaos Sarafianos,
Tony Tung,
Gerard Pons-Moll
Pose-NDF: Modeling Human Pose Manifolds with Neural Distance Fields
in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
Oral - Best Paper Honourable Mention
Pose-NDF: Modeling Human Pose Manifolds with Neural Distance Fields
in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
Oral - Best Paper Honourable Mention

Garvita Tiwari,
Nikolaos Sarafianos,
Tony Tung,
Gerard Pons-Moll
Neural-GIF: Neural Generalized Implicit Functions for Animating People in Clothing
in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
Neural-GIF: Neural Generalized Implicit Functions for Animating People in Clothing
in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.

Garvita Tiwari,
Bharat Lal Bhatnagar,
Tony Tung,
Gerard Pons-Moll
SIZER: A Dataset and Model for Parsing 3D Clothing and Learning Size Sensitive 3D Clothing
in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
Oral
SIZER: A Dataset and Model for Parsing 3D Clothing and Learning Size Sensitive 3D Clothing
in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
Oral

Bharat Lal Bhatnagar,
Garvita Tiwari,
Christian Theobalt,
Gerard Pons-Moll
Multi-Garment Net: Learning to Dress 3D People from Images
in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.
Multi-Garment Net: Learning to Dress 3D People from Images
in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.