Nikolaos Sarafianos
nikos.sarafianos@gmail.com
My friends call me Nikos, and I work as a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs where I'm focusing on 3D generative models with applications to virtual humans. In the past I've worked on 3D reconstruction, dense correspondences and neural rendering. I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Houston where I worked on 3D human pose estimation, visual attributes and text-to-image retrieval. I currently serve as a mentor at Deep Learning Indaba.
NSF: Neural Surface Fields for Human Modeling from Monocular Depth
Y. Xue, B. Bhatnagar, R. Marin, N. Sarafianos, Y. Xu, G. Pons-Moll, T. Tung
ICCV 2023
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VIVE3D: Viewpoint-Independent Video Editing using 3D-Aware GANs
A. Frühstück, N. Sarafianos, Y. Xu, P. Wonka, T. Tung
CVPR 2023
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Pose-NDF: Modelling Human Pose Manifolds with Neural Distance Fields Best Paper Honorable Mention
G. Tiwari, D. Antic, J. Lenssen, N. Sarafianos, T. Tung, G. Pons-Moll
ECCV 2022 (Oral)
Free-Viewpoint RGB-D Human Performance Capture and Rendering
P. Nguyen, N. Sarafianos, C. Lassner, J. Heikkilä, T. Tung
ECCV 2022
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SPAMs: Structured Implicit Parametric Models
P. Palafox, N. Sarafianos, T. Tung, A. Dai
CVPR 2022
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Neural-GIF: Neural Generalized Implicit Functions for Animating People in Clothing
G. Tiwari, N. Sarafianos, T. Tung, G. Pons-Moll
ICCV 2021
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Adversarial Representation Learning for Text-to-Image Matching
N. Sarafianos, X. Xu, I.A. Kakadiaris
ICCV 2019
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Curriculum
Learning of Visual Attribute Clusters for Multi-Task Classification
N. Sarafianos, T. Giannakopoulos, C. Nikou, I.A. Kakadiaris
Pattern Recognition 2018
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Curriculum Learning for Multi-Task Classification
of Visual Attributes
N. Sarafianos, T. Giannakopoulos, C. Nikou, I.A. Kakadiaris
ICCV Workshops 2017
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Adaptive SVM+: Learning with Privileged Information
for Domain Adaptation
N. Sarafianos, M. Vrigkas, I.A. Kakadiaris
ICCV Workshops 2017
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3D Human Pose
Estimation: A Review of the Literature and Analysis of Covariates
N. Sarafianos, B. Boteanu, B. Ionescu, I.A. Kakadiaris
CVIU 2016
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Predicting Privileged Information for Height Estimation
N. Sarafianos, C. Nikou, I.A. Kakadiaris
ICPR 2016
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Show me your body:
Gender classification from still images
I.A. Kakadiaris, N. Sarafianos, C. Nikou
ICIP 2016
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Audio-visual speaker
diarization using Fisher linear semi-discriminant analysis
N. Sarafianos, T. Giannakopoulos, S. Petridis
Multimedia Tools and Applications 2014
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Audio Library
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