Gaspard Zoss and Yifan Wang receive the Eurographics PhD Award
Gaspard Zoss and Yifan Wang have been awarded the 2023 Eurographics PhD Award for the high quality and impact of their doctoral dissertations. They received their price at the Annual Eurographics Conference that took place at the beginning of May.
The Eurographics PhD Award recognises good thesis work conducted in Europe in the field of computer graphics and offers freshly graduated doctors the opportunity to publish the "State-of-the-Art" section of their thesis in the Computer Graphics Forum Journal. This year, two of the four chosen theses have been conducted at ETH Zurich, in the Computer Graphics Laboratory and the Interactive Geometry Lab. Congratulations!
Gaspard Zoss, supervised by Professor Markus Gross, focused on facial performance retargeting. Drawing on empirical data and providing carefully designed methods to facilitate current professional workflows, his thesis allowed great progress in modelling and acquiring of jaw motion, improving facial performance capture and data-driven re-aging. His work has the potential to benefit the scientific community as well as the entertainment industry.
Yifan Wang, supervised by Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung, demonstrated that deep learning can effectively minimize the need for human intervention in applications where geometric details must be preserved or reconstructed from incomplete or distorted input. Her work is a significant advancement in practical geometry processing.