Feng Yao wins ECVA PhD Award at ECCV 2026 for 3D humans + language thesis
Michael_J_Black · x · 2026-09-10
- ETH PhD graduate Feng Yao wins the ECVA PhD Award at ECCV 2026 for the thesis "Learning Digital Humans from Vision and Language."
- The thesis spans 3D reconstruction of faces and bodies through to pioneering work training LLMs to understand and reason about 3D people, bridging 3D vision and language-based reasoning. Advisors include Marc Pollefeys and Michael J. Black.
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