Marcel C. Buehler

PhD Candidate

Email:

buehlmar@ethz.ch

Office:

ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science, STD, G 28

Address:

Stampfenbachstrasse 48, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Biography and Research

I am a PhD student in the Advanced Interactive Technologies lab of the Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems at ETH Zurich, supervised by Professor Otmar Hilliges and Thabo Beeler. I'm currently conducting a research internship at Nvidia Learning and Perception. From July 2022 to May 2024, I was a Student Researcher at Google AR/VR. I obtained my Master's degree in Data Science from ETH Zurich in 2020 and my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from University of Zurich in 2017.

My research focuses on 3D-aware generative models for high-quality photorealistic digital humans. These models facilitate various applications such as reconstruction, novel view synthesis, animation, relighting, and semantic editing. I'm particularly interested in neural representations for 3D geometry and appearance, as well as in the disentanglement of latent spaces.

If you would like to share experiences, or bounce an idea, please get in touch.

Keywords: 3D generative modeling; differentiable rendering; disentanglement; digital humans.

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Publications

Cafca: High-quality Novel View Synthesis of Expressive Faces from Casual Few-shot Captures

Marcel C. Buehler, Gengyan Li, Erroll Wood, Leonhard Helminger, Xu Chen, Tanmay Shah, Daoye Wang, Stephan Garbin, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Otmar Hilliges, Dmitry Lagun, Jérémy Riviere, Paulo Gotardo, Thabo Beeler, Abhimitra Meka, Kripasindhu Sarkar

Conference paper at SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024

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ShellNeRF: Learning a Controllable High-resolution Model of the Eye and Periocular Region

Gengyan Li, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Abhimitra Meka, Marcel C. Buehler, Franziska Mueller, Paulo Gotardo, Otmar Hilliges, Thabo Beeler

Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics), 2024

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Preface: A Data-driven Volumetric Prior for Few-shot Ultra High-resolution Face Synthesis

Marcel C. Buehler, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Tanmay Shah, Gengyan Li, Daoye Wang, Leonhard Helminger, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Dmitry Lagun, Otmar Hilliges, Thabo Beeler, Abhimitra Meka

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

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