Institut für Informationsverarbeitung (TNT) - Homepage of Gerard Pons-Moll

Gerard Pons-Moll was born in Barcelona in 1984. He studied Telecommunications Engineering with emphasis in signal processing at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). From Sept. 2007 - July 2008 he was in Boston, USA for his Master Thesis at Northeastern University with a fellowship from the Vodafone Foundation.

LINK to my new website at Max Planck in Tübingen: http://ps.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/person/pons-moll

Research Interests

Motion capture
Particle Filters
Machine Learning

Articulated Body Kinematics
Shape Representation and Matching
Multiple object tracking

News

Best Science Paper Award at BMVC 2013!

Since September 2013 I started a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems directed by Michael Black

Invited talk at YXLON, Hamburg June 6th

Research intern at Microsoft Research, Cambridge July 2012 - September 2012

Research stay at the Vision Group at the University of Toronto with Prof. David Fleet from January until June 2012.

One paper accepted to CVPR 2012 .

One paper accepted to ICCV 2011 .

Slides of ICCV tutorial Looking at People : Generative Human Pose Estimation are available for download, pptx_and_videos , PDF_Slides

Book chapter on Model Based Pose Estimation together with Bodo Rosenhahn, to appear in Guide to Visual Analysis of Humans : Looking at People. T. Moeslund, A. Hilton, V. Krueger, L. Sigal (eds.), Springer, 2011

Laura , Stephan and I designed the new website for the TNT !

Publications

Show selected publications only

Gerard Pons-Moll, David Fleet, Bodo Rosenhahn
Posebits for Monocular Human Pose Estimation
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE, June 2014
(pdfDOI) BibTeX
Gerard Pons-Moll⁺, Jonathan Taylor⁺, Jamie Shotton, Aaron Hertzmann, Andrew Fitzgibbon
Metric Regression Forests for Human Pose Estimation
British Machine Vision Conference ( BMVC ) (+ dennotes equal contribution)
Best Science Paper Award, September 2013
(pdf) BibTeX
Alina Kuznetsova, Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
PCA-enhanced stochastic optimization methods
34th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), August 2012
(pdfDOI) BibTeX
Laura Leal-Taixé, Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
Branch-and-price global optimization for multi-view multi-object tracking
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Providence, Rhode Island, USA., June 2012
(pdf, pdf) BibTeX (paper page)
Laura Leal-Taixé, Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
Exploiting pedestrian interaction via global optimization and social behaviors
Theoretic Foundations of Computer Vision: Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, Springer, April 2012, edited by F. Dellaert, J.-M. Frahm, M. Pollefeys, L. Leal-Taixé, B. Rosenhahn
(pdf) BibTeX
Gerard Pons-Moll, Laura Leal-Taixé, Juergen Gall, Bodo Rosenhahn
Data-driven Manifolds for Outdoor Motion Capture
Theoretic Foundations of Computer Vision: Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, Springer, April 2012, edited by F. Dellaert, J.-M. Frahm, M. Pollefeys, L. Leal-Taixé, B. Rosenhahn
(pdfDOI) BibTeX
Gerard Pons-Moll, Andreas Baak, Juergen Gall, Laura Leal-Taixe, Meinard Mueller, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bodo Rosenhahn
Outdoor Human Motion Capture using Inverse Kinematics and von Mises-Fisher Sampling
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), November 2011
(pdf, pdf) BibTeX (paper page)
Laura Leal-Taixé, Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
Everybody needs somebody: modeling social and grouping behavior on a linear programming multiple people tracker
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW). 1st Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Visual Analysis of Large Crowds, November 2011
(pdf) BibTeX (paper page)
Gerard Pons-Moll, Laura Leal-Taixé, Tri Truong, Bodo Rosenhahn
Efficient and Robust Shape Matching for Model Based Human Motion Capture
33rd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) , September 2011
(pdf) BibTeX (paper page)
Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
Model-Based Pose Estimation
Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, Springer, June 2011, edited by T. Moeslund, A. Hilton, V. Krueger, L. Sigal
(Springer) BibTeX
Andreas Baak, Thomas Helten, Meinard Müller, Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn, Hans-Peter Seidel
Analyzing and Evaluating Markerless Motion Tracking Using Inertial Sensors
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV Workshops), September 2010
(pdfDOI) BibTeX
Gerard Pons-Moll, Andreas Baak, Thomas Helten, Meinard Müller, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bodo Rosenhahn
Multisensor-Fusion for 3D Full-Body Human Motion Capture
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2010
(pdfDOI) BibTeX (paper page)
Gerard Pons-Moll, Bodo Rosenhahn
Ball Joints for Marker-less Human Motion Capture
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Snow Bird, Utah, USA, December 2009
(pdf) BibTeX
Gerard Pons-Moll, Gilead Tadmor, Rob S. MacLeod, Bodo Rosenhahn, Dana H. Brooks
4D Cardiac Segmentation of the Epicardium and Left Ventricle
World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich (Germany), September 2009
(pdf) BibTeX
Gerard Pons-Moll, Cano Crosas, Gilead Tadmor, Rob MacLeod, Bodo Rosenhahn, Dana Brooks
Parametric Modeling of the Beating Heart with Respiratory Motion Extracted from Magnetic Resonance Images
IEEE Computers in Cardiology (CINC), Park City, Utah, USA, September 2009
BibTeX