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 recent publications only

Conference Contributions
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
Book Chapters
- 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, 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