Markus Gross
Full Professor
Heads the Computer Graphics Laboratory, working on physically based animation, digital humans, video processing and visual effects for media production.
Markus Gross's lab at ETH Zurich works on physics-based simulation & animation and rendering & appearance. 72 papers since 2023, 2 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and RA-L. 11 PhD students. 90 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 19/ year
- at T1 venues
- 3%
- PhD students
- 11
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 90
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 11 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 19 papers2025 · T1 1
- 24 papers2024 · T1 1
- 18 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, RA-L, TAFFC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Physics-based simulation & animation15 papers
- Rendering & appearance2 papers
- heads1 paper
- production0 papers
- digital humans0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202611 papers
- Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Conference Papers '262D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization (opens in a new tab)
- To appearCoCo-InEKF: State Estimation with Learned Contact Covariances in Dynamic, Contact-Rich Scenarios (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Efficient All-Pairs Correlation Volume Sampling for Optical Flow Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Guardians of the Hair: Rescuing Soft Boundaries in Depth, Stereo, and Novel Views (opens in a new tab)
- To appear: Proceedings of IEEE ICHIMind Companion: An Embodied Conversational Agent for Process-Based Psychotherapy (opens in a new tab)
- Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)Neural Material Adapter: Transforming Complex Materials into Efficient Analytic BRDFs (opens in a new tab)
- Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)RelightAnyone: A Generalized Relightable 3D Gaussian Head Model (opens in a new tab)
- To appear: Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI Workshops (HealthIUI), CEUR-WSTalking to Your Data: Exploring Embodied Conversation as an Interface for Personal Health Reflection (opens in a new tab)
- To appear: Proceedings of IEEE ICHIToward Accessible Psychotherapy Training Using AI-Driven Interactive Patient Avatars (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)What Is It Like to Be a Noise? An Entropy-based Gaussian Noise Regularization for Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
202519 papers
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)A Joint Personality-Emotion Framework for Personality-Consistent Conversational Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Conference Papers '25A Platform for Interactive AI Character Experiences (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)BEE: Belief-Value-Aligned, Explainable, and Extensible Cognitive Framework for Conversational Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)Bridging the Gap between Gaussian Diffusion Models and Universal Quantization for Image Compression (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Conference Papers '25Controllable Tracking-Based Video Frame Interpolation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)egoEMOTION: Egocentric Vision and Physiological Signals for Emotion and Personality Recognition in Real-World Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- The International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (Berlin, Germany, May 24, ), International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and SurgeryEvaluation of synthetic training data for 3D intraoral reconstruction of cleft patients from single images (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Conference Papers '25High-Fidelity Novel View Synthesis via Splatting-Guided Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)LDIP: Long Distance Information Propagation for Video Super-Resolution (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Emerging TechnologiesLookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAIMulti-linear 3D Craniofacial Infant Shape Model (opens in a new tab)
202424 papers
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Artist-Friendly Relightable and Animatable Neural Heads (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention -- MICCAIAutoSkull: Learning-Based Skull Estimation for Automated Pipelines (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Machine Learning and Compression, NeurIPSBridging the Gap between Diffusion Models and Universal Quantization for Image Compression (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI)Chatbots With Attitude: Enhancing Chatbot Interactions Through Dynamic Personality Infusion (opens in a new tab)
- The ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and GamesEmoSpaceTime: Decoupling Emotion and Content through Contrastive Learning for Expressive 3D Speech Animation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (Tokyo, Japan, December 03-06, ), ACM Transactions on GraphicsGroomCap: High-Fidelity Prior-Free Hair Capture (opens in a new tab)
- The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Vienna, Austria, May 07-11How I Warped Your Noise: a Temporally-Correlated Noise Prior for Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging TechnologiesImmersive Conversations with Digital Einstein: Linking a Physical System and AI (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAILarge-Scale 3D Infant Face Model (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH (Denver, US, July 28-August 01, ), ACM Transactions on GraphicsLearning a Generalized Physical Face Model From Data (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of Computer Vision - (ECCV) - European Conference, Part LXILossy Image Compression with Foundation Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
202318 papers
- Pacific Graphics (Daejeon, South Korea, October 10-13, ), Computer Graphics ForumA Perceptual Shape Loss for Monocular 3D Face Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of SA '23: SIGGRAPH AsiaAn Implicit Physical Face Model Driven by Expression and Style (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and SurgeryAutomated and Data-Driven Plate Computation for Presurgical Cleft Lip and Palate (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) WorkshopsControllable Inversion of Black-Box Face Recognition Models via Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
- Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) (Delft, The Netherlands, June 28-30, ), Industry TrackDeep Compositional Denoising on Frame Sequences (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of SA '23: SIGGRAPH Asia Technical CommunicationsEfficient Incremental Potential Contact for Actuated Face Simulation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Frame Interpolation Transformer and Uncertainty Guidance (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (Sydney, Australia, December 12-15, ), ACM Transactions on GraphicsGroomGen: A High-Quality Generative Hair Model Using Hierarchical Latent Representations (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of Applications of Medical Artificial Intelligence (AMAI)Image-Based 3D Reconstruction of Cleft Lip And Palate Using a Learned Shape Prior (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Kernel Aware Resampler (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH '23: ACM SIGGRAPH Conference ProceedingsKernel-based Frame Interpolation for Spatio-temporally Adaptive Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Kigali, Rwanda, May 01-05Learning to Estimate Single-view Volumetric Flow Motions without 3D Supervision (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went90 listed
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