Iasonas Kokkinos

News

• I will join Imperial College in September 2026.
• A fully funded PhD scholarship to work with me in Human-Centric Physical Intelligence is available. See PhD scholarship details.

About

I work at the intersection of computer vision and deep learning to build AI systems that understand people and reason about 3D structure, motion, and the physical world.

Alongside my academic career, I have held senior industry roles to help take research into real-world systems. From 2016 to 2018 I was a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). From 2018 to 2020 I was co-founder and CEO of Ariel AI, a startup for real-time full-body 3D reconstruction for augmented reality that was acquired by Snap. From 2020 to 2024 I led the Human3D team at Snap, helping deliver full-body AR experiences to hundreds of millions of Snapchat users.

Before joining UCL in 2016, I spent eight years on the faculty of the Applied Mathematics Department at École Centrale Paris. I received my Dipl. Eng. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA, followed by a postdoc at UCLA.

Selected Works

MeshPose: Unifying DensePose and 3D Body Mesh Reconstruction

Eric-Tuan Le, Antonis Kakolyris, Petros Koutras, Himmy Tam, Efstratios Skordos, Riza Alp Guler, George Papandreou, Iasonas Kokkinos

CVPR, 2024

Project page arXiv

StyleMorph: Disentangled 3D-Aware Image Synthesis with a 3D Morphable StyleGAN

Eric-Tuan Le, Edward Batrum, Iasonas Kokkinos

ICLR, 2023

Project page

To The Point: Correspondence-driven Monocular 3D Category Reconstruction

Filippos Kokkinos, Iasonas Kokkinos

NeurIPS, 2021

Project page arXiv

Learning Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Articulated Categories from Motion

Filippos Kokkinos, Iasonas Kokkinos

CVPR, 2021

Project page arXiv

Weakly-Supervised Mesh-Convolutional Hand Reconstruction in the Wild

Dominik Kulon, Riza Alp Güler, Iasonas Kokkinos, Michael Bronstein, Stefanos Zafeiriou

CVPR, 2020, Oral, Best Paper Shortlist

arXiv Video

Attentive Single-Tasking of Multiple Tasks

Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis, Ilija Radosavovic, Iasonas Kokkinos

CVPR, 2019

Project page arXiv Code

HoloPose: Holistic 3D Human Reconstruction In-The-Wild

Riza Alp Guler, Iasonas Kokkinos

CVPR, 2019, Oral

Video

DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild

Riza Alp Güler, Natalia Neverova, Iasonas Kokkinos

CVPR, 2018, Oral

Project Code arXiv Video

UberNet: Training a Universal Convolutional Neural Network for Low-, Mid-, and High-Level Vision using Diverse Datasets and Limited Memory

Iasonas Kokkinos

CVPR, 2017, Oral

Talk Video arXiv

DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs

Liang-Chieh Chen, George Papandreou, Iasonas Kokkinos, Kevin Murphy, Alan L. Yuille

IEEE Transactions on PAMI, 2017

Blog post arXiv

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