Iasonas Kokkinos

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University College London
i.kokkinos@ucl.ac.uk
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About

I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University College London, working at the intersection of computer vision and deep learning, with an emphasis on 3D human understanding and weakly-supervised learning of 3D geometric representations.

I am particularly interested in bridging academic research and real-world applications and have held multiple roles in industry:
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 (AR) that was acquired by Snap in 2020.
From 2020 to 2024, I led the Human3D team in Snap, helping deliver full-body AR experiences to hundreds of millions of Snapchat users.

Prior to joining UCL in 2016, I was for eight years on the faculty of the Applied Mathematics Department at École Centrale Paris.
I have earned my Dipl. Eng. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA, followed by a postdoc at UCLA.

Selected Publications

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]

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]

Learning monocular 3D reconstruction of articulated categories from motion
Filippos Kokkinos, Iasonas Kokkinos
CVPR, 2021
[Project Page]

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)
[Video]

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)
[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]

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 [