Sai Kumar Dwivedi

Recent News:

Mar 2025 🎉 2 papers accepted in CVPR 2025 - InteractVLM (first author), PICO (co-author)
Jan 2025 💼 Accepted a 6-month internship offer at Meta Zurich
Oct 2024 🏆 Received the Outstanding Reviewers Award at ECCV 2024
Jun 2024 🎉 2 papers accepted in CVPR 2024 - TokenHMR (first author), ChatPose (co-author)
May 2024 📰 POCO was featured in RSIP Vision Magazine
Mar 2024 🎉 1 paper accepted in 3DV 2024 (Oral) - POCO (first author)
Jun 2023 🎉 1 paper accepted in CVPR 2023 - HOT (co-author)
Oct 2021 🎉 1 paper accepted in ICCV 2021 - DSR (first author)
Oct 2021 🎓 Started PhD at MPI-IS
Jun 2020 🏛️ Joined MPI-IS as a Research Assistant
Oct 2019 🎉 1 paper accepted in ICCV Workshop 2019 - ProtoGAN (first author)
Sep 2019 🎉 1 paper accepted in 3DV 2019 (Oral) - GPM (co-author)
Jun 2019 🎉 1 paper accepted in CVPR 2019 - OD-GZSL (co-author)
Sep 2017 💼 Joined Mercedes-Benz R&D India as a Computer Vision Researcher
Jan 2016 💼 Joined Intel as a Machine Learning Engineer
Sep 2014 🏛️ Research Exchange Student at Tallinn University of Technology
Sep 2014 🎖️ Received the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship
Jan 2016 🏛️ Research Internship at IIT-GN
Sep 2014 🎖️ Received the SRIP Summer Research Fellowship
Jul 2011 🎓 Started undergraduate studies in Computer Science at NIT Rourkela

I am a PhD candidate at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany, supervised by Dr. Michael Black and Dr. Dimitris Tzionas since October 2021. I also closely collaborate with Dr. Cordelia Schmid. My PhD research initially focused on estimating human pose and shape from monocular images. Currently, I am exploring the perception and estimation of human-object interactions from single RGB image.

Before starting my PhD, I worked as a Computer Vision Researcher at Mercedes-Benz, India where I collaborated with Dr. Arjun Jain on human pose estimation for Intelligent Interior. This work was deployed as Side Mirror Selection feature (see video) in Mercedes EQS 2021 and Rear Sunblind Control feature (see video) in Mercedes S-Class 2021. Prior to that, I worked at Intel, India developing deep learning algorithms for edge devices. I earned my Masters in Computer Science from NIT, Rourkela.