Vasileios Choutas
Senior Research Scientist at Google
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolVasileios Choutas is a Senior Research Scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computer vision and 3D human modeling, currently leading research at Google AR/VR after progressing from Research Scientist roles. He holds a PhD from ETH Zürich and has a strong track record across top labs—Max Planck/ETH, Meta, Microsoft, INRIA and NAVER—bridging rigorous academic research with production-focused engineering. His open-source contributions include concrete improvements to SMPLify-X, enhancing expressive body capture tooling for hands, face and body from single images, reflecting attention to visualization, robustness, and usability. Vasileios combines deep technical expertise in 3D reconstruction and motion representations with practical skills in model integration and debugging, and he often focuses on subtle implementation issues that materially improve downstream results. Based in Tübingen, he brings both cross-institutional collaboration experience and a knack for translating complex models into reliable pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at ETH Zürich
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (7)
pytorch10
computer-vision10
3d-models10
python10
rendering9
render9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vchoutas/smplify-x
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face, and Body from a Single Image
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Vasileios primarily focused on improving the SMPLify-X project, which is used for expressive body capture. Their commits included bug fixes for rendering and overlay issues, as well as adding features like image dimension normalization and mesh saving capabilities. The user also refactored parts of the code, and the modifications made demonstrate a focus on enhancing the visualization and processing of 3D body models, specifically addressing issues related to model rendering and parameter handling.
3d-modelshandsface-recognitionbodycomputer-vision
vchoutas/game_of_life
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 1 issue in 11 months
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