Umar Iqbal ![](/sites/default/files/person/Headshot-10.png) I am a Senior Research Scientist at [NVIDIA Research](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/) and part of the Machine Learning and Perception group headed by [Jan Kautz](http://jankautz.com/). Prior to that, I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science (2014-2018) from the [University of Bonn](http://www3.uni-bonn.de/), Germany, under the supervision of [Prof. Juergen Gall](http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~gall/). I completed my M.Sc. degree in Information Technology (2011-2013) with majors in Image and Video Signal Processing from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. Alongside, I also worked at [Nokia Research Center](http://research.nokia.com/) as an External Computer Vision Researcher. I completed my B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from [COMSATS Institute of Information Technology](http://www.ciit.edu.pk/), Pakistan, and later also worked there as a Research Associate at the Computer Vision Research Group during 2010-2011. **​Research Interests:** **Computer Vision, Deep Learning,** human pose estimation, object detection and recognition, action recognition, face recognition, person re-identification, multi-target tracking Research Area(s) [Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/index.php/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence) [Computer Graphics](/index.php/research-area/computer-graphics) [Computer Vision](/index.php/research-area/computer-vision) Main Field of Interest [Computer Vision](/index.php/research-area/computer-vision) Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=QSKXFiYAAAAJ&hl=en](https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=QSKXFiYAAAAJ&hl=en) ### Publications ### 2025 [SimAvatar: Simulation-Ready Clothed Gaussian Avatars from Text](/index.php/publication/2025-06_simavatar-simulation-ready-clothed-gaussian-avatars-text) [Xueting Li](/index.php/person/xueting-li), [Ye Yuan](/index.php/person/ye-yuan), [Shalini De Mello](/index.php/person/shalini-de-mello), Gilles Daviet, Jonathan Leaf, Miles Macklin, [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz), [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal) [IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/papers/Li_SimAvatar_Simulation-Ready_Avatars_with_Layered_Hair_and_Clothing_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf) ### 2024 [GAvatar: Animatable 3D Gaussian Avatars with Implicit Mesh Learning](/index.php/publication/2024-06_gavatar-animatable-3d-gaussian-avatars-implicit-mesh-learning) [Ye Yuan](/index.php/person/ye-yuan), [Xueting Li](/index.php/person/xueting-li), Yangyi Huang, [Shalini De Mello](/index.php/person/shalini-de-mello), [Koki Nagano](/index.php/person/koki-nagano), [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz), [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal) [IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/papers/Yuan_GAvatar_Animatable_3D_Gaussian_Avatars_with_Implicit_Mesh_Learning_CVPR_2024_paper.pdf) Highlight [What You See is What You GAN: Rendering Every Pixel for High-Fidelity Geometry in 3D GANs](/publication/2024-06_what-you-see-what-you-gan-rendering-every-pixel-high-fidelity-geometry-3d-gans) [Alexander Trevithick](/person/alexander-trevithick), Matthew Chan, Towaki Takikawa, [Umar Iqbal](/person/umar-iqbal), [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello), Manmohan Chandraker, Ravi Ramamoorthi, [Koki Nagano](/person/koki-nagano) [IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/papers/Trevithick_What_You_See_is_What_You_GAN_Rendering_Every_Pixel_CVPR_2024_paper.pdf) ### 2023 [Generalizable One-shot 3D Neural Head Avatar](/publication/2023-12_generalizable-one-shot-3d-neural-head-avatar) [Xueting Li](/person/xueting-li), [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello), [Sifei Liu](/person/sifei-liu), [Koki Nagano](/person/koki-nagano), [Umar Iqbal](/person/umar-iqbal), [Jan Kautz](/person/jan-kautz) [Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023](https://neurips.cc/) [SSIF: Single-shot Implicit Morphable Faces With Consistent Texture Parameterization](/index.php/publication/2023-08_ssif-single-shot-implicit-morphable-faces-consistent-texture-parameterization) Connor Zhizhen Lin, [Koki Nagano](/index.php/person/koki-nagano), [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz), Eric R. Chan, [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal), Leonidas Guibas, Gordon Wetzstein, Sameh Khamis [SIGGRAPH 2023](https://s2023.siggraph.org/) ### 2022 [GLAMR: Global Occlusion-Aware Human Mesh Recovery with Dynamic Cameras](/publication/2022-06_glamr-global-occlusion-aware-human-mesh-recovery-dynamic-cameras) [Ye Yuan](/person/ye-yuan), [Umar Iqbal](/person/umar-iqbal), [Pavlo Molchanov](/person/pavlo-molchanov), Kris Kitani, [Jan Kautz](/person/jan-kautz) IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022 (Ora… ### 2021 [KAMA: 3D Keypoint Aware Body Mesh Articulation](/index.php/publication/2021-12_kama-3d-keypoint-aware-body-mesh-articulation) [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal), Kevin Xie, Kelly Guo, [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz), [Pavlo Molchanov](/index.php/person/pavlo-molchanov) [International Conference on 3D Vision](https://3dv2021.surrey.ac.uk/) [Self-Supervised Object Detection via Generative Image Synthesis](/index.php/publication/2021-10_self-supervised-object-detection-generative-image-synthesis) Siva Karthik Mustikovela, [Shalini De Mello](/index.php/person/shalini-de-mello), Aayush Prakash, [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal), [Sifei Liu](/index.php/person/sifei-liu), Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Carsten Rother, [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz) [International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021](https://iccv2021.thecvf.com/) [Weakly-Supervised Physically Unconstrained Gaze Estimation](/index.php/publication/2021-06_weakly-supervised-physically-unconstrained-gaze-estimation) Rakshit Kothari, [Shalini De Mello](/index.php/person/shalini-de-mello), [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal), [Wonmin Byeon](/index.php/person/wonmin-byeon), Seonwook Park, [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz) [IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021](http://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/) Oral [Learning to Track Instances without Video Annotations](/index.php/publication/2021-06_learning-track-instances-without-video-annotations) Yang Fu, [Sifei Liu](/index.php/person/sifei-liu), [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal), [Shalini De Mello](/index.php/person/shalini-de-mello), Humphrey Shi, [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz) [IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021](http://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/) Oral [DexYCB: A Benchmark for Capturing Hand Grasping of Objects](/publication/2021-06_dexycb-benchmark-capturing-hand-grasping-objects) [Yu-Wei Chao](/person/yu-wei-chao), [Wei Yang](/person/wei-yang), Yu Xiang, [Pavlo Molchanov](/person/pavlo-molchanov), Ankur Handa, [Jonathan Tremblay](/person/jonathan-tremblay), [Yashraj Narang](/person/yashraj-narang), Karl Van Wyk, [Umar Iqbal](/person/umar-iqbal), [Stan Birchfield](/person/stan-birchfield), [Jan Kautz](/person/jan-kautz), Dieter Fox [IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021](http://cvpr2021.thecvf.com) ### 2020 [Weakly-Supervised 3D Hand Pose Estimation via Biomechanical Constraints ](/publication/2020-08_weakly-supervised-3d-hand-pose-estimation-biomechanical-constraints) Adrian Spurr, [Umar Iqbal](/person/umar-iqbal), [Pavlo Molchanov](/person/pavlo-molchanov), Otmar Hilliges, [Jan Kautz](/person/jan-kautz) [European Conference on Computer Vision, 2020](https://eccv2020.eu/) [Self-Supervised Viewpoint Learning From Image Collections ](/index.php/publication/2020-06_self-supervised-viewpoint-learning-image-collections) Siva Karthik Mustikovela, Varun Jampani, [Shalini De Mello](/index.php/person/shalini-de-mello), [Sifei Liu](/index.php/person/sifei-liu), [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal), Carsten Rother, [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz) [IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020](http://cvpr2020.thecvf.com/) [Weakly-Supervised 3D Human Pose Learning via Multi-view Images in the Wild](/index.php/publication/2020-06_weakly-supervised-3d-human-pose-learning-multi-view-images-wild) [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal), [Pavlo Molchanov](/index.php/person/pavlo-molchanov), [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz) [IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](http://cvpr2020.thecvf.com/) ### 2019 [Few-Shot Adaptive Gaze Estimation ](/index.php/publication/2019-10_few-shot-adaptive-gaze-estimation) Seonwook Park, [Shalini De Mello](/index.php/person/shalini-de-mello), [Pavlo Molchanov](/index.php/person/pavlo-molchanov), [Umar Iqbal](/index.php/person/umar-iqbal), Otmar Hilliges, [Jan Kautz](/index.php/person/jan-kautz) [International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019](http://iccv2019.thecvf.com/program/overview) Oral ### 2018 [Hand Pose Estimation via Latent 2.5 D Heatmap Regression](/publication/2018-09_hand-pose-estimation-latent-25-d-heatmap-regression) [Umar Iqbal](/person/umar-iqbal), [Pavlo Molchanov](/person/pavlo-molchanov), [Thomas Breuel](/person/thomas-breuel), Juergen Gall, [Jan Kautz](/person/jan-kautz) ECCV2018