My research focus is robust and efficient 3D human understanding. Among others, I am excited about research on holistic capture of humans in context, as well as uncertainty-aware semi- and self-supervised learning for human-related tasks.
I did my PhD in Prof. Bastian Leibe’s Computer Vision Group at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. That work was funded in part through a scholarship of the Bosch Research Foundation. My methods have won 3D human pose estimation competitions at ECCV 2018 and 2020, and I have received Outstanding Reviewer Awards at CVPR 2021 and 2022.
Before that, I completed my master’s in Computer Science also at RWTH Aachen, where I initially worked on medical image processing with Prof. Thomas M. Deserno, then joined Prof. Bastian Leibe’s Computer Vision Group as a student research assistant and wrote my master’s thesis on visual crowd counting and pedestrian flow analysis. Prior to that, I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in my native Hungary, with a thesis on machine learning approaches for natural language processing in medical diagnosis classification.
@inproceedings{Sarandi2023dozens, title = {Learning {3D} Human Pose Estimation from Dozens of Datasets using a Geometry-Aware Autoencoder to Bridge Between Skeleton Formats}, author = {S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an and Hermans, Alexander and Leibe, Bastian}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, year = {2023} }
@article{Sarandi2021metrabs, title = {{MeTRAbs:} Metric-Scale Truncation-Robust Heatmaps for Absolute {3D} Human Pose Estimation}, author = {S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an and Linder, Timm and Arras, Kai O. and Leibe, Bastian}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM)}, year = {2021}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, pages = {16--30} }
@inproceedings{Knoche2020reposing, title = {Reposing Humans by Warping {3D} Features}, author = {Knoche, Markus and S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an and Leibe, Bastian}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)}, year = {2020} }
@inproceedings{Sarandi2020metro, title = {Metric-Scale Truncation-Robust Heatmaps for 3{D} Human Pose Estimation}, author = {S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an and Linder, Timm and Arras, Kai O. and Leibe, Bastian}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG)}, year = {2020} }
@inproceedings{Pfeiffer2019multitask, title = {Visual Person Understanding Through Multi-task and Multi-dataset Learning}, author = {Pfeiffer, Kilian and Hermans, Alexander and S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'{a}n and Weber, Mark and Leibe, Bastian}, booktitle = {German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)}, date = {2019} }
@article{Sarandi2018synthetic, title = {Synthetic Occlusion Augmentation with Volumetric Heatmaps for the 2018 {ECCV PoseTrack Challenge} on {3D} Human Pose Estimation}, author = {S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an and Linder, Timm and Arras, Kai O. and Leibe, Bastian}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04987}, year = {2018} }
@inproceedings{Sarandi2018occlusion, title = {How Robust is {3D} Human Pose Estimation to Occlusion?}, author = {S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an and Linder, Timm and Arras, Kai O. and Leibe, Bastian}, booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Workshops (IROSW)}, year = {2018} }
@phdthesis{Sarandi2023phdthesis, title = {Robust and Efficient Methods in Visual {3D} Human Pose Estimation}, author = {S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an}, school = {RWTH Aachen University}, year = {2023} }
@mastersthesis{Sarandi2015mastersthesis, title = {Pedestrian Line Counting by Probabilistic Combination of Flow and Appearance Information}, author = {S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an}, school = {RWTH Aachen University}, year = {2015} }
@mastersthesis{Sarandi2011bachelorsthesis, title = {Eg\'eszs\'eg\"ugyi K\'odol\'ast\'amogat\'o Rendszer Fejleszt\'ese}, author = {S\'ar\'andi, Istv\'an}, type = {Bachelor’s thesis}, school = {Budapest University of Technology and Economics}, year = {2011} }
@mastersthesis{Erlbeck2022mastersthesis, title = {Temporal Modeling of 3D Human Poses in Multi-Person Interaction Scenarios}, author = {Erlbeck, Stefan}, school = {RWTH Aachen University}, year = {2022} }
@mastersthesis{Liu2021mastersthesis, title = {Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation using Depth as Privileged Information}, author = {Liu, Yinglun}, school = {RWTH Aachen University}, year = {2021} }
@mastersthesis{Knoche2020mastersthesis, title = {Volumetric Feature Transformation for Pose-Conditioned Human Image Synthesis}, author = {Knoche, Markus}, school = {RWTH Aachen University}, year = {2020} }