Associate Professor (Profesor Titular)
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Madrid
Dan Casas is Associate Professor (Profesor Titular) at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Spain. His research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning, with particular emphasis on the 3D reconstruction, modelling, and animation of virtual humans and clothing. He has authored more than 40 high-impact publications –including SIGGRAPH, CVPR, and NeurIPS–, 3 international patents, and led 7 national and European highly-competitive projects as Principal Investigator. Dan is the receiver of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2015), a FBBVA Leonardo Fellowship (2021), and the honorary medal for the Young Researcher Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (2023). His research contributions have also been recognized by invitations as speaker (e.g., CVPR 2023 Workshop keynote) and organizer (e.g., ICCV 2023 Area Chair, ACM I3D 2020 General Chair) to the top venues in the field of Machine Learning, Graphics, and Computer Vision.
Dan received his M.Sc. degree (2009) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), including a one-year research visit at Carnegie Mellon University (PA, USA). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Graphics (2014) from the University of Surrey (UK), supervised by Prof. Adrian Hilton. Dan's dissertation introduced novel methods for character animation from multi-camera capture, allowing the synthesis of video-realistic interactive 3D characters. Before joining his current position, he was a postdoc (2015–2016) at the Max Planck Institute in Saarbrücken (Germany) and a postdoc (2014–2015) at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technology in Los Angeles (USA).
Video-Based Character Animation Dan Casas, Peng Huang and Adrian Hilton in Marcus Magnor, Oliver Grau, Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Christian Theobalt (Eds.): Digital Representations of the Real World: How to Capture, Model, and Render Visual Reality ISBN 9781482243819, pp. 239–252, CRC Press, 2015. pdf bib CRC Press |
Resolving Collisions in Dense 3D Crowd Animations Gonzalo Gomez-Nogales*, Melania Prieto-Martin*, C. Romero, M. Comino-Trinidad, Pablo Ramon, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Miguel A. Otaduy, Julien Pettre, and Dan Casas ACM Transactions on Graphics (to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia), 2024 pdf DOI project |
DiffusedWrinkles: A Diffusion-Based Model for Data-Driven Garment Animation Raquel Vidaurre, Elena Garces and Dan Casas British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2024 pdf video |
BodyShapeGPT: SMPL Body Shape Manipulation with LLMs Baldomero R. Árbol and Dan Casas European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW), 2024 Workshop on Foundation Models for 3D Humans Best Paper Award pdf code |
TexTile: A Differentiable Metric for Texture Tileability Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Dan Casas, Elena Garces and Jorge Lopez-Moreno IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 pdf project code |
Learning Contact Deformations with General Collider Descriptors Cristian Romero, Dan Casas, Maurizio Chiaramonte and Miguel A. Otaduy SIGGRAPH Asia (Conference), 2023 pdf DOI |
SMPLitex: A Generative Model and Dataset for 3D Human Texture Estimation from Single Image Dan Casas and Marc Comino-Trinidad British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2023 pdf project dataset code DOI |
How Will It Drape Like? Capturing Fabric Mechanics from Depth Images Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Melania Prieto-Martin, Dan Casas, and Elena Garces Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2023 pdf project supplementary DOI |
ULNeF: Untangled Layered Neural Fields for Mix-and-Match Virtual Try-On Igor Santesteban, Nils Thuerey, Miguel A. Otaduy, and Dan Casas Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022 pdf video project supplementary |
PERGAMO: Personalized 3D Garments from Monocular Video Andrés Casado-Elvira, Marc Comino Trinidad, and Dan Casas Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of ACM Symposium on Computer Animation, SCA), 2022 Best Presentation Award pdf video project code DOI |
HandFlow: Quantifying View-Dependent 3D Ambiguity in Two-Hand Reconstruction with Normalizing Flow J. Wang, D. Luvizon, F. Mueller, F. Bernard, A. Kortylewski, D. Casas, and C. Theobalt. International Symposium on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), 2022 Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award pdf project data |
Contact-Centric Deformation Learning Cristian Romero, Dan Casas, Maurizio M. Chiaramonte, and Miguel A. Otaduy ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH), 2022 pdf video project DOI |
SNUG: Self-Supervised Neural Dynamic Garments Igor Santesteban, Miguel A. Otaduy, and Dan Casas IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022 Oral pdf video project code |
A Survey on Intrinsic Images: Delving Deep into Lambert and Beyond Elena Garces, Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Dan Casas, and Jorge Lopez-Moreno International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2022 pdf project arXiv DOI |
Fine Virtual Manipulation with Hands of Different Sizes Suzanne Sorli, Dan Casas, Mickeal Verschoor, Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, and Miguel A. Otaduy IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2021 pdf video project DOI |
Self-Supervised Collision Handling via Generative 3D Garment Models for Virtual Try-On Igor Santesteban, Nils Thuerey, Miguel A. Otaduy, and Dan Casas IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 pdf video project code data DOI |
Learning Contact Corrections for Handle-Based Subspace Dynamics Cristian Romero, Dan Casas, Jesus Perez, and Miguel A. Otaduy ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH), 2021 pdf video project |
RGB2Hands: Real-Time Tracking of 3D Hand Interactions from Monocular RGB Video Jiayi Wang, Franziska Mueller, Florian Bernard, Suzanne Sorli, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Neng Qian, Miguel A. Otaduy, Dan Casas, and Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020 pdf video project DOI |
Fully Convolutional Graph Neural Networks for Parametric Virtual Try-On Raquel Vidaurre, Igor Santesteban, Elena Garces, and Dan Casas Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of ACM Symposium on Computer Animation, SCA), 2020 pdf video project DOI |
Tactile Rendering Based on Skin Stress Optimization Mickeal Verschoor, Dan Casas, and Miguel A. Otaduy ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH), 2020 pdf video project DOI |
SoftSMPL: Data-driven Modeling of Nonlinear Soft-tissue Dynamics for Parametric Humans Igor Santesteban, Elena Garces, Miguel A. Otaduy and Dan Casas Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2020 pdf video project DOI |
Modeling and Estimation of Nonlinear Skin Mechanics for Animated Avatars Cristian Romero, Miguel A. Otaduy, Dan Casas, and Jesus Perez Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2020 pdf video project DOI |
Real-time Pose and Shape Reconstruction of Two Interacting Hands With a Single Depth Camera Franziska Mueller, Micah Davis, Florian Bernard, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Mickeal Verschoor, Miguel A. Otaduy, Dan Casas, and Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2019 pdf video project DOI |
Learning-Based Animation of Clothing for Virtual Try-On Igor Santesteban, Miguel A. Otaduy and Dan Casas Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2019 pdf video project code data bib DOI |
BRDF Estimation of Complex Materials with Nested Learning Raquel Vidaurre Dan Casas, Elena Garces and Jorge Lopez-Moreno IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2019 pdf supplemental video project |
Learning Nonlinear Soft-Tissue Dynamics for Interactive Avatars Dan Casas and Miguel A. Otaduy Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM i3D), 2018 pdf video DOI |
GANerated Hands for Real-time 3D Hand Tracking from Monocular RGB Franziska Mueller, Florian Bernard, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Dushyant Mehta, Srinath Sridhar, Dan Casas and Christian Theobalt Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 pdf supplemental bib DOI project |
Real-time Hand Tracking under Occlusion from an Egocentric RGB-D Sensor Franziska Mueller, Dushyant Mehta, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Srinath Sridhar, Dan Casas and Christian Theobalt International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017 pdf bib DOI project |
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation In The Wild Using Improved CNN Supervision Dushyant Mehta, Helge Rhodin, Dan Casas, Pascal Fua, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Weipeng Xu and Christian Theobalt International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017 pdf bib DOI project |
VNect: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera Dushyant Mehta, Srinath Sridhar, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Helge Rhodin, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Weipeng Xu, Dan Casas and Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2017 pdf bib DOI project |
Multi-view Performance Capture of Surface Details Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Edilson de Aguiar and Christian Theobalt International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2017 pdf bib DOI |
EgoCap: Egocentric Marker-less Motion Capture with Two Fisheye Cameras Helge Rhodin, Christian Richardt, Dan Casas, Eldar Insafutdinov, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bernt Schiele and Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2016 pdf bib video project DOI |
Model-based Outdoor Performance Capture Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Helge Rhodin, Hans-Peter Seidel and Christian Theobalt International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2016 pdf bib video project DOI |
General Automatic Human Shape and Motion Capture Using Volumetric Contour Cues Helge Rhodin, Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Christian Richardt, Hans-Peter Seidel and Christian Theobalt European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016 pdf bib video project DOI |
Real-time Joint Tracking of a Hand Manipulating an Object from RGB-D Input Srinath Sridhar, Franziska Mueller, Michael Zollhöfer, Dan Casas, Antti Oulasvirta and Christian Theobalt European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016 pdf bib video project DOI |
Reconstruction of Personalized 3D Face Rigs from Monocular Video Pablo Garrido, Michael Zollhöfer, Dan Casas, Levi Valgaerts, Kiran Varanasi, Patrick Perez and Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH), 2016 pdf bib video project DOI |
Avatar Reshaping and Automatic Rigging Using a Deformable Model Andrew Feng, Dan Casas and Ari Shapiro ACM Motion in Games (MIG), 2015 pdf bib video project binnary DOI |
4D Model Flow: Precomputed Appearance Alignment for Real-time 4D Video Interpolation Dan Casas, Christian Richardt, John Collomosse, Christian Theobalt and Adrian Hilton Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Pacific Graphics), 2015 pdf bib video project DOI |
Optimal Representation of Multiple-View Video Marco Volino, Dan Casas, John Collomosse and Adrian Hilton British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2014 (Oral) pdf bib video project DOI |
4D Video Textures for Interactive Character Appearance Dan Casas, Marco Volino, John Collomosse and Adrian Hilton. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics), 2014 pdf bib video project data DOI |
Animation Control of Surface Motion Capture Margara Tejera, Dan Casas, and Adrian Hilton. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2013 pdf bib DOI |
Interactive Animation of 4D Performance Capture Dan Casas, Margara Tejera, Jean-Yves Guillemaut and Adrian Hilton. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2013 pdf bib project DOI |
4D Parametric Motion Graphs for Interactive Animation Dan Casas, Margara Tejera, Jean-Yves Guillemaut and Adrian Hilton. ACM/SIGGRAPH Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2012 Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award pdf bib video project DOI |
Parametric Control of Captured Mesh Sequences for Real-Time Animation Dan Casas, Margara Tejera, Jean-Yves Guillemaut and Adrian Hilton. ACM Motion in Games, 2011 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7060, 242–253, 2011. web pdf video |
Teaching 3D Computer Animation to Non-programming Experts Dan Casas Eurographics (Education Paper), 2021 pdf DOI |
Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera Dushyant Mehta, Srinath Sridhar, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Helge Rhodin, Franziska Mueller, Weipeng Xu, Dan Casas and Christian Theobalt Demo at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017 project |
Blendshapes from Commodity RGB-D Sensors Dan Casas, Oleg Alexander, Andrew W. Feng, Graham Fyffe, Ryosuke Ichikari, Paul Debevec, Rhuizhe Wang, Evan Suma, Ari Shapiro. SIGGRAPH 2015 Talks |
Rapid Photorealistic Blendshapes from Commodity RGB-D Sensors Dan Casas, Oleg Alexander, Andrew W. Feng, Graham Fyffe, Ryosuke Ichikari, Paul Debevec, Rhuizhe Wang, Evan Suma, Ari Shapiro. Demo at ACM/SIGGRAPH Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2015. Best Demo Award pdf award ACM |
Interactive Video-Realistic Character Animation from 4D Performance Capture Dan Casas PhD Thesis, 2014 Advisor: Prof. Adrian Hilton. University of Surrey pdf video |
Real-Time Face Tracking Methods Dan Casas MSc Thesis, June 2009 Advisor: Dr. Fernando de la Torre. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Carnegie Mellon University pdf video |
06/10/2023 | 3D Digital Avatars with Machine Learning, IMET 2023 (Barcelona) |
18/06/2023 | Leyered Neural 3D Actors, CVPR Workshop on High-Fidelity Neural Actors (Vancouver) [Slides] |
02/03/2023 | 3D Digital Avatars with Machine Learning, T3chFest (Madrid) [Video] |
11/01/2023 | Neural 3D Garments for Digital Humans, Madrid Innotation Lab (Spain) [Video] |
12/05/2022 | Neural 3D Garments for Parametric Bodies, INRIA Grenoble (France) |
21/03/2022 | Morphable Models with Physics, Dagstuhl (Germany) |
01/03/2022 | Reconstruction and Animation of 3D Digital Garments, MUVA Seminar (Spain) |
14/01/2022 | 3D Digital Garments, Nokia Bell Labs (Spain) |
22/12/2021 | Self-supervised Collision Handling for 3D Garment Models, Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2021 [Video] |
2023 | Area Chair for IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) |
2021 | Papers Co-chair at ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) |
2020 | General Co-chair at ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) |
2019 – 2020 | Organizer at DynaVis: International Workshop on Dynamic Scene Reconstruction @ CVPR |
2019 | Poster Chair at ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) |
2019 | Paper Chair at Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica (CEIG) |
2018 | Local Chair at Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica (CEIG) |
2025 | Eurographics (Full Papers) |
2022 | Eurographics (Sort Papers) |
2020 | International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) |
2018 – 2020 | ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG) |
2019 | SIGGRAPH Asia (Technical Papers Conflict of Interest Coordinators) |
2019 | SIBGRAPI 2019 (Computers & Graphics Track) |
2018 | ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) |
2015 – 2020 | European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP) |
2015 – 2018 | Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica (CEIG) |
2018, 2020-24 | Eurographics |
2019-24, | British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) |
2016 – 2024 | IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) |
2016-23 | ACM SIGGRAPH |
2020-23 | ACM SIGGRAPH Asia |
2022 | International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) |
2016, 2021-24 | International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) |
2017, 2019, 2021 | IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) |
2020 | Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) |
2016, 2018, 2020 | European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) |
2018 | High Performance Graphics (HPG) |
2015 – 2018 | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) |
2017 | Pacific Graphics |
2016, 2017 | International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV) |
€ 174,940 | "Mixed Reality Devices to visualize BIM models on construction sites" (Co-PI) |
Spanish Ministry of Science, "Coraboración Plúblico-Privada 2021", 2023-2025. | |
€ 174,482 | "Physics-informed Digitalization of 3D Clothing" (PI) |
Spanish Ministry of Science, "Consolidación Investigadora 2022", 2023-2025. | |
€ 282,440 | "BLESIM: Fusion of Machine Learning and Simulation for Human Digitization and Interaction". |
Spanish Ministry of Science "Transición Digital", 2022-2023 | |
€ 40,000 | "Personalized 3D Digital Avatars with Self-Supervised Learning" (PI) |
FBBVA Leonardo Fellowship, 2021-2022 | |
€ 398,693 | "CrowdDNA: Technologies for Computer-Assisted Crowd Management" (URJC PI) |
EU H2020 FETOpen, 2020-2024 | |
€ 45,000 | "Mechanical Cloth Parameters from Video" (PI) |
Ayudantes de Investigación de la Comunidad de Madrid, 2019-2021 | |
€ 126,203 | "VizLearning: Learning and Visualization of Subspaces for Simulation and Animation" (Co-PI) |
Spanish Ministry of Science "Retos Investigacion", 2019-2021 | |
€ 170,121 | "PhotoCloth: A framework to synthesize real-time photorealistic cloth animation from video input" |
EU H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, 2016-2018 |
2023 | Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain for the Young Researcher Award 2023 |
2021 | Winner of 2021 IEEE Retail Digital Transformation Grand Challenge |
2021 | BMVC Outstanding Reviewer Award |
2021 | CVPR Outstanding Reviewer Award |
2020 | 3DV Outstanding Reviewer Award |
2020 | BMVC Outstanding Reviewer Award |
2016 | Saarland University Best Teaching Award |
2015 | ACM I3D Best Demo Award |
2012 | ACM I3D Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award |
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