About Me

I am a Computer Vision Egineer at Snap where I work on on cutting-edge systems for 3D human understanding. Previously, I was building hand reconstruction systems at Ariel AI that was acquired by Snap.

I obtained a PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Michael Bronstein and Prof. Stefanos Zafeiriou in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.

Publications

Weakly-Supervised Mesh-Convolutional Hand Reconstruction in the Wild

April 2020, CVPR 2020 (Oral)
Best Paper Award Nomination (Top 0.4%)

Dominik Kulon, Riza Alp Güler, Iasonas Kokkinos,
Michael Bronstein, Stefanos Zafeiriou

We introduce a simple and effective network architecture for monocular 3D hand pose estimation consisting of an image encoder followed by a mesh convolutional decoder that is trained through a direct 3D hand mesh reconstruction loss. We train our network by gathering a large-scale dataset of hand action in YouTube videos and use it as a source of weak supervision. Our system largely outperforms state-of-the-art methods, even halving the errors on the in the wild benchmark.

Single Image 3D Hand Reconstruction with Mesh Convolutions

May 2019, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)

Dominik Kulon, Haoyang Wang, Riza Alp Güler,
Michael Bronstein, Stefanos Zafeiriou

Monocular 3D reconstruction of deformable objects, such as human body parts, has been typically approached by predicting parameters of heavyweight linear models. In this paper, we demonstrate an alternative solution that is based on the idea of encoding images into a latent non-linear representation of meshes.

Dense Hand Pose Estimation

September 2018, Imperial College London

MRes Thesis

The thesis presents a system that establishes a correspondence from hand pixels in an RGB image to the 3D hand model in an end-to-end manner. It is accompanied by a hand model capable of representing different shapes learned from hand scans and the first dataset of 1,500,000 hand models optimized to match the pose and shape of hands in colour images.