Bio

I'm a doctoral student in computer vision and machine learning at Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics at the Romanian Academy since October 2015 under the supervision of prof. Cristian Sminchisescu. Prior to my PhD, I obtained an M.Sc. in Advanced Computing from the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London. I received the "Open Horizons" Scholarship for my M.Sc. studies. I also did a research internship at Bioinformatics Institute A*Star, Singapore on machine learning under the supervision of Cheng Li.

Research Interests

My primary focus was on the problem of visual human sensing from RGB data. Particularly, I investigated the problems of human segmentation, body part labeling 2d/3d pose estimation and photorealistic human appearance transfer/generation. This line of research has so far resulted in the following publications:

• A. Zanfir, E. Marinoiu, M.Zanfir, A.I. Popa, C. Sminchisescu. Deep Network for the Integrated 3D Sensing of Multiple People in Natural Images (Spotlight), NIPS 2018. [Paper] [BibTeX]
• M.Zanfir, A.I. Popa, A.Zanfir, C. Sminchisescu. Human Appearance Transfer, CVPR 2018. [Paper] [BibTeX]
• A.I. Popa, M. Zanfir, C. Sminchisescu. Deep Multitask Architecture for Integrated 2D and 3D Human Sensing, CVPR 2017. [Paper] [Github] [BibTeX]
• C. Ionescu, A.I. Popa, C. Sminchisescu. Large Scale Data Dependent Kernel Approximation, AISTATS 2017. [Paper] [BibTeX]
• A.I. Popa, C. Sminchisescu. Parametric Image Segmentation of Humans with Structural Shape Priors (Oral), ACCV 2016. [Paper] [Video] [BibTeX]

Besides doing research, I have also been a reviewer at top-tier conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ACCV, ICCV and NIPS. I won outstanding reviewer award at ICCV 2017 and CVPR 2018. I was one of the organizers of the ECCV 2018 workshop challenge Posetrack: 3D Human Pose Estimation Challenge.