Will Rowan
Welcome! I am a PhD student in the Vision, Graphics, and Learning Group at the University of York, working with Nick Pears, Patrik Huber, and Andrew Keeling. Prior to my PhD, I graduated from the University of York in 2020 with BEng and MSc degrees in Computer Science.
My research is in computer vision and its applications to 3D shape understanding. I’m particularly interested in methods for understanding, analysing, and representing the human face. This includes statistical representations such as the 3D Morphable Model (3DMM), text-based initialisation of 3D head shape, and conditioned image generation from 3D shape.
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| Dec 10, 2023 | Won Best Presentation, Runner-Up for a talk titled “How Many OptiFaces? A New Evaluation Metric for 3D Face Reconstruction” at the ReproduceCVPR Workshop. |
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| Nov 23, 2023 | Attending the 2023 British Machine Vision Conference Doctoral Consortium. I will be presenting a talk titled: “Conditioned Face Generation for Accurate 3D Face Reconstruction” |
| Oct 1, 2023 | Attending ICCV in Paris for everything 3D reconstruction, face modelling, and multi-modal. |
| Jun 15, 2023 | I have been selected as one of 200 emerging artists worldwide for the Basecamp Artist Residency at the Locarno Film Festival this August. I will be discussing the portrayal of technology and AI on screen with artists, filmmakers, and scientists. |