At the 23rd EMVA Business Conference held from May 22 to 24, 2025, in Rome, Italy, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias was honored with the prestigious EMVA Young Professional Award. This annual award, endowed with €1,500, recognizes outstanding and innovative work in the field of machine vision or image processing by a student or young professional. (emva.org)
Potamias is a Research Associate at Imperial College London, specializing in 3D computer vision and deep generative models in non-Euclidean spaces. His research focuses on the intersection of generative models and 3D avatars, with particular emphasis on 3D hands, faces, and bodies.
The EMVA Young Professional Award aims to support innovation in the machine vision industry, contribute to dedicated machine vision education, and provide a bridge between research and industry. Winners are given the opportunity to present their work to industry leaders at the EMVA Business Conference and receive a free pass to the European Machine Vision Forum.
Potamias’s award-winning work includes several notable publications, such as:
- WiLoR: End-to-end 3D hand localization and reconstruction in-the-wild.
- HaWoR: World-Space Hand Motion Reconstruction from Egocentric Videos.
- Arc2Avatar: Generating expressive 3D avatars from a single image via ID guidance.
These contributions have been recognized at top-tier conferences like CVPR and ECCV, highlighting Potamias’s significant impact on the field.
For more information about Rolandos Alexandros Potamias and his research, visit his personal website.
