George Kopanas
Google
Research Scientist
Bio
I am currently a Research Scientist at Google with a strong focus on 3D reconstruction and Novel View Synthesis. Currently I work towards advancing real-time, photorealistic 3D scene representations, particularly around Gaussian Splatting and Neural Radiance Fields. I graduated with a PhD from Inria Sophia Antipolis supervised by George Drettakis. My PhD research was focused on point-based representations. I have contributed to the research community through publications in conferences and journals and I was honored to get awarded in SIGGRAPH 2023 with the best paper award for "3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering".
Publications
Unsupervised underwater fish detection fusing flow and objectiveness
D Zhang, G Kopanas, C Desai, S Chai, M Piacentino
WACV 2016 - IEEE Winter Applications of Computer Vision Workshops, 1-7
News
24/10/2024 - Invited talk at RNA 003: London
22/10/2024 - Guest Lecture in Stanford invited by Leo Guibas
10/10/2024 - My PhD Thesis won the 1st EDSTIC Doctoral Prize in Computer Science
08/08/2024 - Served as reviewer for SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ECCV and EGSR during 2024
18/06/2024 - Invited talk at XRNeRF Workshop in CVPR
17/06/2024 - Invited talk at EDGE Workshop in CVPR
12/05/2024 - Served as Programme Committee for EGSR
15/04/2024 - Released a 3DGS jupyter exercise for university classes and courses
12/04/2024 - Guest Lecture in SFU invited by Andrea Tagliasacchi
15/03/2024 - Guest Lecture in KAIST invited by Minhyuk Sung
03/08/2023 - SIGGRAPH Best Paper Award for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Contact
gkopanas@google.com