I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, where I am advised by Gerard Pons-Moll. I work on the capture and synthesis of realistic virtual humans — reconstructing human motion from images and wearable sensors, animating photorealistic avatars in novel 3D scenes, and generating human behaviour conditioned on 3D scenes and language.
I have interned at Snap Research in New York and at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab in London. Before my Ph.D., I obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science from Saarland University, Germany. My work was shortlisted for the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2021.
@article{mir2026ahoy,
title = {AHOY! Animatable Humans under Occlusion from YouTube Videos with Gaussian Splatting and Video Diffusion Priors},
author = {Mir, Aymen and Guler, Riza Alp and Tang, Xiangjun and Wonka, Peter and Pons-Moll, Gerard},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17975},
year = {2026}
}
@article{mir2026animated,
title = {Animated 3DGS Avatars in Diverse Scenes with Consistent Lighting and Shadows},
author = {Mir, Aymen and Guler, Riza Alp and Wang, Jian and Pons-Moll, Gerard and Zhou, Bing},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01660},
year = {2026}
}
@article{mir2025aha,
title = {AHA! Animating Human Avatars in Diverse Scenes with Gaussian Splatting},
author = {Mir, Aymen and Wang, Jian and Guler, Riza Alp and Guo, Chuan and Pons-Moll, Gerard and Zhou, Bing},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.09827},
year = {2025}
}
@article{khan2025fishnetpp,
title = {FishNet++: Analyzing the Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models in Marine Biology},
author = {Khan, Faizan Farooq and Radwan, Yousef and Abdelrahman, Eslam and Felemban, Abdulwahab and Mir, Aymen and Michiels, Nico K. and Temple, Andrew J. and Berumen, Michael L. and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25564},
year = {2025}
}
@inproceedings{mir2024continual,
title = {Generating Continual Human Motion in Diverse 3D Scenes},
author = {Mir, Aymen and Puig, Xavier and Kanazawa, Angjoo and Pons-Moll, Gerard},
booktitle = {International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)},
pages = {903--913},
year = {2024}
}
@inproceedings{guzov2021hps,
title = {Human POSEitioning System (HPS): 3D Human Pose Estimation and Self-Localization in Large Scenes from Body-Mounted Sensors},
author = {Guzov, Vladimir and Mir, Aymen and Sattler, Torsten and Pons-Moll, Gerard},
booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2021}
}
@inproceedings{chibane2020ndf,
title = {Neural Unsigned Distance Fields for Implicit Function Learning},
author = {Chibane, Julian and Mir, Aymen and Pons-Moll, Gerard},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
year = {2020}
}
@inproceedings{mir2020pix2surf,
title = {Learning to Transfer Texture from Clothing Images to 3D Humans},
author = {Mir, Aymen and Alldieck, Thiemo and Pons-Moll, Gerard},
booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2020}
}