Aleksei Zhuravlev

Aleksei Zhuravlev

MSc Computer Science Student

University of Bonn

Bio

I am a MSc Computer Science student at the University of Bonn, Germany. My research interests focus on neural scene representation for 3D reconstruction, 3D model generation with large language models, and human body representation.

Currently, I am working as a research assistant at ETH Zurich, supervised by Dr. Danda Pani Paudel and Dr. Thomas Probst. My project focuses on a NeRF-based 3D modelling of a hand, using a set of images of a user performing a sequence of gestures. Previously, I pursued a BSc degree in Physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. I worked on Super-Resolution and Background Subtraction problems applied to satellite images of neutron stars, with a goal to detect traces of dark matter.

Interests
  • 3D Deep Learning
  • Text-to-3D synthesis
  • Human body modelling
Education
  • MSc in Computer Science, 08/2024

    University of Bonn, Germany

  • BSc in Physics, 06/2022

    Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
ETH Zurich
April 2023 – Present remote

Supervised by Dr. Danda Pani Paudel, Dr. Thomas Probst

  • Developed a NeRF-based 3D reconstruction of the human hand from 60 images; evaluated on ∼500 sequences from the Interhand3.6m dataset
  • Implemented a point-mesh distance finding algorithm on the GPU; reduced the calculation time from 5s to 0.3s compared to the CPU baseline
  • Introduced perceptual loss (LPIPS) to enhance the visual quality; improved PSNR score by 14% over MSE loss
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Moscow State University
November 2019 – February 2022 Moscow, Russia

Supervised by Prof. Sergei Popov, Prof. Roberto Turolla

  • Developed a dark matter detection model using satellite images of neutron stars; processed 3.1 TB of data collected over 4 years
  • Utilized Very Deep Super-Resolution (VDSR) network to upscale low-resolution satellite images; improved SSIM metric by 11% over the baseline bicubic interpolation
  • Implemented a background subtraction model based on the R-CNN network; achieved a 3x speedup compared to the GrabCut algorithm

Additional Experience

Teaching assistant, Moscow State University
• Instructed groups of 20 undergraduates in the “Programming and Computer Science” course; average grades 4.7 out of 5.0
Scholarship for outstanding students, Moscow State University
• Awarded to top 5% of all students
Moscow Informatics Olympiad
• 3rd place out of 70+ teams