The Perceiving Systems Department is a leading Computer Vision group in Germany.

We are part of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen — the heart of Cyber Valley.

We use Machine Learning to train computers to recover human behavior in fine detail, including face and hand movement. We also recover the 3D structure of the world, its motion, and the objects in it to understand how humans interact with 3D scenes.

By capturing human motion, and modeling behavior, we contibute realistic avatars to Computer Graphics.

To have an impact beyond academia we develop applications in medicine and psychology, spin off companies, and license technology. We make most of our code and data available to the research community.