publications

2026

1. arXiv

   

   Beauty is in the AI of the beholder: MLLMs systematically overrate facial attractiveness

   Santiago Grandas, Juan Sebastian Cely-Acosta, Mohit Mendiratta, Shafee Hassan, and Macken Murphy

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.02512, 2026

   arXiv Bib Video

   @article{grandas2026beauty,
     title = {Beauty is in the AI of the beholder: MLLMs systematically overrate facial attractiveness},
     author = {Grandas, Santiago and Cely-Acosta, Juan Sebastian and Mendiratta, Mohit and Hassan, Shafee and Murphy, Macken},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.02512},
     year = {2026},
   }

2. ECCV

   

   EmoteGPT: 3D Human Facial Expressions from Natural Language Descriptions

   Haoran Wang, Mohit Mendiratta, Christian Theobalt, and Adam Kortylewski

   In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML Video Code

   @inproceedings{wang2026emotegpt,
     title = {EmoteGPT: 3D Human Facial Expressions from Natural Language Descriptions},
     author = {Wang, Haoran and Mendiratta, Mohit and Theobalt, Christian and Kortylewski, Adam},
     booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
     year = {2026},
   }

3. 3DV

   

   GRMM: Real-Time High-Fidelity Gaussian Morphable Head Model with Learned Residuals

   Mohit Mendiratta, Mayur Deshmukh, Kartik Teotia, Vladislav Golyanik, Adam Kortylewski, and Christian Theobalt

   In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{mendiratta2026grmm,
     title = {GRMM: Real-Time High-Fidelity Gaussian Morphable Head Model with Learned Residuals},
     author = {Mendiratta, Mohit and Deshmukh, Mayur and Teotia, Kartik and Golyanik, Vladislav and Kortylewski, Adam and Theobalt, Christian},
     booktitle = {International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. SIGGRAPH Asia

   

   Audio-Driven Universal Gaussian Head Avatars

   Kartik Teotia, Helge Rhodin, Mohit Mendiratta, Hyeongwoo Kim, Marc Habermann, and Christian Theobalt

   In SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, 2025

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{teotia2025unigaha,
     title = {Audio-Driven Universal Gaussian Head Avatars},
     author = {Teotia, Kartik and Rhodin, Helge and Mendiratta, Mohit and Kim, Hyeongwoo and Habermann, Marc and Theobalt, Christian},
     booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. CVPR

   

   Zero-Shot Video Semantic Segmentation based on Pre-Trained Diffusion Models

   Qian Wang, Abdelrahman Eldesokey, Mohit Mendiratta, Fangneng Zhan, Adam Kortylewski, Christian Theobalt, and 1 more author

   In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{wang2025zeroshotvss,
     title = {Zero-Shot Video Semantic Segmentation based on Pre-Trained Diffusion Models},
     author = {Wang, Qian and Eldesokey, Abdelrahman and Mendiratta, Mohit and Zhan, Fangneng and Kortylewski, Adam and Theobalt, Christian and Wonka, Peter},
     booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. 3DV

   

   TEDRA: Text-Based Editing of Dynamic and Photoreal Actors

   Basavaraj Sunagad, Heming Zhu^*, Mohit Mendiratta^*, Adam Kortylewski, Christian Theobalt, and Marc Habermann

   In International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{sunagad2025tedra,
     title = {TEDRA: Text-Based Editing of Dynamic and Photoreal Actors},
     author = {Sunagad, Basavaraj and Zhu, Heming and Mendiratta, Mohit and Kortylewski, Adam and Theobalt, Christian and Habermann, Marc},
     booktitle = {International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)},
     pages = {1451--1461},
     year = {2025},
   }

2023

1. SIGGRAPH Asia

   

   AvatarStudio: Text-driven Editing of 3D Dynamic Human Head Avatars

   Mohit Mendiratta, Xingang Pan^*, Mohamed Elgharib^*, Kartik Teotia, Mallikarjun B R, Ayush Tewari, and 3 more authors

   ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2023

   DOI arXiv Bib HTML Video

   @article{mendiratta2023avatarstudio,
     title = {AvatarStudio: Text-driven Editing of 3D Dynamic Human Head Avatars},
     author = {Mendiratta, Mohit and Pan, Xingang and Elgharib, Mohamed and Teotia, Kartik and B R, Mallikarjun and Tewari, Ayush and Golyanik, Vladislav and Kortylewski, Adam and Theobalt, Christian},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia)},
     volume = {42},
     number = {6},
     articleno = {226},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1145/3618368},
   }

2020

1. SIGGRAPH Asia

   

   Egocentric Videoconferencing

   Mohamed Elgharib^*, Mohit Mendiratta^*, Justus Thies, Matthias Nießner, Hans-Peter Seidel, Ayush Tewari, and 2 more authors

   ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020

   arXiv Bib HTML PDF Supp Video

   @article{elgharib2020egochat,
     title = {Egocentric Videoconferencing},
     author = {Elgharib, Mohamed and Mendiratta, Mohit and Thies, Justus and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias and Seidel, Hans-Peter and Tewari, Ayush and Golyanik, Vladislav and Theobalt, Christian},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia)},
     volume = {39},
     number = {6},
     articleno = {268},
     year = {2020},
   }