Tarun Yenamandra

PhD candidate at TU Munich (advised by Prof. Daniel Cremers), specializing in the intersection of Generative AI and 3D/4D Computer Vision. My research bridges 3D geometry with conditional generation — from implicit morphable models and single-pass SDF rendering to learning-free sparse-view reconstruction. Previously Research Scientist Intern at Meta Reality Labs Research (diffusion-based scene editing, dynamic 3DGS).

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News

  • Jun 2026 — VisDom preprint on arXiv
  • Jul–Dec 2025 — Research Scientist Intern at Meta Reality Labs Research (work in submission)

Selected Papers

My interests are at the intersection of generative AI and 3D/4D computer vision — specifically conditional generation with multi-view consistency, neural scene representations (NeRF, 3DGS), and sparse-view reconstruction. Full list on Google Scholar.

VisDom
VisDom: Sparse Novel View Synthesis with Visible Domain Constraint
Mariia Gladkova*, Tarun Yenamandra*, Edmond Boyer, Robert Maier, Tony Tung, Daniel Cremers
arXiv, 2026  (*equal contribution)

A learning-free, plug-and-play visible domain constraint for sparse novel view synthesis that eliminates geometric ambiguity from limited viewpoints.

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FIRe
FIRe: Fast Inverse Rendering using Directional and Signed Distance Functions
Tarun Yenamandra, Ayush Tewari, Nan Yang, Florian Bernard, Christian Theobalt, Daniel Cremers
WACV, 2024

Directional and signed-distance function based renderer that enables fast inverse rendering.

webpage  /  arXiv  /  code
i3DMM
i3DMM: Deep Implicit 3D Morphable Model of Human Heads
Tarun Yenamandra, Ayush Tewari, Florian Bernard, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Daniel Cremers, Christian Theobalt
CVPR, 2021 (Oral)

Template-free implicit model for full human heads including hairstyle using signed distance fields.

webpage  /  arXiv  /  code
Convex IK
Convex Optimisation for Inverse Kinematics
Tarun Yenamandra, Florian Bernard, Jiayi Wang, Franziska Mueller, Christian Theobalt
3DV, 2019 (Oral)

Modeling inverse kinematics as a semidefinite program to relax non-convex terms and remove initialization dependence.

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