I am a PhD student in the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, advised by Christian Theobalt.
My research focuses on contact-aware 3D perception for dexterous manipulation. I build physically grounded reconstruction methods and visual-tactile representations that recover pose, geometry, and contact from human hand-object interactions, with the goal of turning human interaction data into useful signals for robot learning.
@article{aytekin2026grasp,
title={Grasp in Gaussians: Fast Monocular Reconstruction of Dynamic Hand--Object Interactions},
author={Aytekin, Ayce Idil and Chen, Xu and Shen, Zhengyang and Beeler, Thabo and Rhodin, Helge and Dabral, Rishabh and Theobalt, Christian},
year={2026}
}
@inproceedings{aytekin2026follow,
title={Follow My Hold: Hand-Object Interaction Reconstruction through Geometric Guidance},
author={Aytekin, Ayce Idil and Rhodin, Helge and Dabral, Rishabh and Theobalt, Christian},
booktitle={International Conference on 3D Vision},
year={2026}
}
@inproceedings{aytekin2025physics,
title={Physics-based Human Pose Estimation from a Single Moving RGB Camera},
author={Aytekin, Ayce Idil and Li, Chuqiao and Luvizon, Diogo and Dabral, Rishabh and Oswald, Martin and Habermann, Marc and Theobalt, Christian},
booktitle={CVPR Workshops},
year={2025}
}
