Guillermo Garcia-Hernando Research Scientist at Niantic Spatial

About

I’m a researcher at Niantic Spatial, where I focus on teaching machines to see, understand, and reason about the 3D world.

Selected publications

  • PlaceIt3D: Language-Guided Object Placement in Real 3D Scenes

    A. Abdelreheem, F. Aleotti, J. Watson, Z. Qureshi, A. Eldesokey, P. Wonka, G. Brostow, S. Vicente, G. Garcia-Hernando

    ICCV 2025

    Paper Project
  • MVSAnywhere: Zero Shot Multi-View Stereo

    S. Izquierdo, M. Sayed, M. Firman, G. Garcia-Hernando, D. Turmukhambetov, J. Civera, O. Mac Aodha, G. Brostow, J. Watson

    CVPR 2025

    Paper Project
  • HandDGP: Camera-Space Hand Mesh Prediction with Differentiable Global Positioning

    E. Valassakis and G. Garcia-Hernando

    ECCV 2024

    Paper Project
  • DoubleTake: Geometry Guided Depth Estimation

    M. Sayed, F. Aleotti, J. Watson, Z. Qureshi, G. Garcia-Hernando, G. Brostow, S. Vicente, M. Firman

    ECCV 2024

    Paper Project
  • Removing objects from neural radiance fields

    S. Weder, G. Garcia-Hernando, A. Monszpart, M. Pollefeys, G. Brostow, M. Firman, S. Vicente

    CVPR 2023

    Paper Project Dataset
  • Map-free visual relocalization: Metric pose relative to a single image

    E. Arnold, J. Wynn, S. Vicente, G. Garcia-Hernando, A. Monszpart, V. Prisacariu, D. Turmukhambetov, E. Brachmann

    ECCV 2022

    Paper Project Dataset
  • Predicting Visual Overlap of Images Through Interpretable Non-Metric Box Embeddings

    A. Rau, G. Garcia-Hernando, D. Stoyanov, G. Brostow and D. Turmukhambetov.

    ECCV 2020 (spotlight)

    Paper Project
  • Physics-Based Dexterous Manipulations with Estimated Hand Poses and Residual Reinforcement Learning

    G. Garcia-Hernando, E. Johns and T-K. Kim.

    IROS 2020

    Paper Project
  • First-Person Hand Action Benchmark with RGB-D Videos and 3D Hand Pose Annotations

    G. Garcia-Hernando, S. Yuan, S. Baek and T-K. Kim.

    CVPR 2018

    Paper Project Dataset
  • Transition Forests: Learning Discriminative Temporal Transitions for Action Recognition and Detection

    G. Garcia-Hernando and T-K. Kim.

    CVPR 2017

    Paper