🔥🏆Heat Kernel Textures (HKTex) received the Best Paper Award at #ECCV2026. 🏆🔥

UV-mapping anchors 3D texturing to the past. Inspired by 3DGS, we rethink textures using heat kernels and NO splatting!

circle-group.github.io/research/HeatK…

Still very excited to receive the #ECCV2026 Best Paper Award for Heat Kernel Textures: the Geodesic Gaussians That Do Not Splat [circle-group.github.io/research/HeatK…], along with @simo_foti, @CanerKorkmaz0 and Stefanos Zafeiriou. See Simone's post below for a detailed break-down.

Huge thanks to the team for making this happen: @CanerKorkmaz0, Stefanos Zafeiriou, and @tolga_birdal. 🤝

📄 ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2609.07557
💻 Code: github.com/circle-group/h…
🌐 Project Page: circle-group.github.io/research/HeatK…

#ECCV #CVPR #CVML #AI #Graphics #ML #PyTorch
#3DGS

Huge thanks also to @eccvconf for the Best Paper Award! 🏆

"For its neat and novel contribution to surface texture representation... The panel noted the elegant solution and its broad potential beyond the paper."

#ECCV2026 Best Paper Awards 🏆

Huge thanks to the team for making this happen: @CanerKorkmaz0, Stefanos Zafeiriou, and @tolga_birdal. 🤝

📄 ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2609.07557
💻 Code: github.com/circle-group/h…
🌐 Project Page: circle-group.github.io/research/HeatK…

#ECCV #CVPR #CVML #AI #Graphics #ML #PyTorch

Huge thanks also to @eccvconf for the Best Paper Award! 🏆

"For its neat and novel contribution to surface texture representation... The panel noted the elegant solution and its broad potential beyond the paper."

We couldn't be more thrilled! 🎉

#ECCV2026 best paper awards