Hi, I’m Philine.
I make things move.

About

I am a doctoral student at the Computer Graphics Lab at ETH Zurich supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Gross, Prof. Dr. Barbara Solenthaler, and Dr. Rafael Wampfler. My research bridges computer graphics and deep learning where I work on multimodal sequence models for data-driven character animation. I am particularly interested in developing robust methods that enable artistic control. Prior to my PhD, I completed my Bachelor's and Master's degree in computer science at RWTH Aachen University and EPFL.

Latest

News

December 2025

December 2025

Our paper "PhonemeNet" received theBest Paper Honorable Mentionaward at MIG.

November 2025

November 2025

We show-cased Digital Einstein at GITEX Global 2025!

August 2025

August 2025

Our systems paper on Digital Einstein is being presented at SIGGRAPH!

December 2024

December 2024

We are in Tokyo at SIGGRAPH ASIA presenting Digital Einstein as part of the Emerging Technologies.

November 2024

November 2024

Our paper EmoSpaceTime is being presented at MIG in Arlington this week.

Latest

Publications

PhonemeNet: A Transformer Pipeline for Text-Driven Facial Animation

Philine Witzig, Barbara Solenthaler, Markus Gross, Rafael Wampfler

ACM SIGGRAPH MIG, 2025

Paper Video Supplemental Material

A Platform for Interactive AI Character Experiences

Rafael Wampfler, Chen Yang, Dillon Elste, Nikola Kovacevic, Philine Witzig, Markus Gross

ACM SIGGRAPH, 2025

Paper Video Supplemental Material

EmoSpaceTime: Decoupling Emotion and Content through Contrastive Learning for Expressive 3D Speech Animation

Philine Witzig, Barbara Solenthaler, Markus Gross, Rafael Wampfler

ACM SIGGRAPH MIG, 2024

Paper Video Supplemental Material

Multimodal Dialog Act Classification for Digital Character Conversations

Philine Witzig, Rares Constantin, Nikola Kovacevic, Rafael Wampfler

ACM CUI, 2024

Open-Set Person Re-Identification Through Error Resilient Recurring Gallery Building

Philine Witzig, Evgeniy Upenik, Touradj Ebrahimi

IEEE ICIP, 2021

Smile Intensity Detection in Multiparty Interaction using Deep Learning

Philine Witzig, James Kennedy, Cristina Segalin

IEEE ACIIW, 2019

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