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Philippe Weinzaepfel is a computer vision researcher whose work spans dense correspondence, human pose estimation, hand-object interaction, and robotic grasping. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contribution to image matching through "DeepMatching: Hierarchical Deformable Dense Matching" (2016), a highly influential method that has accumulated over 270 citations and remains a cornerstone reference in optical flow and correspondence estimation. Weinzaepfel's more recent research reflects a broadening ambition: he has pushed the boundaries of 3D human body modeling with transformer-based approaches, notably PoseBERT, which addresses the challenge of temporal pose estimation without relying on expensive annotated video data. His work on PoseFix further demonstrates a creative interdisciplinary reach, combining natural language processing with 3D pose correction to enable applications in coaching and physical therapy. His SHOWMe dataset and reconstruction framework tackle the underexplored problem of hand-object interaction in unconstrained settings, providing the community with valuable benchmarks. Complementing this, his investigations into multi-finger robotic grasping bridge human motion understanding and robotics. Across these diverse contributions, Weinzaepfel has established himself as a versatile researcher consistently advancing the intersection of 3D vision, human motion analysis, and embodied intelligence.