Posts by somieski

Aykut, Tamay

Researcher Aykut, Tamay Name of Research Group: Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Homepage Research Group: www.tamay-aykut.com Personal Homepage: www.tamay-aykut.com Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Bernd Girod Research Mission: The VCAI group is involved in cutting-edge research for visual computing by means of artificial intelligence. A key priority is to promote visual realism in remote reality/ telepresence applications to the human user. 3D impression is achieved by providing omnidirectional (360°) stereo vision. The user is thereby...

Babaei, Vahid

Researcher Babaei, Vahid +49 681 302 70761 Name of Research Group: Artificial Intelligence aided Design and Fabrication Homepage Research Group: aidam.mpi-inf.mpg.de/?view=home Personal Homepage: aidam.mpi-inf.mpg.de/?view=people_vahid Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Research Mission: The Computation, Appearance and Manufacturing group focuses on inventing new computational tools that release the full potential of advanced manufacturing processes, such as additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing). With the immense growth of the manufacturing...

Zollhöfer, Michael

Researcher Dr. Michael Zollhöfer Visual Computing, Deep Learning and Optimization Name of Research Group: Visual Computing, Deep Learning and Optimization Homepage Research Group: web.stanford.edu/~zollhoef Personal Homepage: zollhoefer.com Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Pat Hanrahan Research Mission: The primary focus of my research is to teach computers to reconstruct and analyze our world at frame rate based on visual input. The extracted knowledge is the foundation for a broad range of applications not only in visual effects, computer animation,...

November 2015: Annual Review Meeting in Saarbrücken

Scientific Advisory Board, mentors, and researchers at the Annual Review Meeting, 05 November 2015, at the MPI-INF in Saarbrücken.

Steinberger, Markus

Researcher Markus Steinberger GPU Scheduling and Parallel Computing Name of Research Group: GPU Scheduling and Parallel Computing Personal Homepage: www.markussteinberger.net/ Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Research Mission: While Moore’s Law continues, increases in clock speed have been stagnant due to physical obstacles. Thus, hardware and software have turned towards parallelism as an answer to keep up with the ever growing demand for more compute power. The probably highest degree of parallelism within a single chip is found on the modern graphics processing unit (GPU)....

Pirk, Sören

Researcher Sören Pirk Geometric Modelling Name of Research Group: Geometric Modelling Personal Homepage: www.pirk.info Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Leonidas Guibas Research Mission: Geometric modeling is one of the fundamental areas of research in Computer Graphics. While this field has dramatically evolved since the very beginning, capturing and modeling geometric descriptions of everyday objects still pose interesting and challenging questions. Modeling the geometry of an object by hand is an elaborate task that easily requires hours of manual...

Chen, Renjie

Researcher Dr. Renjie Chen Images and Geometry Name of Research Group: Images and Geometry Personal Homepage: staff.ustc.edu.cn/~renjiec/ Research Mission: As its core mission, computer graphics endeavors to deliver natural-looking and convincing graphic contents, such as images, videos and 3D models for various applications, including design, entertainment, education, simulation, etc. In many cases, “natural-looking” can be interpreted as low distortion with respect to some reference. Depending on the application, the distortion can be measured as the amount of feature stretching,...

Demberg, Vera

Researcher Vera Demberg Cognitive Models of Human Language Processing and their Application to Dialogue Systems Research Mission: My research interests are centered on computational models of human language processing. Within the cluster, Vera plans to investigate how discourse cues can be used to make text easier to understand for humans, and particularly focuses on integrating results from psycholinguistic research with text planning and generation in human-computer interaction systems. Since summer 2016 I hold the Chair of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at Saarland...

Steimle, Jürgen

Researcher Jürgen Steimle Embodied Interaction Name of Research Group: Embodied Interaction Personal Homepage: hci.cs.uni-saarland.de/people/juergen-steimle/ Research Mission: My research interests are centered on how computer interfaces can be integrated more seamlessly with the physical world, in order to enable more effective, expressive and engaging interactions. In his current work, he is investigating embedded and wearable user interfaces as well as printed electronics as a means for fabricating personalized user interfaces. Interactive surfaces, tabletops and walls Spatial and...

Eisemann, Elmar

Researcher Elmar Eisemann Computer Graphics and Visualization Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Research Mission: real-time and perceptual rendering alternative representations visibility image processing vision content creation visualization No record was...

Lakshman, Haricharan

Researcher Lakshman, Haricharan Immersive Video Name of Research Group: Immersive Video Personal Homepage: harrycharan.gitlab.io/ Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Bernd Girod Research Mission: The goal of our research group is to create systems for life-like video experience. In particular, we focus on novel video processing algorithms for (a) capture & postproduction, (b) compression & delivery, and (c) rendering stages of an immersive video pipeline. In the content creation stage, we investigate various aspects in producing omnidirectional...

Michels, Dominik

Researcher Michels, Dominik High Fidelity Algorithmics Group Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Ron Fedkiw Research Mission: Simulating natural phenomena—like molecular processes, slender object interaction, and nonlinear material behavior—accurately is challenging since the mathematical equations are difficult to handle and the solution quality is heavily dependent on properties of the underlying geometry. We develop high fidelity algorithms for the efficient physically-accurate simulation of natural phenomena and technical procedures as well as for visual...

Annual Review Meeting at Stanford, February 2014

The Advisory Board and Researchers at the Annual Review Meeting on February 11, 2014 at Stanford University.

Andriluka, Mykhaylo

Researcher Mykhaylo Andriluka People Detection and Tracking Name of Research Group: People Detection and Tracking Personal Homepage: ai.google/research/people/MykhayloAndriluka Mentor Saarbrücken: Bernt Schiele Mentor Stanford: Andrew Ng Research Mission: People detection, tracking, pose estimation and activity recognition in images and video are important and challenging tasks with many practical applications. The goal of my research is to develop solutions for these tasks that are applicable in challenging real-world conditions such as onboard footage from moving vehicles,...

Niessner, Matthias

Researcher Matthias Niessner Semantics and Geometry Name of Research Group: Semantics and Geometry Personal Homepage: niessnerlab.org/members/matthias_niessner/profile.html Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Pat Hanrahan Research Mission: My research is devoted to the exciting area of automated content creation. That includes the generation of three-dimensional scene environments from the real-world for live and offline reconstruction scenarios. Beyond static geometry and material retrieval, there are even greater challenges such as interactive performance...

Li, Yangyan

Researcher Li, Yangyan Semantic Reconstruction from Point Cloud Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Leo Guibas Research Mission: Point cloud data is a very important source for reconstructing the 3D geometry of underlying objects. Recent advances in 3D scanner technology opened the door to easy acquisition and access of point cloud data for the masses, where not only the geometry recovery, but also the semantic reconstruction, are critical for serving applications in various domains. We are interesting in semantic reconstruction from point cloud. We argue...

Hullin, Matthias

Researcher Matthias Hullin Computational Transient Imaging Name of Research Group: Computational Transient Imaging Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Research Mission: A major challenge in computer vision stems from the fact that visual data is highly ambiguous: given any two-dimensional image, there are infinitely many possible hypotheses of real-world scenes that would explain what we see. For the most part, this ambiguity can be traced back to the very mechanism of image capture: every pixel value of our camera is an integral of the so-called plenoptic function over space...

Wuhrer, Stefanie

Researcher Stefanie Wuhrer Non-Rigid Shape Analysis Name of Research Group: Non-Rigid Shape Analysis Personal Homepage: morpheo.inrialpes.fr/~wuhrer/ Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Research Mission: Shape analysis aims to describe either a single shape or a population of shapes in an efficient and informative way. This is a key problem in various applications, such as mesh deformation and animation, object recognition, and mesh parameterization. In order to analyze a population of shapes, intrinsic correspondence information between the shapes is required. This group’s work...

Hildebrandt, Klaus

Researcher Klaus Hildebrandt Applies Geometry Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Research Mission: Advances in scanning and sensing technologies within the last decade have enabled the creation of complex digital models from real-world objects. The field of geometry processing concerns the representation, analysis, manipulation, and optimization of the resulting geometric data. The findings in this field are of importance for many industrial applications, for example in the automotive industry and architecture. Fundamental to geometry processing is an understanding of geometric...

Angst, Roland

Researcher Roland Angst Vision, Geometry, and Computational Perception Name of Research Group: Vision, Geometry, and Computational Perception Personal Homepage: rangst.github.io/#/home Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Bernd Girod and Leonidas Guibas Research Mission: Teaching a machine what it ‘sees’ has been a long-standing goal in computer vision which is not surprising since such 3D scene understanding algorithms would have a tremendous value for applications. For example, robots (including vehicles such as cars) could interact autonomously and...

Karrenbauer, Andreas

Researcher Karrenbauer, Andreas Discrete Optimization Name of Research Group: Discret Optimization Homepage Research Group: www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~karrenba/ Mentor Saarbrücken: Kurt Mehlhorn Research Mission: Discrete Optimization problems are ubiquitous. Whenever there is a choice between several possibilities, there is an inherent optimization problem. Our core competence in this area is to recognize such optimization problems, to establish mathematical models, to tackle them by state-of-the-art methods, and to invent new techniques to obtain satisfactory results. Our research is...

Review Meeting at Saarbrücken, November 2012

Cover Image of next Informatik Spektrum by MPC-VCC Group

  Calibrated Image Appearance Reproduction We are currently surrounded by displays in both our work and living environment – from TVs to laptop monitors and from mobile phones to cinema projectors. Each display though is typically placed in a different environment and has different characteristics. How do we then ensure that a movie or photograph looks the same irrespective of display and environment? This problem is made particularly hard with the advent of high dynamic range imaging technologies as they allow the capture and display of images with a much wider range between dark...

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Reinhard, Erik

Researcher Erik Reinhard Color Image Processing Name of Research Group: Color Image Processing Personal Homepage: www.erikreinhard.com/index.html Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Research Mission: Most images and videos are capture, stored, manipulated and displayed with limited fidelity and accuracy. Capture devices typically produce data that is limited and quantised in time, space, gamut and dynamic range. Subsequently, nearly all processing, transmission and display is achieved with limited fidelity. As a result, effective communication by means of visual media is...

Vajda, Péter

Researcher Peter Vajda Personalized TeleVision News Name of Research Group: Personalized TeleVision News Personal Homepage: www.linkedin.com/in/p%C3%A9ter-vajda-9a03aaa Mentor Saarbrücken: Hans-Peter Seidel Mentor Stanford: Bernd Girod Research Mission: We seek to develop and demonstrate a platform for personalized television news to replace the traditional one-broadcast-fits-all model. We forecast that next-generation video news consumption will be more personalized, device agnostic, and pooled from many different information sources. The technology for our research...

Kerber, Michael

Researcher Michael Kerber Topological and Geometric Computing Mentor Saarbrücken: Kurt Mehlhorn Mentor Stanford: Leonidas Guibas Research Mission: Past years have witnessed a growing demand for generally applicable methods to detect and quantify meaningful features in spatial data, for instance in two and three dimensional images or in high-dimensional point clouds. Recent developments look at such data through a topological lens: for instance, manifold reconstruction means to reveal the topological structure of a hidden manifold from a finite point sample. Another example is...