Head

Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Mohamed Elgharib	Vladislav Golyanik	Kripasindhu Sarkar
Lingjie Liu	Mengyu Chu

Ph.D. Students

Ayush Tewari	Marc Habermann	Ikhsanul Habibie
Jiayi Wang	Edgar Tretschk	Mallikarjun B R
Gereon Fox	Soshi Shimada	Jian Wang
Yue Jiang	Viktor Rudnev

Research Engineer

Oleksandr Sotnychenko

Current visitors / guest researchers

Jae Shin Yoon

Current and former Master/Diplom/Bachelor Students and Supervised Theses

Mohit Mendiratta Egocentric Videoconferencing

Jalees Nehvi Differentiable Event Stream Simulator for Non-Rigid Objects (2021)

Vikramjit Sidhu Neural Dense Non-Rigid Structure from Motion with Latent Space Constraints (2020)

Tarun Yenamandra i3DMM: Deep Implicit Morphable 3D Head Model (2020).

Hyoseung Kang Semidefinite Programming in Computer Vision with Lower-Rank Factorization (2019).

Zeeshan Khan Suri A Low-Dimensional Deformation Model for Non-Rigid Shape Matching (2019).

Chitra Singh Combined 3D Eye and Face Reconstruction using Monocular RGB Images (2019).

Hossein Hajipour Weakly-supervised Surface Reconstruction Using Floating Radial Basis Functions (2018).

Mohammad Shafiei Live Global Intrinsic Video (2018).

Marc Habermann: Template-based 3D reconstruction of non-rigid surfaces from 4K RGB video (2017).

Jianan Ma (co-advisor; main advisor Klaus Fischer (DFKI)): Real-time Character Control.

Max Augustin: Data-Parallel Shading-based Refinement (2016).

Franziska Mueller: Real-time Hand Tracking (2015).

Mandana Eghbali: High-Quality facial performance capture with a Kinect camera (2013).

Daniyar Kurmankhoyayev (MPI Informatics/Saarland Univ.): Monocular pose capture with depth cameras using a Sums-of-Gaussians body model (2013).

Hamid Sarmadi (KTH Stockholm/MPI Informatics): Part detection for video-based motion capture (2013).

Elham Afsari Yeganeh (MPI Informatics/Saarland Univ.): Motion alignment of videos captured with a Kinect (2013).

Nadia Robertini (MPI Informatics/Saarland Univ.): Data-driven modeling with depth cameras (2013).

Ebad Pirmoradian (MPI Informatics/Saarland Univ.): Monocular performance capture via ToF cameras (2011).

Martin Simonowski: Hand Shape Recognition using a Time-of-Flight Camera: An Application to Sign Language (2011).

Alexander Martens: Data-driven Cloth Animation (2011).

Sebastian Schuon (TU Munich, MPI Informatics and Stanford University): Resolution Enhancement for 3D Time-of-Flight Cameras (2010).

Derek Chan (Stanford University): Real-time Upsampling of of Depth Camera Images (2009).

Sergey Levine (Stanford University): Body Language Animation Synthesis from Prosody (2009).

Jens Kerber: Cross-platform Adaptation of a Free-Viewpoint Viedeo Viewer (2004).

Edilson de Aguiar: Character Animation from a Motion Capture Database (2003).

Research Immersion Lab

Research Assistants (HiWis)

Former Ph.D. Students

Franziska Mueller, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2020 - thesis: Real-time 3D Hand Reconstruction in Challenging Scenes from a Single Color or Depth Camera), now at Google. Dushyant Mehta, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2020 - thesis: Real-time 3D Human Body Pose Estimation from Monocular RGB Input), now at Qualcomm. Abhimitra Meka, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2020 - thesis: Live Inverse Rendering), now at Google. Hyeongwoo Kim, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2019 - thesis: Learning-based Face Reconstruction and Editing), now at Google Nadia Robertini, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2019 - thesis: Model-based Human Performance Capture in Outdoor Scenes), now at Image Technologies Gmbh. Pablo Garrido, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2017 - thesis: High-quality face capture, animation and editing from monocular video), postdioc at Technicolor, now Researcher at EPIC Research. Srinath Sridhar, Co-supervised with Antti Oulasvirta, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2016 - thesis: Tracking Hands in Action for Gesture-based Computer Input), postdoc at Stanford University, starting as Assistant Professor at Brown University (Fall 2020). Helge Rhodin, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2016 - thesis: From motion capture to interactive virtual worlds), postdoc at EPFL, now assistant professor at the Univ. of British Columbia Ahmed Elhayek, PhD in GVV group (graduated 2015 - thesis: Marker-less motion capture in general scenes with sparse multi-camera setups), postdoc at DFKI, now asst. professor at University of Prince Mugrin, Saudia Arabia Chenglei Wu, PhD student GVV group (graduated 2014 - thesis: Inverse Rendering for Scene Reconstruction in General Environments), postoc at ETH Zurich , now researcher at Facebook Reality Labs Pittsburgh Miguel Granados, PhD student in GVV group (graduated 2013 - thesis: Advanced Editing Methods for Image and Video Sequences), postdoc in GVV group 2014, now at Magicleap Thomas Helten, PhD student in GVV group (co-advised with Meinard Mueller, graduated 2013 - thesis: Processing and Tracking Human Motions Using Optical, Inertial, and Depth Sensors), now at Pixargus / GoalControl Mohammed Shaheen (co-advised with Robert Strzodka, graduated 2013 - thesis: Cache based Optimization of Stencil Computations An Algorithmic Approach), now at IBM Andreas Baak (co-advised wth Meinard Mueller, graduated 2012 - thesis: Retrieval-based Approaches for Tracking and Reconstructing Human Motions), now at BMW Gernot Ziegler (MPII) - PhD at MPII (graduated 2010 - thesis: GPU Data Structures for Graphics and Vision), now at Nvidia Carsten Stoll, PhD at MPII (graduated 2009 - thesis: Template Based Shape Processing,), formerly senior researcher in MPC-VCC, researcher at Weta Digital, co-founder of theCaptury, now at Oculus Research Naveed Ahmed (MPII) - PhD at MPII (graduated 2009 - thesis: High-quality Dynamic Reflectance and Surface Reconstruction from Video), now professor at University of Sharjah, UAE Edilson de Aguiar (MPII) - PhD at MPII (graduated 2008 - thesis: Animation and Performance Capture Using Digitized Models), formerly Disney Research Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University - Assistant Professor, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

Alumni

Florian Bernard, postdoc in GVV group (2017-2020), now Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich. Weipeng Xu, postdoc in GVV group (2016-2019), now research scientist at Facebook Reality Labs. Lan Xu, visiting PhD student from HKUST / Tsinghua University (one year, 2018-2019) Yuxiao Zhou, visiting Bachelor student from Tsingua University, Bachelor thesis in GVV group (Feb-June 2019) Lingjie Liu, visiting PhD student from University of Hong Kong (2018), now postdoc in GVV group Michael Zollhöfer, postdoc in GVV group (2015-2017), now research scientist at Facebook Reality Labs. Maxim Maximov, Research Immersion Lab student in GVV group (2016-2017) Avishek Chatterjee, postdoc in GVV group (2016-2017), now Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Dan Casas, postdoc in GVV group (2015-2016), now Asst. Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid Christian Richardt, postdoc in GVV group (2014-2016), now lecturer at University of Bath Levi Valgaerts, postdoc in GVV group (2011-2015), now at Apple, CH Hamid Sarmadi, one year stay (2014) as researcher in GVV group Nils Hasler, postdoc in GVV group, now CEO of the Captury Michal Richter, research assistant in GVV group, now at the Captury Kwang In Kim, postdoc in GVV group (2010-2013), formerly lecturer at Lancaster University, Senior Lecturer at University of Bath, now Professor at UNIST South Korea James Tompkin, postdoc in GVV group (2012-2014), now Assistant Professor at Brown University, USA Brojeshwar Bhowmick: visiting PhD student from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi Kiran Varanasi: postdoc in GVV group, later at Technicolor R&D and DFKI, now professor at HTW Leipzig Rajvi Shah: visiting PhD student from Center for Visual Information Technology, IIIT Hyderabad Thomas Neumann: visiting PhD student from HTW Dresden / TU Braunschweig Gaurav Bharaj - Research Engineer 7/2010-8/2012, now PhD student at Harvard Guannan Li - visiting PhD student (7/2011-1/2012) from Tsinghua University Yebin Liu (MPII) - postdoc in GVV, now associate professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing James Tompkin, visiting PhD student from University College London (2010 / 2011) Dina Khattab - visiting PhD student from IIIT Hyderabad, 2010 Yan Cui - Hiwi 2009 - now at DFKI Feng Xu visiting PhD student from Tsinghua University Beijing (2010/2011), now assistant professor at Tsinghua University Savil Srivastava (Stanford) - Bachelor student Young Min Kim (Stanford) Derek Chan, MSc student, Stanford, now at Amazon Varun Ganapathi, PhD student, Stanford, now at Google Sebastian Schuon (Stanford), MSc student, Stanford, co-founder of Stylight

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