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Max Planck Institute for Informatics
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SIGGRAPH and TOG papers

Journal papers (including Eurographics and SIGGRAPH papers)

Books and Book Chapters


M. A. Magnor, O. Grau, O. Sorkine-Hornung, C. Theobalt, Digital Representations of the Real World: How to Capture, Model, and Render Visual Reality, ISBN: 9781482243819 - CAT# K23451, Publisher: CRC Press, 2015.

Y. Liu, G. Ye, Y. Wang, Q. Dai, C. Theobalt, Human Performance Capture Using Multiple Handheld Kinects , ISBN: 978-3-319-08650-7 (Print) 978-3-319-08651-4 (Online), Publisher: Springer, 2014.

M. Grzegorzek, C. Theobalt, R. Koch, A. Kolb (Eds.), Time-of-Flight and Depth Imaging. Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications , ISBN: 978-3-642-44963-5 (Print) 978-3-642-44964-2 (Online), Publisher: Springer, 2013.

T. Helten, A. Baak, M. MÜller, C. Theobalt, Full-body Human Motion Capture from Monocular Depth Images , in Time-of-Flight and Depth Imaging, ISBN 978-3-642-44963-5; 978-3-642-44964-2, Publisher: Springer, 2013.

K. Fatahalian, C. Theobalt, J. Lehtinen, High-Performance Graphics, Anaheim, California, USA, July 19-21, 2013. Proceedings. ACM 2013, ISBN 978-1-4503-2135-8

F. Lenzen, K. I. Kim, H. Sch�fer, R. Nair, S. Meister, F. Becker, C. S. Garbe, C. Theobalt, Denoising Strategies for Time-of-Flight Data, in A State-of-the-Art Survey on Time-of-Flight and Depth Imaging: Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications, Publisher: Springer, 2013.

A. Baak, M. M�ller, G. Bharaj, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, A Data-Driven Approach for Real-Time Full Body Pose Reconstruction from a Depth Camera, in Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, A. Fossati, J. Gall, H. Grabner, X. Ren, and K. Konolige (Eds.), ISBN 978-1-4471-4639-1, Springer, 2012.

C. Theobalt, E. de Aguiar, C. Stoll, H-P. Seidel, S. Thrun, Performance Capture from Multi-view Video, in Image and Geometry Procesing for 3D-Cinematography, R. Ronfard and G. Taubin (Eds.), ISBN 978-3-642-12391-7, Springer, 2010.

C. Theobalt, E. de Aguiar, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel. Reconstructing human shape, motion and appearance from multi-view video, in Three-dimensional Television , H. Ozaktas, L. Onural (Eds.), ISBN-978-3-540-72531-2, Springer, 2008.

C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People, chapter in book Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, B. Rosenhahn, R. Klette, D. Metaxas (Eds.), ISBN 978-1402066924, Springer, 2008.

Conference papers

  • Mallikarjun B. R., A. Tewari, T-H. Oh, T. Weyrich, B. Bickel, H-P. Seidel, H. Pfister, W. Matusik, M. Elgharib and C. Theobalt
    Monocular Reconstruction of Neural Face Reflectance Fields
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
    [project page] [paper]

  • Mallikarjun B. R., A. Tewari, H-P. Seidel, M. Elgharib and C. Theobalt
    Learning Complete 3D Morphable Face Models from Images and Videos
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
    [project page] [paper]

  • Y. Zhou, M. Habermann, I. Habibie, A. Tewari, C. Theobalt and F. Xu
    Monocular Real-time Full Body Capture with Inter-part Correlations
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
    [project page] [paper] [arXiv] [supplementary] [video]

  • T. Birdal*, V. Golyanik*, C. Theobalt and L. Guibas*
    Quantum Permutation Synchronization
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
    [project page] [paper]

  • M. Kappel, V. Golyanik, M. Elgharib, J-O. Henningson,
    H-P. Seidel, S. Castillo, C. Theobalt and M. Magnor
    High-Fidelity Neural Human Motion Transfer from Monocular Video
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 (Oral)
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • J. S. Yoon, L. Liu, V. Golyanik, K. Sarkar, H. S. Park and C. Theobalt
    Pose-Guided Human Animation from a Single Image in the Wild
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
    [project page] [paper]

  • J. Nehvi, V. Golyanik, F. Mueller, H-P. Seidel, M. Elgharib and C. Theobalt
    Differentiable Event Stream Simulator for Non-Rigid 3D Tracking
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (Event-based Vision Workshop), 2021
    [project page] [paper] [arXiv] [supplementary]

  • T. Yenamandra, A. Tewari, F. Bernard, H-P. Seidel, M. Elgharib, D. Cremers and C. Theobalt
    i3DMM: Deep Implicit 3D Morphable Model of Human Heads
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 (Oral)
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • J. Wang, F. Mueller, F. Bernard and C. Theobalt
    Generative Model-Based Loss to the Rescue: A Method to Overcome Annotation Errors for Depth-Based Hand Pose Estimation
    FG 2020
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • A. Tewari*, O. Fried*, J. Thies*, V. Sitzmann*, S. Lombardi, K. Sunkavalli, R. Martin-Brualla, T. Simon, J. Saragih, M. Nie�ner, R. Pandey, S. Fanello, G. Wetzstein, J.-Y. Zhu, C. Theobalt, M. Agrawala, E. Shechtman, B. Goldman and M. Zollhöfer
    State of the Art on Neural Rendering.
    Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics STAR report), 2020
    [paper]

  • A. Bozic, M. Zollhöfer, C. Theobalt and M. Niessner
    DeepDeform: Learning Non-rigid RGB-D Reconstruction with Semi-supervised Data .
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • F. Bernard, Z. Khan Suri and C. Theobalt
    MINA: Convex Mixed-Integer Programming for Non-Rigid Shape Alignment.
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
    [paper]

  • J. Malik, I. Abdelaziz, A. Elhayek, S. Shimada, S. A. Ali, V. Golyanik, C. Theobalt and D. Stricker
    HandVoxNet: Deep Voxel-Based Network for 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single Depth Map.
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
    [paper] [supplemental]

  • V. Golyanik and C. Theobalt
    A Quantum Computational Approach to Correspondence Problems on Point Sets.
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
    [paper]

  • A. Tewari, M. Elgharib, G. Bharaj, F. Bernard, H-P. Seidel, P. Perez, M. Zollhöfer and C. Theobalt
    StyleRig: Rigging StyleGAN for 3D Control over Portrait Images
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Oral)
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • Y. Zhou, M. Habermann, W. Xu, I. Habibie, C. Theobalt and F. Xu
    Monocular Real-time Hand Shape and Motion Capture using Multi-modal Data
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • L. Xu, W. Xu, V. Golyanik, M. Habermann, L. Fang and C. Theobalt
    EventCap: Monocular 3D Capture of High-Speed Human Motions using an Event Camera
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Oral)
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • M. Habermann, W. Xu, M. Zollhöfer, G. Pons-Moll and C. Theobalt
    DeepCap: Monocular Human Performance Capture Using Weak Supervision
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Oral)
    Recipient of the CVPR 2020 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • J. Thies, M. Zollhöfer, C. Theobalt, M. Stamminger and M. Nießner
    Image-guided Neural Object Rendering
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020
    [project page] [pdf] [video]

  • V. Golyanik, A. Jonas, D. Stricker and C. Theobalt
    Intrinsic Dynamic Shape Prior for Dense Non-Rigid Structure from Motion
    3DV, 2020
    [project page] [paper]

  • A. Bojja, F. Mueller, S. Malireddi, M. Oberweger, V. Lepetit, C. Theobalt, K. Yi and A. Tagliasacchi
    HandSeg: An Automatically Labeled Dataset for Hand Segmentation from Depth Images
    Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2019
    [project page] [paper]

  • V. Golyanik and C. Theobalt
    Optimising for Scale in Globally Multiply-Linked Gravitational Point Set Registration Leads to Singularities.
    International Conference on 3DVision (3DV), 2019
    [paper] [supplemental]

  • S. Shimada V. Golyanik, E. Tretschk, D. Stricker and C. Theobalt
    DispVoxNets: Non-Rigid Point Set Alignment with Supervised Learning Proxies
    International Conference on 3DVision (3DV), 2019
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • T. Yenamandra F. Bernard, J. Thunberg, J. Wang, F. Mueller and C. Theobalt
    Convex Optimisation for Inverse Kinematics
    International Conference on 3DVision (3DV), 2019
    [paper]

  • V. Golyanik, C. Theobalt and D. Stricker
    Accelerated Gravitational Point Set Alignment with Altered Physical Laws.
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
    [paper] [supplemental]

  • F. Bernard J. Thunberg, P. Swoboda and C. Theobalt
    HiPPI: Higher-Order Projected Power Iterations for Scalable Multi-Matching
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
    [paper]

  • B. Bhatnagar, G. Tiwari, C. Theobalt and G. Pons-Moll
    Multi-Garment Net: Learning to Dress 3D People from Images
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • T. Alldieck, G. Pons-Moll, C. Theobalt and M. Magnor
    Tex2Shape: Detailed Full Human Body Geometry from a Single Image
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
    [project page] [paper]

  • W. Xu, A. Chatterjee, M. Zollhöfer, H. Rhodin, P. Fua, H-P. Seidel and C. Theobalt
    Mo2Cap2: Real-time Mobile 3D Motion Capture with a Cap-mounted Fisheye Camera
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. IEEE VR, 2019) [project page] [paper]

  • I. Habibie, W. Xu, D. Mehta, G. Pons-Moll and C. Theobalt
    In the Wild Human Pose Estimation Using Explicit 2D Features and Intermediate 3D Representations
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019 (Oral)
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • T. Alldieck, M. Magnor, B. Bhatnagar, C. Theobalt and G. Pons-Moll
    Learning to Reconstruct People in Clothing from a Single RGB Camera
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
    [project page] [paper]

  • P. Swoboda, A. Mokarian, D. Kainmueller, C. Theobalt and F. Bernard
    A convex relaxation for multi-graph matching
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019 (Oral)
    [paper]

  • A. Tewari, F. Bernard , P. Garrido , G. Bharaj , M. Elgharib , H-P. Seidel , P. Perez , M. Zollhöfer and C.Theobalt
    FML: Face Model Learning from Videos
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019 (Oral)
    [project page] [paper] [video]

  • D. Mehta, K. I. Kim and C. Theobalt
    On Implicit Filter Level Sparsity in Convolutional Neural Networks
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
    [paper]

  • K. Sarkar, F. Bernard, K. Varanasi, C. Theobalt, D. Stricker
    Denoising of point-clouds based on structured dictionary learning
    Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP 2018 Invited Poster)
    [pdf]

  • M. Soliman, F. Mueller, L. Hegemann, J. Sol Roo, C. Theobalt and J. Steimle
    FingerInput: Capturing Expressive Single-Hand Thumb-to-Finger Microgestures for On-Skin Input, International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS), 2018 [project page] [paper]

  • M. Habermann, W. Xu, H. Rhodin, M. Zollhöfer, G. Pons-Moll and C. Theobalt
    NRST: Non-rigid Surface Tracking from Monocular Video
    German Conference on Pattern Recognition(GCPR), 2018 [project page] [paper]

  • T. Alldieck, M. Magnor, W. Xu, C. Theobalt and G. Pons-Moll
    Detailed Human Avatars from Monocular Video, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2018) [project page] [paper]

  • K. Sarkar, F. Bernard, K. Varanasi, C. Theobalt and D. Stricker
    Structured Low-Rank Matrix Factorization for Point-Cloud Denoising International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2018) [paper]

  • D. Mehta, O. Sotnychenko, F. Mueller, W. Xu, S. Sridhar, G. Pons-Moll and C. Theobalt Single-Shot Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation From Monocular RGB Inputt International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2018) [project page] [paper]

  • Q. Sun, A. Tewari, W. Xu, Mario Fritz, C. Theobalt and B. Schiele A Hybrid Model for Identity Obfuscation by Face Replacement European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018 [project page] [paper]

  • T. Alldieck, M. Magnor, W. Xu, C. Theobalt and G. Pons-Moll Video Based Reconstruction of 3D People Models Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 [project page] [pdf]

  • A. Tewari, M. Zollhöfer, P. Garrido , F. Bernard, H. Kim, P. Perez and C. Theobalt Self-supervised Multi-level Face Model Learning for Monocular Reconstruction at over 250 Hz
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 [project page] [pdf] [video]

  • J. Thunberg, F. Bernard and J. Goncalves Distributed Synchronization of Euclidean Transformations with Guaranteed Convergence
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2017) [pdf]

  • H. Kim, M. Zollhöfer, A. Tewari, J. Thies, C. Richardt and C. Theobalt InverseFaceNet: Deep Single-Shot Inverse Face Rendering From A Single Image Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 [project page] [pdf]

  • F. Bernard, C. Theobalt and Michael Moeller Tighter Lifting-Free Convex Relaxations for Quadratic Matching Problems Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 [pdf]

  • A. Meka, M. Maximov, M. Zollhöfer, A. Chatterjee, H-P. Seidel, C. Richardt and C. Theobalt LIME: Live Intrinsic Material Estimation Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 [project page] [pdf] [video]

  • F. Mueller, F. Bernard, O. Sotnychenko, D. Mehta, S. Sridhar, D. Casas and C. Theobalt GANerated Hands for Real-Time 3D Hand Tracking from Monocular RGB Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 [project page] [pdf] [video]

  • N. Robertini, F. Bernard, W. Xu and C. Theobalt Illumination-invariant Robust Multiview 3D Human Motion Capture Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2018 [project page] [pdf]

  • D. Mehta, H. Rhodin, D. Casas P. Fua, O. Sotnychenko, W. Xu, and C. Theobalt Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation In The Wild Using Improved CNN Supervision International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2017) [project page] [pdf]

  • J. Tompkin, H. Pfister, K.I. Kim and C. Theobalt Criteria Sliders: Learning Continuous Database Criteria via Interactive Ranking The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2017 [project page]

  • F. Mueller, D. Mehta, O. Sotnychenko, S. Sridhar, D. Casas and C. Theobalt Real-time Hand Tracking under Occlusion from an Egocentric RGB-D Sensor International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017 [project page] [pdf]

  • A. Tewari, M. Zollhöfer, H. Kim, P. Garrido, F. Bernard, P. Perez and C. Theobalt MoFA: Model-based Deep Convolutional Face Autoencoder for Unsupervised Monocular Reconstruction International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017 [project page] [pdf]

  • A. Meka, G. Fox, M. Zollhöfer, C. Richardt and C. Theobalt. Live User-guided Intrinsic Video For Static Scenes IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (to be presented at ISMAR 2017). [project page] [pdf]

  • S. Sridhar, A. Markussen, A. Oulasvirta, C. Theobalt and S. Boring. WatchSense: On- and Above-Skin Input Sensing through a Wearable Depth Sensor. CHI 2017. [project page] [pdf]

  • H. Kim, C. Richardt, and C. Theobalt. Video Depth-From-Defocus. 3dv 2016 [project page] [pdf]

  • N. Roberitini, D. Casas, H. Rhodin, H-P. Seidel and C. Theobalt. Model-based Outdoor Performance Capture. 3DV 2016. [project page] [pdf]

  • C. Richardt, H. Kim, L. Valgaerts, and C. Theobalt. Dense Wide-Baseline Scene Flow From Two Handheld Video Cameras. 3DV 2016 [project page] [pdf]

  • L. Thies, M. Zollhöfer, C. Richardt, C. Theobalt and G. Greiner. Real-time Halfway Domain Reconstruction of Motion and Geometry. 3DV 2016 [project page] [pdf]

  • S. Sridhar, F. Mueller, M. Zollhöfer, D. Casas, A. Oulasvirta and C. Theobalt. Real-time Joint Tracking of a Hand Manipulating an Object from RGB-D Input. ECCV 2016. (project page) (pdf)

  • H. Rhodin, N. Roberitini, D. Casas, C. Richardt H-P. Seidel and C. Theobalt. General Automatic Human Shape and Motion Capture Using Volumetric Contour Cues. ECCV 2016. (pdf)

  • M. Innmann, M. Zollhöfer, M. Nießner, C. Theobalt and M. Stamminger. VolumeDeform: Real-time Volumetric Non-rigid Reconstruction. ECCV 2016. (project page)

  • J. Thies, M. Zollhöfer, M. Stamminger, C. Theobalt and M. Nießner. Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos. Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Oral) (CVPR), 2016. (project page)

  • H. Rhodin, N. Roberitini, C. Richardt, H-P. Seidel and C. Theobalt. A Versatile Scene Model with Differentiable Visibility Applied to Generative Pose Estimation. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015. (project page)

  • K. In Kim, J. Tompkin, H. Pfister and C. Theobalt. Context-guided Diffusion for Label Propagation on Graphs. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015. (project page)

  • M. Granados, T. O. Aydın, J. R. Tena, J-F. Lalonde and C. Theobalt. HDR Image Noise Calibration for Denoising Tone Mapped Images. In European Conference on Visual Media and Production (CVMP), 2015. (PDF)

  • K. I. Kim, J. Tompkin, H. Pfister, and C. Theobalt. Local High-order Regularization on Data Manifolds. In Proc. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015. (project page)

  • K. I. Kim, J. Tompkin, H. Pfister, and C. Theobalt. Semi-supervised Learning with Explicit Relationship Regularization. In Proc. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015. (project page)

  • S. Sridhar, F. Mueller, A. Oulasvirta, and C. Theobalt. Fast and Robust Hand Tracking Using Detection-Guided Optimization. In Proc. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015. (project page)

  • A. Elhayek, E. Aguiar, A. Jain, J. Tompson, L. Pishchulin, M. Andriluka, C. Bregler, B. Schiele C. Theobalt. Efficient ConvNet-based Marker-less Motion Capture in General Scenes with a Low Number of Cameras. In Proc. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015. (project page)

  • M. Granados, T. Aydin, J. R. Tena, J.-F. Lalonde, and C. Theobalt, Contrast Use Metrics for Tone Mapping Images, To appear in IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, 2015.

  • S. Sridhar, A. M. Feit, C. Theobalt, A. Oulasvirta, Investigating the Dexterity of Multi-Finger Input for Mid-Air Text Entry, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2015. (project page)

  • S. Sridhar, H. Rhodin, H.-P. Seidel, A. Oulasvirta, C. Theobalt, Real-time Hand Tracking Using a Sum of Anisotropic Gaussians Model, Accepted at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2014. (project page)

  • N. Robertini, E. de Aguiar, T. Helten, C. Theobalt, Efficient Multi-view Performance Capture of Fine-Scale Surface Detail, Accepted at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2014.

  • F. Pece, J. Tompkin, H. Pfister, J. Kautz, C. Theobalt, Device Effect on Panoramic Video+Context Tasks, Proceedings of European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2014.

  • P. Garrido, L. Valgaerts, O. Rehmsen, T. Thormaehlen, P. Pere, C. Theobalt, Automatic Face Reenactment, Accepted at CVPR, 4217-4224 (2014). (project page)

  • N. Robertini, T. Neumann, K. Varanasi, C. Theobalt, Capture of arm muscle deformations using a depth camera, Proceedings of CVMP, 12:1--12:10 (2013). (pdf)

  • D. Kurmankhojayev, N. Hasler, C. Theobalt, Monocular Pose Capture with a Depth Camera Using a Sums-of-Gaussians Body Model, in: Pattern Recognition (DAGM/GCPR) 35, 415 - 425 (2013).

  • T. Helten, M. Müller, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, Real-time Body Tracking with One Depth Camera and Inertial Sensors, in: ICCV, 1105 - 1112 (2013).

  • S. Sridhar, A. Oulasvirta, C. Theobalt, Interactive Markerless Articulated Hand Motion Tracking using RGB and Depth Data, in: ICCV, 2456 - 2463 (2013).

  • K. I. Kim, J. Tompkin, C. Theobalt, Curvature-aware regularization on Riemannian submanifolds, in: ICCV, 881-888 (2013).

  • J. Tompkin, F. Pece, R. Shah, S. Izadi, J. Kautz, C. Theobalt, Video Collections in Panoramic Contexts , in: UIST, 131 - 140 (2013). (project page)

  • C. Rupprecht, O. Pauly, C. Theobalt, S. Ilic, 3D Semantic Parameterization for Human Shape Modeling: Application to 3D Animation, in proceedings of 3DV, 255 - 262 (2013).

  • T. Helten, A. Baak, G. Bharaj, M. M�ller, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, Personalization and Evaluation of a Real-time Depth-based Full Body Tracker , in proceedings of 3DV, 255,262 (2013). (pdf) (video)

  • T. Neumann, K. Varanasi, N. Hasler, M. Wacker, M. Magnor, C. Theobalt, Capture and statistical modeling of arm-muscle deformations, in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics) 32, 285-294 (2013). (pdf) (video)

  • G. Li, C. Wu, C. Stoll, Y. Liu, K. Varanasi, Q. Dai, C. Theobalt, Capturing Relightable Human Performances under General Uncontrolled Illumination, in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics)32, 1-8 (2013). (pdf) (video)

  • D. Wu, Y. Liu, I. Ihrke, Q. Dai, C. Theobalt , Performance Capture of High-Speed Motion Using Staggered Multi-view Recording , Pacific Graphics 31 (7), 2019 - 2028 (2012). (PDF) (Video) (Project)

  • M. Richter, K. Varanasi, N. Hasler, C. Theobalt, Real-time reshaping of humans , International Conference on 3D Imaging, Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DimPVT), 2012. (PDF) (Video)

  • Y. Kown, K. I. Kim, J.-H. Kim, C. Theobalt, Efficient learning-based image enhancement: application to super-resolution and compression artifact removal, in: BMVC, 340 - 347 (2012). (Project)

  • G. Ye, Y. Liu, N. Hasler, X. Ji, Q. Dai, C. Theobalt. Performance Capture of Interacting Characters with Handheld Kinects. in Proc. ECCV, 2012. (Paper) (Project page)

  • K. I. Kim, J. Tompkin, M. Theobald, J. Kautz, C. Theobalt, Match graph construction for large image databases, in: ECCV, 272 - 285 (2012). (PDF) (supplementary material)

  • M. Granados, K. I. Kim, J. Tompkin, J. Kautz, C. Theobalt, Background inpainting for videos with dynamic objects and a free-moving camera, in: ECCV, 682 - 695 (2012). (Project) (PDF)

  • A. Elhayek, C. Stoll, K. I. Kim, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, Feature-Based Multi-Video Synchronization with Subframe Accuracy, in: Pattern Recognition. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (DAGM), 266 - 275 (2012). (PDF) (supplementary material)

  • C. Wu, K. Varanasi, C. Theobalt, Full-body performance capture under uncontrolled and varying illumination : A shading-based approach, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 757 - 770 (2012). (PDF) (video) (supplementary material)

  • A. Elhayek, C. Stoll, N. Hasler, K. I. Kim, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, Spatio-temporal Motion Tracking with Unsynchronized Cameras, in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, USA, 1870 - 1877 (2012). (pdf) (video)

  • C. Richardt, C. Stoll, N. Dogdgson, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, Coherent Spatiotemporal Filtering, Upsampling and Rendering of RGBZ Videos, in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 31 (2), 247 - 256 (2012). (pdf)

  • M. Granados, J. Tompkin, K. I. Kim, O. Grau, J. Kautz, C. Theobalt, How Not to Be Seen - Object Removal from Videos of Crowded Scenes , in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 31 (2), 219 - 228 (2012). (pdf)

  • G. Bharaj, T. Thorm�hlen, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, Automatically Rigging Multi-component Characters, in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 31 (2), 755 - 764 (2012). (pdf)

  • C. Stoll, N. Hasler, J. Gall, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt,Fast Articulated Motion Tracking using a Sums of Gaussians Body Model, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 951 - 958 (2011). (pdf)

  • C. Wu, K. Varanasi, Y. Liu, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt,Shading-based Dynamic Shape Refinement from Multi-view Video under General Illumination, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 1108 - 1115 (2011). (PDF)

  • A. Baak, M. M�ller, G. Bharaj, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, A Data-Driven Approach for Real-Time Full Body Pose Reconstruction from a Depth Camera, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 1092 - 1099 (2011). (pdf)

  • Y. Liu, C. Stoll, J. Gall, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, Markerless Motion Capture of Interacting Characters Using Multi-view Image Segmentation, Proc. of IEEE CVPR, p. 1249-1256, 2011 - oral presentation. (pdf)

  • C. Wu, B. Wilburn, Y. Matsushita, C. Theobalt, High-quality shape from multi-view stereo and shading under general illumination, Proc. of IEEE CVPR, 969 - 976 (2011). (pdf) (data)

  • L. Valgaerts, A. Bruhn, H. Zimmer, J. Weickert, C. Stoll, C. Theobalt, Joint Estimation of Motion, Structure and Geometry from Stereo Sequences, in Proc. of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010. (PDF)

  • C. Linz, C. Lipski, L. Rogge, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, Space-Time Visual Effects as a Post-Production Process, in Proc. ACM Workshop on 3D Video Processing, Firenze, Italy, 1 - 6 (October 2010). (paper)

  • Y. Cui, S. Schuon, D. Chan, S. Thrun, C. Theobalt, 3D Shape Scanning with a Time-of-Flight Camera, in Proc. of CVPR 2010, p. 1173 - 1180. (PDF) (Additional Material) (Video)

  • M. Granados, B. Ajdin, M. Wand, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, H. P. A. Lensch, Optimal HDR reconstruction with linear digital cameras, In Proc. IEEE CVPR, 215 - 222 (2010). (PDF)

  • S. Srivastava, A. Saxena, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, A. Y.~Ng, i23 - Rapid Interactive 3D Reconstruction from a Single Image, Proc. of Vision, Modeling, Visualization, 2009. (PDF)

  • Y.M. Kim, C. Theobalt, J. Diebel, J. Kosecka, B. Micusik, S. Thrun, Multi-view Image and ToF Sensor Fusion for Dense 3D Reconstruction. In Proc. of 3DIM 2009, co-hosted with ICCV 2009.

  • S. Schuon, C. Theobalt, J. Davis, S. Thrun, LidarBoost: Depth Superresolution for ToF 3D Shape Scanning. In Proc. of IEEE CVPR, p. 343-350, 2009. (PDF) (Additional Material)

  • J. Gall, C. Stoll, E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, B. Rosenhahn, H.P. Seidel, Motion Capture Using Joint Skeleton Tracking and Surface Estimation. In Proc. of CVPR 2009. (PDF)

  • D. Chan, H. Buisman, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun. A Noise-aware Filter for Real-time Depth Upsampling, in Proc. of ECCV Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications, 2008. (PDF)

  • N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, C. Roessl, S. Thrun, H.-P. Seidel, Dense Correspondence Finding for Parametrization-free Animation Reconstruction from Video, in Proc. of CVPR, 1-8 (2008). (Oral presentation - Acceptance Rate 3.95%) (PDF)

  • N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, P. Dobrev, H.-P. Seidel, S. Thrun, Robust Fusion of Dynamic Shape and Normal Capture for High-quality Reconstruction of Time-varying Geometry, in Proc. of CVPR 2008. (PDF)

  • S. Schuon, C. Theobalt, J. Davis, S. Thrun, High-quality Scanning using Time-of-Flight Depth Superresolution. in IEEE CVPR Workshop on Time-Of-Flight Computer Vision 2008. (PDF)

  • Y.M. Kim, D. Chan, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, Design and Calibration of a Multi-view TOF Sensor Fusion System. In IEEE CVPR Workshop on Time-of-flight Computer Vision 2008. (PDF)

  • E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Conversion of Mesh Animations into Skeleton-based Animations. In Proc. of Eurographics (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece, 2008. (project page)

  • M. Eisemann, B. de Decker, M. Magnor, P. Bekaert, E. de Aguiar, N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, A. Sellent, Floating Textures. In Proc. of Eurographics (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece, 2008. (PDF) (Video)

  • E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll, H.-P. Seidel, Marker-less 3D Feature Tracking for Mesh-based Human Motion Capture, in ICCV Workshop on Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, LNCS Vol. 4814, p. 1-15, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (PDF)

  • Z. Dong, J. Kautz, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel. Interactive Global Illumination Using Implicit Visibility, Accepted by Pacific Graphics 2007 (oral paper),(PDF)

  • C. Theobalt, C. Roessl, E. de Aguiar, H.-P. Seidel, Animation Collage, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, p. 271-280, 2007, San Diego, USA. (PDF)

  • N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Spatio-Temporal Registration Techniques for Relightable 3D Video, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Imge Processing (ICIP), p. 501-504, 2007, San Antonio, USA. (PDF)

  • E. de Aguiar, R. Zayer, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, A Simple Framework for Natural Animation of Digitized Models. Proc. of SIBGRAPI. IEEE Press, p. 3-10, 2007. (PDF)

  • E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll, H.-P. Seidel, Marker-less Deformable Mesh Tracking for Human Shape and Motion Capture, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007, Minneapolis, USA. (PDF)

  • E. de Aguiar, R. Zayer, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Video-driven Animation of Human Body Scans, IEEE 3DTV-Conference, 2007, Kos Island, Greece. (PDF)

  • N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, Spatio-temporal Reflectance Sharing for Relighatble 3D Video, in Proc. of MIRAGE, Paris, 2007. (paper)

  • E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll, H.-P. Seidel, Rapid Animation of Laser-scanned Humans, Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality, p. 223-226, 2007. (PDF)

  • G. Ziegler, R. Dimitrov, C. Theobalt, H.-P.Seidel, Real-time Quadtree Analysis using HistoPyramids , in IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, 2007, San Jose, CA.(PDF)

  • G. Ziegler, A. Tevs, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, GPU Point List Generation Through Histogram Pyramids, in Proc. of VMV'06, p. 137--141, Aachen, Germany, 2006. (PDF)

  • E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Learning of Articulated Skeletons from 3D Marker Trajectories, in Proc. of ISVC'06, p.485-494, Lake Tahoe, USA, 2006. (PDF)

  • N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Generation of Personalized Human Avatars from Multi-view Video , in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), p. 257-260, Monterey, USA, 2005. (PDF)

  • E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Reconstructing Human Shape and Motion from Multi-view Video , in Proc. of CVMP 2005, p. 42-49, London, UK, 2005. (PDF)

  • C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, 3D Image Analysis and Synthesis at MPI Informatik, invited paper, in Proc. of Vision, Video and Graphics, p. 85-91, Edinburgh, UK, 2005.

  • C. Theobalt, G. Ziegler, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Model-Based Free-Viewpoint Video: Acquisition, Rendering and Encoding , Proc. Picture Coding Symposium (PCS'04), San Francisco, USA, 2004. (PDF)

  • C. Theobalt, E. de Aguiar, M. Magnor, H. Theisel, H.-P. Seidel, Marker-free Kinematic Skeleton Estimation from Sequences of Volume Data. Proc. of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), p.57-64, Hong Kong, China, 2004.(PDF)

  • E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H. Theisel, H.-P. Seidel, M^3: Marker-free Model Reconstruction and Motion Tracking from 3D Voxel Data. in Proc. of Pacific Graphics, p.101-110, Seoul, Korea, 2004.(PDF)

  • M. Magnor, C. Theobalt, Model-based Analysis of Multi-Video Data, Proc. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI'2004), Lake Tahoe, USA, accepted. (PDF)

  • C. Theobalt, J. Carranza, M. Magnor, H.P. Seidel, A Parallel Framework for Silhouette-based Human Motion Capture, in Proc. of Vision, Modeling and Visualization, p.207-214, Munich, Germany, 2003. (PDF)

  • C. Theobalt, J. Carranza, M. Magnor, H.P. Seidel, Enhancing Silhouette-based Human Motion Capture with 3D Motion Fields, Proc. of Pacific Graphics 2003,p.185-193, Canmore, Canada. (PDF)

  • C. Theobalt, M. Li, M Magnor, H.P. Seidel, A Flexible and Versatile Studio for Synchronized Multi-View Video Recording, in Proc. of Vision, Video and Graphics 2003, p.9-16, Bath, UK.

  • C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, P. Schueler, H.P. Seidel, Multi-Layer Skeleton Fitting for Online Human Motion Capture. in Proceedings of 7th International Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV 2002), Erlangen, Germany. p.471-478. (PDF)

  • C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, P. Schueler, H.P. Seidel, Combining 2D Feature Tracking and Volume Reconstruction for Online Video-Based Human Motion Capture . in Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2002, Beijing, China. p.96-103. (PDF)

  • C. Theobalt, J. Bos, T. Chapman, A. Espinosa-Romero, M. Fraser, G. Hayes, E. Klein, T. Oka, R. Reeve. Talking to Godot: Dialogue with a Mobile Robot.  Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2002). pages 1338-1343. Lausanne, Switzerland. 2002. (PDF)

  • C. Weidenbach, B. Afshordel, U. Brahm, C. Cohrs, T. Engel, E. Keen, C. Theobalt, D. Topic. System Description: SPASS Version 1.0.0 . In Harald Ganzinger, editor, Proc. 16th Int. Conf. on Automated Deduction (CADE-16-99), LNCS 1632, pages 378-382. Springer Verlag, 1999.

Courses

  • C. Richardt, J. Tompkin, J. Bai, and C. Theobalt, User-Centric Computational Videography, Course at SIGGRAPH 2015, Los Angeles. (Course website)

  • C. Theobalt, Marker-less Dynamic Scene Reconstruction, Invited Tutorial. 2011 Fall Presentations, University of Siegen.

  • H. Lensch, B. Rosenhahn, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, T. Thorm�hlen, M. Wand, Visual 3D Scene Analysis and Synthesis, Tutorial, DAGM 2009, Jena - Course web page.

  • C. Theobalt, S. Wuermlin, E. de Aguiar, C. Niederberger, New Trends in 3D Video , course at Eurographics 2007, Prague, Czech Republic. (Course Webpage)

  • Lecturer in Video-based Rendering course at SIGGRAPH 2005, together with Marcus Magnor, Marc Pollefeys, Wojciech Matusik and German Cheung.

Technical sketches

  • C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, G. Ziegler, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Joint Motion and Reflectance Capture for Relightable 3D Video , Technical Sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, 2005.

Demos

  • J. Thies, M. Zollh�fer, M. Stamminger, C. Theobalt and M. Nie�ner, Demo of Face2Face , SIGGRAPH 2016 Emerging Technologies.

Technical reports

  • S. Sridhar, A. Oulasvirta, C. Theobalt, Fast Tracking of Hand and Finger Articulations Using a Single Depth Camera, MPI-I-2014-4-002. Saarbr�cken: Max-Planck-Institut f�r Informatik 2015.

  • K.I. Kim, J. Tompkin, C. Theobalt, Local High-order Regularization on Data Manifolds, MMPI-I-2014-4-001, 2014.

  • N. Bjorner, R. Hähnle, T. Nipkow, C. Weidenbach, K. Hamacher, J. P. Hubaux, G. Tsudik, G. Borradaile, P. Klein, D. Marx, C. Mathieu, M. Bojanczyk, B. Klin, A. Kurz, A. M Pitts, O. Grau, M. A Magnor, O. Sorkine-Hornung, C. Theobalt, M. Agosti, N. Fuhr, E. Toms, P. Vakkari, Dagstuhl Reports, Vol. 3, Issue 10 ISSN 2192-5283, 2014.

  • K.I. Kim, Y. Kwon, C. Theobalt, Efficient Learning-based Image Enhancement, MPI-I-2011-4-002, 2011.

  • C. Stoll, E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, H.P. Seidel, A Volumetric Approach to Interactive Shape Editing , MPI-I-2007-4-004, 2007.

  • C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Enhanced Dynamic Reflectometry for Relightable Free-Viewpoint Video, MPI-I-2006-4-006, 2006.

  • E. de Aguiar, R. Zayer, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, A Framework for Natural Animation of Digitized Models, MPI-I-2006-4-003, 2006.

  • G. Ziegler, A. Tevs, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, GPU Point List Generation through Histogram Pyramids, MPI-I-2006-4-002, 2006.

  • C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, G. Ziegler, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Joint Motion and Reflectance Capture for Creating Relightable 3D Videos, Technical Report MPI-I-2005-4-004, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, 2005.

  • C. Theobalt, M. Li, M. Magnor, H.P. Seidel, A Flexible and Versatile Studio for Synchronized Multi-view Video Recording, Technical Report MPI-I-2003-3-002, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, 2003.

Theses

  • C. Theobalt, From Image-based Motion Analysis to Free-Viewpoint Video, PhD thesis, MPI Informatik and University of Saarland, 2005.

  • C. Theobalt, Navigation on a Mobile Robot, Diplom thesis, University of Saarland, University of Edinburgh, 2001.