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Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department

Classical Concepts of Computer Vision and
Computer Graphics in the Neural Age

Seminar – Summer Semester 2024

Organizers: Christian Theobalt, Marc Habermann, Thomas Leimkühler, Rishabh Dabral



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EG3D Neural Body Fitting
Fast Articulated Motion Tracking using a Sums of Gaussians Body Model,
ICCV, 2011
3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-time Radiance Field Rendering,
SIGGRAPH, 2023


Overview


Computer Vision strives to develop algorithms for understanding, interpreting and reconstructing information about real-world scenes from image and video data.

Computer Graphics focuses on image synthesis: algorithms to build and edit static and dynamic virtual worlds and to display them in photorealistic or stylized ways.

Both fields have witnessed the transformative effects of deep learning and neural networks, thus ushering the so-called Neural Age.

In this seminar, we will explore how the classical concepts in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics have manifested in the Neural Age. We will seek to understand if and how the new neural methods have changed the way we think about these problems, and how they have improved the state-of-the-art. For each topic that we cover, we will discuss a seminal paper that has shaped the field and also discuss a recent paper that has further developed that idea in a modern context. This seminar will cover research papers from the following topics:


Topics



The following table lists more topics than available weeks – this is to allow some flexibility for the interests of the group to change the course structure. Once every participant has submitted their choice of topics, this list will be updated to show the presenter of each topic. Send us an email if you cannot access a paper for some reason.

Click on each topic to show the papers to be discussed or show all papers.

Topic and Papers Presentation
Kazhdan et al.
SGP 2006
Sellán et al.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Presenter:
Monseej Purkayastha
Supervisor:
Kajiya et al.
Computer Graphics 1984
Mldenhall, Srinivasan, Tancik et al.
ECCV 2020
Presenter:
Raja Parikshat
Supervisor:
Kerbl and Kopanas et al.
SIGGRAPH 2023
Presenter:
Kshitijkumar Sunil Kumar
Supervisor:
Presenter:
Yiming Zhou
Supervisor:
de Aguilar et al.
SIGGRAPH 2008
Presenter:
Kunwar Maheep Singh
Supervisor:
Goodfellow et al.
NeurIPS 2014
Presenter:
Ismail Shah
Supervisor:
Witkin and Kass
SIGGRAPH 1988
Peng et al.
SIGGRAPH 2021
Presenter:
Sidharth Suresh Nair
Supervisor:
Farbman et al.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Presenter:
Hevra Petekkaya
Presenter:
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Supervisor:
Sorkine et al.
SGP 2004
Presenter:
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Supervisor:
Xu and Harada
ECCV 2022
Presenter:
-
Supervisor:
Levoy et al.
SIGGRAPH 1996
Presenter:
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Chen et al.
NeurIPS 2018
Presenter:
Supervisor:
Hcekbert
SIGGRAPH 1986
Presenter:
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Kovar et al.
SIGGRAPH 2002
Holden et al.
SIGGRAPH 2017
Presenter:
Supervisor:
Bayes' Rays: Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Radiance Fields
Goli et al.
CVPR 2024
Presenter:
Supervisor:
Baraff and Witkin
SIGGRAPH 1998
Presenter:
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Blanz and Vetter
SIGGRAPH 1999
Cao et al.
SIGGRAPH 2022
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