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Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department

Advance Topics of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics
in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Seminar – Summer Semester 2025

Organizers: Christian Theobalt, Rishabh Dabral, Lin Geng Foo and Xilong Zhou



Organization  |  Content  |  Format  |  Resources


DDPM PIP
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
NeurIPS, 2020
Physical Inertial Poser (PIP)
CVPR, 2022


Materials & Slides




How to Read an Academic Paper


Just as you wouldn’t read a website or newspaper in the same way that you would read a novel, there are both efficient and inefficient ways to read academic papers. Learning to read a new kind of material is hard work, and you should try to adapt your reading style to accommodate the characteristics of the medium. It might take some time to find a reading style or method which works best for the individual, but some general guidelines are broadly applicable. We present a list of online references from a computer science perspective which may help you adjust more quickly to the reading task at hand:



How to Write an Academic Paper


Academic writing is similarly different from other forms of writing. We present a list of online references which may help you write your reports: