[CMU AI Seminar] Dec 14 at 12pm (Zoom) -- Christian Theobalt (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) -- Neural Methods for Reconstruction and Rendering of Real World Scenes -- AI Seminar sponsored by Morgan Stanley

[Shaojie Bai]

Hi all,

Sorry for the short notice, but our speaker, Christian, has a family
emergency and will not be able to attend the AI seminar as planned today at
12pm. *This event is thus CANCELLED*. He asked me to pass his apologies to
everyone who was planning to attend.

We will move Christian's talk to the spring semester.

Happy winter break, and see everyone in the spring!

Best,
Shaojie

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 1:46 PM Shaojie Bai <shaojieb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We look forward to seeing you *next Tuesday (12/14)* from *1**2:00-1:00
> PM (U.S. Eastern time)* for the next talk of our *CMU AI Seminar*,
> sponsored by Morgan Stanley
> <https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/technology/>.
>
> To learn more about the seminar series or see the future schedule, please
> visit the seminar website <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
> On 12/14, Professor *Christian Theobalt* (Max Planck Institute for
> Informatics) will be giving a talk on "*Neural Methods for Reconstruction
> and Rendering of Real World Scenes*" and sharing his research on new
> neural rendering approaches.
>
> *Title:*  Neural Methods for Reconstruction and Rendering of Real World
> Scenes
>
> *Talk Abstract:* In this presentation, I will talk about some of the
> recent work we did on new methods for reconstructing computer graphics
> models of real world scenes from sparse or even monocular video data. These
> methods are based of bringing together neural network-based and explicit
> model-based approaches. I will also talk about new neural rendering
> approaches that combine explicit model-based and neural network based
> concepts for image formation in new ways. They enable new means to
> synthesize highly realistic imagery and videos of real work scenes under
> user control.
>
> *Speaker Bio: *Christian Theobalt is The Scientific Director of the new
> Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department at the
> Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany. He is also a
> Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, Germany. From 2007
> until 2009 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of
> Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his MSc degree in
> Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, his Diplom (MS)
> degree in Computer Science from Saarland University, and his PhD (Dr.-Ing.)
> from the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics.
>
>
> In his research he looks at algorithmic problems that lie at the
> intersection of Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Machine Learning,
> such as: static and dynamic 3D scene reconstruction, neural rendering and
> neural scene representations, marker-less motion and performance capture,
> virtual humans, virtual and augmented reality, computer animation,
> intrinsic video and inverse rendering, computational videography, machine
> learning for graphics and vision, new sensors for 3D acquisition, as well
> as image- and physically-based rendering. He is also interested in using
> reconstruction techniques for human computer interaction. For his work, he
> received several awards, including the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck
> Society in 2007, the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award in 2009, the
> German Pattern Recognition Award 2012, and the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award in
> 2017, and the EUROGRAPHICS Outstanding Technical Contributions Award in
> 2020. He received two ERC grants, an ERC Starting Grant in 2013 and an ERC
> Consolidator Grant in 2017.
>
> *Zoom Link: *
> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/92289727241?pwd=a1VJUSsrYjJhblY1VEgzZFdMM2pLZz09
>
> Best,
> Shaojie Bai (MLD)
>
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