[CMU AI Seminar] Feb 15 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

Asher Trockman ashert at cs.cmu.edu
Fri Feb 11 12:20:09 EST 2022


Dear all,

We look forward to seeing you *next Tuesday (2/15)* 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 2/15, Professor *Christian Theobalt *(Max Planck Institute for
Informatics) will be giving a talk titled "*Neural Methods for
Reconstruction and Rendering of Real World Scenes*" to share 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 on 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/99510233317?pwd=ZGx4aExNZ1FNaGY4SHI3Qlh0YjNWUT09

Thanks,
Asher Trockman
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