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About myself

Short Curriculum Vitae

03/2021 - today: Scientific Director, Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department, MPI for Informatics.
11/2010 - today: Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University
7/2009 - 3/2021: Tenured Associate Professor at MPI for Informatics, Head of Research group Graphics, Vision & Video
4/2007 - 6/2009: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
9/2006 - 6/2009: Head of research group ``3D Video and Vision-based Graphics'' within the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication (Saarbrücken/Stanford)
12/2005 - 8/2006: Postdoctoral researcher at MPI for Informatics
12/2005: Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in Computer Science, MPI-INF / Saarland University
5/2001 - 11/2005: PhD student in the Computer Graphics Group of the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
4/2001: Diplom (MS) degree in Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany
10/2000: M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence (Intelligent Robotics), University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Selected Other Professional Activities

07/2021 - 07/2023: Managing Director - MPI for Informatics.
06/2022 - today: Director - Saarbruecken Center for Visual Computing, Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence - A Strategic Partnership between Google and MPI for Informatics.

Selected Awards

04/2022: Fellow of EUROGRAPHICS.
06/2020: CVPR 2020 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award for DeepCap paper.
05/2020: EUROGRAPHICS Outstanding Technical Contributions Award.
12/2017: Karl Heinz Beckurts Award 2017.
11/2017: ERC Consolidator Grant.
10/2016: Busy Beaver Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching at Saarland University.
07/2016: Best of Show Award for at Emerging Technologies of SIGGRAPH 2016 for our Demo on Face2Face (link)
11/2015: Elected into the "Top 40 under 40" Innovators in Germany by the business magazine Capital. (CS News)(Capital)
8/2013: ERC Starting Grant.
2013: Google Glass Research Award (with Andreas Bulling, Mario Fritz, Bernt Schiele).
2013: 123go Business Plan Award to our spin-off theCaptury GmbH.
4/2013: Main Prize IKT Innovativ (at CeBIT 2013) to our spin-off theCaptury GmbH.
8/2012: German Pattern Recognition Award by the DAGM.
3/2009: EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award 2009
6/2007: Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society 2006
10/2006: Dr. Eduard Martin Award for the best dissertation in the faculty of engineering 2005/2006, University of Saarland
4/2005: ATI Fellowship 2005/2006
10/2000: Best M.Sc. Student in Artificial Intelligence Award, University of Edinburgh
10/2000: Jim Howe Award, University of Edinburgh

Editorial Board Memberships

2020 - today: Associate Editor - Elsevier Computers and Graphics
2018 - today: Associate Editor – IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
2019 - today: Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2016 - 2019: Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Graphics (has max. 3-year term)
2016 - today: Associate Editor, Elsevier Visual Informatics Journal

Program Committees / Organization

I am Program Co-Chair / Area Chair / Organizer of the following Events

Panel Chair, ERC Consolidator Grant Panel PE6 2021.
Area Chair, CVPR 2021.
Program Chair, Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics), Seoul, 2019.
Program Chair, EUROGRAPHICS State-of-the-Art Reports (EUROGRAPHICS STARs), 2018.
Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), Lyon, October 2015.
Co-organizer International Time-of-Flight Workshop, together with Microsoft Research, Ein Gedi, Israel, March 2014.
Program Chair, High Performance Graphics (HPG) 2013
Co-organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar Real-World Visual Computing, Leibniz Center for Computer Science - IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, 2013.
Lead organizer of Dagstuhl seminar on Time-of-Flight Imaging: Algorithms, Sensors and Applications, Leibniz Center for Computer Science - IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Oct 2012.
Program Co-chair, the Fifth International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT 2010)

I am / was a member of the program committees of

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Technical Papers, 2020
ACM SIGGRAPH, Technical Papers, 2020
EUROGRAPHICS, Technical Papers, 2020
IEEE International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020
Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), 2020
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
IEEE Internation Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2019
Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics), 2019.
Vision, Modeling and Visualitatin (VMV), 2019
IEEE Internation Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2018
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2018
Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), 2018
ACM / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on High-Performance Graphics (HPG), 2015.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018
IEEE Internation Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
EUROGRAPHICS STAR Reports, 2018
ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2017
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017
Vision, Modeling and Visualitatin (VMV), 2017
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2017
IEEE Internation Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
EUROGRAPHICS, STAR Reports, EUROGRAPHICS, 2017
International Workshop on Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC), collocated with ECCV, 2016
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016
ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2016
Vision, Modeling and Visualitatin (VMV), 2016
3D-TV Conference, 2016
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016
2nd Workshop on Observing and Understanding Hands in Action (HANDS), collocated with CVPR, 2016
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
Vision, Modeling and Visualitatin (VMV), 2015
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015
ACM / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on High-Performance Graphics (HPG), 2015.
EUROGAPHICS, Full Papers, 2015
Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), 2014
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2014
ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2014
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014
IEEE Internation Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014
German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2014
2nd IEEE International Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (formerly PROCAMS), collocated with CVPR, 2013
2nd IEEE Workshop on Dynamic Shape Capture and Analysis (4DMOD), collocated with ICCV, 2013
IEEE International Conferemce on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013
Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision (CDC4CV), collocated with ICCV, 2013
Vision, Modeling, Visualization (VMV), 2013
IEEE Inteernational Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013
German Pattern Recognition Conference, 2013
EUROGRAPHICS 2013 - Short Papers
FMX 2013
German Patern Recognition Conference 2013
3DIMPVT 2012
CVMP - European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2012
European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV, 2012.

2nd Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision (CDC4CV) - in conjunction with ECCV

PROCAMS 2012 - 9th IEEE Intl. Workshop on Projector Camera Systems
Pacific Graphics 2012
Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV) 2012

EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2012
CVPR 2012 - IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Reconition
IEEE Workshop on Dynamic Shape Capture and Analysis 2011 - collocated with ICCV
IEEE Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision (CDC4CV) 2011 - collocated with ICCV
VMV 2011

MIRAGE 2011

3DIMPVT 2011
EUROGRAPHICS 2011 (Full papers)
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
ECCV Workshop on Human Motion: Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation 2010
European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV, 2010.
ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 - Workshop on 3D Video Processing
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010
DAGM 2010
3DPVT 2010
EUROGRAPHICS 2010 (Full papers)
VMV 2010
IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC2009) - an IEEE Winter Vision Meeting
EUROGRAPHICS 2009 (Short papers)
IMMERSCOM 2009
CVMP - European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2009
VMV 2009
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and EXPO 2008
GRAPP 2008
2nd Workshop on HUMAN MOTION - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, in conjunction with ICCV 2007
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007)
GRAPP 2007
MIRAGE 2007

Reviewing

In recent years, I have regularly served as a reviewer for top international conferences and journals, including ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPh Asia, EUROGRAPHICS, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, SCA, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, IEEE Pacific Graphics, ICIP, 3DPVT/3DV, ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Intl. Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Machine Vision and Applications, Journal of Real-time Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, etc.

Further Activities

Member of the Steering Committee of the Intel Visual Computing Institute
2006-2007 Coordinator of work package on 3D Time-varying Scene Capture Technology within the European Union's 3DTV Network of Excellence