Lectures and Seminars

Please check our group website for courses and seminars we offer and offered.

Ongoing and Finished Ph.D/Master/Bachelor Theses supervised by Christian Theobalt

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Further presentations and invited talks

• C. Theobalt, Keynote Talk, New methods for Reconstruction and Neural Rendering of Real World Scenes, Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM), Macau, Sep. 2020
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Synthesis of High-Quality Face Videos, CVPR Workshop on Fair, Data-Efficient and Trusted Computer Vision, June 2020.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, "Synthesis and Detection of High-quality Computer-Generated Human Face and Portrait Videos, CVPR Workshopm on Media Forensics, June 2020.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Capturing and Editing Faces in Video, HiVisComp Winter Workshop by the Czech Computer Graphics and Computer Vision research communities, Jan 2020.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Reconstructing and Rendering the World for VR and AR, Seminar on Real VR - Importing the Real World into Immersive VR and Optimizing the Perceptual Experience of Head-Mounted Displays, Leibniz Center – IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, July 2019.
• C. Theobalt, Invited talk, Capturing the Real World in Motion for VR and AR , 3rd Workshop on Computer Vision for AR/VR (CVPR2019), June 2019.
• C. Theobalt, Invited talk, Capturing 4D Models of Humans in the Real World , CVPR Workshop DynaVis: The 1st International Workshop on Dynamic Scene Reconstruction, June 2019.
• C. Theobalt, Invited talk, Capturing 4D Models of Humans in the Real World , CVPR Workshop on 3D HUMANS, June 2019.
• C. Theobalt, Invited talk, To Optimize, to Learn, or To Integrate , Seminar on 3D Morphable Models, Leibniz Center – IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, March 2019.
• C. Theobalt, Invited talk, Computer Vision – Wie Computer und intelligente Systeme lernen, die Welt zu sehen und zu verstehen , 50 Years Saarland Informatics Campus, Filmhaus Saarbruecken, April 2019.
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• C. Theobalt, Invited talk, Capturing and Editing Models of the Real World in Motion, Technical University of Graz, Austria, November 2018.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Capturing Reality, FMX Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, April 2018.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Video-based Reconstruction of the Real World in Motion, Google, San Francisco, US, March 2018.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Video-based Reconstruction of the Real World in Motion, SCIEN Seminar Series, Stanford University, March 2018.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Capturing and Editing the Real World in Motion, Technical University of Munich, Feb 2018.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, New Methods for Marler-less Motion and Performance Capture and the Multi-Camera Studio Behind, CVPR 2017 Tutorial on DIY A Multiview Camera System, Honululu, US, July 2017.
• C. Theobalt, Keynote Talk, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Proessing, London, UK, 2017.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Workshop Perlen der Forschung with presentation to the German Chancellor and members of Government, January 2017.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Presentation Demo of FaceInCar at the German National IT Summit, Saarbruecken, November, 2016.
• C. Theobalt, Invited Talk, Technology Open Air Berlin, July, 2016.
• Invited Presentation as Spotlight Project, Real-time Face Performance Capture, Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, USA, April 2016.
• C. Theobalt, Reconstructing the Real World in Motion, Invited Lecture, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, CZ, March 2016.
• C. Theobalt, Capturing Reality, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA, July 2015.
• C. Theobalt, Capturing and Editing Reality, University of Kyoto, Japan, Dec 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Performance Capture of the Real World in Motion Keynote Lecture, IEEE International Connference on 3D Vision, 3DV, Tokyo, Japan, December 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Computer Vision - Wie Computer das Sehen lernen, Invited talk, MINT Night, Geschwister Scholl Gymnasium, Lebach, Germany, November 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Performance Capture of the Real World in Motion, Invited Talk, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Oct 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Capturing and Editing Reality, Invited talk, Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen, June 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Capturing and Editing Reality - and How to Make it for the SIGGRAPH Deadline, Invited talk, Workshop of the German Research Training Groups, Schloss Dagstuhl, June 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Performance Capture with Depth Cameras, International Time-of-Flight Workshop, Ein Gedi, Israel, March 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Co-organizer International Time-of-Flight Workshop, together with Microsoft Research, Ein Gedi, Israel, March 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Capturing and Editing the Reality, Invited talk, Faculty Colloquium, University of Stuttgart, January 2014.
• C. Theobalt, Capturing and Editing the Real World in Motion, keynote talk, CVMP, London, UK, Nov 2013.
• C. Theobalt, Capturing and Editing Reality - Reconstruction and Modification of the Real World in Motion, keynote talk, CEIG (EUROGRAPHICS Spain Chapter Conference), Madrid, Sept. 2013.
• C. Theobalt, Capturing and Editing the Real World in Motion, keynote talk, TPCG 2013 (British EUROGRAPHICS chapter conference), Bath, UK, Sept. 2013.
• C. Theobalt, Marker-less Performance Capture - Graphics and Vision Methods for Capturing Detailed Models of Moving Humans, invited talk, ICRA Workshop on Computational Techniques in Natural Motion Analysis and Reconstruction, May 2013.
• C. Theobalt, Neue Visuelle Effekte fuer Film und Games, Invited Talk, Max-Planck-Series Impulses from the Future, Berlin, May 2013.
• C. Theobalt, Lightweight Binocular Facial Performance Capture, invited talk, special SIGGRAH reprise session, FMX, Stuttgart, Germany, April 2013.
• Co-organizer of Dagstuhl seminar on Real-World Visual Computing, Leibniz Center for Computer Science - IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Oct 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.
• C. Theobalt, Performance Capture of the Real World in Motion, Awards Talk, Annual Conference of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM), Graz, 2012.
• C. Theobalt, Reconstructing and Synthesizing Models of the Real World in Motion, invited lecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec 2011.
• C. Theobalt, Performance Capture - Reconstructing and Synthesizing Models of the Real World in Motion, keynote talk, IEEE ICCV Workshop on 4D Scene Modeling (4DMOD), Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2011.
• C. Theobalt, Marker-less Dynamic Scene Reconstruction, invited tutorial, 2011 Fall Presentations, University of Siegen, Germany, Oct 2011.
• C. Theobalt, Model-based Performance Capture from Video, invited talk, Technical University of Munich, Germany, May 2011.
• C. Theobalt, Video-based Reconstruction of Animatable Human Characters, invited talk, special session on SIGGRAPH papers, FMX, May 2011.
• C. Theobalt, Time-of-Flight Imaging for 3D Reconstruction in Computer Graphics, invited talk, University of Luebeck, Germany, Feb 2011.
• C. Theobalt, New Methods for Optical Reconstruction of Dynamic 3D Scenes, joint senior researcher lecture series of MPI for Informatics and MPI for Software Systems, Saarbruecken, Germany.
• C. Theobalt, Model-based Editing of 2D and 3D Video, invited talk, Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Video, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, Oct 2010.
• C. Theobalt, Marker-lose Rekonstruktion Dynamischer Szenen, invited talk, 44. Heidelberger Bildverarbeitungsforum 2010, Saarbruecken, Oct 2010.
• C. Theobalt, Time-of-Flight Imaging in Computer Graphics, invited talk, RGBD Workshop at Intl. Conference on Robotics: Science and Systems, RSS 2010, Zaragoza, Spain, June 2010.
• C. Theobalt, Real-time Prosody-Driven Synthesis of Body Language, invited talk, special session on SIGGRAPH papers, FMX 2010, Stuttgart, May 2010.
• C. Theobalt, High-quality Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes, invited talk, Computer Graphics Lab, University of Magdeburg, Oct 2009.
• C. Theobalt, High-quality Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes, Computer Graphics Lab, University of Bielefeld, Oct 2009.
• C. Theobalt, Performance Capture for High-Quality Dynamic Scene Reconstruction, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Oct 2009.
• C. Theobalt, Visual 3D Scene Analysis and Synthesis, lecture in tutorial on Visual 3D Scene Analysis and Synthesis at DAGM 2009, Jena.
• C. Theobalt, "New Methods for Video-based Performance Capture", invited talk at Industrial Light and Magic, San Francisco, USA. July 2008.
• C. Theobalt, "New Methods for Video-based Performance Capture", invited talk, BIRS Workshop Multi-View Image and Geometry Processing for 3D Cinematography. Banff International Research Station, Canada. July 2008.
• C. Theobalt, "Video-based Performanc Capture", invited talk University of California, Davis, USA. June 2008.
• C. Theobalt, " New Methods for Capturing and Rendering Dynamic Scenes", invited talk Bosch Corporate Research, Palo Alto, USA. March 2008.
• C. Theobalt, "3D Video and Dynamic Scene Reconstruction", invited talk at University of California, Berkeley, October 2007.
• C. Theobalt, "Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People", invited talk at University of Washington, Seattle, August 2006.
• C. Theobalt, "Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People", invited talk at Stanford University, Palo Alto, August 2006.
• C. Theobalt, "Vision-driven Computer Graphics - Capturing and Rendering Real-World Scenes", Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, USA.
• C. Theobalt, "Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People", invited talk at ETH Zurich, July 2006.
• C. Theobalt, Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People, Seminar on Human Motion: Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, June 2006.
• C. Theobalt, 3D TV - Die Computergrafik erforscht die Zukunft visueller Medien, Wissenschaft im Dialog - Wissenschaftssommer, Munich, July 2006.
• C. Theobalt, Video Motion Capture, AG4 Working Group Seminar, June 2001.
• C. Theobalt, M.Magnor, M. Li, B. Goldluecke, H.-P. Seidel, 3D Video Research at the MPII, 62nd MPEG meeting, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2002.
• M. Magnor and C. Theobalt, Free-Viewpoint Video and 3D TV, Seminar on Hierarchical Methods in Computer Graphics, June, 29 - July, 4 2003, IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl.