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• SIGGRAPH (2025)
• Eurographics (2025)
• CVM (2025)
• Eurographics Short Papers (2021-2024)
• High Performance Graphics (2021-2023)
• Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2023-2024)

• Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2023-)

• SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, EG, TOG, TVCG, EGSR, PG, HPG
• CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACCV, TPAMI
• German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation

• 11/2024: Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
• 11/2024: STAG Conference, Verona
• 07/2024: Advances in GEN AI, Snap Workshop @ SIGGRAPH, Denver
• 06/2024: EDGE Workshop @ CVPR, Seattle
• 02/2024: Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford

2024

	Manifold Sampling for Differentiable Uncertainty in Radiance Fields Linjie Lyu, Ayush Tewari, Marc Habermann, Shunsuke Saito, Michael Zollhöfer, Thomas Leimkühler, Christian Theobalt SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
	Who Did It? How User Agency is Influenced by Visual Properties of Generated Images Johanna K. Didion, Krzysztof Wolski, Dennis Wittchen, David Coyle, Thomas Leimkühler, Paul Strohmeier UIST 2024
	Cinematic Gaussians: Real-Time HDR Radiance Fields with Depth of Field Chao Wang, Krzysztof Wolski, Bernhard Kerbl, Ana Serrano, Mojtaba Bemana, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Thomas Leimkühler Pacific Graphics 2024
	Learning Images Across Scales Using Adversarial Training Krzysztof Wolski, Adarsh Djeacoumar, Alireza Javanmardi, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Guillaume Cordonnier, Karol Myszkowski, George Drettakis, Xingang Pan, Thomas Leimkühler ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2024)
	Neural Gaussian Scale-Space Fields Felix Mujkanovic, Ntumba Elie Nsampi, Christian Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel, Thomas Leimkühler ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2024)
	Physically-Based Lighting for 3D Generative Models of Cars Nicolás Violante, Alban Gauthier, Stavros Diolatzis, Thomas Leimkühler, George Drettakis Eurographics 2024
	Robust and Object-aware Motion Generation using Neural Pose Descriptors Wanyue Zhang, Rishabh Dabral, Thomas Leimkühler, Vladislav Golyanik, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt 3DV 2024

2023

	A Neural Implicit Representation for the Image Stack: Depth, All in Focus, and High Dynamic Range Chao Wang, Ana Serrano, Xingang Pan, Bin Chen, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Christian Theobalt, Krzysztof Wolski, Thomas Leimkühler ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
	Diffusion Posterior Illumination for Ambiguity-aware Inverse Rendering Linjie Lyu, Ayush Tewari, Marc Habermann, Shunsuke Saito, Michael Zollhöfer, Thomas Leimkühler, Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
	Neural Field Convolutions by Repeated Differentiation Ntumba Elie Nsampi, Adarsh Djeacoumar, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel, Thomas Leimkühler ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
	GlowGAN: Unsupervised Learning of HDR Images from LDR Images in the Wild Chao Wang, Ana Serrano, Xingang Pan, Bin Chen, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Thomas Leimkühler ICCV 2023
	Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold Xingang Pan, Ayush Tewari, Thomas Leimkühler, Lingjie Liu, Abhimitra Meka, Christian Theobalt SIGGRAPH 2023
	3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering Bernhard Kerbl, Georgios Kopanas, Thomas Leimkühler, George Drettakis ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2023) Best Paper Award
	NeRFshop: Interactive Editing of Neural Radiance Fields Clément Jambon, Bernhard Kerbl, Georgios Kopanas, Stavros Diolatzis, Thomas Leimkühler, George Drettakis ACM i3D 2023

2022

	Neural Point Catacaustics for Novel-view Synthesis of Reflections Georgios Kopanas, Thomas Leimkühler, Gilles Rainer, Clément Jambon, George Drettakis ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)
	Neural Radiance Transfer Fields for Relightable Novel-view Synthesis with Global Illumination Linjie Lyu, Ayush Tewari, Thomas Leimkühler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt ECCV 2022 (Oral)

2021

	FreeStyleGAN: Free-view Editable Portrait Rendering with the Camera Manifold Thomas Leimkühler, George Drettakis ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021)
	Point-based Neural Rendering with Per-view Optimization Georgios Kopanas, Julien Philip, Thomas Leimkühler, George Drettakis Computer Graphics Forum (EGSR 2021)
	Hybrid Image-based Rendering for Free-view Synthesis Siddhant Prakash, Thomas Leimkühler, Simon Rodriguez, George Drettakis ACM i3D 2021

2020

Glossy Probe Reprojection for Interactive Global Illumination Simon Rodriguez, Thomas Leimkühler, Siddhant Prakash, Chris Wyman, Peter Shirley, George Drettakis ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)

2019

	Artificial Intelligence for Efficient Image-based View Synthesis Thomas Leimkühler PhD Thesis, Saarland University, 2019 Eurographics PhD Award, Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
	Deep Point Correlation Design Thomas Leimkühler, Gurprit Singh, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019)
	DeepFovea: Neural Reconstruction for Foveated Rendering and Video Compression using Learned Statistics of Natural Videos Anton Kaplanyan, Anton Sochenov, Thomas Leimkühler, Mikhail Okunev, Todd Goodall, Gizem Rufo ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019)

2018

	Laplacian Kernel Splatting for Efficient Depth-of-field and Motion Blur Synthesis or Reconstruction Thomas Leimkühler, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2018)
	Perceptual Real-time 2D-to-3D Conversion Using Cue Fusion - Extended version Thomas Leimkühler, Petr Kellnhofer, Tobias Ritschel, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2018
	End-to-end Sampling Patterns Thomas Leimkühler, Gurprit Singh, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel arXiv 1806.06710, 2018

2015 - 2017

	Minimal Warping: Planning Incremental Novel-view Synthesis Thomas Leimkühler, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel Computer Graphics Forum (EGSR 2017) Best Student Paper Award
	Perceptual Real-time 2D-to-3D Conversion Using Cue Fusion Thomas Leimkühler, Petr Kellnhofer, Tobias Ritschel, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel Graphics Interface 2016 Michael A. J. Sweeney Award: Best Student Paper
	What Makes 2D-to-3D Stereo Conversion Perceptually Plausible? Petr Kellnhofer, Thomas Leimkühler, Tobias Ritschel, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2015 Best Student Presentation Award