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Best Paper Award at ICCV Workshop on 3D Representations for Recognition

Our paper Shading Cues for Object Class Detection by Michael Stark, Michael Goesele and Bernt Schiele recieved the Best Paper Award at the ICCV 2009 Workshop on 3D Representations for Recognition. In this paper, we demonstrate how shading information can be used to improve detection of object classes in a standard benchmark dataset. All details are available in the paper (download PDF).

Upcoming Conference

The 32nd annual pattern recognition symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung DAGM e.V.) will take place at the Darmstadium Conference Center, close to the TU Darmstadt on September 22-24, 2010. DAGM 2010 is co-organized by the department of Computer Science of the TU Darmstadt and the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD). More information is available on the conference web site www.DAGM2010.org.

Research

My current research is focused on acquiring digital models of reality for computer graphics and vision. In particular, I am really excited about the possibility to reconstruct high-quality geometry models from images collected from the internet (so called community photo collections, CPC). Please have a look at our results which we presented in October 2007 at ICCV in Rio de Janeiro. Our paper on "Multi-View Stereo Reconstruction for Community Photo Collections" (project page, PDF) was featured in the news:

• Read the article "Holiday snapshots used to model the world in 3D" by Will Knight in the online edition of NewScientist.com (October 29th, 2007).
• Read the article "Mit Flickr die Welt modellieren" (in German) by Thomas Trösch in the online edition of Handelsblatt.com (October 31st, 2007).
• Read the official press release "Vacation photos create 3D models of world landmarks" by Hannah Hickey, University of Washington (November 1st, 2007).
• The multi-view stereo reconstruction system was also used in an art project in Florence by the Dutch artist Marnix de Nijs.

On June 13, 2007 Steve Seitz, Noah Snavely, and myself gave a Google Tech Talk about "Navigating the World's Photographs" (including a section on multi-view stereo reconstruction) at the Google campus in Mountain View. The video is now available online via Google Video. You can also download a copy from the Community Photo Collection page at the University of Washington.

A complete overview over my research is available on my publications page.

Emmy Noether Award

The DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) awarded me an Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group (Emmy Noether Nachwuchsgruppe) with the topic "Exakte Szenenrekonstruktion aus extrem großen Bildmengen". More information is available in the press release of TU Darmstadt or the news flash of the Computer Science Department (both in German).

Looking for Students!

I am constantly offering topics for bachelor, masters, and diploma theses. Please contact me or one of the members of my group for further details if you are interested in any of these. Furthermore, I am looking for students interested in a longer-term job as "wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft". I do not offer short time internships (e.g., 2-3 months long internships) in my group.

Results from the project "High-Quality Rendering of Varying Isosurfaces with Cubic Trivariate C1-continuous Splines". Click here for more information on the project.

Reconstruction of the Statue of Liberty from images collected from Flickr. Click here to see more examples on the project page.