Events
Conference Vision, Modeling, and Visualization
27.09.2023 13:00
- 29.09.2023 12:00
Braunschweig, Germany
Chair(s): Marcus Magnor, Martin Eisemann, Susana Castillo
Talk BA-Talk: Perceptually Realistic Rendering of 360° Photos: a State-of-the-Art Overview
16.06.2023 13:00
G30
Speaker(s): Marcel Gädke
Talk Locally-Adaptive Video Recoloring
02.06.2023 13:00
G30
Speaker(s): Jan Malte Hilgefort
Video recoloring is an essential part of videography, yet there are only a limited number of approaches to locally-adaptive video recoloring, many of them based on mask propagation. In this master’s thesis, an approach to locally-adaptive video recoloring is developed that is both fast and produces realistic results. The approach is based on user-set constraints that influence the pixels based on their color and space distances, also allowing it to perform global recoloring. These constraint influences are then used to apply the re- coloring information the user sets for each constraint onto the pixels. The new approach can, for example, be used to simplify prototyping in video production by providing an interactive and intuitive way to apply an artistic vision to a video.
Talk BA-Talk: On the Beat: Analyzing and Evaluating Synchronicity in Dance Performances
26.05.2023 13:00
IZ G41b Hardstyle Lab
Speaker(s): Malte Menzel
Synchronisation of a dancer's movement and the accompanying music is a vital characteristic of dance performances.
In this work, we present a method to analyse and evaluate synchronicity in dance performances automatically.
We use a computer vision-based approach to extract dancer information from dance performance videos and examine its alignment with the background music.
Our method delivers correct results, as its analysis closely matches assessments made by professional dancers.
To the best of our knowledge, this work represents the first video-based dance practice system that analyses the synchronicity of dancers and music, as other research focuses on the alignment of multiple dancers.
Talk MA-Talk: Offenbarung einer Verfälschung von grafischen Daten zwischen ihrer Erzeugung und ihrer Anzeige
26.05.2023 13:00
IZ G30
Speaker(s): Tobias Hellmann
Talk Learned Optics — Improving Computational Imaging Systems through Deep Learning and Optimization
22.05.2023 13:00
IZ G30
Speaker(s): Wolfgang Heidrich
Computational imaging systems are based on the joint design of optics and associated image reconstruction algorithms. Historically, many such systems have employed simple transform-based reconstruction methods. Modern optimization methods and priors can drastically improve the reconstruction quality in computational imaging systems. Furthermore, learning-based methods can be used to design the optics along with the reconstruction method, yielding truly end-to-end optimized imaging systems that outperform classical solutions.
Wolfgang Heidrich is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering in the KAUST Visual Computing Center, for which he also served as director from 2014 to 2021. Prof. Heidrich joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2014, after 13 years as a faculty member at the University of British Columbia. He received his PhD in from the University of Erlangen in 1999, and then worked as a Research Associate in the Computer Graphics Group of the Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrucken, Germany, before joining UBC in 2000. Prof. Heidrich's research interests lie at the intersection of imaging, optics, computer vision, computer graphics, and inverse problems. His more recent interest is in computational imaging, focusing on hardware-software co-design of the next generation of imaging systems, with applications such as High-Dynamic Range imaging, compact computational cameras, hyperspectral cameras, to name just a few. Prof. Heidrich's work on High Dynamic Range Displays served as the basis for the technology behind Brightside Technologies, which was acquired by Dolby in 2007. Prof. Heidrich is a Fellow of the IEEE and Eurographics, and the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award.
Talk MA-Talk: Inference of Users' Emotional State from Facial Landmarks, Gaze, and Rigid Head Motion
08.05.2023 13:00
- 08.05.2023 14:00
IZ G30
Speaker(s): Moritz von Estorff
Talk BA-Talk: Adapting "Virtual Texturing" to Stream Data With Varying Information Density
14.04.2023 13:00
G30
Speaker(s): Marcel Purwins
Talk Promotions-Vor-Vortrag: Fast and Efficient Artifact Correction for CT Reconstruction
17.03.2023 13:00
- 17.03.2023 14:00
IZ G30
Speaker(s): Markus Wedekind
CT reconstruction is a highly studied field in image processing that aims to reconstruct 3D images from radiographic projections. In industrial CT in particular, datasets are of substantially higher resolution than in conventional medical applications and the metrological accuracy of computed results is of great importance. This leads to high demands towards the computational performance of reconstruction algorithms. It also imposes a need to compensate for an abundance of artifacts that are introduced when not accounting for physical effects that play a role during the acquisition of projections. In this dissertation, we present several techniques that combat such artifacts in CT reconstruction. Firstly, we devise a method for reducing or eliminating stair artifacts that occur when polygonizing surface meshes from voxel grids that have been reconstructed using CT. We employ the ability of the commonly used filtered backprojection technique to reconstruct infinitesimal voxels at arbitrary positions of the volume, and use it to circumvent the interpolation sub-voxel data that leads to the stair artifacts in the polygonization. Additionally, we seek to reduce ring artifacts in reconstructed volumes. These artifacts stem from incorrect normalization of detector screen pixels and particularly affects voxels near the axis of rotation in circular scans. We seek to reduce those artifacts by physically correctly modelling the flat-field errors that lead to the emergence of the artifacts. Simultaneously, we demonstrate a computationally efficient way to implement our method in an existing CT reconstruction pipeline. Finally, the challenge of compensating for geometric calibration errors is addressed. In the case of truncated projections, we develop and evaluate methods for calibration correction with limited or no data redundancy. We consider and examine both methods that operate in projection domain as well as ones operating in image domain.
Talk Disputation: Investigating the Perceived Authenticity and Communicative Abilities of Face-Swapped Portrait Videos
17.02.2023 13:00
G30
Speaker(s): Leslie Wöhler
Modern deep learning approaches allow for the automatic creation of highly realistic face-swapped videos. In these videos, recordings of two people are combined in a way that the face of a source person is applied to the video of a target person. This way, the resulting video obtains the facial identity of the source while keeping the body appearance, movements, and facial expressions of the target person. Thanks to their high degree of realism and automation of the generation process, face swaps are a valuable tool for creative and communicative scenarios. However, they could also be abused for criminal activities as they allow the impersonation of others and the generation of manipulated video content.
While many works focus on improving algorithms for the creation and detection of face swaps, there is only limited research on the perception of these modern video manipulations. As humans are very sensitive to changes and imbalances in facial representations, in my thesis I set out to investigate the perception of face swaps. Thereby, I focus on two areas: The perceived authenticity and the communicative abilities of face swaps.
To assess the quality and detectable cues in face swap videos, I examine whether humans can detect face swaps and which artifacts and facial areas are most important to detect manipulations using self-reports and eye tracking data. Furthermore, I discuss the perception of the conveyed emotions and personalities of face swaps to evaluate their usefulness as digital avatars in communicative scenarios. In order to perform reliable experiments and evaluations, I additionally introduce a novel dataset of face swaps designed for perceptual experiments as well as an eye tracking framework which enables the automatic generation of areas of interest in portrait videos.
The results of the experiments performed in this thesis indicate that modern face swaps are generally convincing and often mistaken for genuine videos.
While participants were able to report visible artifacts, they are usually attributed to video quality and did not suspect face swapping. The eye tracking data, on the other hand, revealed significant differences in viewing behavior between genuine and manipulated videos. This may indicate that some differences are perceived, but only subconsciously. Furthermore, my experiments show that face swaps are able to convey emotions and personality which makes them useful in communicative scenarios such as digital avatars.
Talk BA-Talk: Wavelet based Foveated Rendering of Videos in Virtual Reality
28.11.2022 13:00
- 28.11.2022 13:30
G30
Speaker(s): Christopher Graen
Talk MA-Talk: Point Cloud Scene Representations for Free-Viewpoint Synthesis
14.10.2022 13:00
- 14.10.2022 14:00
IZ G30
Speaker(s): Florian Hahlbohm
Talk Promotions-Vorvortrag: Investigating the Perceived Authenticity and Communicative Abilities of Face-Swapped Portrait Videos
07.10.2022 13:00
G30
Speaker(s): Leslie Wöhler
Talk MA-Talk: Entwicklung eines Segmentierungs- und Klassifizierungsverfahrens für räumliche und zeitliche Ionisationstracks eines Timepix3 Detektors
12.09.2022 13:00
- 12.09.2022 14:00
IZ G30 and online (https://webconf.tu-bs.de/mar-3vy-aef)
Speaker(s): Felix Lehner
Talk MA-Talk: Implementierung von unvoreingenommenen Schätzverfahren für Randintegrale im differenzierbaren Rendering
08.08.2022 13:00
- 08.08.2022 13:45
G30
Speaker(s): Leon Schütze
Talk MA Talk Development of a Parametric Microfacet-Based BRDF Model that Approximates Arbitrary Explicit Heightfields
23.06.2022 14:00
G30
Speaker(s): Jan-Frederick Musiol
Talk Promotions Vor-Vortrag: Measuring by Simulation - Efficient Inverse Problem Solutions with Differentiable Rendering
17.06.2022 13:00
G30
Speaker(s): Marc Kassubeck
Talk Promotions-Vorvortrag: Ego-Motion Aware Immersive Rendering from Real-World Recorded Panorama Videos
03.06.2022 13:00
G30
Moritz Mühlhausen is presenting his dissertation pre-talk Ego-Motion Aware Immersive Rendering from Real-World Recorded Panorama Videos on Friday, June, 03. at 1pm.
Talk BA-Talk: Automatic patch sampling for GANs through image retrieval
16.05.2022 10:00
https://webconf.tu-bs.de/mar-uf3-wqy
Speaker(s): Reiko Lettmoden
Talk Invited Talks: Layered Weighted Blended Order-Independent Transparency and AR Carcassonne
05.05.2022 13:00
G30
Speaker(s): Fabian Friederichs, Jannis Malte Möller
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Talk Disputation: Computer Graphics from a Bio-Signal Perspective - Exploration of Autonomic Human Physiological Responses to Synthetic and Natural Imagery
29.04.2022 10:30
IZ 812
Speaker(s): Jan-Philipp Tauscher
Talk Teamprojekt-Abschluss: Special Effects with Video Matching
29.03.2022 13:00
Online: https://webconf.tu-bs.de/mar-uf3-wqy
Präsentation der Ergebnisse des studentischen Teamprojekts.
Talk BA-Talk: Leistungsanalyse und Vergleich differenzierbarer Renderingsysteme
28.03.2022 13:30
- 28.03.2022 14:00
Online: http://webconf.tu-bs.de/mar-3vy-aef
Speaker(s): Domenik Jaspers
Talk BA-Talk: Erkennung und Einordnung von Emotionen in den semantischen Raum mittels Deep Learning
28.03.2022 13:00
- 28.03.2022 13:30
Online: http://webconf.tu-bs.de/mar-3vy-aef
Speaker(s): Bill Matthias Thang