Conference papers


Fitting a Morphable Model to 3D Scans of Faces.
Blanz, V., Scherbaum, K., and Seidel, H.-P.
In: Proc. Of Int. Conf. on Computer Vision ICCV 2007.pdf
Hand Gesture Recognition with a noval IR Time-of-Flight Range Camera -- A pilot study
Breuer, P., Eckes, C. and Müller, S.
In proc. of Mirage 2007, Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications, March, 28-30 2007, INRIA Rocquencourt, France, pp. 247-260
Prediction of Individual Non-Linear Aging Trajectories of Faces, In Computer Graphics
K. Scherbaum, M. Sunkel, H.-P. Seidel, and V. Blanz
Forum 26(3) Eurographics 2007pdf
Superresolution Reflectance Fields: Synthesizing Images for Intermediate Light Directions, In Computer Graphics
M. Fuchs, H.Lensch, V. Blanz, and H.-P. Seidel
Forum 26(3) Eurographics 2007pdf
Computing Human Faces for Human Viewers: Automated Animation in Photographs and Paintings.
V. Blanz
In: Int. Conf on Multimodal Interfaces ICMI 06.pdf
Creating Face Models from Vague Mental Images
Blanz, V., Albrecht, I., Haber, J. and Seidel, H.-P.
Computer Graphics Forum 25(3) Eurographics 2006, pp.645-654. pdf
Face Recognition based on a 3D Morphable Model.
Blanz, V.
Proc. of the 7th Int. Conference of Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp 617-622, 2006 (Invited paper) pdf
"Learnig-Based Facial Rearticulation Using Streams of 3D Scans."
R. Bargmann, V. Blanz, H.-P. Seidel
Proceedings og PACIFIC GRAPHICS 2006, to appear
Detecting acromegaly: Screening for disease with a morphable model.
E. Learned-Miller, Q. Lu, A. Paisley, P. Trainer, V.Blanz, K. Dedden and R. E. Miller
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2006, pdf
Face Recognition based on Frontal Views generated from Non-Frontal Images. Blanz, V., Grother, P. Phillips, J. and Vetter, T. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR 2005. pdf
Bayesian Relighting. Fuchs, M. Blanz, V., Seidel, H-P. Eurographics Symp. on Rendering EGSR 2005. pdfSupport Vector Machines for 3D Shape Processing. Steinke, F., Schoelkopf, B. and Blanz, V., Computer Graphics Forum 24(3) Eurographics 2005. pdf
Object Correspondence as a Machine Learning Problem. Schoelkopf, B, Steinke, F. and Blanz, V., Int. Conf on Machine Learning ICML 2005. pdfPerceptual Evaluation of Tone Mapping Operators with Real-World Scenes. Yoshida, A, Blanz, V., Myszkowski, K and Seidel, H-P. IS&T /SPIE Annual Symp. on Electronic Imaging 2005.
Exchanging Faces in Images, Blanz, V., Scherbaum, K., Vetter, T. and Seidel, H. P.
In: Cani, M.-P. and Slater, M. (Eds) Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS 2004,
Grenoble, France, 2004. pdf EG2004 Best Paper Award (1st Prize)
Component-Based Face recognition with 3D Morphable Models, B. Weyrauch, J. Huang, B. Heisele and V. Blanz, IEEE Workshop on Face processing in Video, FPIV04, Washington, D.C., 2004
A Statistical Method for Robust 3D Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Data. Blanz, V., Mehl, A., Vetter, T. and Seidel, H. P.
Int. Symp. on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2004. pdf
Reanimating Faces in Images and Video, Blanz, V., Basso, C., Poggio, T. and Vetter, T.
In: Brunet, P and Fellner, D (Eds) Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2003, Granada, Spain, 2003. pdf EG2003 Best Paper Award (1st Prize)
Face Identification across Different Poses and Illuminations with a 3D Morphable Model.
Blanz, V. and Romdhani, S. and Vetter, T.
Proc. of the 5th Int. Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition", pp 202-207, 2002. pdf
Component-based Face Recognition with 3D Morphable Models, Huang, J., Heisele, B., and Blanz, V.
Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authenticitation
Surrey, UK, 2003. pdf
Face Recognition Using Component-Based SVM Classification and Morphable Models
J. Huang, V. Blanz, B. Heisele. In:
S.-W. Lee and A. Verri (Eds.): SVM 2002,
LNCS 2388, pp.334-341, 2002
Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2002. pdf
Face Identification by Fitting a 3D Morphable Model using Linear Shape and Texture Error Functions
S. Romdhani, V. Blanz, and T. Vetter, Computer Vision - ECCV 2002, May 2002, LNCS 2353, pp. 3-19. pdf
Memory for atypical and typical objects.
F. N. Newell, M. Peskin, H. H. Bülthoff, V. Blanz
ECVP 2001 abstract.
Face Reconstruction from a Small Number of Feature Points.
B.W. Hwang, V. Blanz, T. Vetter, and S.W. Lee International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2000 Barcelona, Spain, pp 842-845, 2000
A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces.
Blanz, V. and Vetter, T. SIGGRAPH'99 Conference Proceedingspdf,ps.gz
On the other-side of the mean: Perceiving the dissimilarity of faces.
O'Toole, AJ Blanz, V., Vetter T., Wild, H. A. 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Nov. 1999, Los Angeles CA.
3D-Reconstruction of Faces: Combining Stereo with Class-Based Knowledge. C. Wallraven, V. Blanz, and T. Vetter Mustererkennung 1999, W. Foerstner, J. Buhmann, A. Faber, and P. Faber (eds.) Springer, pp405-412.Estimating Coloured 3D Face Models from Single Images: An Example Based Approach.
Vetter, T. and Blanz, V. Computer Vision ECCV'98 --Freiburg, Germany, pp499-513, Springer, LNCS 1407. pdf
Generalization to Novel Views from a Single Face Image.
Vetter, T. and Blanz, V. 3D Image Analysis and Synthesis'97 --Erlangen, pp43-50, infix, Sankt Augustin.
Comparison of View-Based Object Recognition Algorithms Using Realistic 3D Models.
V. Blanz, B. Schoelkopf, H.H. Buelthoff, C. Burges, V. Vapnik and T. Vetter, ICANN96, Bochum pp 251-256 Springer, LNCS 1112 pdf, ps.gz



Journal Articles


The role of familiarity in three-dimensional view transferability of face identity adaptation.
F. Jiang, V. Blanz and A. J. O'Toole
Vision Research 47(4) 525-531pdf
Adaptive sampling of reflectance fields.
M. Fuchs, V. Blanz, H. Lensch, H.-P. Seidel ACM Trans. Graph. 26(2): (2007)
Testing Tone Mapping Operators with Human-Perceived Reality
Akiko Yoshida, Volker Blanz, Karol Myszkowski, and Hans-Peter Seidel. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 16(1), pp. 013004-1 - 013004-14, Springfield, VA, USA, 2007.pdf
Probing the Visual Representation of Faces With Adaption. A View From the Other Side of the Mean.
Jiang, F., Blanz, V., O'Toole, A.J.
Psychological Science 17(6) pp 493-500, 2006
Evaluation of a Shape-Based Model of Human Face Dicrimination Using fMRI and Behavorial Techniques
Jiang, X., Rosen, E., Zeffiro, T., VanMeter, J., Blanz V. and Riesenhuber M. In: Neuron 50, 159-172 (2006).
Reflectance from Images: A Model-Based Approach for Human Faces.
Fuchs, M., Blanz, V., Lensch, H., and Seidel, H-P. IEEE Trans on Visualization and Comp. Graphics 11(3), pp 296-305, 2005
Biogeneric Tooth - A New Mathematical Representation for Tooth Morphology in Case of Lower First Molars.
Mehl, A., Blanz, V. and Hickel, R. Eur. J.Oral Sci (accepted) 2005.
A New Approach for Automatic Reconstruction of Occlusal Surfaces with the Biogeneric Tooth Model.
Blanz, V. and Vetter, T.
Mehl, A. Blanz, V. In: Int. J. Comp. Dent 8, pp 13-25, 2005
Was ist der "Durchschnittszahn"? - Ein mathematischer Ansatz fuer die automatische Berechnung einer repraesentativen Kauflaeche. ?
- Mehl, A. Blanz, V. Hickel, R. Dtsch. Zahnaerztl. Z (in print) 2005
Face Recognition Based on Fitting a 3D Morphable Model
Blanz, V. and Vetter, T.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.25 no. 9, pp 1063 - 1074, 2003. pdf
Prototype-referenced shape encoding revealed by high-level aftereffects.
Leopold, D. A., O'Toole, A. J., Vetter, T. and Blanz, V. Nature Neuroscience 4(1), pp 89-94, 2001 pdf
On the other side of the mean:
The perception of dissimilarity in human faces V. Blanz, A. J. O'Toole, T. Vetter, H. A. Wild, Perception 29, pp.885-891, 2000
What object attributes determine canonical views?
V. Blanz, M.J. Tarr, H.H Buelthoff, Perception 1999, volume 28, pp 575-599
Three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface textures of human faces: The role of "averages" in attractiveness and age.
O'Toole, A. J., Price, T., Vetter, T., Bartlett, J. C. & Blanz,V. Image and Vision Computing Journal. 18, pp 9-19, 1999.
Three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface reflectance contributions to face recognition: An application of three-dimensional morphing.
O'Toole, A. J., Vetter, T. & Blanz, V. (1999). Vision Research, 39, 3145-3155.
To what extent do unique parts influence recognition across changes in viewpoint?
Tarr, M. J., & Buelthoff, H. H., Zabinski, M., & Blanz, V. (1997). Psychological Science, 8(4), 282-289.



Technical Reports


Automatic 3D Face Reconstruction from Single Images or Video.
Breuer, P., Kim, K.I., Kienzle, W., Blanz, V., and Schölkopf, B. Max-Planck-Institut für Biologische Kybernetik - Technical Report No. 160
Reflectance from Images: A Model-Based Approach for Human Faces.
Fuchs, M., Blanz, V., Lensch, H., and Seidel, H-P. Max-Planck Institut Informatik MPI-I-2005-4-001 Research Report 2005
Generating Frontal Views from Single, Non-Frontal Images,
Blanz, V. and Vetter, T. In: Face Recognition Vendor Test 2002, Technical Appendices,
Nat. Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST),
NISTIR 6965, Appendix O, 2003. pdf
Face Recognition Based on 3D Shape Estimation from Single Images.
Blanz, V. Vetter, T., Computer Graphics Technical Report No.2, University of Freiburg, 2002. pdf ps.gz
Reconstructing the Complete 3D Shape of Faces from Partial Information.
Blanz, V. Vetter, T., Computer Graphics Technical Report No.1, University of Freiburg, 2001. pdf ps.gz



Other Publications


A Learning-Based High-Level Human Computer Interface for Face Modeling and Animation.
Blanz, V. Artifical Intelligence for Human Computing 2007: Springer LNAI 4517, pp 296-315
Creating Face Models from Vague Mental Images.
Albrecht, I., Blanz, V., Haber, J. and Seidel, H-P. Siggraph Sketch 2005
Morphable Models of Faces.
Romdhani, S., Blanz, V., Basso, C. and Vetter, T. In: Handbook of Face Recognition, Eds. Li, S., and Jain, A. pp 217-245, 2005.
Haber J., Blanz V., Magnenat-Thalmann N, Terzopoulos D.
Facial Modeling and Animation - Eurographics 2003
Tutorial Notes, September 2003.
Haber J., Magnenat-Thalmann N, Terzopoulos D., Vetter T., Blanz V., Kaehler K.
Facial Modeling and Animation - Eurographics 2002
Tutorial Notes, September 2002.
Automatische Rekonstruktion der dreidimensionalen Form von Gesichtern aus einem Einzelbild.V. Blanz, Dissertation, Universität Tübingen, 2000.