Dr.-Ing. Edilson de Aguiar

I finished my PhD in December/2008.

Now, I have joined Disney Research Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Graphics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University as a Post-doctoral Researcher.

NEW Email: edilson [at] disneyresearch.com

New Webpage: Available soon

Personal

I was born in Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil in 11/Jun/1979. I studied Computer Engineering in the Federal University of Espirito Santo. In Germany I received my Master degree in Computer Science by the University of Saarland. Currently, I am a PhD Student in Computer Science in the Computer Graphics Group in the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik. I am part of the research group 3D Video and Vision-based Graphics in the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication.

My supervisors are Dr. Christian Theobalt and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel.

Curriculum Vitae: [PT], [EN], [DE]

Research Interests

3D Video
Motion Capture
Performance Capture
Character Animation
Virtual and Augmented Reality

Projects

Marker-less Deformable Mesh Tracking. [project page]
Skeleton-less Animation of Laser-Scanned Characters. [project page]
Learning Kinematic Structures for Motion Analysis and Animation Processing. [project page]
Reconstructing Human Shape and Motion. [project page]
Automatic Generation of Human Avatars. [project page]
Relightable 3D Video. [project page]
Automatic Skeleton Reconstruction. [project page]
Character Animation from a MOCAP Database. [project page]
Participating within the European Union's 3DTV Network of Excellence, at the package 3D Time-varying Scene Capture Technology.

Tutorials and Book Chapters

	New Trends in 3D Video Christian Theobalt, Stephan Wuermlin, Edilson de Aguiar and Christoph Niederberger Organizers: Christian Theobalt (MPI), Stephan Wuermlin (ETH Zurich) In: EUROGRAPHICS 2007, Tutorial 5, 2007.
	C. Theobalt, E. de Aguiar, M. A. Magnor, and H.-P. Seidel, Reconstructing Human Shape, Motion and Appearance from Multi-view Video. Chapter in book Three-Dimensional Television: Capture, Transmission, and Display. Editors: Haldun M. Ozaktas and Levent Onural. Springer, Heidelberg, 2007. [Amazon website]
	E. de Aguiar, Animation and Performance Capture using Digitized Models. Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, Vol. 5, ISBN: 978-3-642-10315-5, Springer Verlag, 2010. In press. [Springer website] [ Amazon website]

Publications

	J. Gall, C. Stoll, E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, B. Rosenhahn and H.-P. Seidel, Motion Capture Using Joint Skeleton Tracking and Surface Estimation. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09). To appear. [pdf]
	E. de Aguiar, Animation and Performance Capture Using Digitized Models. Ph.D. thesis, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science and Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, 2008.
	E. de Aguiar, C. Stoll, C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, H.-P. Seidel and S. Thrun, Performance Capture from Sparse Multi-view Video. ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(3) (Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH'08), 2008, In Press. [pdf] [project page]
	E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, and H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Conversion of Mesh Animations into Skeleton-based Animations. Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS 2008 (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	M. Eisemann, B. de Decker, M. Magnor, P. Bekaert, E. de Aguiar, N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt and A. Sellent, Floating Textures. Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS 2008 (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece. [project page]
	E. de Aguiar , C. Theobalt, C. Stoll, and H.-P. Seidel, Marker-less 3D Feature Tracking for Mesh-based Motion Capture. In 2nd Workshop on Human Motion. ICCV'07, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [pdf]
	C. Theobalt, C. Roessl, E. de Aguiar and H.-P. Seidel, Animation Collage. In Proc. of ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2007), San Diego, USA. [pdf] [avi]
	C. Stoll, E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt and H.-P. Seidel, A Volumetric Approach to Interactive Shape Editing. Technical Report MPI-I-2007-4-004, MPII, 2007. [pdf]
	E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll and H.-P. Seidel, Marker-less Deformable Mesh Tracking for Human Shape and Motion Capture. In Proc. of IEEE CVPR 2007, Minneapolis, USA. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	E. de Aguiar, R. Zayer, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor and H.-P. Seidel, Video-driven Animation of Human Body Scans. In IEEE 3DTV Conference 2007, Kos Island, Greece. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll and H.-P. Seidel, Rapid Animation of Laser-scanned Humans. In Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2007, pp. 223-226, Charlotte, USA. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	E. de Aguiar, R. Zayer, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, A Simple Framework for Natural Animation of Digitized Models. Proc. of SIBGRAPI'07. IEEE Press, 2007. [pdf] [project page]
	E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Learning of Articulated Skeletons from 3D Marker Trajectories. In Proc. of Second International Symposium, ISVC 2006, pp. 485-494, Lake Tahoe, USA. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Reconstructing Human Shape and Motion from Multi-view video. 2nd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), p. 42-49. London, UK. 2005. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Generation of Personalized Human Avatars from Multi-view Video. Proceedings of the ACM VRST '05, p. 257-260. Monterey, USA. 2005. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, G. Ziegler, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Joint Motion and Reflectance Capture for Relightable 3D Video , Technical Sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, 2005. [pdf] [project page]
	C. Theobalt, E. de Aguiar, M. Magnor, H. Theisel, H.-P. Seidel: Marker-free Kinematic Skeleton Estimation from Sequences of Volume Data, In Proc. of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), p.57-64, Hong Kong, China, 2004. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H. Theisel, H.-P. Seidel: M^3: Marker-free Model Reconstruction and Motion Tracking from 3D Voxel Data. In Proc. of Pacific Graphics 2004, p.101-110, Seoul, Korea. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]
	E. de Aguiar: Character Animation from a Motion Capture Database, Master thesis, University of Saarland, 2004. [pdf] [BibTeX] [project page]

Education

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik - Saarbrücken, Germany
Ph.D. candidate - Computer Science - since Summer/2004.
Research in Computer Graphics in the AG4 group under the supervision of Dr. Christian Theobalt and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel.

Stanford University, USA
Visiting Reseacher - Robotics Lab - Computer Science Department - Aug/2007 - Feb/2008
Research in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics under the supervision of Dr. Christian Theobalt and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thrun.

Saarland University - Saarbrücken, Germany
Master of Science in Computer Science - Winter/2002 ~ Summer/2004.
Research in generating realistic character animation from a motion database under the supervision of Dr. Christian Theobalt and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel.

Biomedical Engineering Center - UNICAMP - Campinas, Brazil
Master Student in Biomedical Engineering - 03/2002 ~ 09/2002
Advanced courses in Biomedical Sensors, Medical Equipments and Biomedical Engineering.

Federal University of Espirito Santo - Vitoria, Brazil
Bachelor in Computer Engineering - 03/1997 ~ 03/2002
Background knowledge in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.