Head of the Computer Graphics Department

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel

Contact

Address:	Max-Planck-Institut Informatik Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85 66123 Saarbrücken Germany
Room:	201
Phone:	+49 681 9325-400
Fax:	+49 681 9325-499
Email:	hpseidel@mpi-sb.mpg.de
Secretary:	Sabine Budde

Education

24.04.1958	born in Stuttgart
1977	Abitur, Staufer-Gymnasium Waiblingen
1978 - 1984	Study of Mathematics und Physics, Tübingen University
1984 - 1985	University of California, Berkeley, USA
1985 - 1987	PhD in Mathematics, Tübingen University
1986	Marriage with Stefanie Seidel, geb. Reiff, two children
1987 - 1989	Habilitation in Computer Science, Tübingen University

Fellowships and Professional Experience

1977 - 1984	German National Merit Foundation
1984 - 1985	USA-Fellowship, German National Merit Foundation
1985 - 1987	PhD-Fellowship, German National Merit Foundation
1987 - 1989	Research Associate, WSI/GRIS, Tübingen University
1989 - 1992	Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Waterloo, Canada
1992 - 1999	Full professor (Chair for Computer Graphics) Erlangen University
1992 -	Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
1999 -	Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken
1999 -	Affiliated Professor, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Awards

2004	Founding Chair, Eurographics Awards Programme
2003	Leibniz-Prize, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2003	Fellow, Eurographics Association
2002	ACM Recognition of Service Award

Journal Editorship

2004 -	IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
2001 -	International Journal of Shape Modeling (IJSM)
1999 -	The Visual Computer (TVC)
1999 -	Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD)
1995 -	Graphical Models (GMOD)
1993 -	Computer Graphics Forum (Chief Editor 1993 - 1999) (CGF)

Conference Organization (2001 - 2004)

2004	ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality (VRST) (Co-Chair)
2004	Vision, Modeling and Visualization'04 (Co-Chair)
2004	ACM Siggraph'04 (Papers Advisory Committee)
2003	Dagstuhl Workshop on Hierarchical Methods in Computer Graphics (Co-Chair)
2003	Dagstuhl Workshop in Honor of Carl de Boor (Co-Chair)
2002	ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling (Co-Chair)
2002	EUROGRAPHICS'02 (Program Co-Chair)
2002	Vision, Modeling and Visualization'02 (Program Co-Chair)
2001	ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling (Co-Chair)

Other Academic Activities

2005 -	Chair, European Association for Computer Graphics Eurographics)
2004 -	Election to DFG Fachkollegium Informatik
2004	International Review Panel, Computer Science Departments
	TU Delft, Univ. Leiden, The Netherlands
2004 -	Executive Committee, Solid Modeling Association (Steering Committee
	ACM Solid Modeling Symposium)
2003 -	Co-Director, Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication
	Stanford/Saarbrücken
2003 - 2004	Vice Chair, European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics)
2001 - 2003	Managing Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science
2000 - 2003	Perspectivenkommission CPTS, Max-Planck-Society
1998 -	Scientific Advisory Board, Leibniz Minerva Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1998 - 1999	Stv. Sprecher, DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 603, Model Based Analysis and
	Visualization of Complex Scenes and Sensor Data, Univ. Erlangen
1997 - 1999	Coordinator, DAAD Bachelor-Master-Programm Comp. Engineering, Univ. Erlangen
1996 - 1999	Stv. Sprecher, DFG Graduiertenkolleg 3D Image Analysis and Synthesis, Univ. Erlangen
1996 - 1997	Managing Director, Computer Science Institute, Univ. Erlangen
1993 -	Eurographics Executive Committee

Grants

Seidel has received grants from a wide range of organizations, including the German National Science Foundation (DFG), the German Government (BMBF), the European Community (EU), NATO, and the German-Israel Foundation (GIF). Some of his current project activities include: Coordinator EU project ViHAP3D, Coordinator EU Marie Curie Training Site for Complex Computer Systems at MPII, Co-Director Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication Stanford/Saarbrücken.

In February 2003 Seidel was awarded the `Leibniz Prize', the most prestigious German research award from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Seidel is the first computer graphics researchers to receive this award.

Selected Publications (2003-2004)

C. Theobalt, I. Albrecht, J. Haber, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Pitching a baseball - tracking high-speed motion with multi-exposure images, ACM Trans. Graphics, 23(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'04), 2004.
Y. Ohtake, A. Belyaev, H.-P. Seidel, Ridge-Valley Lines on Meshes via Implicit Surface Fitting, ACM Trans. Graphics, 23(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'04), 2004.
R. Mantiuk, G. Krawcyk, K. Myszkowski, H.-P. Seidel, Perception-motivated high dynamic range video encoding, ACM Trans. Graphics, 23 (3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'04), 2004.
M. Goesele, H. Lensch, J. Lang, C. Fuchs, H.-P. Seidel, DISCO - acquisition of translucent objects, ACM Trans. Graphics, 23(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'04), 2004.
J. Haber, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, From dust to dawn - physically based simulation of twilight phenomena, ACM Trans. Graphics, accepted for publication.
V. Blanz, K. Scherbaum, T. Vetter, H.-P. Seidel, Exchanging faces in images, Computer Graphics Forum, 23(3) (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS'04), 2004.
J. Schoner, J. Lang, H.-P. Seidel, Measurement-based interactive simulation of viscoelastic solids, Computer Graphics Forum, 23(3) (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS'04), 2004.
Ming Li, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Hardware-accelerated rendering of photo hulls, Computer Graphics Forum, 23(3) (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS'04), 2004.
T. Weinkauf, H. Theisel, H.-C. Hege, H.-P. Seidel, Topological construction and visualization of higher order 3D vector fields, Computer Graphics Forum, 23(3) (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS'04), 2004.
C. Roessl, F. Zeilfelder, G. Nuernberger, H.-P. Seidel, Reconstruction of volume data with quadratic super splines, IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10, 397 - 409, 2004.
C. Theobalt, J. Carranza, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, 3D video - being part of the movie, ACM Computer Graphics, 38, 2004.
M. Tarini, H. Lensch, M. Goesele, H.-P. Seidel, 3D acquisition of mirroring objects, Graphical Models, 67(37), 2004.
T. Annen, J. Kautz, F. Durand, H.-P. Seidel, Spherical harmonic gradients for mid-range illumination, Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering'04, 2004.
M. Ahn, S. Lee, H.-P. Seidel, Connectivity transformation for mesh metamorphosis, Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing'04, 2004.
O. Sorkine, Y. Lipman, D. Cohen-Or, M. Alexa, C. Roessl, H.-P. Seidel, Laplacian surface editing, Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing'04, 2004.
Y. Lipman, O. Sorkine, D. Cohen-Or, D. Levin, C. Roessl, H.-P. Seidel, Differential coordinates for interactive mesh editing, Proc. Shape Modeling International (SMI'04), 2004.
H. Theisel, T. Weinkauf, H.-C. Hege, H.-P. Seidel, Stream line and path line oriented topology for 2D time-dependent vector fields, Proc. IEEE Visualization'04, 2004.
G. Ziegler, H. Lensch, A. Naveed, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Multi-video compression in texture space using 4D SPIHT, Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'04), 2004.
E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H. Theisel, H.-P. Seidel, Marker-free model reconstruction and motion tracking from 3D voxel data, Proc. Pacific Graphics'04, 2004.
K. Dmitriev, T. Annen, G. Krawcyk, K. Myszkowski, H.-P. Seidel, A CAVE system for interactive modeling of global illumination in car interior, Proc. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology'04, 2004.
J. Carranza, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Free viewpoint video of human actors, ACM Trans. Graphics, 22(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'03), 2003.
M. Goesele, X. Granier, W. Heidrich, H.-P. Seidel, Accurate light source acquisition and rendering, ACM Trans. Graphics, 22(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'03), 2003.
K. Kähler, J. Haber, H.-P. Seidel, Reanimating the dead: reconstruction of expressive faces from skull data, ACM Trans. Graphics, 22(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'03), 2003.
Y. Ohtake, A. Belyaev, M. Alexa, G. Turk, H.-P. Seidel, Multi-level partition of unity implicits, ACM Trans. Graphics, 22(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'03), 2003.
H. Lensch, J. Kautz, M. Goesele, W. Heidrich, H.-P. Seidel, Image based reconstruction of spatial appearance and geometric detail, ACM Trans. Graphics, 22(2):234-257, 2003.
S. Brabec, H.-P. Seidel, Shadow volumes on programmable graphics hardware, Computer Graphics Forum, 22(3) (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS '03), 2003.
H. Lensch, J. Lang, A. Sa, H.-P. Seidel, Planned sampling of spatially varying BRDFs, Computer Graphics Forum, 22(3) (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS '03), 2003.
H. Theisel, C. Rössl, H.-P. Seidel, Compression of 2D vector fields under guaranteed topology preservation, Computer Graphics Forum, 22(3) (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS '03), 2003.
K. Daubert, W. Heidrich, J. Kautz, J.-M. Dischler, H.-P. Seidel, Efficient light transport using precomputed visibility, IEEE Comp.Graph.Appl., 23(3): 28-37, 2003.
S. Yoshizawa, A. Belyaev, H.-P. Seidel, Free-form skeleton-driven mesh deformations, Proc. ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling'03, Seattle, 2003.
J. Vorsatz, C. Rössl, H.-P. Seidel, Dynamic remeshing and applications, Proc. ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling'03, Seattle, 2003.
I. Ivrissimtzis, H.-P. Seidel, Using growing cell structures for surface reconstruction, Proc. Shape Modeling International '03, 2003.