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Michael Wand

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 4: Computer Graphics
Building 46.1, Room 208
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

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Phone: +49 681 9325 4008
Fax: +49 681 9325 499

Research Group

Head of the independent research group statistical geometry processing within the Cluster of Excellence "Multi-Modal Computing and Interaction" at Saarland University and MPI Informatik Saarbrücken. Supported as associated group within the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Interaction.

Research topics include:

Machine learning and graphics
Statistical tools for modeling and geometric data analysis
Symmetry detection and applications
Processing of animated geometry from real-time 3D scanners
Rendering, editing, and analysis of large geometric and spatial data sets

Our research is located at the intersection of computer vision and graphics. If it should be summarized in a single phrase, we work on "shape understanding". See our group page for more details.


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Teaching

Sommersemester 2013

Lecture: Geometric Modeling (this year: in collaboration with Klaus Hildebrandt and Tino Weinkauf)

Wintersemester 2012/2013

Lecture: Dynamic Geometry Processing (with Stefanie Wuhrer, block course in the semester break)

Sommersemester 2012

Lecture: Geometric Modeling

Wintersemester 2011 / 2012

Lecture: Statistical Geometry Processing
Lecture / Talk (January 30th): Perspektiven der Informatik: Bayes'sche Statistik (Slides)

Sommersemester 2011

Seminar: Scene Understanding Techniques for Geometric and Visual Data Sets

Wintersemester 2010 / 2011

Seminar: Texture Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for Images and 3D Geometry - from Automatic Photo Retouch to Inverse Procedural Modeling
Lecture / Talk (February 7th): Perspektiven der Informatik: Bayes'sche Statistik (Slides)

Sommersemester 2010

Lecture: Geometric Modeling
Lecture / Talk (June 7th): Perspektiven der Informatik: Bayes'sche Statistik (Slides)

Sommersemester 2009

Seminar: Geometric Correspondence Problems

Sommersemester 2008

Lecture: Geometric Modeling

Eurographics tutorials on correspondence problems and symmetry

Eurographics 2010 Tutorial "Geometric Registration for Deformable Shapes"
Eurographics 2011 Tutorial "Computing Correspondences in Geometric Data Sets"
Eurographics 2012 Tutorial "Dynamic Geometry Processing"
Eurographics 2013 Tutorial "Symmetry in Shapes – Theory and Practice"

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Publications

2013
	Martin Sunkel, Silke Jansen, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel: A Correlated Parts Model for Object Detection in Large 3D Scans. In: Computer Graphics Forum 32(2) (Proc. Eurographics), 2013. paper
	Antoine Milliez, Michael Wand, Marie-Paule Cani, Hans-Peter Seidel: Mutable elastic models for sculpting structured shapes. In: Computer Graphics Forum 32(2) (Proc. Eurographics), 2013. paper video
	Niloy Mitra, Mark Pauly, Michael Wand, Duygu Ceylan: Symmetry in 3D Geometry: Extraction and Applications. Computer Graphics Forum, to appear, 2013. project page publisher page
	Ceylan Duygu, Niloy Mitra, Maks Ovsjanikov, Mark Pauly, Michael Wand: Symmetry in Shapes – Theory and Practice. Eurographics 2013 tutorial. project page and slides
	Niloy Mitra, Michael Wand, Hao (Richard) Zhang, Daniel Cohen-Or, Martin Bokeloh: Structure-Aware Shape Processing. Eurographics 2013 State-of-the-Art Report (STAR). paper
2012
	Jens Kerber, Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel: Scalable Symmetry Detection for Urban Scenes. In: Computer Graphics Forum, to appear. previous technical report and video (paper/final video are not out yet)
	Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel, Vladlen Koltun: An Algebraic Model for Parameterized Shape Editing. In: Proc. SIGGRAPH 2012. project page, paper, video
	Art Tevs, Alexander Berner, Michael Wand, Ivo Ihrke, Martin Bokeloh, Jens Kerber, Hans-Peter Seidel: "Animation Cartography - Intrinsic Reconstruction of Shape and Motion", In: ACM Transactions on Graphics, 31(2), April 2012 (presented at Siggraph 2012). project page, paper (preprint, PDF, 10MB), video (mp4, 290MB) Copyright notice: © ACM, (2012). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version is to be published in ACM Transaction on Graphics, 31(2), April 2012: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2159516.2159517
	Javor Kalojanov, Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Leonidas Guibas, Hans-Peter Seidel and Philipp Slusallek: "Microtiles: Extracting Building Blocks from Correspondences", In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing), 2012. paper (preprint, PDF, 4.3MB)
	Ivo Ihrke, Ilya Reshetouski, Alkhazur Manakov, Art Tevs, Michael Wand, and Hans-Peter Seidel: "A Kaleidoscopic Approach to Surround Geometry and Reflectance Acquisition", In: CVPR Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD), 2012. paper (PDF, 12.5MB)
	Niloy J. Mitra, Mark Pauly, Michael Wand, Duygu Ceylan: Symmetry in 3D Geometry: Extraction and Applications. Eurographics State-of-the-art Report (STAR), 2012. project page, paper (23MB), paper (small - 6MB)
	Will Chang, Hao Li, Niloy Mitra, Mark Pauly, Michael Wand: Dynamic Geometry Processing. Eurographics 2012 tutorial. project page and slides
2011
	Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Vladlen Koltun, Hans-Peter Seidel: "Pattern-Aware Shape Deformation Using Sliding Dockers", In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. Siggraph Asia), 2011. project page, paper (preprint, PDF, 22MB), video (mp4, 72MB)
	Ruxandra Lasowski, Art Tevs, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel: "Wavelet Belief Propagation for Large Scale Inference Problems", In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011. project page, paper (preprint, PDF, 2MB)
	Martin Sunkel, Silke Jansen, Michael Wand, Elmar Eisemann, Hans-Peter Seidel: Learning Line Features in 3D Geometry. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2011. project page, paper (PDF, 17MB), video (mp4, 53MB)
	Alexander Berner, Michael Wand, Niloy Mitra, Daniel Mewes, Hans-Peter Seidel: Shape Analysis with Subspace Symmetries. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2011. project page, paper (PDF, 19MB), video (Youtube), slides (PDF, 4MB)
	Art Tevs, Alexander Berner, Michael Wand, Ivo Ihrke, Hans-Peter Seidel: Intrinsic Shape Matching by Planned Landmark Sampling. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2011. project page, paper (PDF, 20MB)
	Jens Kerber, Michael Wand, Jens Krüger, Hans-Peter Seidel: Partial Symmetry Detection in Volume Data. In: Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV) 2011. paper (PDF), video (MP4, 22MB)
	Alexander Berner, Oliver Burghard, Michael Wand, Niloy J. Mitra, Reinhard Klein, Hans-Peter Seidel: A Morphable Part Model for Shape Manipulation. MPI Informatik Tech Report MPI-I-2011-4-005. abstract
	Will Chang, Hao Li, Niloy Mitra, Mark Pauly, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Michael Wand: Computing Correspondences in Geometric Data Sets. Eurographics 2011 tutorial. project page and slides
2010
	Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel: A Connection between Partial Symmetry and Inverse Procedural Modeling. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics 29(4) (Proc. Siggraph), 2010. project page, paper (high-res, 24MB), paper (low-res, 1.8MB), video (Youtube)
	Miguel Granados, Boris Ajdin, Michael Wand, Christian Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel, H. Lensch: Optimal HDR reconstruction with linear digital cameras. In: Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010. paper (500KB)
	Thorsten Thormählen, Nils Halser, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel: Registration of Sub-Sequence and Multi-Camera Reconstructions for Camera Motion Estimation. In: Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting 7(2) (CVMP 2008 Special Issue), July 2010.
	Jens Kerber, Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Jens Krüger, Hans-Peter Seidel: Feature Preserving Sketching of Volume Data. In: Proc. Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), 2010. paper (PDF)
	Will Chang, Hao Li, Niloy Mitra, Mark Pauly, Michael Wand: Geometric Registration for Deformable Shapes. Eurographics 2010 tutorial. project page and slides
2009
	Ruxandra Lasowski, Art Tevs , Hans-Peter Seidel, Michael Wand: A Probabilistic Framework for Partial Intrinsic Symmetries in Geometric Data. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), September 2009. paper (4.7MB), video (mp4) (21.5MB) Hindsight: Please read these additional remarks on the properties of loopy belief propagation in our context.
	Alexander Berner, Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Andreas Schilling, Hans-Peter Seidel: Generalized Intrinsic Symmetry Detection. In: MPI Informatik Tech Report MPI-I-2009-4-005, 2009. paper (6MB)
	Art Tevs, Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Andreas Schilling, Hans-Peter Seidel: Isometric Registration of Ambiguous and Partial Data. In: Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '09), 2009. paper (2 MB), video: video (mp4) (30MB)
	Bart Adams, Martin Wicke, Maks Ovsjanikov, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel, Leonidas Guibas: Meshless Shape and Motion Design for Multiple Deformable Objects. In: Computer Graphics Forum 29(1), 43-59, 2011. paper (7.5 MB)
	Nils Halser, Bodo Rosenhahn, Thorsten Thormählen, Michael Wand, Jürgen Gall, Hans-Peter Seidel: Markerless Motion Capture with Unsynchronized Moving Cameras. In: Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '09), 2009. paper (12 MB), video: video (20.5MB)
	Martin Bokeloh, Alexander Berner, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel, Andreas Schilling: Symmetry Detection Using Line Features. In: Computer Graphics Forum, Proc. Eurographics '09. paper (10 MB), video: avi/xvid (40MB) quicktime (32MB), project page (link)
	Michael Wand, Bart Adams, Maks Ovsjanikov, Alexander Berner, Martin Bokeloh, Philipp Jenke, L. Guibas, Hans-Peter Seidel, Andreas Schilling: Efficient Reconstruction of Non-rigid Shape and Motion from Real-Time 3D Scanner Data. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(2), April 2009. paper (8 MB), video: avi/xvid (56MB) quicktime (66MB) Copyright notice: © ACM, (2009). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version has been published in ACM Transaction on Graphics, 28(2), April 2009.
	Michael Wand: Reconstruction Techniques for Shape and Motion. DAGM 2009 Tutorial: Visual 3D Scene Analysis and Synthesis (H. Lensch, B. Rosenhahn, Hans-Peter Seidel, C. Theobalt, Thorsten Thormählen, Michael Wand) slides (PDF) (15.7MB), official tutorial Web page (link)
2008
	Alexander Berner, Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Andreas Schilling, Hans-Peter Seidel: A Graph-Based Approach to Symmetry Detection. In: Proc. Symposium on Point-Based Graphics, 2008. paper (1 MB), project page (link)
	Martin Bokeloh, Alexander Berner, Michael Wand, Andreas Schilling, Hans-Peter Seidel: Slippage Features. Technical Report, WSI-2008-03, University of Tübingen, 2008. paper (6 MB)
	Thorsten Thormählen, Nils Halser, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel: Merging of Feature Tracks for Camera Motion Estimation from Video. In: 5th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2008), 2008. paper (3.1 MB)
	Philipp Jenke, Michael Wand, Wolfgang Straßer: Patch-Graph Reconstruction for Piecewise Smooth Surfaces, In: Proceedings Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), 2008. paper (2.5 MB)
	Bart Adams, Maks Ovsjanikov, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel, Leonidas J. Guibas: Meshless Modeling of Deformable Shapes and their Motion. In: ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2008. paper (4 MB), video (Youtube)
	Michael Wand, Alexander Berner, Martin Bokeloh, Philipp Jenke, Arno Fleck, Mark Hoffmann, Benjamin Maier, Dirk Staneker, Andreas Schilling, Hans-Peter Seidel: Processing and Interactive Editing of Huge Point Clouds from 3D Scanners. In: Computers and Graphics, 32(2), 204-220, 2008. paper (publisher site)
2007
	Philipp Jenke, Michael Wand, Wolfgang Straßer: Efficient Surface Reconstruction for Piecewise Smooth Objects. Technical Report, WSI-2007-05, University of Tübingen, 2007. paper (6.3 MB)
	Michael Wand, Alexander Berner, Martin Bokeloh, Arno Fleck, Mark Hoffmann, Philipp Jenke, Benjamin Maier, Dirk Staneker, Andreas Schilling: Interactive Editing of Large Point Clouds. In: Proc. Symposium on Point-Based Graphics (PBG 07), 2007. paper (3.9 MB) -- video (DivX, 46 MB) -- software (binary & source code) (Project Page / Download)
	Michael Wand, Philipp Jenke, Qi-Xing Huang, Martin Bokeloh, Leonidas J. Guibas, Andreas Schilling: Reconstruction of Deforming Geometry from Time-Varying Point Clouds. In: Proc. 5th Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 49-58, 2007. paper (0.6 MB) -- video (DivX, 36 MB)
	Qi-Xing Huang, Bart Adams, Michael Wand: Bayesian Surface Reconstruction via Iterative Scan Alignment to an Optimized Prototype. In: Proc.5th Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Barcelona, Spain, 2007. paper (21 MB)
	Michael Wand: Rendering of Very Large Models. In: M. Gross, H. Pfister (editors): Point-Based Graphics, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2007.
2006
	Philipp Jenke., Michael Wand, Martin Bokeloh, Andreas Schilling, Wolfgang Strasser: Bayesian Point Cloud Reconstruction. In: Computer Graphics forum 25(3), 379-388 (Proc. Eurographics 2006), 2006. paper (3.5 MB)
	Martin Bokeloh., Michael Wand: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Resolution Geometry Synthesis. In: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2006. paper (4.6 MB), video (DivX, 24MB)
2005
	Michael Wand: Punktbasierte Multiskalendarstellung. In: Dorothea Wagner et al. (Hrsg.): Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2004, GI-Edition - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), D-5 Bonner Köllen Verlag, 2005.
	Gregor Wetekam, Dirk Staneker, Urs Kanus, Michael Wand: A Hardware Architecture for Multi-Resolution Volume Rendering. In: Proc. of Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphics Hardware, 2005.
	Peter Biber, Sven Fleck, Michael Wand, Dirk Staneker, Wolfgang Straßer: First Experiences with a Mobile Platform for Flexible 3D Model Acquisition in Indoor and Outdoor Environments - The Wägele. In: 3D-ARCH'2005: 3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures, 2005.
	Peter Biber, Sven Fleck, Florian Busch, Michael Wand, Tom Duckett, Wolfgang Straßer: 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments by a mobile Platform With a Laser Scanner And Panoramic Camera. In: 13th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005), 2005.
2004
	Michael Wand: Point-Based Multi-Resolution Rendering. PhD Thesis, Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science, Graphical-Interactive Systems (WSI/GRIS), University of Tübingen, 2004. thesis (41 MB), compressed (10 MB)
	Michael Wand, Wolfgang Straßer: Multi-Resolution Sound Rendering. In: Proc. Symp. Point-Based Graphics, 2004. paper (0.9 MB) -- videos stadium1 (32 MB), stadium2 (49 MB), violin (32 MB) -- sound files (0.9 MB)
	Jan Klein, Jens Krokowski, Matthias Fischer, Michael Wand, Rolf Wanka, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide: The Randomized Sample Tree: A Data Structure for Externally Stored Virtual Environments. In: Presence 13(6), 2004.
2003
	Michael Wand, Wolfgang Straßer: Real-Time Caustics. In: P. Brunet and D. Fellner (eds), Computer Graphics Forum 22(3) (Proc. Eurographics 2003), 2003. paper (0.3 MB) -- video (9.2 MB)
	Michael Wand, Wolfgang Straßer: Multi-Resolution Point-Sample Raytracing. In: Graphics Interface 2003 Conference Proceedings, 2003. paper (0.5 MB) -- video (14 MB)
	Margarita Amor Lopez, Montse Boo, Angel del Rio, Michael Wand, Wolfgang Straßer: A New Algorithm for High-Speed Projection in Point Rendering Applications. In: DSD-Euromicro Conference, IEEE Computer Society, 2003.
	Michael Wand, Wolfgang Straßer: A Real-Time Sound Rendering Algorithm for Complex Scenes. Technical Report WSI-2003-5, Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science, Graphical-Interactive Systems (WSI/GRIS), University of Tübingen, 2003. paper (0.8 MB)
2002
	Stefan Guthe, Michael Wand, Julius Gonser, Wolfgang Straßer: Interactive Rendering of Large Volume Data Sets. In: Proc. IEEE Visualization 2002. paper (0.4 MB) -- video (14 MB)
	Jan Klein, Jens Krokowski, Matthias Fischer, Michael Wand, Rolf Wanka, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide: The Randomized Sample Tree: A Data Structure for Interactive Walkthroughs in Externally Stored Virtual Environments. In: Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), 2002.
	Michael Wand, Wolfgang Straßer: Multi-Resolution Rendering of Complex Animated Scenes. In: Computer Graphics Forum 21(3) (Proc. Eurographics 2002), 2002. paper (1.9 MB) -- video (20 MB)
2001
	Michael Wand, Matthias Fischer, Ingmar Peter, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Wolfgang Straßer: The Randomized z-Buffer Algorithm: Interactive Rendering of Highly Complex Scenes. In: SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Proceedings, 2001. paper (0.5 MB) -- video (20 MB)
2000
	Michael Wand, Matthias Fischer, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide: Randomized Point Sampling for Output-Sensitive Rendering of Complex Dynamic Scenes. Technical Report WSI-2000-20, Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science, Graphical-Interactive Systems (WSI/GRIS), University of Tübingen, 2000. paper (0.9 MB)

Funding & Support


Max-Planck Institut Informatik	Cluster of Excellence "Multi-Modal Computing and Interaction"	Max-Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication	Universität des Saarlandes