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Wand, Michael

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 408
Fax: +49 681 9325 499

Research

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.

Research topics include:

  • Machine learning and graphics
  • Statistical tools for modeling and geometric data analysis
  • Processing of animated geometry from real-time 3D scanners
  • Efficient large scene rendering and editing
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Teaching

Sommersemester 2008

Software

XGRT - Extensible Graphics Toolkit

XGRT is an object-oriented framework for computer graphics applications, especially in the area of geometry processing. It offers interactive editing of large out-of-core point clouds and a number of geometry processing algorithms. more...

Publications

 2009


Probabilistic Framwork for Intrinsic Symmetries

 R. Lasowski, A. Tevs , H.-P. Seidel, M. 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)
Deformable Correspondences
 A. Berner, M. Bokeloh, M. Wand, A. Schilling, H.-P. Seidel: Generalized Intrinsic Symmetry Detection. In: MPI Informatik Tech Report MPI-I-2009-4-005, 2009.

paper (6MB)
Deformable Correspondences
 A. Tevs, M. Bokeloh, M.Wand, A. Schilling, H.-P. 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)
Motion Capture
 N. Hasler, B. Rosenhahn, T. Thormählen, M. Wand, J. Gall, H.-P. 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)
Symmetry Detection
 M. Bokeloh, A. Berner, M.Wand, H.-P. Seidel, A. 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)
Animation Reconstruction 2.0
 M. Wand, B. Adams, M. Ovsjanikov, A. Berner, M. Bokeloh, P. Jenke, L. Guibas, H.-P. Seidel, A. 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 is to be published in ACM Transaction on Graphics, 28(2), April 2009, to appear.
Animation Reconstruction 2.0
 M. Wand: Reconstruction Techniques for Shape and Motion. DAGM 2009 Tutorial: Visual 3D Scene Analysis and Synthesis (H. Lensch, B. Rosenhahn, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, T. Thormählen, M. Wand)

slides (PDF) (15.7MB)

official tutorial Web page (link)
 2008
Symmetry Detection A. Berner, M. Bokeloh, M.Wand, A. Schilling, H.-P. Seidel: A Graph-Based Approach to Symmetry Detection. In: Proc. Symposium on Point-Based Graphics, 2008.

paper (1 MB), project page (link)
Slippage Features M. Bokeloh, A. Berner, M. Wand, A. Schilling, H.-P. Seidel: Slippage Features. Technical Report, WSI-2008-03, University of Tübingen, 2008.

paper (6 MB)
Merging Feature Tracks
 T. Thormählen, N. Hasler, M. Wand, H.-P. 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)
Out-of-core Rendering and Editing Jenke, P., Wand, M., Straßer, W.: Patch-Graph Reconstruction for Piecewise Smooth Surfaces, In: Proceedings Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), 2008.

paper (2.5 MB)
Deformable Shapes B. Adams, M. Ovsjanikov, M. Wand, H.-P. Seidel, L. J. Guibas: Meshless Modeling of Deformable Shapes and their Motion. To appear at the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2008.

paper (4 MB), video (60 MB)
Out-of-core Rendering and Editing M. Wand, A. Berner, M. Bokeloh, P. Jenke, A. Fleck, M. Hoffmann, B. Maier, D. Staneker, A.Schilling, H.-P. 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
Out-of-core Rendering and Editing P. Jenke, M. Wand, W. Straßer: Efficient Surface Reconstruction for Piecewise Smooth Objects. Technical Report, WSI-2007-05, University of Tübingen, 2007.

paper (6.3 MB)
Out-of-core Rendering and Editing
 M. Wand, A. Berner, M. Bokeloh, A. Fleck, M. Hoffmann, P. Jenke, B. Maier, D. Staneker, A.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)
Animation Reconstruction
 M. Wand, P. Jenke, Q. Huang, M. Bokeloh, L. Guibas, and A. 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)
Joint Reconstruction and Registration with a Reference Surface
 Q.-X. Huang, B. Adams, M. 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)
Rendering of Very Large Models
 M. Wand: Rendering of Very Large Models. In: M. Gross, H. Pfister (editors): Point-Based Graphics, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2007.
 2006
Bayesian Point Cloud Reconstruction
 P. Jenke., M. Wand, M. Bokeloh, A. Schilling, W. Strasser: Bayesian Point Cloud Reconstruction. In: Computer Graphics forum 25(3), 379-388 (Proc. Eurographics 2006), 2006.

paper (3.5 MB)
Hardware Accelerated Multi-Resolution Geometry Synthesis
 M. Bokeloh., M. Wand: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Resolution Geometry Synthesis. In: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2006.

paper (4.6 MB), video (DivX, 24MB)
 2005
Hardware Accelerated Multi-Resolution Geometry Synthesis M. 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.
Multi-Resolution Volume Rendering Hardware
 G. Wetekam, D. Staneker, U. Kanus, M. Wand: A Hardware Architecture for Multi-Resolution Volume Rendering. In: Proc. of Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphics Hardware, 2005.
The "Wägele"
 P. Biber, S. Fleck, M. Wand, D. Staneker, W. 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.
The "Wägele"
 P. Biber, S. Fleck, F. Busch, M. Wand, T. Duckett, W. 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
PhD Thesis
 M. 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)
Multi-Resolution Sound Rendering
 M. Wand, W. 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)
Out-of-core sampling-based rendering
 J. Klein, J. Krokowski, M. Fischer, M. Wand, R. Wanka, F. Meyer auf der Heide: The Randomized Sample Tree: A Data Structure for Externally Stored Virtual Environments. In: Presence 13(6), 2004.
 2003
Real-Time GPU Caustics
 M. Wand, W.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)
Point-Based Multi-Resolution Raytracing
 M. Wand, W.Straßer: Multi-Resolution Point-Sample Raytracing. In: Graphics Interface 2003 Conference Proceedings, 2003.

paper (0.5 MB) -- video (14 MB)
Point Rendering Hardware
 M. Amor, M. Boo, A. del Rio, M. Wand, W. Straßer: A New Algorithm for High-Speed Projection in Point Rendering Applications. In: DSD-Euromicro Conference, IEEE Computer Society, 2003.
Multi-Resolution Sound Rendering
 M. Wand, W. 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
Wavelet-based Multi-Resolution Volume Rendering
 S. Guthe, M. Wand, J. Gonser, W. Straßer: Interactive Rendering of Large Volume Data Sets. In: Proc. IEEE Visualization 2002.

paper (0.4 MB) -- video (14 MB)
Sampling-based out-of-core rendering
 J. Klein, J. Krokowski, M. Fischer, M. Wand, R. Wanka, F. 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.
Multi-Resolution Animation Rendering
 M. Wand, W. 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
Randomized z-Buffer
 M. Wand, M. Fischer, I. Peter, F. Meyer auf der Heide, W. 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
Randomized z-Buffer M. Wand, M. Fischer, F. 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)

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