Christian Theobalt

Head of research group 3D Video and Vision-based Graphics

Our research group is also affiliated with the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing (MPI / Stanford)

I have open positions for PhD students.

Mailing Address:	MPI Informatik
	Campus E 1.4 - Office 228,
	66123 Saarbruecken
	Germany
Email:	theobalt [at] mpii dot de
	theobalt [at] cs dot stanford dot edu
	theobalt [at] acm dot org
Phone:	+49 (0)681 9325-428
Fax:	+49 (0)681 9325-499
URL:	My Stanford Homepage (no longer updated)

Research Interests

Free-viewpoint and 3D Video
Marker-less Optical Motion Capture
3D Image Analysis and Synthesis
Image-based Rendering
Virtual and Augmented Reality

Dynamic Scene Reconstruction
3D Computer Vision
Physically-based Rendering
Interaction
Machine Learning for Vision / Graphics

Spotlight

10/2009	WS 2009/2010, Seminar on Computational Photography and Videography, together with Ivo Ihrke. Universitaet des Saarandes.
8/2009	Our paper on Real-Time Prosody-Driven Synthesis of Body Language will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.
3/2009	I received the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award 2009.
3/2009	Two papers accepted at IEEE CVPR 2009 - see projects page below.
5/2008	NewScientist reports on our performance capture method. Read more on our [project page].
4/2008	Performance Capture from Sparse Multi-view Video accepted as full paper at SIGGRAPH 2008. [project page]
3/2008	Two papers accepted for CVPR 2008 - one of them an oral presentation (see project pages below)
11/2007	Two papers accepted for EUROGRAPHICS 2008 - see project pages below

Selected Projects (see also my publications page)

	Sergey Levine, Christian Theobalt, Vladlen Koltun, Real-Time Prosody-Driven Synthesis of Body Language. to appear at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Yokohama, Japan.
	Young Min Kim, Christian Theobalt, James Diebel, Jana Kosecka, Branislav Micusik, and Sebastian Thrun, Multi-view Image and ToF Sensor Fusion for Dense 3D Reconstruction. In Proc. of 3DIM 2009, co-hosted with ICCV 2009. (PDF) (Project Page)
	S. Schuon, C. Theobalt, J. Davis, S. Thrun, LidarBoost: Depth Superresolution for ToF 3D Shape Scanning. In Proc. of IEEE CVPR 2009. (PDF) (Additional Material)
	J. Gall, C. Stoll, E. de Aguiar Edilson, C. Theobalt, B. Rosenhahn, H.-P. Seidel. Motion Capture using Joint Skeleton Tracking and Surface Estimation Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009 [pdf] [project]
	Y.M. Kim, D. Chan, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, Design and Calibration of a Multi-view TOF Sensor Fusion System. in Proc. IEEE CVPR Workshop on Time-of-flight Computer Vision 2008. (PDF)
	S. Schuon, C. Theobalt, J. Davis, S. Thrun, High-quality Scanning using Time-of-Flight Depth Superresolution. in IEEE CVPR Workshop on Time-Of-Flight Computer Vision 2008. (PDF)
	E. de Aguiar, C. Stoll , C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, H.-P. Seidel, S. Thrun, Performance Capture from Sparse Multi-view Video, in Proc. of SIGGRAPH 2008. [project page] Data now available !
	N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, P. Dobrev, H.-P. Seidel, S. Thrun, Robust Fusion of Dynamic Shape and Normal Capture for High-quality Reconstruction of Time-varying Geometry, in Proc. of CVPR 2008. (PDF) (Video)
	N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, C. Roessl, S. Thrun, H.-P. Seidel, Dense Correspondence Finding for Parametrization-free Animation Reconstruction from Video, in Proc. of CVPR 2008, to appear. [Oral presentation - Acceptance Rate 3.95%] (PDF) (Video)
	E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, and H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Conversion of Mesh Animations into Skeleton-based Animations. In Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS 2008 (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece. [BibTeX] [project page]
	M. Eisemann, B. de Decker, M. Magnor, P. Bekaert, E. de Aguiar, N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt and A. Sellent, Floating Textures. In Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS 2008 (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece. (PDF) (Video)
	Zhao Dong, Jan Kautz, Christian Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel. Interactive Global Illumination Using Implicit Visibility, Accepted by Pacific Graphics 2007 (oral paper),[PDF]
	C. Theobalt, C. Roessl, E. de Aguiar, H.-P. Seidel, Animation Collage, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation 2007, San Diego, USA. [project page]
	N Ahmed, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Spatio-Temporal Registration Techniques for Relightable 3D Video, Proc. of IEEE ICIP, 2007 [project page]
	I. Ihrke, G. Ziegler, A. Tevs, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Eikonal Rendering - Efficient Light Transport in Refractive Objects. to appear ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, USA. [project page]
	M. Song, Z. Dong, C. Theobalt, H. Wang, Z. Liu, H.-P. Seidel, A Generic Framework for Efficient 2D and 3D Facial Expression Analogy, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 9(7), p.1384-1395, 2007. (Video) [Publisher's page] (preprint)
	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] [avi]
	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]
	Rapid Animation of Laser-scanned Humans. E.de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll, H.-P. Seidel, Rapid Animation of Laser-scanned Humans, to apper in Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2007, Charlotte, USA.[paper]
	Spatio-temporal Reflectance Sharing for Relightable 3D Video. N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, Spatio-temporal Reflectance Sharing for Relighatble 3D Video, Proc. of MIRAGE, Paris, 2007.[paper] [project page]
	The Relightable Free-Viewpoint Video Project. [project page]
	GPU-based Realtime Quadtree/Octree Analysis G. Ziegler, R. Dimitrov, C. Theobalt, H.-P.Seidel, Real-time Quadtree Analysis using HistoPyramids, in Proc. of IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, 2007, San Jose, CA.[paper][videos]
	GPU-based Data Compaction using HistoPyramids G. Ziegler, A. Tevs, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, GPU Point List Generation Through Histogram Pyramids, in Proc. of VMV'06, p. 137--141, Aachen, Germany, 2006. [paper][videos]
	Automatic Learning of Articulated Skeletons from 3D Marker Trajectories. [project page]
	Confluent Motion - A Simple Method for Animating Scanned Geometry. [project page]
	Tracking High-speed Motion with Multi-exposure Images. [project page]
	Free-Viewpoint Video of Human Actors. [project page]
	Enhancing Human Motion Capture with 3D Motion Fields. [project page]
	Automatic Generation of Human Avatars. [project page]
	Reconstructing Human Shape and Motion. [project page]
	Automatic Marker-less Reconstruction of Kinematic Skeletons. [project page]
	Marker-free Human Motion Capture. [project page]
	Volumetric Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes. [project page]
	The secret projects - there are always secret projects :-)