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Kiran Varanasi

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 4: Computer Graphics
Campus E1 4, Room 226
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

Email: lastname@mpi-inf.mpg.de
Phone: +49 681 9325 4023
Fax: +49 681 9325 499

I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Graphics, Vision and Video research group at MPII, working with Christian Theobalt and Hans-Peter Seidel. I am interested in modeling dynamic 3D scenes using multi-camera systems and other types of sensors. Of particular interest are scenes involving human beings whose performance can be captured vividly, and which can be analyzed for applications such as the animation of virtual characters, human-computer interaction etc.

Research Interests

Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Dynamic 3D Scenes
Performance Capture of Human Subjects
3D Shape Features and Matching

Teaching

Winter 2011-12	"Capturing Reality" : 3D reconstruction of real world scenes
Summer 2011	Seminar on computer vision for computer graphics

Publications

Chenglei Wu, Kiran Varanasi, Yebin Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt "Shading-based dynamic shape refinement from multi-view video under general illumination", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011 (PDF) (video)

Publications at MPI

Earlier publications at INRIA

Education

December 2006 - November 2010
Ph. D. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Universite de Grenoble , France
with research conducted at the PERCEPTION group, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes
Title of Ph.D Thesis : Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Dynamic 3D Scenes from Visual Data (PDF)
(supervisor: Prof. Dr. Edmond Boyer)
September 2003 - October 2006
M.S by Research in Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad, India (Speciality: Computer Vision)
Title of Master's Thesis : Geometric Grouping of Planar Patterns under Perspective Skew
(supervisor: Prof. Dr. P J Narayanan)
September 1999 - April 2003
B.Tech in Computer Science (with Honors in Artificial Intelligence) at IIIT Hyderabad, India.

Private

Hobbies

Hiking
Writing short stories
Cooking