Spotlights


By: Johannes Hoffart & Dragan Milchevski & Gerhard Weikum

STICS – Search and Analysis with Strings, Things, and Cats

Understanding the meaning of a word in its current context is one of the big challenges when searching for information. STICS is a new kind of…


By: Piotr Didyk

Computational Fabrication

3D printing gives new opportunities in object replication. We built a computational model with which we will compare perceived properties of different…


By: Parinya Chalermsook and Kurt Mehlhorn

From Routing to Pricing and Learning: Why Are They Hard to Compute?

Computational aspects of routing and pricing problems share more similarities than one would imagine. Theoreticians as well as practitioners can…


By: Tobias Marschall

Structural Variation in Genoms

Comparing genomes of parents and children separates inherited genetic variants from new mutations. The rate of novo mutations is an important…


By: Christian Theobalt

Advanced Video Processing

New algorithms facilitate complex video processing such as automatic dynamic background inpainting. New machine learning algorithms make possible the…


By: Anna Rohrbach & Marcus Rohrbach

Describing Videos with Natural Language

With the work of Anna and Markus Rohrbach the automatic generation of subtitles or the automatic movie description for the blind becomes a realistic…


By: Christian Theobalt

Markerless Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes

The 3D reconstruction of detailed models of persons in general apparel is, until now, possible in indoor sudios with controlled environment only. With…


By: Rodrigo Benenson & Jan Hosang

Ten Years of Pedestrian Detection, What Have we Learned?

Instead of using a large variety of classifier types, it is possible to obtain best results in shortest time by precisely applying the sliding windows…


By: Mykhaylo Andriluka & Leonid Pishchulin

Articulated Human Pose Estimation


By: Bojan Pepik & Michael Stark

3D Object Detection

Using a new design model (3D object class detector) not only the efficient detection of objects and their 2D position in a picture is possible, but…