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  1. Protein structure and interactions

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    Events Protein structure and interactions Protein structure and interactions: Bioinformatics-supported fight against viral diseases Olga Kalinina combines genomic-, modeling-, and biophysics-based methods [...] they are molecular engines that synthesize and decompose molecular building blocks such as nucleic and amino acids; convert energy; and facilitate regulation and communication inside cells. They can do so [...] of viral proteins and infer their potential influence on the function of the protein. This enables suggestions for drug treatment of viral diseases. Protein structure and interactions Proteins as biological

  2. Markerless Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes

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    University, and his PhD in Computer Science from MPI Informatik. Most of his research deals with algorithmic problems that lie on the boundary between the fields of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, [...] such as dynamic 3D scene reconstruction and marker-less motion capture, computer animation, appearance and reflectance modeling, machine learning for graphics and vision, new sensors for 3D acquisition [...] to reconstruct geometry and appearance models of dynamic scenes in the real world is an important goal of graphics and vision research. Captured dynamic models of humans and more general scenes are very

  3. Deciphering the Second Code – Computational Epigenetics

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    Yassen Assenov DEPT. 3 Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics Phone: +49 681 9325-3009 Email: yassen@mpi-inf.mpg.de Konstantin Halachev DEPT. 3 Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics Phone: [...] Second Code – Computational Epigenetics Deciphering the Second Code – Computational Epigenetics Yassen Assenov & Konstantin Halachev & Fabian Müller Deciphering the Second Code – Computational Epigenetics [...] encodes the appearance and behavior of our cells. However, there is a multitude of additional layers of control that regulate the ways in which the DNA is packed and processed and thus determine the fate

  4. People Detection and Pose Estimation in Challenging Real-World Scenes

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    Leonid Pishchulin DEPT. 2 Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing Phone +49 681 9325-1208 Email leonid@mpi-inf.mpg.de Siyu Tang DEPT. 2 Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing Phone +49 681 9325-2009 Email [...] results obtained with our method for joint detection and tracking of people in crowded scenes Mykhaylo Andriluka DEPT. 2 Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing Phone +49 681 9325-2119 Email andriluk@mpi-inf [...] Detection, tracking and pose estimation of people are the key technologies for many applications such as automotive safety, human-computer interaction, robotic navigation, or indexing images and videos from the

  5. 3D Scene Analysis

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    component parts. Next, contacts and symmetries among the parts are identified. The process then enables the creation of variants of the object that have similar contacts and symmetries. Figure 1: Automatic [...] bicycle (left) and a motorcycle (right). Automatic assignment of materials for 3D objects The material composition of a 3D object is strongly correlated with the object’s geometric shape and its relation [...] used to assign plausible material parameters fully automatically (including diffuse and specular reflection, gloss, and transparency). Figure 2: Given a 3D object without materials (left), our approach can

  6. Latest

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    semi­nal contributions to the field of computer graphics and visual computing, as well as his leadership to the community as a workshop and conference organizer and within the ERC. Congratulations! Vahid [...] on AI 05 February 2024 New research area "Vision and Language Models (VLMs)" at the Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence under the direction of Professor [...] Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)" 30 June 2023 In June, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany and Google have announced a strategic

  7. Zuse Medal for Gerhard Weikum

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    learning and machine knowledge even better." Gerhard Weikum studied computer science at the TU Darmstadt and received his doctorate there in 1986. After a postdoctoral position in Austin, Texas, and an assistant [...] people in computer science is impressive. The excellent and team spirit driven environment at the Saarbrücken computer science campus has also contributed a lot. For example, important ideas and results [...] cluster of excellence on multimodal computing, which included many colleagues from the university and the affiliated institutes." With this latest award, Saarbrücken Computer Science can now boast 18 awards

  8. Saarbrücken Computer Scientist conferred Science Award

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    questions at the frontier of computer graphics and computer vision. In particular, he does research on: Algorithms for 3D reconstruction of static and dynamic scenes, virtual and augmented reality, markerless [...] Beyond computer graphics, these include virtual and augmented reality, telepresence, motion detection in medicine, human-machine interaction, and the important foundations of intelligent systems and intelligent [...] at the University of Edinburgh, his M.Sc. in Computer Science at Saarland University and his Eng.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and Saarland University. In his research, he deals

  9. Saarbrücker-based Computer Scientist Christian Theobalt appointed Scientific Member of Max Planck Society

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    time, with only one camera, and without special suits. The work of Christian Theobalt lays important methodological foundations for the way we will interact with computers and intelligent systems in the [...] a new department conducting research on fundamental issues in computer science at the frontier of computer graphics, image recognition and artificial intelligence. Professor Theobalt became known for his [...] real world, in particular models of people and their movements, from camera data. He developed methods that combine classical methods of computer graphics and image recognition with concepts of machine

  10. Kurt Mehlhorn turns 70

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    Excellence Initiative for the Saarbrücken "Graduate School of Computer Science" and the "Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction" (2007), in which Kurt Mehlhorn held a central position [...] graph theory, algorithms, theory of complexity and the production of program libraries. His text books „Data Structures and Algorithms“ (1984) and „Algorithms and Data Structures: The Basic Toolbox“ (2008 with [...] Institute for Informatics turns 70 – and looks as young as ever. Kurt Mehlhorn studied from 1968 to 1971 mathematics und computer science at Technical University München and got his PhD 1974 at Cornell University