Computer Graphics

The research in our group covers the areas of interactive rendering, global illumination, computational photography, image-based modeling and rendering, 3D scanning and volume reconstruction with the goal to develop acquisition systems and algorithms for digitizing and reproducing the appearance of real-world objects, ranging from small figurines, entire streets, to planetary nebulae.

People

Head of Group

Researchers

Associated Researchers at MPI

Students

  • Alexander Hötzendorfer
  • Stefan Menz
  • Katharina Schwarz
  • Benjamin Steinert

Collaborators

Funding

Featured Projects

2010

Two-Level Ray Tracing with Reordering for Highly Complex Scenes

Johannes Hanika, Alexander Keller, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of Graphics Interface, 2010.

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2009

Plane Sampling for Light Paths from the Environment Map

Holger Dammertz, Johannes Hanika
in journal of graphics, gpu, and game tools, volume 14, number 2, pp 25-31, 2009.

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Textures on Rank-1 Lattices

Sabrina Dammertz, Holger Dammertz, Alexander Keller, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Graphics Forum 28/7 (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2009) Got the PG09 Distinguished Paper Award

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A Shaped Temporal Filter Camera

Martin Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Oliver Wang, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: VMV 2009, selected for extended publication in Computers & Graphics

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Tempest in a Teapot: Compromising Reflections Revisited

Michael Backes, Tongbo Chen, Markus Duermuth, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Martin Welk
In: 2009 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

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Principles of Appearance Acquisition and Representation

Tim Weyrich, Jason Lawrence, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Todd Zickler
In: Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2009.

Printing Spatially-Varying Reflectance

W. Matusik, B. Ajdin, J. Gu, J. Lawrence, Hendrik P. A. Lensch F. Pellacini, S. Rusinkiewicz
In: Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.

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Relighting Objects from Image Collections

Tom Haber, Christian Fuchs, Philippe Bekaert, Hans-Peter Seidel
In: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009).

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2008

State of the Art in Transparent and Specular Object Reconstruction

Ivo Ihrke, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Marcus Magnor, Wolfgang Heidrich
STAR - EUROGRAPHICS 2008.

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Efficient Search for Low-Dimensional Rank-1 Lattices with Applications in Graphics

Sabrina Dammertz, Holger Dammertz, Alexander Keller
In: Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2008

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Towards Passive 6D Reflectance Field Displays

Martin Fuchs, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2008.

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Fluorescent Immersion Range Scanning

Matthias B. Hullin, Martin Fuchs, Ivo Ihrke, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2008.

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Combining Confocal Imaging and Descattering

Christian Fuchs, Michael Heinz, Marc Levoy, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of EGSR 2008.

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Shallow Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Fast SIMD Ray Tracing of Incoherent Rays

Holger Dammertz, Johannes Hanika, Alexander Keller
In: Proceedings of EGSR 2008.

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Demosaicing by Smoothing along 1D Features

Boris Ajdin, Matthias B. Hullin, Christian Fuchs, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of CVPR 2008.

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Modulated Phase-Shifting for 3D Scanning

Tongbo Chen, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of CVPR 2008.

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Background Estimation from Non-Time Sequence Images

Miguel Granados, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2008.

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2007

Polarization and Phase-shifting for 3D Scanning of Translucent Objects

Tongbo Chen, Christian Fuchs, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Hans-Peter Seidel
In: Proceedings of CVPR 2007.

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Superresolution Reflectance Fields: Synthesizing images for intermediate light directions

Martin Fuchs, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Volker Blanz, Hans-Peter Seidel
In: Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2007.

Density Estimation for Dynamic Volumes

Christian Fuchs, Michael Goesele, Holger Theisel, Hans-Peter Seidel
In: Computers and Graphics, 31(2), 2007.

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Reconstruction of Reflection and Planetary Nebulae

Andrei Linţu, Lars Hoffmann, Sascha El-Abed, Ting-Hui Lee, Marcus Magnor, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Hans-Peter Seidel

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2006

Mesostructure from Specularity

Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele, Hans-Peter Seidel
In: Proceedings of CVPR 2006.

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Automatic Multiperspective Images

Augusto Román, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of EGSR 2006.

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Symmetric Photography: Exploiting Data-Sparseness in Reflectance Fields

Gaurav Garg, Eino-Ville Talvala, Marc Levoy, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of EGSR 2006.

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2005

Dual Photography

Pradeep Sen, Billy Chen, Gaurav Garg, Stephen R. Marschner, Mark Horowitz, Marc Levoy, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
In: Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005.

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2004

DISCO - Acquisition of Translucent Objects

Michael Goesele, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Christian Fuchs, Jochen Lang, Hans-Peter Seidel
In: Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004.

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