Christian Theobalt

Visiting Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department - Stanford University
and
Head of research group 3D Video and Vision-based Graphics in the
Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication
Mentor in Stanford: Prof. Sebastian Thrun

Mailing Address:	Stanford University
	Computer Science Department
	353 Serra Mall, Gates Building - Office 134,
	Stanford, CA-94305-9010
Email:	theobalt [at] cs dot stanford dot edu
	theobalt [at] stanford dot edu
	theobalt [at] acm dot org
Phone:	+1 (650) 723-1143
Fax:	+1 (412) 725-1449

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
Physicall-based Rendering

Spotlight

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
9/2007	New Trends in 3D Video - Course at EUROGRAPHICS 2007 (co-organized with Stephan Wuermlin from ETH)
8/2007	Eikonal Rendering - to appear at SIGGRAPH 2007

Projects

	Y.M. Kim, D. Chan, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, Design and Calibration of a Multi-view TOF Sensor Fusion System. To appear in 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, to appear 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, to appear. (PDF)
	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)
	E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, and H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Conversion of Mesh Animations into Skeleton-based Animations. To appear 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. To appear 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, to appear 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, to appear [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 :-)