SIGGRAPH papers

E. de Aguiar, C. Stoll, C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, H.-P. Seidel, S. Thrun, Performance Capture from Sparse Multi-view Video, in Proc. of SIGGRAPH 2008, ACM TOG 27(3), 2008. Los Angeles, USA. [project page] (PDF)

I. Ihrke, G. Ziegler, A. Tevs, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Eikonal Rendering - Efficient Light Transport in Refractive Objects., Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, ACM TOG, 26(3), p. 59ff, San Diego, USA.[PDF]

C. Theobalt, I. Albrecht, J. Haber, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Pitching a Baseball - Tracking High-Speed Motion with Multi-Exposure Images, Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 (ACM Transactions on Graphics Special issue), pages 540-547, Los Angeles, USA, 2004. (PDF)

J. Carranza, C. Theobalt. M. Magnor, H.P. Seidel, Free-Viewpoint Video of Human Actors. in Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, p.569-577, San Diego, CA. (PDF)

Journal papers

E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, and H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Conversion of Mesh Animations into Skeleton-based Animations, in Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece, 2008. [project page]

M. Eisemann, B. de Decker, M. Magnor, P. Bekaert, E. de Aguiar, N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt and A. Sellent, Floating Textures. In Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece, 2008. Recipient of EUROGRAPHICS Best Sudent Paper Award 2008 (PDF) (Video)

C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, G.Ziegler, H.-P. Seidel, High-quality Reconstruction of Virtual Actors from Multi-view Video Streams, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 24(6), 2007. (PDF)

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. [Publisher's page] (preprint)

I. Ihrke, G. Ziegler, A. Tevs, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Eikonal Rendering - Efficient Light Transport in Refractive Objects. In ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH), 26(3), p.59ff, 2007. [PDF]

E. Stoykova, A. Alatan, P. Benzie, N. Grammalidis, S. Malassiotis, J. Ostermann, S. Piekh, V. Sainov, C. Theobalt, T. Thevar, X. Zabulis, 3DTV: 3D Time-varying Scene Capture Technologies - A Survey, in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 17(11), p. 1568-1586, 2007 .

C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Seeing People in Different Light: Joint Shape, Motion, and Reflectance Capture, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(4), p. 663-674 2007. [publisher's webpage][PDF]

C. Theobalt, I. Albrecht, J. Haber, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Pitching a Baseball - Tracking High-Speed Motion with Multi-Exposure Images, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22(3), pages 540-547, 2004. (PDF)

C. Theobalt, J. Carranza, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Combining 3D Flow Fields with Silhouette-based Human Motion Capture for Immersive Video, in Graphical Models, 66, pages 333-351, 2004. (publisher) (preprint PDF)

C. Theobalt, J. Carranza, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, 3D Video - Being Part of the Movie , in ACM Computer Graphics, Vol. 38, No. 3, pages 18-20, 2004. (PDF),(complete journal issue)

J. Carranza, C. Theobalt. M. Magnor, H.P. Seidel, Free-Viewpoint Video of Human Actors. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22(3), p.569-577, 2003(PDF)

C.Theobalt, M. Magnor, P. Schueler, H.P. Seidel,Combining 2D Feature Tracking and Volume Reconstruction for Online Video-based Human Motion Capture, extended paper, in International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG) - Special issue on Combining Images and Graphics, Vol. 4, No. 4, pages 563-583, 2004. (publisher) (preprint)

Books and Book Chapters

C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People, chapter in book Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, B. Rosenhahn, R. Klette, D. Metaxas (Eds.), ISBN 978-1402066924, Springer, 2007.

C. Theobalt, E. de Aguiar, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel. Reconstructing human shape, motion and appearance from multi-view video, in Three-dimensional Television, H. Ozaktas, L. Onural (Eds.), ISBN-978-3-540-72531-2, Springer, 2008.

Conference papers

C. Schuon, C. Theobalt, J. Davis, S. Thrun, LidarBoost: Depth Superresolution for ToF 3D Shape Scanning. In Proc. of IEEE CVPR 2009. (PDF) (Additional Material)

J. Gall, C. Stoll, E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, B. Rosenhahn, H.P. Seidel, Motion Capture Using Joint Skeleton Tracking and Surface Estimation. In Proc. of CVPR 2009. (PDF)

D. Chan, H. Buisman, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun. A Noise-aware Filter for Real-time Depth Upsampling, in Proc. of ECCV Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications, to appear, 2008. (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. [Oral presentation - Acceptance Rate 3.95%] (PDF)

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. (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)

Y.M. Kim, D. Chan, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, Design and Calibration of a Multi-view TOF Sensor Fusion System. In IEEE CVPR Workshop on Time-of-flight Computer Vision 2008. (PDF)

E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, S. Thrun, and H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Conversion of Mesh Animations into Skeleton-based Animations. In Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece, 2008. [project page]

M. Eisemann, B. de Decker, M. Magnor, P. Bekaert, E. de Aguiar, N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt and A. Sellent, Floating Textures. In Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27 issue 2), Crete, Greece, 2008. (PDF) (Video)

E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll and H.-P. Seidel, Marker-less 3D Feature Tracking for Mesh-based Human Motion Capture, in ICCV Workshop on Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, LNCS Vol. 4814, p. 1-15, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (PDF)

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, ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation, p. 271-280, 2007, San Diego, USA. [PDF]

N Ahmed, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Spatio-Temporal Registration Techniques for Relightable 3D Video, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Imge Processing (ICIP), p. 501-504, 2007, San Antonio, USA. (PDF)

E. de Aguiar, R. Zayer, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, A Simple Framework for Natural Animation of Digitized Models. Proc. of SIBGRAPI. IEEE Press, p. 3-10, 2007. (PDF)

E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll, H.-P. Seidel, Marker-less Deformable Mesh Tracking for Human Shape and Motion Capture, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007, Minneapolis, USA. [PDF]

E. de Aguiar, R. Zayer, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Video-driven Animation of Human Body Scans, IEEE 3DTV-Conference, 2007, Kos Island, Greece. (PDF)

N. Ahmed, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, Spatio-temporal Reflectance Sharing for Relighatble 3D Video, in Proc. of MIRAGE, Paris, 2007. [paper]

E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, C. Stoll, H.-P. Seidel, Rapid Animation of Laser-scanned Humans, Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality, p. 223-226, 2007. [PDF]

G. Ziegler, R. Dimitrov, C. Theobalt, H.-P.Seidel, Real-time Quadtree Analysis using HistoPyramids , in IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, 2007, San Jose, CA.[PDF]

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. [PDF]

E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, Automatic Learning of Articulated Skeletons from 3D Marker Trajectories, in Proc. of ISVC'06, p.485-494, Lake Tahoe, USA, 2006. [PDF]

N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Generation of Personalized Human Avatars from Multi-view Video , in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), p. 257-260, Monterey, USA, 2005. [PDF]

E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Reconstructing Human Shape and Motion from Multi-view Video , in Proc. of CVMP 2005, p. 42-49, London, UK, 2005. [PDF]

C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, 3D Image Analysis and Synthesis at MPI Informatik, invited paper, in Proc. of Vision, Video and Graphics, p. 85-91, Edinburgh, UK, 2005.

C. Theobalt, G. Ziegler, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Model-Based Free-Viewpoint Video: Acquisition, Rendering and Encoding , Proc. Picture Coding Symposium (PCS'04), San Francisco, USA, 2004. (PDF)

C. Theobalt, E. de Aguiar, M. Magnor, H. Theisel, H.-P. Seidel, Marker-free Kinematic Skeleton Estimation from Sequences of Volume Data. Proc. of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), p.57-64, Hong Kong, China, 2004.[PDF]

E. de Aguiar, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H. Theisel, H.-P. Seidel, M^3: Marker-free Model Reconstruction and Motion Tracking from 3D Voxel Data. in Proc. of Pacific Graphics, p.101-110, Seoul, Korea, 2004.[PDF]

M. Magnor, C. Theobalt, Model-based Analysis of Multi-Video Data, Proc. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI'2004), Lake Tahoe, USA, accepted. (PDF)

C. Theobalt, J. Carranza, M. Magnor, H.P. Seidel, A Parallel Framework for Silhouette-based Human Motion Capture, in Proc. of Vision, Modeling and Visualization, p.207-214, Munich, Germany, 2003. (PDF)

C. Theobalt, J. Carranza, M. Magnor, H.P. Seidel, Enhancing Silhouette-based Human Motion Capture with 3D Motion Fields, Proc. of Pacific Graphics 2003,p.185-193, Canmore, Canada. (PDF)

C. Theobalt, M. Li, M Magnor, H.P. Seidel, A Flexible and Versatile Studio for Synchronized Multi-View Video Recording, in Proc. of Vision, Video and Graphics 2003, p.9-16, Bath, UK.

C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, P. Schueler, H.P. Seidel, Multi-Layer Skeleton Fitting for Online Human Motion Capture. in Proceedings of 7th International Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV 2002), Erlangen, Germany. p.471-478. (PDF)

C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, P. Schueler, H.P. Seidel, Combining 2D Feature Tracking and Volume Reconstruction for Online Video-Based Human Motion Capture . in Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2002, Beijing, China. p.96-103. (PDF)

C. Theobalt, J. Bos, T. Chapman, A. Espinosa-Romero, M. Fraser, G. Hayes, E. Klein, T. Oka, R. Reeve. Talking to Godot: Dialogue with a Mobile Robot. Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2002). pages 1338-1343. Lausanne, Switzerland. 2002. (PDF)

C. Weidenbach, B. Afshordel, U. Brahm, C. Cohrs, T. Engel, E. Keen, C. Theobalt and D. Topic. System Description: SPASS Version 1.0.0 . In Harald Ganzinger, editor, Proc. 16th Int. Conf. on Automated Deduction (CADE-16-99), LNCS 1632, pages 378-382. Springer Verlag, 1999.

Courses

C. Theobalt, S. Wuermlin, E. de Aguiar, C. Niederberger, New Trends in 3D Video , course at EUROGRAPHICS 2007, Prague, Czech Republic. (Course Webpage)

Lecturer in Video-based Rendering course at SIGGRAPH 2005, together with Marcus Magnor, Marc Pollefeys, Woijciek Matusik and German Cheung.

Technical sketches

C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, G. Ziegler, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Joint Motion and Reflectance Capture for Relightable 3D Video , Technical Sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, 2005.

Technical reports

C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Enhanced Dynamic Reflectometry for Relightable Free-Viewpoint Video, MPI-I-2006-4-006, 2006.

E. de Aguiar, R. Zayer, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, A Framework for Natural Animation of Digitized Models, MPI-I-2006-4-003, 2006.

G. Ziegler, A. Tevs, C. Theobalt, H.-P. Seidel, GPU Point List Generation through Histogram Pyramids, MPI-I-2006-4-002, 2006.

C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, G. Ziegler, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Joint Motion and Reflectance Capture for Creating Relightable 3D Videos, Technical Report MPI-I-2005-4-004, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, 2005.

C. Theobalt, M. Li, M. Magnor, H.P. Seidel, A Flexible and Versatile Studio for Synchronized Multi-view Video Recording, Technical Report MPI-I-2003-3-002, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, 2003.

Miscellaneous

C. Theobalt, N. Ahmed, E. de Aguiar, G. Ziegler, H. Lensch, M. Magnor, H.-P. Seidel, Relightable 3D Video, Symposium on Computational Photography and Video, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 2005.

M. Li, S. Bihlmaier, L. Ahrenberg, C. Theobalt, M. Magnor, "A Synthetic Test Data Set for Rendering/Reconstruction Methods in EE2," MPEG Input Doc. M9887, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Trondheim, Norway, July 2003.

B. Goldl�cke, M. Magnor, M. Li, C. Theobalt, "EE2 - Methods for Model-based Scene Reconstruction and Real-Time Free Viewpoint Rendering," MPEG Input Doc. M9145, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Awaji Island, Japan, December 2002.

Theses

C. Theobalt, From Image-based Motion Analysis to Free-Viewpoint Video, PhD thesis, MPI Informatik and University of Saarland, 2005.

C. Theobalt, Navigation on a Mobile Robot, Diplom thesis, University of Saarland, University of Edinburgh, 2001.

Further presentations

C. Theobalt, "Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People", invited talk at University of Washington, Seattle, August 2006.

C. Theobalt, "Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People", invited talk at Stanford University, Palo Alto, August 2006.

C. Theobalt, "Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People", invited talk at ETH Zurich, July 2006.

C. Theobalt, Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People, Seminar on Human Motion: Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, June 2006.

C. Theobalt, 3D TV - Die Computergrafik erfroscht die Zukunft visueller Medien, Wissenschaft im Dialog - Wissenschaftssommer, Munich, July 2006.

M. Magnor and C. Theobalt, Free-Viewpoint Video and 3D TV, Seminar on Hierarchical Methods in Computer Graphics, June, 29 - July, 4 2003, IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl.

C. Theobalt, M.Magnor, M. Li, B. Goldluecke, H.-P. Seidel, 3D Video Research at the MPII, 62nd MPEG meeting, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2002.

C. Theobalt, Video Motion Capture, AG4 Working Group Seminar, June 2001.