no code implementations • 18 Dec 2024 • Navid Ansari, Hans-Peter Seidel, Vahid Babaei
This paper introduces a novel and scalable framework for uncertainty estimation and separation with applications in data driven modeling in science and engineering tasks where reliable uncertainty quantification is critical.
no code implementations • 5 Nov 2024 • Kevin Tirta Wijaya, Minghao Guo, Michael Sun, Hans-Peter Seidel, Wojciech Matusik, Vahid Babaei
In this work, we introduce MoleVers, a versatile pretrained model designed for various types of molecular property prediction in the wild, i. e., where experimentally-validated molecular property labels are scarce.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2024 • Krzysztof Wolski, Adarsh Djeacoumar, Alireza Javanmardi, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Guillaume Cordonnier, Karol Myszkowski, George Drettakis, Xingang Pan, Thomas Leimkühler
We show that our generator can be used as a multiscale generative model, and for reconstructions of scale spaces from unstructured patches.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2024 • Chao Wang, Krzysztof Wolski, Bernhard Kerbl, Ana Serrano, Mojtaba Bemana, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Thomas Leimkühler
Addressing these limitations, we present a lightweight method based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that utilizes multi-view LDR images of a scene with varying exposure times, apertures, and focus distances as input to reconstruct a high-dynamic-range (HDR) radiance field.
no code implementations • 31 May 2024 • Felix Mujkanovic, Ntumba Elie Nsampi, Christian Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel, Thomas Leimkühler
Our neural Gaussian scale-space fields faithfully capture multiscale representations across a broad range of modalities, and support a diverse set of applications.
no code implementations • 23 May 2024 • Mojtaba Bemana, Thomas Leimkühler, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel
We demonstrate generating high-dynamic range (HDR) images using the concerted action of multiple black-box, pre-trained low-dynamic range (LDR) image diffusion models.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2024 • Kevin Tirta Wijaya, Navid Ansari, Hans-Peter Seidel, Vahid Babaei
Moreover, we propose a latent-property pairs acquisition method to effectively navigate the complexities of molecular latent optimization, a process that seems intuitive yet challenging due to the high-frequency and discontinuous nature of molecule space.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2023 • Martin Balint, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Gurprit Singh
By combining proportional and finite-difference samples, we continuously reduce the variance of our novel gradient meta-estimators throughout the optimisation process.
1 code implementation • 1 Jun 2023 • Navid Ansari, Alireza Javanmardi, Eyke Hüllermeier, Hans-Peter Seidel, Vahid Babaei
Bayesian optimization (BO) provides a powerful framework for optimizing black-box, expensive-to-evaluate functions.
no code implementations • 31 May 2023 • Uğur Çoğalan, Mojtaba Bemana, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski
Full-reference image quality metrics (FR-IQMs) aim to measure the visual differences between a pair of reference and distorted images, with the goal of accurately predicting human judgments.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2023 • Ntumba Elie Nsampi, Adarsh Djeacoumar, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel, Thomas Leimkühler
Neural fields are evolving towards a general-purpose continuous representation for visual computing.
1 code implementation • 4 Feb 2023 • Lingyan Ruan, Mojtaba Bemana, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Bin Chen
In this work, we propose a unified lightweight CNN network that features a large effective receptive field (ERF) and demonstrates comparable or even better performance than Transformers while bearing less computational costs.
Ranked #2 on Image Defocus Deblurring on DPD
no code implementations • ICCV 2023 • Chao Wang, Ana Serrano, Xingang Pan, Bin Chen, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Karol Myszkowski, Thomas Leimkuehler
Most in-the-wild images are stored in Low Dynamic Range (LDR) form, serving as a partial observation of the High Dynamic Range (HDR) visual world.
1 code implementation • 29 Aug 2022 • Navid Ansari, Hans-Peter Seidel, Nima Vahidi Ferdowsi, Vahid Babaei
Neural networks are powerful surrogates for numerous forward processes.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2022 • Uğur Çoğalan, Mojtaba Bemana, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski
Video frame interpolation (VFI) enables many important applications that might involve the temporal domain, such as slow motion playback, or the spatial domain, such as stop motion sequences.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2022 • Mengyu Chu, Lingjie Liu, Quan Zheng, Erik Franz, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Rhaleb Zayer
With a hybrid architecture that separates static and dynamic contents, fluid interactions with static obstacles are reconstructed for the first time without additional geometry input or human labeling.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2022 • Mojtaba Bemana, Karol Myszkowski, Jeppe Revall Frisvad, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel
We tackle the problem of generating novel-view images from collections of 2D images showing refractive and reflective objects.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Quan Zheng, Gurprit Singh, Hans-Peter Seidel
We propose to learn neural representations for participating media with a complete simulation of global illumination.
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2021 • Chao Wang, Bin Chen, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Ana Serrano
High Dynamic Range (HDR) content is becoming ubiquitous due to the rapid development of capture technologies.
1 code implementation • 27 Sep 2021 • Navid Ansari, Hans-Peter Seidel, Vahid Babaei
Our mixed-integer inverse design uncovers globally optimal or near optimal solutions in a principled manner.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2021 • Mohamed Elgharib, Mohit Mendiratta, Justus Thies, Matthias Nießner, Hans-Peter Seidel, Ayush Tewari, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Even holding a mobile phone camera in the front of the face while sitting for a long duration is not convenient.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Ye Yu, Abhimitra Meka, Mohamed Elgharib, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, William A. P. Smith
Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo.
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2021 • Jalees Nehvi, Vladislav Golyanik, Franziska Mueller, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
This paper introduces the first differentiable simulator of event streams, i. e., streams of asynchronous brightness change signals recorded by event cameras.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2021 • Mallikarjun B R, Ayush Tewari, Abdallah Dib, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Louis Chevallier, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
We present an approach for high-quality intuitive editing of the camera viewpoint and scene illumination in a portrait image.
no code implementations • 13 Feb 2021 • Ikhsanul Habibie, Weipeng Xu, Dushyant Mehta, Lingjie Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Gerard Pons-Moll, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
We propose the first approach to automatically and jointly synthesize both the synchronous 3D conversational body and hand gestures, as well as 3D face and head animations, of a virtual character from speech input.
Ranked #5 on 3D Face Animation on BEAT2
no code implementations • 22 Dec 2020 • Uğur Çoğalan, Mojtaba Bemana, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel
Regrettably, capturing DISTORTED sensor readings is time-consuming; as well, there is a lack of CLEAN HDR videos.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2021 • Moritz Kappel, Vladislav Golyanik, Mohamed Elgharib, Jann-Ole Henningson, Hans-Peter Seidel, Susana Castillo, Christian Theobalt, Marcus Magnor
We address these limitations for the first time in the literature and present a new framework which performs high-fidelity and temporally-consistent human motion transfer with natural pose-dependent non-rigid deformations, for several types of loose garments.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2021 • Viktor Rudnev, Vladislav Golyanik, Jiayi Wang, Hans-Peter Seidel, Franziska Mueller, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
Due to the different data modality of event cameras compared to classical cameras, existing methods cannot be directly applied to and re-trained for event streams.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2021 • Tarun Yenamandra, Ayush Tewari, Florian Bernard, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Daniel Cremers, Christian Theobalt
Our approach has the following favorable properties: (i) It is the first full head morphable model that includes hair.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Mallikarjun B R, Ayush Tewari, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
Our network design and loss functions ensure a disentangled parameterization of not only identity and albedo, but also, for the first time, an expression basis.
no code implementations • 1 Oct 2020 • Mojtaba Bemana, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel
We suggest to represent an X-Field -a set of 2D images taken across different view, time or illumination conditions, i. e., video, light field, reflectance fields or combinations thereof-by learning a neural network (NN) to map their view, time or light coordinates to 2D images.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2020 • Ayush Tewari, Mohamed Elgharib, Mallikarjun B R., Florian Bernard, Hans-Peter Seidel, Patrick Pérez, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt
We present the first approach for embedding real portrait images in the latent space of StyleGAN, which allows for intuitive editing of the head pose, facial expression, and scene illumination in the image.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Mallikarjun B R., Ayush Tewari, Tae-Hyun Oh, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
The reflectance field of a face describes the reflectance properties responsible for complex lighting effects including diffuse, specular, inter-reflection and self shadowing.
no code implementations • 20 May 2020 • Gereon Fox, Wentao Liu, Hyeongwoo Kim, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
We introduce a new benchmark dataset for face video forgery detection, of unprecedented quality.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Ayush Tewari, Mohamed Elgharib, Gaurav Bharaj, Florian Bernard, Hans-Peter Seidel, Patrick Pérez, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt
StyleGAN generates photorealistic portrait images of faces with eyes, teeth, hair and context (neck, shoulders, background), but lacks a rig-like control over semantic face parameters that are interpretable in 3D, such as face pose, expressions, and scene illumination.
no code implementations • 30 Oct 2019 • Mojtaba Bemana, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel
We suggest representing light field (LF) videos as "one-off" neural networks (NN), i. e., a learned mapping from view-plus-time coordinates to high-resolution color values, trained on sparse views.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2019 • Hyeongwoo Kim, Mohamed Elgharib, Michael Zollhöfer, Hans-Peter Seidel, Thabo Beeler, Christian Richardt, Christian Theobalt
We present a style-preserving visual dubbing approach from single video inputs, which maintains the signature style of target actors when modifying facial expressions, including mouth motions, to match foreign languages.
4 code implementations • 1 Jul 2019 • Dushyant Mehta, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Franziska Mueller, Weipeng Xu, Mohamed Elgharib, Pascal Fua, Hans-Peter Seidel, Helge Rhodin, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
The first stage is a convolutional neural network (CNN) that estimates 2D and 3D pose features along with identity assignments for all visible joints of all individuals. We contribute a new architecture for this CNN, called SelecSLS Net, that uses novel selective long and short range skip connections to improve the information flow allowing for a drastically faster network without compromising accuracy.
Ranked #7 on 3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation on MuPoTS-3D
3D Multi-Person Human Pose Estimation 3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation +1
no code implementations • 26 May 2019 • Mohamed Elgharib, Mallikarjun BR, Ayush Tewari, Hyeongwoo Kim, Wentao Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
Our lightweight setup allows operations in uncontrolled environments, and lends itself to telepresence applications such as video-conferencing from dynamic environments.
no code implementations • CVPR 2019 • Ayush Tewari, Florian Bernard, Pablo Garrido, Gaurav Bharaj, Mohamed Elgharib, Hans-Peter Seidel, Patrick Pérez, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt
In contrast, we propose multi-frame video-based self-supervised training of a deep network that (i) learns a face identity model both in shape and appearance while (ii) jointly learning to reconstruct 3D faces.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2018 • Weipeng Xu, Avishek Chatterjee, Michael Zollhoefer, Helge Rhodin, Pascal Fua, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
We tackle these challenges based on a novel lightweight setup that converts a standard baseball cap to a device for high-quality pose estimation based on a single cap-mounted fisheye camera.
Ranked #6 on Egocentric Pose Estimation on GlobalEgoMocap Test Dataset (using extra training data)
no code implementations • CVPR 2018 • Abhimitra Meka, Maxim Maximov, Michael Zollhoefer, Avishek Chatterjee, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Richardt, Christian Theobalt
We present the first end to end approach for real time material estimation for general object shapes with uniform material that only requires a single color image as input.
no code implementations • 7 Aug 2017 • Weipeng Xu, Avishek Chatterjee, Michael Zollhöfer, Helge Rhodin, Dushyant Mehta, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
Reconstruction from monocular video alone is drastically more challenging, since strong occlusions and the inherent depth ambiguity lead to a highly ill-posed reconstruction problem.
1 code implementation • 3 May 2017 • Dushyant Mehta, Srinath Sridhar, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Helge Rhodin, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Weipeng Xu, Dan Casas, Christian Theobalt
A real-time kinematic skeleton fitting method uses the CNN output to yield temporally stable 3D global pose reconstructions on the basis of a coherent kinematic skeleton.
Ranked #16 on Pose Estimation on Leeds Sports Poses
1 code implementation • CVPR 2017 • Vamsi Kiran Adhikarla, Marek Vinkler, Denis Sumin, Rafał K. Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Piotr Didyk
We find that the existing image quality metrics provide good measures of light-field quality, but require dense reference light- fields for optimal performance.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2016 • Helge Rhodin, Christian Richardt, Dan Casas, Eldar Insafutdinov, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bernt Schiele, Christian Theobalt
Marker-based and marker-less optical skeletal motion-capture methods use an outside-in arrangement of cameras placed around a scene, with viewpoints converging on the center.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2016 • Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Helge Rhodin, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
We propose a new model-based method to accurately reconstruct human performances captured outdoors in a multi-camera setup.
no code implementations • 23 Sep 2016 • Helge Rhodin, Christian Richardt, Dan Casas, Eldar Insafutdinov, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bernt Schiele, Christian Theobalt
We therefore propose a new method for real-time, marker-less and egocentric motion capture which estimates the full-body skeleton pose from a lightweight stereo pair of fisheye cameras that are attached to a helmet or virtual reality headset.
no code implementations • 28 Jul 2016 • Helge Rhodin, Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Christian Richardt, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
Our method uses a new image formation model with analytic visibility and analytically differentiable alignment energy.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2016 • Oliver Nalbach, Elena Arabadzhiyska, Dushyant Mehta, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tobias Ritschel
In computer vision, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved new levels of performance for several inverse problems where RGB pixel appearance is mapped to attributes such as positions, normals or reflectance.
no code implementations • ICCV 2015 • Helge Rhodin, Nadia Robertini, Christian Richardt, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
Generative reconstruction methods compute the 3D configuration (such as pose and/or geometry) of a shape by optimizing the overlap of the projected 3D shape model with images.
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2016 • Srinath Sridhar, Helge Rhodin, Hans-Peter Seidel, Antti Oulasvirta, Christian Theobalt
In this paper, we propose a new approach that tracks the full skeleton motion of the hand from multiple RGB cameras in real-time.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2013 • Alan Brunton, Michael Wand, Stefanie Wuhrer, Hans-Peter Seidel, Tino Weinkauf
In this paper, we introduce a new approach to partial, intrinsic isometric matching.
no code implementations • CVPR 2013 • Ilya Reshetouski, Alkhazur Manakov, Ayush Bandhari, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, Ivo Ihrke
We investigate the problem of identifying the position of a viewer inside a room of planar mirrors with unknown geometry in conjunction with the room's shape parameters.
no code implementations • ACM Transactions on Graphics 2010 • Tunc Ozan Aydin, Martin Cadik, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel
We present a full-reference video quality metric geared specifically towards the requirements of Computer Graphics applications as a faster computational alternative to subjective evaluation.
no code implementations • SIGGRAPH 2008 • Tunç O. Aydın, Rafal Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel
Current quality assessment metrics are not suitable for this task, as they assume that both reference and test images have the same dynamic range.