Research Areas

• Appearance fabrication: many materials in the real world have a rich appearance that conventional printing systems cannot reproduce. In recent publications, we have introduced techniques to create displays that passively react to light in a freely defined fashion (Fuchs et al., SIGGRAPH 2008) and allow to create 3D objects with freely defined sub-surface scattering functions (Hašan et al., SIGGRAPH 2010).
• Real-time projector-camera systems: Computational photography extends the abilities of conventional cameras. In our work, we have recently investigated the use of fast GPUs to enable real-time processing of high speed video streams, yielding optimal temporal filtering (Fuchs et al., CAG 2010; Fuchs et al., VMV 2009). Adding a digital projector to the setup, we can perform in-scene image processing, creating a light source with virtually arbitrary, programmable response (Wang et al., ICCP 2010) for novel human-world interactions.
• Data-driven representations provide rich scene descriptions with minimal assumptions on the scene content. In my dissertation, I have used analogies between scene components (Fuchs et al., EGSR 2005) for image-space, and investigated the interpolation (Fuchs et al., Eurographics 2007) and effective sampling relighting (Fuchs et al., ACM TOG 2007) of 4D reflectance fields.
  Using a novel, flourescence-based setup, we have been able to directly scan a voxel representation of geometrically complex, transparent objects (Hullin et al., SIGGRAPH 2008).

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