Teaching activities

• In the summer term of 2012, I teach:
  • the seminar on digital displays and computational photography (in German)
  • the class on image synthesis ("Bildsynthese", in German)
• In the winter term of 2011/2012, I taught:
  • the 2 + 2 course on visual computing , which deals with the pipeline from the real world to computer graphics models, discusses cameras and projectors, and shows how to create pictures from pictures.
• In the summer term of 2011, I taught:
  • the seminar on visual computing and
  • the lecture on image synthesis.

Current research interests

• 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).

Publications

Physical Reproduction of Materials with Specified Subsurface Scattering.
Miloš Hašan, Martin Fuchs, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 29, issue 3 (2010).
(Special issue proc. SIGGRAPH 2010)

Real-Time Temporal Shaping of High-Speed Video Streams.
Martin Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Oliver Wang, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik P. A. Lensch.
Computers & Graphics, vol. 34, issue 5 (2010), pp. 575-584, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2010.05.017
Extended version of the previous VMV paper (Fuchs et al., VMV 2009).

A Context-Aware Light Source.
Oliver Wang, Martin Fuchs, Christian Fuchs, James Davis, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik P. A. Lensch.
International Conference on Computational Photography 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA.

A Shaped Temporal Filter Camera.
Martin Fuchs, Tongbo Chen, Oliver Wang, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik P. A. Lensch.
Proceedings of the Visual Modeling and Visualization Workshop (VMV) 2009 , pp. 177-186, Braunschweig, Germany. Also available as MPI Informatik Tech Report MPI–I–2009–4–003 ( high resolution .pdf [20M] or low resolution .pdf [5.8M] )

Towards Passive 6D Reflectance Field Displays.
Martin Fuchs, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik P. A. Lensch.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 27, issue 3 (2008), pp. 87:1 - 87:10
(Special issue proc. SIGGRAPH 2008)
The paper and additional material can be found on the project homepage.

Fluorescent Immersion Range Scanning.
Matthias B. Hullin, Martin Fuchs, Ivo Ihrke, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik P. A. Lensch.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 27, issue 3 (2008), pp. 58:1 - 58:8
(Special issue proc. SIGGRAPH 2008)
The paper and additional material can be found on the project homepage.

Direct Visualization of Real-World Light Transport.
Matthias B. Hullin, Martin Fuchs, Boris Ajdin, Ivo Ihrke, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik P. A. Lensch.
VMV 2008, Konstanz, Germany.

Adaptive Sampling of Reflectance Fields.
Martin Fuchs, Volker Blanz, Hendrik Lensch, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 26, issue 2 (June 2007)

Superresolution Reflectance Fields: Synthesizing images for intermediate light directions.
Martin Fuchs, Hendrik Lensch, Volker Blanz, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 26, issue 3 (2007), pp. 447 - 456
(Proceedings of Eurographics 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007)
A low-res version of the paper is also available at wiley.com .pdf [699k].

Reflectance from Images: A Model-Based Approach for Human Faces.
Martin Fuchs, Volker Blanz, Hendrik Lensch, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 11, issue 3 (May 2005), pp 296 - 305
There is a research report [4.7 MB, pdf] available which contains the same contents. The article is also available from the IEEE computer society digital library.

Bayesian Relighting. [30 MB, pdf]
Martin Fuchs, Volker Blanz, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
Rendering Techniques 2005 - Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (May 2005), pp 157 - 164.

Short CV