Christian Theobalt
About Christian Theobalt
Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Professor of Computer Science
Location
- Germany
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2015
Christian Theobalt is a Professor of Computer Science at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics and Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. Most of his research deals with algorithmic problems that lie on the boundary between the fields of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, such as dynamic 3D scene reconstruction and marker-less motion capture, computer animation, appearance and reflectance modelling, machine learning for graphics and vision, new sensors for 3D acquisition, advanced video processing, as well as image- and physically- based rendering. He received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society in 2007, the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award in 2009, the German Pattern Recognition Award in 2012, and an ERC Starting Grant in 2013.
Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2016 Emerging Technology Best in Show Award
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2020: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Emerging Technologies
Labs-Studio
Learning
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Courses
Posters
Talks-Sketches
Technical Papers
Presenter(s):- Abhimitra Meka
- Rohit Pandey
- Christian Häne
- Sergio Orts-Escolano
- Peter C. Barnum
- Daniel Erickson
- Yinda Zhang
- Jonathan Taylor
- Sofien Bouaziz
- Chloe LeGendre
- Wan-Chun Alex Ma
- Ryan S. Overbeck
- Thabo Beeler
- Paul E. Debevec
- Shahram Izadi
- Christian Theobalt
- Christoph Rhemann
- Sean Ryan Fanello
- Philip David-Son
Presenter(s):- Abhimitra Meka
- Christian Häne
- Rohit Pandey
- Michael Zollhöfer
- Sean Ryan Fanello
- Graham Fyffe
- Adarsh Kowdle
- Xueming Yu
- Jay Busch
- Jason Dourgarian
- Peter Denny
- Sofien Bouaziz
- Peter Lincoln
- Matt Whalen
- Geoff Harvey
- Jonathan Taylor
- Shahram Izadi
- Andrea Tagliasacchi
- Paul E. Debevec
- Christian Theobalt
- Julien P. C. Valentin
- Christoph Rhemann
Other Information
Roles
- Awardee
- Course Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Member
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