Seminar: Digital Humans

Winter Term 2024/2025

2024, Aug 23    

Lecturer Justus Thies	Teaching Assistants

Content

The goal of the seminar is to get the students in touch with recent publications in the research field. They will learn how publications are structured and presented. They will learn how methods are validated / evaluated. In addition, the students will train their presentation skills by preparing a talk on a selected topic (recent publication of their choice).

The talks have to cover the following topics:

• face tracking / reconstruction
• facial reenactment (audio driven, video driven animation)
• body tracking / reconstruction
• hand tracking
• inverse rendering, material estimation, light estimation

Organization / Requirements

• Lecture: 3D Scanning & Motion Capturing (optional)
• The participants have to present their topics in a talk (in English), which should last 30 minutes.
• The semi-final slides (PDF) should be sent one week before the talk; otherwise, the talk will be canceled.
• A short report (approximately 2-3 pages in the ACM SIGGRAPH TOG format (acmtog)) should be prepared and sent within two weeks after the talk. When you send the report, please send the final slides (PDF) together.