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Computer Vision and Machine Learning
for Computer Graphics

Seminar – Summer Semester 2019

Organizers: Christian Theobalt, Mohamed Elgharib, Vladislav Golyanik



Organisation  |  Topics  |  Format  |  Format (Detail)  |  Resources


Face Reconstruction and Reenactment (SIGGRAPH 2018) Real-time Hand Tracking from an Egocentric RGB-D Camera (ICCV 2017, ECCV 2018)
Monocular Face Reconstruction
(TPAMI 2018)
Learning to Reconstruct People in Clothing
(CVPR 2019)


Materials / Slides




How to read an academic paper


Just as you wouldn’t read a website or newspaper in the same way that you would read a novel, there are both efficient and inefficient ways to read academic papers. Learning to read a new kind of material is hard work, and you should try to adapt your reading style to accommodate the characteristics of the medium. It might take some time to find a reading style or method which works best for the individual, but some general guidelines are broadly applicable. We present a list of online references from a computer science perspective which may help you adjust more quickly to the reading task at hand:



How to Write an Academic Paper


Academic writing is similarly different from other forms of writing. We present a list of online references which may help you write your reports:



How to Give an Academic Presentation