Logos of the MPI Informatik and the Graphics, Vision and Video group Graphics, Vision and Video Group Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Computer Vision and Machine Learning
for Computer Graphics

Seminar – Summer Semester 2021

Organizers: Christian Theobalt, Mohamed Elgharib, Vladislav Golyanik



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NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis HTML: A Parametric Hand Texture Model for 3D Hand Reconstruction and Personalization
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
(ECCV, 2020)
HTML: A Parametric Hand Texture Model for 3D Hand Reconstruction and Personalization
(ECCV, 2020)


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