This is my private page and its purpose is to present some of my research and to blog about things that interest me.
Several things happened since my last update, which has been a while ago. We published MaskFusion at ISMAR2018 , I interned and contracted for Facebook Reality Labs in Redmond, WA and in the course of that we are going to publish FroDO at CVPR2020 – which sadly has to be purely virtual. The two publications follow my trail of work on modelling scenes in an object-aware fashion. While MaskFusion is…
TL;DR … Photostory is a tool to generate slideshows using Blender. It can generate videos directly, but also offers more customization using the following workflow: GUI ➜ JSON ➜ Blender ➜ render. Videos below. … continued: There is a bunch of people – including myself – that is keen about photography, as well as open-source software. The two are not always coming along greatly, as companies behind…
In one of my last articles I mentioned my excitement about a paper we had submitted to a conference. Now, few months later, I already had the pleasure to present the work at ICRA. The whole experience was fantastic! ICRA offered a plethora of interesting presentations, industry exhibitions, activities and even robot competitions. I got valuable feedback for my own presentation – which I think went…
Since I am not living in my home country, I frequently use two different SIM cards and prefer having a phone with dual-sim support. This limits your choice significantly when buying a new device and last time I bought one, I opted for the Wileyfox Swift. It was cheap, had most features I desired and shipped with CyanogenMod (Android) – which, I thought, might indicate that Wileyfox delivers a…
TL;DR … A lot happened in the last couple of weeks: I received an award for my master thesis, which I also presented as a poster at GCPR and submitted a paper about my current work. … continued: The AFCEA describes itself as „a professional association that connects innovative people, great ideas and vital solutions to advance global security”. The German branch of AFCEA ( Anwenderforum für…
Everybody ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) is talking about big data and the chances that are not to be missed. So it would be fatal to miss this opportunity, for instance, by imposing too many regulations, right? First things first, what is big data about? Control. While data analysts looked into a murky pond waiting to observe a fish every now and then, big data promises clear water and a thorough understanding of…