Publications
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Papers
Novel-View Synthesis of Outdoor Sport Events Using an Adaptive View-Dependent Geometry
Marcel Germann, Tiberiu Popa, Richard Keiser, Remo Ziegler, Markus Gross
Eurographics 2012, Cagliari, Italy.
- Paper [pdf, 32 MB]
- Video [mpeg4, 50.6 MB]
- BibTeX
- The definitive version is available at http://diglib.eg.org/
Space-time Body Pose Estimation in Uncontrolled Environments
Marcel Germann, Tiberiu Popa, Remo Ziegler, Richard Keiser, Markus Gross
3DIMPVT 2011, Hangzhou, China.
- Best paper award
- Paper [pdf, 2.4 MB] (equation 6 corrected)
- Video [mpeg4, 20.9 MB]
- BibTeX
Articulated Billboards for Video-based Rendering
Marcel Germann, Alexander Hornung, Richard Keiser, Remo Ziegler, Stephan Würmlin, Markus Gross
Eurographics 2010, Norrköping, Sweden.
- Paper [pdf, 10.1 MB]
- BibTeX
- The definitive version is available at http://diglib.eg.org/
Fast and automatic object pose estimation for range images on the GPU
In Kyu Park, Marcel Germann, Michael D. Breitenstein, Hanspeter Pfister
Machine Vision and Applications
August 2009, Berlin/Heidelberg
Dynamic Sampling and Rendering of Algebraic Point Set Surfaces
Gaël Guennebaud, Marcel Germann, Markus Gross
Eurographics 2008, Crete, Greece.
Automatic Pose Estimation for Range Images on the GPU
Marcel Germann, Michael D. Breitenstein, In Kyu Park, Hanspeter Pfister
Sixth International Conference on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM 2007)
August 2007, Montréal, Canada
Book Chapters
Geometry Reconstruction of Players for Novel-View Synthesis of Sports Broadcasts
Tiberiu Popa, Marcel Germann, Remo Ziegler, Richard Keiser, Markus Gross
in "Computer Vision In Sports", Chapter 7, ISBN 978-3-319-09396-3
Moeslund, Thomas B., Thomas, Graham, Hilton, Adrian (Eds.)
Springer, 2014
Theses

Video-based Rendering Techniques
Ph.D. thesis, Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 2012
- Full text available here

Video-based Rendering Methods in LiberoVision
master thesis, Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 2007
- Nothing to download due to non-disclosement agreement
Object Recognition with Mobile Phones
semester thesis, winter semester 2005/2006
A Virtual Touchscreen in blue-c
semester thesis, summer semester 2005.
Patents
Silhouette-based Pose Estimation
T. Popa, M. Germann, R. Keiser, M. Gross, R. Ziegler
U.S. Patent No 20140219550, European Patent No. 20120720395 - filed May 8, 2012
Method for Estimating a Pose of an Articulated Object Model
M. Germann, S. Würmlin-Stadler, R. Keiser, R. Ziegler, C. Niederberger, A. Hornung, M. Gross
European Patent No. 20110267344 - filed April 28, 2011
Method and Apparatus for Generating and Processing Depth-Enhanced Images
C. Niederberger, S. Würmlin-Stadler, R. Keiser, R. Ziegler, M. Feriencik, M. Germann, M. Müller
European Patent No. 2011029209 - filed March 17, 2011
Method and System for Determining Poses of Objects from Range Images Using Adaptive Sampling of Pose Spaces
H. Pfister, M. Germann, M. Breitenstein
U.S. Patent No. 7844106 - filed September 26, 2008
Method and System for Determining Objects Poses from Range Images
H. Pfister, I. Park, M. Germann, M. Breitenstein
European Patent No. EP20080005344 - filed March 20, 2008
U.S. Patent No. 7844105 - filed April 23, 2007