Wieland Morgenstern is a Research Associate at the Computer Vision and Graphics Group in the Vision and Imaging Technologies Department.
Our paper "X-maps: Direct Depth Lookup for Event-based Structured Light Systems" has been accepted at the CVPR 2023 Workshop on Event-based Vision.
Find more information on the project page https://fraunhoferhhi.github.io/X-maps/
Biography
Wieland Morgenstern is performing research in animation of humans from volumetric video, pairing mesh-based approaches with machine learning, and investigating hybrid model-based Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) approaches. Another research focus is building Spatial Augmented Reality experiences with event cameras.
Before joining Fraunhofer HHI in 2018, Wieland worked as a Computer Vision Engineer at VideoStitch/Orah from 2014-2018. He received a B.Sc. degree in 2012 and a M.Sc. degree in 2015 from Ilmenau Technical University.
Publications
Projects/Research Topics
SPIRIT
Scalable Platform for Innovations on Real-time Immersive Telepresence
https://www.spirit-project.eu/
October 2022 - September 2025
VoluProf
Volumetric professor for omnipresent and user-optimized teaching in mixed reality
September 2021 – August 2024
INVICTUS
Innovative Volumetric Capture and Editing Tools for Ubiquitous Storytelling
October 2020 – September 2022
Content4All
Personalised Content Creation for the Deaf Community in a Connected Digital Single Market
September 2017 - November 2020
REPLICATE
cReative-asset harvEsting PipeLine to Inspire Collective-AuThoring and Experimentation
January 2016 – December 2018
Awards
CVMP Best Paper Award 2019
The paper "Progressive Non-rigid Registration of Temporal Mesh Sequences" received the Best Paper Award at the 6th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP) in London. The prize is sponsored by the ACM Europe Council. Dr.-Ing. Anna Hilsmann, group leader Computer Vision and Graphics at Fraunhofer HHI, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Eisert, head of the Vision & Imaging Technologies department at Fraunhofer HHI, received the award as co-authors.