Matthias Niessner at "Wissenschaft für jedermann"

In his lecture in the “Science for Everyone” series, Matthias Niessner from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) will present how photorealistic digital replicas of the real world can be created. The aim of his research is to observe the development of photos and videos into interactive holographic 3D content that is indistinguishable from physical reality. In the future, users should be able to take such 3D photos and share them with friends, family or via special media platforms.

It should also be possible to comprehensively document historical events for future generations or create content for later applications in augmented and virtual reality. AI-based methods, especially those using generative neural networks, have proven to be a crucial element in this endeavor. These approaches facilitate the transformation of existing image synthesis pipelines. Prof. Niessner's presentation will focus specifically on recent advances in neural rendering and reconstruction techniques. They make it possible to retain full control over conventional graphics pipelines that describe the path from the scene to the finished image in real-time rendering. At the same time, the modern capabilities of deep neural networks, which learn according to the model of nature, can be used.

Moderation: Jürgen Richter-Gebert, Chair of Geometry and Visualization

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