Current team:

Piotr Didyk

Head of the group

Jorge Condor

Ph.D. student

Sophie Kergassner

Ph.D. student

Taimoor Tariq

Ph.D. student

Ata Yurtsever

Ph.D. student

Ewa Miazga

Research Assistant

Alumni:

Postdoctoral researchers:

Vamsi Kiran Adhikarla (2015-2017)

Vahid Babaei (2017-2018), now at MPI Informatik

Cara Tursun (2019-2022), now at University of Groningen

Ufuk Çelikcan (2022-2023), now at Hacettepe University

Daniel Martín Serrano (2024), now at University of Zaragoza

Ph.D. Students:

Luca Surace (2019-2025)

Michal Piovarči (2015-2020), now at ETH Zurich

Elena Arabadzhiyska-Koleva (2016-2023)

Visiting Ph.D. Students:

Marek Wernikowski (2019-2020)

Akshay Paruchuri (2025-2026)

Research assistants/Interns:

Itrat Rubab (2017/18), Haebom Lee (2015-2017), Aleksander Sas (2016), Medha Juneja (2015/16), Kireeti Bodduna (2015/16), Łukasz Hanuszczak (2015/16), Michał Jagielski (2015), Michael Wessely (2015), Arnaud Fauconnet (2023), Xiana Carrera Alonso (2023), Volodymyr Karpenko (2024-2025), Nicolai Hermann (2024-2026)

Master students:

Constantin Berhard, A GPU Line Sweeping Framework, 2016-2017, moved on to SemVox

Junaid Ali, Perceptually Driven Frame-Rate Manipulations, 2016-2017, moved on to MPI SWS

Ildar Gilmutdinov, Fabrication of objects with controlled deformation behaviour using tetrakaidecahedron cells, 2016-2018, moved on to TU Wien

Sebastian Cucerca, Reflectance measurement and fabrication tools for gloss editing, 2017-2019, moved on to be Reasearch Engineer at MPI Informatics

Weimeng Pu, Machine-Learning based Foveated Rendering, 2019-2020

Lorenzo Bucci, Shape correspondence from local range scans, 2019-2020

Ajoudani Shahrzad, Predicting the next painting of an artist using machine learning, 2022-2023

Qiyang Pan, Text-driven Human Motion Generation, 2023-2024

Nicolai Hermann, Perceptually-Driven Neural Inpainting for Seamless 3D Reconstructions, 2023-2024

Volodymyr Karpenko, Perceptually Optimized Deep Video Enhancement, 2023-2024

Kaan Egemen Sen, Evaluating Deep Features For Predicting Video Quality, 2024-2025

Bachelor students:

Niccolò Zuppichini, A robust pipeline to process 3D objects for virtual reality visualization, 2018-2019.

Alan Cincioni, Real-time motion capture for VR applications, 2019-2020

Iaroslav Petrov, Clockwork: An extensible game engine solution, 2020.

Alessio Giovagnini, Rendering a 3D hyperbolic space, 2021.

Jacob Salvi, Soft body simulation, 2021.

Thuong Le, Adaptive Warping for Stereo Rendering, 2022

Elena Franchini, Physics-based simulation of soft bodies, 2022

Giacomo Solaro, Gelatin Cubes: Soft Body Simulation, 2023

Alessandro Cagnani, Appearence-Based Gaze Estimation, 2023

Alfio Vavassori, Video Based Live Object Tracking In Steel Manufacturing Process, 2023