M.Sc. Sebastian Weiß
Personal Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/sebastian-weiss
Publications
I am a PhD student in the group of Rüdiger Westermann. My research focuses on the acceleration of 3D isosurface and volume rendering. For that purpose, I investigate approximation, compression and deep learning techniques for their application in computer visualization. The goal is to be able to explore large datasets in real-time which would otherwise be difficult with traditional methods.
Fast Neural Representations for Direct Volume Rendering
Sebastian Weiss, Philipp Hermüller, Rüdiger Westermann
Computer Graphics Forum, 2022
[PDF] [BIB] [Code]
Differentiable Direct Volume Rendering
Sebastian Weiss, Rüdiger Westermann
IEEE VIS 2021
[PDF] [Preprint] [BIB] [Code]
Analytic Ray Splitting for Controlled Precision DVR
Sebastian Weiss, Rüdiger Westermann
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2021, Best Short Paper
[PDF] [Preprint] [BIB] [Video] [Code] [Extended Version]
Learning Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction for Volume Visualization
S. Weiss, M. Işık, J. Thies, R. Westermann
TVCG 2020
[PDF] [Preprint] [BIB] [Source Code]
Volumetric Isosurface Rendering with Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution
Sebastian Weiß, Mengyu Chu, Nils Thuerey, Rüdiger Westermann
TVCG 2019
[PDF][Preprint] [BIB] [Source Code] [Video]
Correspondence-Free Material Reconstruction using Sparse Surface Constraints
Sebastian Weiß, Robert Maier, Daniel Cremers, Rüdiger Westermann, Nils Thuerey
CVPR 2020
[PDF] [ArXiv Preprint ] [BIB] [Source Code] [Video]
Triplanar Displacement Mapping for Terrain Rendering
Sebastian Weiß, Florian Bayer, Rüdiger Westermann
Eurographics 2020
[PDF] [Preprint] [BIB] [Source Code]
Visual Exploration of Circulation Rolls in Convective Heat Flows
A. Frasson, M. Ender, S. Weiss, M. Kanzler, A. Pandey, J. Schumacher, R. Westermann
IEEE Pacific Visualization 2019
[PDF ], [BIB]
Presentations / Tech Reports
| Name | Resources |
|---|---|
| PyTorch - CUDA - C++ Interop (presentation held in January 2020) | [PDF] [Sources] |
| Inverse Volume Rendering + Introduction to Automatic Differentiation (presentation held in November 2020) | [PDF] |
| Volume Rendering Integral: Derivation of the Front-to-back Algorithm (tech report, December 2020) | [PDF] |
Teaching
- Summer Term 2019 - Seminar: How to make A PIXAR movie
- Summer Term 2019 - exercises for Algorithms and Datastructures for Electrical Engineering
- exercises for Realtime Computer Graphics
Summer Term 2020, 2021 - Seminar: Data Visualization
SS19, WS19/20, SS20, WS20/21, SS21, WS21/22
Bachelor and Master Thesis Topics
I'm leaving the university soon, hence I do not accept new applications for Bachelor's or Master's theses!
Supervised Theses
| Topic | Student | Type of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | ||
| Interpolation of Sprite Animation Using Deep Learning | Daniel Drescher | Bachelor |
| Deep Learning for Techno Music | Manuel Geiger | Bachelor |
| Triplanar Displacement Mapping for Terrain Rendering | Florian Bayer | Master |
| 2020 | ||
| Multiple Precision Arithmetic on the GPU | Dominic Ebner | Bachelor |
| Perceptual Level-of-Detail for Physically-based Rendering | Moritz Kohr | Master |
| Real-time image inpainting on the GPU | Nikita Fetisov | Master |
| Analytic Ray-Isosurface Intersections | Philipp Eckart-Weißbäcker | Bachelor |
| Animating Mouth Movements from Text and Speech | Florian Hartl | Bachelor |
| Real-time Neural View Synthesis for Volumetric Datasets | Parika Goel | Master |
| 2021 | ||
| Wang Tiling for Texturing | Simon Dittrich | Bachelor |
| Extreme Distance World Rendering | Samuel Knöthig | Bachelor |
| Learning Neural Representations for Material Radiance Functions | Malte Schmitz | Bachelor |
| Inverse Direct Volume Rendering | Manuel Geiger | Master |
| Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings by Filtering on Deep Features | Mustafa Isık | Master |
| Time-dependent, vector-valued Scene Representation Networks | Philipp Hermüller | Bachelor |
| 2022 | ||
| Evaluation of Scene Representation Networks for Streamline Integration | Alexander Fuchs | Bachelor |
| Sparse Voxel DAGs for Open World Games | Philipp Steininger | Bachelor |