University College London
Dept. of Computer Science
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London WC1E 6BT, UK
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@jankautz

I am a Professor of Visual Computing in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, where I am a member of the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics Group. My research area is visual computing with a particular interest in real-time rendering, illumination computation, materials, perception, computational photography, and video-based rendering.

I have six doctoral students, Dan Calian, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Yotam Doron (sponsored by The Foundry), Fabrizio Pece, Frederic Besse, and Fabian Wanner (sponsored by Framestore), who are working on 3d reconstruction, rendering, computational photography, and video-based rendering. Furthermore, I have two post-docs, Neill Campbell, who is working on synthesizing photo-real objects and Kartic Subr (Newton fellow), who is working on rendering and image processing.

News
05/2013
I am looking for new PhD students starting in September 2013 (open to all EU applicants). Topics include on Kinect-based capture (Microsoft Research Studentship) and video-based rendering. Please contact me before applying..
05/2013
We, Yooshr Ltd, have released our first mobile app Stripe Me. It's available on the App Store.
03/2013
We have two papers accepted at ACM SIGGRAPH 2013: one on jittered sampling and one on lenticular prints.
03/2013
Our papers on video inpainting (here and here) are making the rounds on the internet: Gizmag, Ubergizmo, PetaPixel, Slashdot.
02/2013
Our paper PanoInserts: Practical Spatial Teleconferencing has been selected to receive a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2013.
02/2013
Our paper on non-paramatric pairwise potentials for dense CRF inference was accepted at CVPR 2013.
12/2012
We have two papers accepted, one at Eurographics 2013 and one at CHI 2013.
11/2012
James Tompin has successfully finished his PhD. Congratulations!
09/2012
Our paper on combining Patch Match and Belief Propagation for finding correspondence fields won the Best Industrial Impact Award at BMVC 2012.
08/2012
Our paper on 3D-printing articulated models has been accepted at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012.
07/2012
Our paper on patch match belief propagation was accepted at BMVC 2012.
06/2012
We have two papers accepted at ECCV 2012: one on video inpainting and one on label propagation in large image databases.
06/2012
The second London Graphics Seminar was a great event with about 75 attendees.
05/2012
Our work on Interactive Light-Field Painting has been accepted to the Emerging Technologies at ACM SIGGRAPH 2012.
04/2012
Our paper Videoscapes: Exploring Sparse, Unstructured Video Collections has been accepted at ACM SIGGRAPH 2012.
01/2012
Our work on dynamic video inpanting is featurd on the cover of Informatik Spektrum.
01/2012
Our paper on the state of the art in interactive global illumination has been accepted at Computer Graphics Forum and a preprint is online.
01/2012
We have two papers accepted at Eurographics 2012, one on inpainting dynamic objects in videos and one on creating multiperspective images and videos.
09/2011
We have three newcomers in my group this month: Neill Campbell (Research Associate), Daniyar Turmukhambetov (PhD student), and Dan Calian (EngD student).
06/2011
I'm helping organizing CVMP, a London-based conference on visual media. The paper deadline is June 20th, so please consider submitting!
05/2011
I am looking for a post-doc as well as a new PhD student, starting in the fall. The topic for both is on Synthesizing and Editing Photo-realistic Visual Objects.
04/2011
Our paper on edge-aware image filtering and our paper on video-based characters were accepted at ACM SIGGRAPH 2011.
03/2011
The London Graphics Seminar was a great event with about 100 attendees.