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Visual Computing Group
Prof. Matthias Nießner
Bio Justus Thies is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich. In September 2017 he joined the Visual Computing Lab of Prof.Dr. Matthias Nießner. Previous, he was a PhD student at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg under the supervision of Gunther Greiner. He started his PhD studies in 2014 after receiving his Master of Science degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. During the time as a PhD student he collaborated with other institutes and did internships at Stanford University and the Max-Planck Institut Informatik. His research focuses on real-time facial performance capturing and expression transfer using commodity hardware. Thus, he is interested in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, as well as in efficient implementations of optimization techniques, especially on graphics hardware. His publications opened up a new research field - real-time facial reenactment. The achieved quality, efficiency and the reduced hardware requirements of his developed methods raised a lot of attention in academia, industry and media. The dissertation "Face2Face: Real-time Facial Reenactment" of Justus Thies summarizes these publications and discusses the implications of the demonstrated technologies. Beside computer science, he has a strong interest in mechanical engineering and numerical controlled machines (CNC machines). His hobbies include building CNC machines, remote controlled quad-copters, planes and cars.
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