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April 20, 2021 - May 20, 2021

Joint Research Center Workshop 2021

Location: Virtual

Computer Vision | Day 1

20 April | 16:30 – 19:15 CEST

Time (CEST) Session Speaker
16:30–16:35 Welcome Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche​, Microsoft
16:35–16:55 Keynote: HoloLens, Mixed Reality and Spatial Computing Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich / Microsoft
16:55–17:40 Dense Mapping Chair: Ondrej Miksik, Microsoft
PatchmatchNet: Learned Multi-View Patchmatch Stereo Fangjinhua Wang, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Silvano Galliani, Marc Pollefeys, Pablo Speciale and Christoph Vogel, Microsoft)
Volumetric Mapping for Long-term Robot Interaction | Video Lukas Schmid, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, ETH Zurich and Johannes Schönberger, Juan Nieto, Marc Pollefeys, Microsoft)
Multi-view Appearance Super-resolution with CNNs | Video Matthieu Armando, INRIA
(collaboration with Edmond Boyer, Jean-Sebastien Franco, INRIA)
17:40–18:15 Privacy Preserving SfM Chair: Ondrej Miksik, Microsoft
Privacy-Preserving Image Features | Video Mihai Dusmanu, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Marc Pollefeys and Johannes Schönberger, Sudipta Sinha, Microsoft)
Privacy Preserving Structure-from-Motion | Video Marcel Geppert, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Viktor Larsson, ETH Zurich and Pablo Speciale, Marc Pollefeys, Johannes Schönberger, Microsoft)
18:20–19:10 Robotics, Medical Imaging and Mixed Reality Chair: Mélanie Bernhardt, Jeff Delmerico, Microsoft
Immersive Multirobot Teleoperation Roi Poranne, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Stelian Coros, ETH Zurich and Federica Bogo, Marc Pollefeys, Bugra Tekin, Microsoft)
Project Altair: Infrared Vision and AI-Decision Making for Longer Drone Flights | Video Florian Achermann, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Jen Jen Chung, Nicholas Lawrance, Roland Siegwart, ETH Zurich and Debadeepta Dey, Andrey Kolobov, Microsoft Research)
Freetures: Localization in Signed Distance Function Maps | Video Alexander Millane, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Jeff Delmerico, Juan Nieto, Marc Pollefeys, Microsoft)
Towards Markerless Surgical Tool and Hand Pose Estimation | Video Jonas Hein, ETH Zurich, TUM and Microsoft
(collaboration with Philipp Fürnstahl, Balgrist University Hospital, Nassir Navab, Technical University of Munich, Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich / Microsoft)
Test-time Adaptable Neural Networks for Robust Medical Image Segmentation | Video Neerav Karani, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Ender Konukoglu, ETH Zurich)
19:10 Conclusions Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche​, Microsoft

Computer Vision | Day 2

22 April | 16:30 – 19:20 CEST

Time (CEST) Session Speaker
16:30–16:35 Welcome Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche​, Microsoft
16:35–16:55 Keynote: Computer Vision for Social Presence in Mixed Reality | Video Jamie Shotton, Microsoft
16:55–17:55 Humans, Hands & Actions I Chair: Marek Kowalski, Microsoft
Semantic-Aware Vector Quantised-Variational Autoencoder for Human Grasp Prediction Mengshi Qi, EPFL
(collaboration with Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, EPFL and Marc Pollefeys, Bugra Tekin, Sudipta Sinha, Microsoft)
Treating Touchscreens as Image Sensors for Super-resolution Sensing Paul Streli, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Christian Holz, ETH Zurich and Ken Hinckley, Microsoft Research)
Reconstructing 3D Human with Learning-based Method | Video Boyao Zhou, INRIA
(collaboration with Edmond Boyer, Jean-Sebastien Franco, INRIA and Federica Bogo, Martin de la Gorce, Microsoft)
Controllable Human Motion Generation from Trajectories | Video Kacper Kania, Warsaw University of Technology
(collaboration with Tomasz Trzcinski, Warsaw University of Technology and Marek Kowalski, Microsoft)
Learning Motion Priors for 4D Human Body Capture in 3D Scenes | Video Siwei Zhang, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Siyu Tang, ETH Zurich and Federica Bogo, Marc Pollefeys, Jamie Shotton, Microsoft)
18:00–19:00 Humans, Hands & Actions II Chair: Bugra Tekin, Microsoft
Digital Characters in Virtual Experiences | Video Darren Cosker, Microsoft / University of Bath
How to Accelerate NeRF by 3 Orders of Magnitude Stephan Garbin, Marek Kowalski, Microsoft
Towards Unconstrained Joint Hand-object Reconstruction from RGB Videos Yana Hasson, INRIA
(collaboration with Ivan Laptev, Josef Sivic, INRIA and Marc Pollefeys, Johannes Schönberger, Bugra Tekin, Microsoft)
H2O: Two Hands Manipulating Objects for First Person Interaction Recognition | Video Taein Kwon, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Federica Bogo Marc Pollefeys, Bugra Tekin, Microsoft)
19:00 Conclusions Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich / Microsoft