I am a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, in the Computer Vision Lab of Pascal Fua. My research interests range from low-level computer vision to computer graphics and augmented reality. With the aim of enabling tight, yet rich computer-human interaction, I advance 3D vision algorithms to yield high-quality dynamic reconstructions of our everyday environment from plain video input. For instance,

Real-time human pose estimation from a single camera (SIGGRAPH 2017)
Egocentric motion capture with applications to VR (SIGGRAPH Asia 2016)
Fully automatic actor model creation (ECCV 2016)
A differentiable visibility model for human motion capture from sparse camera setups (ICCV 2015)
Dynamic mapping of human gestures to virtual characters (EG 2014 and SIGGRAPH Asia 2015)

The latest VR and AR devices offer incredible display capabilities; my 3D vision projects complement them to aid mutual human-computer interaction in our everyday life.

I grew up in Hamburg and received the BSc and MSc degree in Computer science from Saarland University, respectively supervised by Philipp Slusallek and Sebastian Hack, and Michael Breuß and Joachim Weickert. In 2016 I obtained my PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics for my work on Motion Capture for Interactive Virtual Worlds, mentored by Christian Theobalt and Hans-Peter Seidel.

Publications

2017

	VNect: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera Dushyant Mehta, Srinath Sridhar, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Helge Rhodin, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Weipeng Xu, Dan Casas, and Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2017 [project page] [paper pdf] [video] [CVPR 2017 demo project page]
	Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation In The Wild Using Improved CNN Supervision Dushyant Mehta, Helge Rhodin, Dan Casas, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Weipeng Xu, and Christian Theobalt arXiv 2017 [project page] [paper pdf]

2016

	From Motion Capture to Interactive Virtual Worlds Towards Unconstrained Motion-capture Algorithms for Real-time Performance-driven Character Animation Helge Rhodin PhD Dissertation, Saarland University, 2016 [thesis pdf]
	EgoCap: Egocentric Marker-less Motion Capture with Two Fisheye Cameras Helge Rhodin, Christian Richardt, Dan Casas, Eldar Insafutdinov, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bernt Schiele, and Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2016 [project page] [paper pdf] [video]
	Model-based Outdoor Performance Capture Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Helge Rhodin, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Christian Theobalt Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2016 [project page] [paper pdf] [video]
	General Automatic Human Shape and Motion Capture Using Volumetric Contour Cues Helge Rhodin, Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Christian Richardt, Hans-Peter Seidel and Christian Theobalt European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016. [project page] [paper pdf] [video]

2015

	A Versatile Scene Model with Differentiable Visibility Applied to Generative Pose Estimation Helge Rhodin, Nadia Robertini, Christian Richardt, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Christian Theobalt International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015. [project page] [paper pdf] [video]
	Generalizing Wave Gestures from Sparse Examples for Real-time Character Control Helge Rhodin, James Tompkin, Kwang In Kim, Edilson de Aguiar, Hanspeter Pfister, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Christian Theobalt ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2015. [project page] [paper pdf] [video]

2014

	Real-time Hand Tracking Using a Sum of Anisotropic Gaussians Model Srinath Sridhar, Helge Rhodin, Hans-Peter Seidel, Antti Oulasvirta, and Christian Theobalt International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2014. [project page] [paper pdf] [video]
	Interactive Motion Mapping for Real-time Character Control Helge Rhodin, James Tompkin, Kwang In Kim, Kiran Varanasi, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Christian Theobalt Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings Eurographics), 2014. [project page] [paper pdf] [video]

2013 and before

	A Mathematically Justified Algorithm for Shape from Texture Helge Rhodin and Michael Breuß Proc. Fourth International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), 2013
	A PTX Code Generator for LLVM Helge Rhodin B.Sc. Thesis, Saarland University, 2010. [project page] [thesis pdf]
	AnySL The goal of AnySL is the development of a unified shading system that is independent of source language, target architecture and rendering engine without sacrificing runtime performance. My focus was on the GPU code generation. The AnySL project is joined work of the Compiler Design Lab of Prof. Sebastian Hack and the Computer Graphics Group of Prof. Philipp Slusallek.
	Roboking Competition As Team Hamburg we were able to win twice the international Roboking competition hosted by the Chemnitz University of Technology. The goal was to construct and program an autonomous robot capable of fulfilling the given objectives without human intervention. The team was mentored by Andreas Rhodin and consisted of Julian Bende, Paul Bröker, Daniel Reck, and Helge Rhodin.

Helge Rhodin

Scientist, computer vision and graphics