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I am a researcher in the Computer Vision and Graphics group of the Image Processing Department at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. I am also a PhD candidate in the Visual Computing Group at the Institute of Computer Science of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. My primary field of research is 3D vision and graphics of the the human head and face.

Topics I work(ed) on include...

multi-view stereo, especially of the human head
multiview imaging rigs
nonrigid tracking and motion estimation (e.g. in endoscopic video)
differential, image-based optimization algorithms
image-based rendering of heads
data-driven nonrigid 3D registration, morphable shape models
model-based 2D segmentation

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Contact

David C. Schneider
Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute
Einsteinufer 37
10587 Berlin
Germany

phone: +49 (0)30 31002-618
mail: david.schneider@hhi.fraunhofer.de

Activities

I'm a contributor to Springer's upcoming Encyclopedia of Computer Vision.

I was part of the organization team of the 16th International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization Workshop.

I participated in the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) 2009 in Sicily.

Publications

2011
	D. C. Schneider, M. Kettern, A. Hilsmann, P. Eisert A Global Optimization Approach to High-detail Reconstruction of the Head Vision, Modelling and Visualization 2011, Berlin, Germany, 2011 [oral] [PDF]
	A. Hilsmann, D.C. Schneider, P. Eisert Warp-based Near-Regular Texture Analysis for Image-based Texture Overlay, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 2011. [PDF]
	A. Hilsmann, D.C. Schneider, P. Eisert Template-free Shape from Texture with Perspecitve Cameras British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Dundee, Scotland, 2011. [oral]
	D. C. Schneider, M. Kettern, A. Hilsmann, P. Eisert Deformable Image Alignment as a Source of Stereo Correspondences on Portraits NORDIA workshop, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, 2011. [oral] [PDF]
	B. Prestele, D. C. Schneider, P. Eisert A System for the Automated Segmentation of Heads from Arbitrary Background IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Brusselles, 2011. [oral] [PDF]
	D. C. Schneider, A. Hilsmann and P. Eisert Deshaking endoscopic video for kymography SIGGRAPH 2011 Poster, Vancouver, 2011 [PDF] (based on our Eurographics 2011 short paper) Selected for the ACM Student Research Competition
	A. Hilsmann, D. C. Schneider and P. Eisert Image-based Retexturing of Deformed Surfaces from a Single Image Eurographics 2011 (Poster), LLandudno, UK, April 2011. [PDF] Best poster award!
	D. C. Schneider, A. Hilsmann and P. Eisert Warp-based Motion Compensation for Endoscopic Kymography Eurographics 2011 (Short paper), Llandudno, 2011 [oral] [PDF]
	A. Hilsmann, D. C. Schneider and P. Eisert Image-Based Tracking of Deformable Surfaces in Hanna Goszczynska, Object Tracking, pp. 245-266, InTech, February 2011. [PDF]
2010
	D. C. Schneider, A. Hilsmann and P. Eisert Patch-Based Reconstruction and Rendering of Human Heads IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP 2010, Hongkong, September 2010 [oral] [PDF]
	A. Hilsmann, D. C. Schneider, P. Eisert Realistic Cloth Augmentation in Single View under Occlusions Computers & Graphics 34(5), pp. 567-574, October 2010 [PDF]
	D. C. Schneider, P. Eisert Algorithms for Automatic and Robust Registration of 3D Head Scans Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcas 7.2010, December 2010 [PDF]
2009
	D. C. Schneider, P. Eisert Fitting a Morphable Model to Pose and Shape of a Point Cloud Vision, Modeling and Visualization VMV, Braunschweig, 2009. [oral] [PDF]
	D. C. Schneider, B. Prestele, P. Eisert Precise Head Segmentation on Arbitrary Backgrounds IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Cairo, 2009. [PDF] Our technology was nominated for the Innovation Award Berlin Brandenburg in 2009.
	D. C. Schneider, P. Eisert Fast Nonrigid Mesh Registration with a Data-Driven Deformation Prior NORDIA workshop, International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV, Kyoto, 2009. [oral] [PDF]
2008
	D. C. Schneider, P. Eisert Automatic and Robust Semantic Registration of 3D Head Scans 5th European Conference on Visual Media Production CVMP, London, 2008. [oral] [PDF]
	D. C. Schneider, P. Eisert Morpable Face Models - Generation and Applications 3D-NordOst 2008, Berlin, 2008 [oral]
2007
	D. C. Schneider, M. Block, R. Rojas Robust Document Warping with Interpolated Vector Fields Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR, Sao Paulo, 2007
	D. C. Schneider, C. Voigt, G. Betz Argunet - A Software Tool for Collaborative Argumentation Analysis and Research CMNA07 workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI, Hyderabad, 2007. [oral] Argunet received an E-learning award from CEDIS, the center for E-learning of Freie Universität Berlin. Supported by an IJCAI travel grant.
	D. C. Schneider Curvature Correction for Camera-Based Document Processing GI Edition - Lecture Notes in Informatics Vol S5, Bonn, 2007
2006
	D. C. Schneider Correcting Curvature and Perspective for Camera-Based Document Processing Magister thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2006

Past Projects

These are projects I worked on before I joined Fraunhofer HHI.

Argunet, an open source client-server system for reconstructing arguments and complex controversial debates. Argunet was developed at the chair for the Philosophy of Science and Logic at Freie Universität Berlin and it is based on an argumentation theory developed there. The system is used in research and teaching at various institutions and actively developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. I was the lead developer for architecture and algorithms.
Argunet received an E-learning award from CEDIS, the center for E-learning of Freie Universität Berlin.
An article in German about Argunet.
FU-Fighters, the multiple world champion robotic soccer team developed in the AI group of my former university's computer sciene department. We scored first in the small size league and second in the middle size league in the Osaka world cup of 2005.

Short CV

Researcher and PhD candidate in the Computer Vision and Graphics group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute since Jan, 2008.
Master (Magister) in Computer Science and Philosophy in Aug, 2007. Graded 1.0 (best on scale) in both subjects.
Software engineer and lead developer for the Argunet project at the chair for the Philosophy of Science and Logic at FU Berlin (see "Past Projects" on this page).
Student research assistant in the AI group at the Computer Science Department of FU Berlin.
Studies in Computer Science and Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin.
Abitur at Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium in Erlangen, Germany, in 1999.
Born in Thun, Switzerland, on July, 15th, 1979. Grown up here to the age of 5, then moved to Erlangen, Germany.