Dr.

Gero Müller

Alumni (Researcher)


Email:	gero@REMOVETHISPART.cs.uni-bonn.de

Links

Personal homepage: http://www.gero-mueller.de/

Ongoing Projects

		BTFDBB: BTF Database Bonn and Measurement Lab The image-based acquisition of complex optical material properties is one of the major research topics in our group. The goal of this project is the development of novel techniques for the efficient and high-fidelity capture of high-dimensional material representations like, e.g., the bidirectional texture function (BTF). Example data is publicly available at the BTF database Bonn.

		Data-Driven Analysis and Synthesis of Bidirectional Texture Functions In this project we strive to derive a statistical model of the space spanned by a database of measured BTFs. This way, we intend to develop a dramatically more general representation of materials than is currently available. The goal is to reparameterize the high-dimensional material space to allow perceptually meaningful interpolations between the acquired samples, i.e., to generate new materials that blend qualities of samples from the dataset.

Completed Projects

Publications

		Data-Driven Methods for Compression and Editing of Spatially Varying Appearance Gero Müller Dissertation, Universität Bonn, Dec. 2009 [Details] [Bibtex]

		BTF-CIELab: A Perceptual Difference Measure for Quality Assessment and Compression of BTFs Michael Guthe, Gero Müller, Martin Schneider, and Reinhard Klein In: Computer Graphics Forum (Feb. 2009), 28:1(101-113) [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		Photo-realistic Rendering of Metallic Car Paint from Image-Based Measurements R. Scopigno and E. Gröller (Editors) Martin Rump, Gero Müller, Ralf Sarlette, Dirk Koch, and Reinhard Klein In: Computer Graphics Forum (Apr. 2008), 27:2(527-536) [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		The Presentation of Cultural Heritage Models in Epoch David Arnold, Franco Niccolucci, and Luc Van Gool (Editors) Sven Havemann, V. Settgast, D. Fellner, Geert Willems, Luc Van Gool, Gero Müller, Martin Schneider, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of EPOCH Conference on Open Digital Cultural Heritage Systems, Rome, Feb. 2008 [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		Capturing Reflectance - From Theory to Practice H. Lensch, M. Gösele, and Gero Müller Tutorial Notes of Eurographics, Sept. 2007 [Details] [Bibtex]

		Procedural Editing of Bidirectional Texture Functions J. Kautz and S. Pattanaik (Editors) Gero Müller, Ralf Sarlette, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2007, The Eurographics Association, June 2007 [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		Data-driven Local Coordinate Systems for Image-Based Rendering E. Gröller and L. Szirmay-Kalos (Editors) Gero Müller, Ralf Sarlette, and Reinhard Klein In: Computer Graphics Forum (Sept. 2006), 25:3 [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		Verification of Rendering Quality from Measured BTFs Jan Meseth, Gero Müller, Reinhard Klein, Florian Röder, and M. Arnold In proceedings of The 3rd Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, July 2006 [Details] [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

		Realistic Materials in Computer Graphics H. Lensch, M. Gösele, Y. -Y. Chuang, T. Hawkins, S. Marschner, W. Matusik, and Gero Müller In SIGGRAPH 2005 Tutorials, 2005 [Details] [Bibtex]

		Rapid Synchronous Acquisition of Geometry and BTF for Cultural Heritage Artefacts Gero Müller, Gerhard H. Bendels, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of The 6th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST), Eurographics Association, pages 13-20, Eurographics Association, Nov. 2005 [Details] [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

		Surface Light Field Rendering for Virtual Product Design Jan Meseth, Gero Müller, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2005), pages 185-188, Oct. 2005 [Details] [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

		Fractional Fourier Texture Masks: Guiding Near-Regular Texture Synthesis M. Alexa and J. Marks (Editors) A. Nicoll, Jan Meseth, Gero Müller, and Reinhard Klein In: Computer Graphics Forum (Sept. 2005), 24:3(569-579) [Details] [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

		Acquisition, Synthesis and Rendering of Bidirectional Texture Functions Gero Müller, Jan Meseth, Mirko Sattler, Ralf Sarlette, and Reinhard Klein In: Computer Graphics Forum (Mar. 2005), 24:1(83-109) [Details] [Video] [Bibtex]

		Classification for Fourier Volume Rendering Zoltán Nagy, Gero Müller, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of The 12th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2004), Oct. 2004 [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		Acquisition, Synthesis and Rendering of Bidirectional Texture Functions Christophe Schlick and Werner Purgathofer (Editors) Gero Müller, Jan Meseth, Mirko Sattler, Ralf Sarlette, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of Eurographics 2004, State of the Art Reports, pages 69-94, INRIA and Eurographics Association, Sept. 2004 [Details] [Paper] [Video] [Slides] [Bibtex]

		Fast Environmental Lighting for Local-PCA Encoded BTFs Gero Müller, Jan Meseth, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of Computer Graphics International 2004 (CGI 2004), pages 198-205, IEEE Computer Society, June 2004 [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		High Quality Rendering of Reflectance Data Jan Meseth, Gero Müller, Mirko Sattler, Ralf Sarlette, A. Artusi, A. Wilkie, G. Zotti, Reinhard Klein, and Werner Purgathofer CGI 2004 tutorial, June 2004 [Details] [Bibtex]

		Reflectance Field based real-time, high-quality Rendering of Bidirectional Texture Functions D. Reiners, D. Fellner, Reinhard Klein, and J. Kautz (Editors) Jan Meseth, Gero Müller, and Reinhard Klein In: Computers and Graphics (Feb. 2004), 28:1(103-112) [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		BTF Rendering for Virtual Environments Jan Meseth, Gero Müller, Mirko Sattler, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of Virtual Concepts 2003, pages 356-363, Nov. 2003 [Details] [Paper] [Bibtex]

		Compression and Real-Time Rendering of Measured BTFs Using Local PCA T. Ertl, B. Girod, G. Greiner, H. Niemann, H.-P. Seidel, E. Steinbach, and R. Westermann (Editors) Gero Müller, Jan Meseth, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of Vision, Modeling and Visualisation 2003, pages 271-280, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH, Berlin, Nov. 2003 [Details] [Paper] [Video] [Slides] [Bibtex]

		RealReflect - Real-time Visualization of Complex Reflectance Behaviour in Virtual Protoyping P. Brunet and D. Fellner (Editors) Reinhard Klein, Jan Meseth, Gero Müller, Ralf Sarlette, Michael Guthe, and Ákos Balázs In proceedings of Eurographics 2003 Industrial and Project Presentations, Sept. 2003 [Details] [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

		Preserving Realism in Real-Time Rendering of Bidirectional Texture Functions Jan Meseth, Gero Müller, and Reinhard Klein In proceedings of OpenSG Symposium 2003, pages 89-96, Eurographics Association, Switzerland, Apr. 2003 [Details] [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]

		EPOCH - European Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information and Communication Technology for Cultural Heritage. Participants include university departments, research centres, heritage institutions, such as museums or national heritage agencies, and commercial enterprises, together endeavouring to overcome the fragmentation of current research in this field.

		RealReflect The RealReflect project’s goal is to increase the realism of Virtual Reality (VR) technology by developing physically correct visualization technology capable of accounting for phenomena like metamerism, fluorescence and light polarization and integrating it into an existing VR system. This will enable users from many different areas like automotive industry or architecture to create VR simulations for the interior design, thereby avoiding the necessity to build expensive real prototypes which reduces costs as well as time to market of the overall end products.