Research Interest

I work on decomposing photographs into intrinsic layers, meaning its reflectance and shading components. Knowing this information, I would like to remove objects in the given scene and automatically inpaint this region with other objects again. In this process, one needs to estimate where the light sources are, which material the objects are made of, what the room geometry is, etc.

At the moment, I work on producing a new dataset for intrinsic image research, that gives a broader range of ground truth data than currently available, in order to be able to evaluate and compare the results with other intrinsic image algorithms.

Education

2014 - now: Ph.D. Student
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Perceiving Systems Department, Tübingen, Germany

2004 – 2013: Diploma Student
Computer Science and Mathematics - Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany

• 2013 Diploma in Computer Science from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
  Diploma Thesis "Decentralized Multi-target Exploration and Connectivity Maintenance with a Multi-robot System" at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

• 2010 Visiting Student
  Computer Science - University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

• 2007 Pre-Diploma in Mathematics from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany

2003 - 2004: Military Service
German Air Force in Roth and Landsberg, Germany

1994 – 2003: High School Student
Gymnasium Neckartenzlingen in Neckartenzlingen, Germany

Experience

2012 - 2013: Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Working in the field of multiple robot systems on "Decentralized Simultaneous Multi-target Exploration with Continual Connectivity Maintenance"

2005 - 2012: Teaching Assistant at the Eberhard-Kars-Universtät Tübingen, Germany
Computer Engineering (2 semesters), Mathematics for Computer Scientists (4 semesters), Theoretical Computer Science (2 semesters), Algebraical and Combinatorial Applications in Computer Science (1 semester), Pre-Course Mathematics (2 weeks per course, 6 courses)

2006 - 2011: Research Assistant at the Eberhard-Kars-Universtät Tübingen, Germany
Chairs of Computer Engineering (1 year), Discrete Mathematics (1 year), Formal Languages (0.5 years)