Dr.-Ing. Simon Fuhrmann

I am working for Google Seattle as a Software Engineer after transferring from Google Zurich.

Previously I was a PhD Student at TU Darmstadt in Michael Goesele's research group. I worked on computer graphics and computer vision problems with a focus on geometry reconstruction from photos.

One of my hobbies is photography of landscapes, cityscapes and people. I particularly enjoy the technical aspects of photography such as post-processing, retouching, and color-grading.

Research

I received my PhD from TU Darmstadt in Germany. My areas of research are computer graphics and computer vision with a focus on image-based geometry reconstruction. The details of the techniques I developed are described in the publications available below.

I developed, with the help of others, a system called MVE, the Multi-View Environment. The system takes photos of an object as input and reconstructs the 3D geometry of the object. It has been published as free, open-source software and is available on GitHub. Refer to the MVE website at TU Darmstadt for more details. MVE also contains the Floating Scale Surface Reconstruction algorithm for large, multi-scale, point-based reconstruction tasks.

PhD Thesis

Scene Reconstruction from Multi-Scale Input Data
Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Goesele
Reviewers: Prof. Brian L. Curless (Ph.D.), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Theobalt
Defended on 18th June 2015.

Research Papers

MVE - An Image-Based Reconstruction Environment
Simon Fuhrmann, Fabian Langguth, Nils Moehrle, Michael Waechter and Michael Goesele
In: Computer & Graphics, Invited Paper, 2015.

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Accurate Isosurface Interpolation with Hermite Data
Simon Fuhrmann, Misha Kazhdan and Michael Goesele
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on 3D Vision, Lyon, France, 2015.

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Multi-View Photometric Stereo by Example
Jens Ackermann, Fabian Langguth, Simon Fuhrmann, Arjan Kuijper and Michael Goesele
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on 3D Vision, Tokyo, Japan, 2014.

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MVE - A Multi-View Reconstruction Environment
Simon Fuhrmann, Fabian Langguth and Michael Goesele
In: Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, Darmstadt, Germany, 2014.

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Floating Scale Surface Reconstruction
Simon Fuhrmann and Michael Goesele
In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2014), Vancouver, Canada, 2014.

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Geometric Point Light Source Calibration
Jens Ackermann, Simon Fuhrmann and Michael Goesele
In: Proceedings of Vision, Modeling and Visualization, Lugano, Switzerland, 2013.

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Photometric Stereo for Outdoor Webcams
Jens Ackermann, Fabian Langguth, Simon Fuhrmann and Michael Goesele
In: Proceedings of CVPR 2012, Providence, USA, 2012.

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Fusion of Depth Maps with Multiple Scales
Simon Fuhrmann and Michael Goesele
In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011), Hong Kong, China, 2011.

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Automatic Construction of Statistical Shape Models for Vertebrae
Meike Becker, Matthias Kirschner, Simon Fuhrmann, Stefan Wesarg
In: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, Toronto, Canada, 2011.

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Direct Resampling for Isotropic Surface Remeshing
Simon Fuhrmann, Jens Ackermann, Thomas Kalbe, Michael Goesele
In: Proceedings of Vision, Modeling and Visualization, Siegen, Germany, 2010.

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Ambient Point Clouds for View Interpolation
Michael Goesele, Jens Ackermann, Simon Fuhrmann, Carsten Haubold, Ronny Klowsky, Drew Steedly, Richard Szeliski
In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2010), Los Angeles, USA, 2010.

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Scene Reconstruction from Community Photo Collections
Michael Goesele, Jens Ackermann, Simon Fuhrmann, Ronny Klowsky, Fabian Langguth, Patrick Muecke, Martin Ritz
In: IEEE Computer (Issue June 2010), Invited Paper, 2010.

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A New Projection Method for Point-Set Surfaces
Thomas Kalbe, Simon Fuhrmann, Stefan Uhrig, Frank Zeilfelder, Arjan Kuijper
In: European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), Annex to the Conference Proceedings, Munich, Germany, 2009.