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Overview

Andreas Kolb is a researcher affiliated with the University of Siegen in Germany. Their research output spans key areas in computer science and engineering, with a focus on specialized subfields such as computer vision and pattern recognition, computational mechanics, and computer graphics and computer-aided design.

Their work contributes to several main topics including advanced vision and imaging, computer graphics and visualization techniques, fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, lattice Boltzmann simulation studies, data visualization and analytics, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, and advanced image processing techniques.

Over the course of their career, Kolb has published extensively, with notable venues hosting their research including arXiv (Cornell University), The Visual Computer, ACM Transactions on Graphics, the Journal of Imaging, and the 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

Some recent publications demonstrate the varied scope of their research:

  • "Optimized Refinement for Spatially Adaptive SPH," 2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • "Semi-analytic boundary handling below particle resolution for smoothed particle hydrodynamics," 2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • "Multi-Level Memory Structures for Simulating and Rendering Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics," 2020, Computer Graphics Forum
  • "Deep Optimization Prior for THz Model Parameter Estimation," 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • "Designing Technology, Developing Theory: Toward a Symmetrical Approach," 2020, Science Technology & Human Values

Frequent collaborators include Hendrik Sommerhoff, Rene Winchenbach, Rustam Akhunov, Dmitri Presnov, and Michael Möller, with several joint publications, highlighting active cooperation with experts in linked fields. The collaboration with Rene Winchenbach is particularly noted, with multiple coauthored papers.

Kolb's research spans both theoretical and applied methods, addressing challenges in simulations, rendering techniques, and interpretation of complex data. This multidisciplinary approach integrates elements of computational mechanics and advanced computational imaging.

Best Publications

  • Time-of-Flight Cameras in Computer Graphics

    Andreas Kolb;Erhardt Barth;Reinhard Koch;Rasmus Larsen

  • Lateral and Depth Calibration of PMD-Distance Sensors

    Marvin Lindner;Andreas Kolb

  • Real-Time 3D Reconstruction in Dynamic Scenes Using Point-Based Fusion

    Maik Keller;Damien Lefloch;Martin Lambers;Shahram Izadi

  • Kinect range sensing

    Hamed Sarbolandi;Damien Lefloch;Andreas Kolb

  • State of the Art on 3D Reconstruction with RGB-D Cameras

    Michael Zollhöfer;Michael Zollhöfer;Patrick Stotko;Andreas Görlitz;Christian Theobalt

  • Optical techniques for 3D surface reconstruction in computer-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

    Lena Maier-Hein;Peter Mountney;Adrien Bartoli;Haytham Elhawary

  • Time-of-Flight sensor calibration for accurate range sensing

    Marvin Lindner;Ingo Schiller;Andreas Kolb;Reinhard Koch

  • High-quality computational imaging through simple lenses

    Felix Heide;Mushfiqur Rouf;Matthias B. Hullin;Bjorn Labitzke

  • Time-of-Flight Sensors in Computer Graphics

    Andreas Kolb;Erhardt Barth;Reinhard Koch;Rasmus Larsen

  • SPH Fluids in Computer Graphics

    Markus Ihmsen;Jens Orthmann;Barbara Solenthaler;Andreas Kolb

  • Hardware-based simulation and collision detection for large particle systems

    A. Kolb;L. Latta;C. Rezk-Salama

  • Imaging in scattering media using correlation image sensors and sparse convolutional coding

    Felix Heide;Lei Xiao;Andreas Kolb;Matthias B. Hullin

  • Calibration of the intensity-related distance error of the PMD TOF-camera

    Marvin Lindner;Andreas Kolb

  • Data-Fusion of PMD-Based Distance-Information and High-Resolution RGB-Images

    M. Lindner;A. Kolb;K. Hartmann

  • Dynamic particle coupling for gpu-based fluid simulation

    Andreas Kolb;Nicolas Cuntz

  • Opacity Peeling for Direct Volume Rendering

    Christof Rezk-Salama;Andreas Kolb

  • ToF-sensors: New dimensions for realism and interactivity

    A. Kolb;E. Barth;R. Koch

  • Assessing the Risks of Insuring Reputation Risk

    Nadine Gatzert;Joan T. Schmit;Andreas Kolb

  • Reliable face anti-spoofing using multispectral SWIR imaging

    Holger Steiner;Andreas Kolb;Norbert Jung

  • Compensation of Motion Artifacts for Time-of-Flight Cameras

    Marvin Lindner;Andreas Kolb

  • Time-of-Flight and Depth Imaging. Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications

    Marcin Grzegorzek;Christian Theobalt;Reinhard Koch;Andreas Kolb

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Koch
Reinhard Koch Kiel University
Jan Egger
Jan Egger University of Graz
Tim Weyrich
Tim Weyrich University College London
Bernd Freisleben
Bernd Freisleben Philipp University of Marburg
Reinhard Klein
Reinhard Klein University of Bonn
Felix Heide
Felix Heide Princeton University
Wolfgang Heidrich
Wolfgang Heidrich King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Erhardt Barth
Erhardt Barth University of Lübeck
Philipp Slusallek
Philipp Slusallek Saarland University
Christian Theobalt
Christian Theobalt Max Planck Institute for Informatics

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