At the beginning of the event, the doctoral theses completed over the course of the year were honored—an outstanding achievement with a total of 13 PhDs. This was followed by awards for the most significant scientific publications and theses of 2018, as well as recognition of the three most promising industrial projects. The award winners in the categories “Best Thesis,” “Impact on Society / Science / Business,” and “Best Industrial Project” largely accepted their awards in person on St. Nicholas’ Day. Numerous guests and partners from research, industry, and politics accepted IGD’s invitation and took the opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest trends in applied visual computing. At various stations, staff members presented current research projects at demo booths.

 

Best Thesis

Alexandra Moseguí Saladié
Master’s Thesis: “Creating Face Morphing Attacks with Generative Adversarial Networks”
(Face recognition vulnerability and attack detectability)Master Thesis: 

Patrick Seemann

Master’s Thesis: “Soft Transparency for Point Cloud Rendering”

Simon Breitfelder
Master’s Thesis: “Example-based Synthesis of Seamless Texture Variations and Application to the Acquisition of Optical Material Properties”

 

Best Paper Award

Category: Impact on Science

Winner

Hur, Junhwa; Roth, Stefan (TU Darmstadt, Group VI)

MirrorFlow: Exploiting symmetries in joint optical flow and occlusion estimation. 2017. In Proc. of Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV)

 

Honorable Mentions

Wannenwetsch, Anne S. (TU Darmstadt); Keuper, Margret (University of Mannheim); Roth, Stefan (TU Darmstadt, Group VI)

Probflow: Joint optical flow and uncertainty estimation. 2017. In Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 1182-1191). IEEE.

 

Aroudj, Samir; Seemann, Patrick; Langguth, Fabian; Guthe Stefan; Goesele, Michael (TU Darmstadt, Group GCC)                                                                                              

Visibility-consistent thin surface reconstruction using multi-scale kernels. 2017. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 36, p.187.

 

Category: Impact on Society

Winner

Papaioannou, Georgios (Athens University of Economics and Business); Schreck, Tobias (Graz University of Technology); Andreadis, Anthousis (Athens University of Economics and Business); Mavridis, Pavlos (Microsoft Böblingen); Gregor, Robert (Industry Position in Zurich); Sipiran, Ivan (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru); Vardis, Konstantinos (Senior Developer, Think Silicon)

From reassembly to object completion: A complete systems pipeline. 2017. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), 10(2), p.8.

 

Honorable Mentions

Oyarzun Laura, Cristina; Drechsler, Klaus; Wesarg, Stefan (Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt); Bale, Reto (Medical University of Innsbruck))

Accurate physics-based registration for the outcome validation of minimal invasive interventions and open liver surgeries. 2017. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 64(2), pp.362-371.

 

Oksuz, Ilkay; Mukhopadhyay, Anirban; Dharmakumar, Rohan (TU Darmstadt); Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. (Medical University of Innsbruck))

Unsupervised myocardial segmentation for cardiac BOLD. 2017. IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 36(11), pp.2228-2238

 

Category: Impact on Business

Winner

Le Moan, Steven (School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, New Zealand); Tanksale, Tejas Madan (Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt); Byshko, Roman (Fogra Graphic Technology Research Association, Munich, Germany); Urban, Philipp (Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt)

An observer‐metamerism sensitivity index for electronic displays. 2017. Journal of the Society for Information Display, 25(9), pp.554-560

 

Honorable Mentions

Damer, Naser; Terhörst, Philipp; Braun, Andreas; Kuijper, Arjan (Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt)
Efficient, accurate, and rotation-invariant iris code. 2017. Efficient, accurate, and rotation-invariant iris code. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 24(8), pp.1233-1237

Weber, Nicolas; Goesele, Michael (TU Darmstadt, Group GCC)
MATOG: Array Layout Auto-Tuning for CUDA. 2017. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 14(3), p.28.

 

Best Industrial Project

3rd Place

Department: Interactive Engineering Technologies
“GPU-based simulation of time-independent deformation and stress fields of ALM materials – Sim4ALM”
(on behalf of Airbus Operations GmbH)

 

2nd Place

Department: Visual Assistance Technologies
“Development and Service Contract”

 

1st Place

Department: Visual Computing System Technologies & Virtual and Augmented Reality
“webTrack: Tracking as a Service”
(on behalf of BMW AG, Daimler AG, Porsche AG)