University College London
Dept. of Computer Science
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@jankautz

I am an Associate Professor (Reader) in Computer Graphics in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, where I am a member of the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics Group. My research area is computer graphics, with a particular interest in real-time rendering, illumination computation, materials, perception, high-dynamic-range imaging and color, computational photography, and video-based rendering.

I have seven doctoral students, Dan Calian, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Yotam Doron (sponsored by The Foundry), Fabrizio Pece, Frederic Besse, Fabian Wanner (sponsored by Framestore), and James Tompkin (sponsored by the BBC), who are working on 3d reconstruction, rendering, computational photography, and video-based rendering. Furthermore, I have two post-docs, Neill Campbell, who is working on synthesizing photo-real objects and Kartic Subr (Newton fellow), who is working on rendering and image processing.

News
04/2012
Our paper Videoscapes: Exploring Sparse, Unstructured Video Collections has been conditionally accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2012.
01/2012
Our work on dynamic video inpanting is featurd on the cover of Informatik Spektrum.
01/2012
Our paper on the state of the art in interactive global illumination has been accepted at Computer Graphics Forum and a preprint is online.
01/2012
We have two papers accepted at Eurographics 2012, one on inpainting dynamic objects in videos and one on creating multiperspective images and videos.
09/2011
We have three newcomers in my group this month: Neill Campbell (Research Associate), Daniyar Turmukhambetov (PhD student), and Dan Calian (EngD student).
06/2011
I'm helping organizing CVMP, a London-based conference on visual media. The paper deadline is June 20th, so please consider submitting!
05/2011
I am looking for a post-doc as well as a new PhD student, starting in the fall. The topic for both is on Synthesizing and Editing Photo-realistic Visual Objects.
04/2011
Our paper on edge-aware image filtering and our paper on video-based characters were accepted at ACM SIGGRAPH 2011.
03/2011
The London Graphics Seminar was a great event with about 100 attendees.
01/2011
I am organizing the London Graphics Seminar, a seminar series that brings together people from the Computer Games Industry, Special Effects Industry, and Academia. We are holding a full-day launch event on March 16th.
01/2011
Kartic Subr has joined my group as a post-doc, for which he received a prestigious Newton international fellowship.
01/2011
Our paper on display-aware image editing was accepted at ICCP 2011.
01/2011
Our paper on edge-aware color appearance was accepted at ACM Transaction on Graphics and will be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2011.
01/2011
Note that we had a server outage and I'm only slowly catching up with email. There is also the possibility that some emails were lost.
01/2011
Yotam Doron just started his EngD with me. His sponsor is The Foundry.