1. Main research interest
Reinhard Koch
Main research interest
Combining Graphics and Vision
3D scene reconstruction from images/video/depth
object and egomotion tracking
multiview and lightfield processing
underwater vision
Scientific background
- 1996: Electrical Engineering, PhD, Hannover, Stereo sequence analysis
-1999: PostDoc at K.U.Leuven (group Luc van Gool), 3D reconstruction group, SfM and Multiview processing (with Marc Pollefeys)
: Kiel University, Computer Science, Multimedia Information Proc.

2. Recent Research Topics:
Multi-object tracking and surface deformation analysis: Utilizing Generative Models and stochastic global optimizers for parameter estimation of dynamic scenes (Analysis by Synthesis with many degrees of freedom)
Appearance modeling from lightfields: capture and process large-scale sparse lightfields to extract geometry, motion, reflectivity, and lighting in natural scenes.
underwater vision with refractive imaging models: refractive SfM, image enhancement, 3D reconstruction,egomotion tracking, quantitative analysis