Academic use of Blender

at OHM and FAU
by Adam Kalisz

Slides, Links: http://BCon17.Kalisz.co

Overview

  • Introduction
  • Nuremberg and Erlangen
  • Technische Hochschule Nürnberg
    Georg-Simon-Ohm
  • Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Conclusion

Introduction

  • Adam Kalisz
  • Born and raised in Nuremberg
  • A/V Media Designer (aka cameraman)
  • Started 3D Graphics with Cinema 4D R6 CE (2001)
  • Media Engineering (Bachelor)
  • Computer Science (Master)
  • BFCT since May 2016
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Nürnberg (Nuremberg)

Nuremberg Photo
Nuremberg Photo

Erlangen

Erlangen Photo

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Erlangen Photo

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Erlangen Photo

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Nuremberg Institute of Technology (NIT)

Faculties and Studies:

  • Design: No use of Blender at all
  • Media Engineering: Strong use of Blender

Computer Graphics

Group results WS2011/2012:

Group results WS2012/2013:

Since WS2017/2018:

Assistant Professor for Computer Graphics

Strong Focus on Applying CG skills using Blender

Renderfarm GSORF

GSORF Server and Client

GSORF Server GSORF Client

Peter Henlein Pocket Watch Visualization

Concept

Concept

Final videos

Challenges

Challenges

Challenges

Challenges

Challenges

Challenges

Bachelor's Thesis

"Visualization of laser scanner point cloud
as 3D panorama"

Bachelor's Thesis

DepthMap SphericalCoordinates

Bachelor's Thesis

SfMvsLiDAR
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Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Face2Face

People

  • Nils Thuerey (Ph.D Thesis: Fluid Simulation in Blender, GSoC 2005)
  • Matthias Nießner (Ph.D Thesis: OpenSubdiv, Pixar 2013)
  • Pascal Schön (Principled BSDF, Adidas 2017)

Blender Seminar

Master Thesis

3D reconstruction from video sequence using deep learning

Masters Thesis

A few more words

Blender User Group Nuremberg (NuremBUG)

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Thank you!