I am a PhD student in the Autonomous Vision Group of Andreas Geiger and scholar as well as student representative of the International Max-Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). My current research is on reflectance estimation in the area of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.
Reflections reveal a lot of information on the shape of an object and the material it consists of. Knowledge of it allows better scene understanding, refinement of 3D reconstructions and is needed for rendering virtual scenes. I am working on inferring the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) from RGB video input and on how to use this information for photo-realistic indoor scene reconstructions.