Prof. Dr. Leif Kobbelt
Werdegang:
Current Position
2001 – present 2020 – present | Full Professor of Computer Science, Chair for Computer Graphics, Geometry & Multimedia |
Previous Positions
1995 – 1996 | Post doctorate, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (DAAD scholarship) |
1996 – 1999 | Assistant Professor (C1), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
1999 – 2000 | Research Group Leader (C3), Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, |
academic education and university degrees
1992 | Diplom, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Dipl.-Inform.) |
1994 | Promotion, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Dr. rer. nat.) |
1999 | Habilitation, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (Dr.-Ing. habil.) |
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Computer Graphics, Geometry Processing CAD / CAM
Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:
management activity, advisory and editorial boards and memberships (selected)
2003 – present 2010 – 2022 | Symposium on Geometry Processing, Head of the Steering Committee Elected Member of the Eurographics Association Executive Committee |
2013 – 2017 | Elected Member of the Solid Modeling Association Executive Board |
2013 – 2018 2016 – 2023 2020 - 2028 2020 – present 2024 – 2027 ongoing ongoing | Member of the ERC Consolidator Grant Panel (CoG PE6) Elected Member of the Asian Graphics Association Executive Board Member of the „Fachkollegium 409“, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Member of the RWTH Strategy Board Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Dissertation Award Committee Various Editorial Boards and numerous International Program Committees Various National and International Evaluation Panels |
Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:
Fellowships & scientific Awards (selected)
1992 1994 2000 | accepted to the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” Best Thesis Award by the “Forschungszentrum Informatik” (FZI Karlsruhe) Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Award (Federal Ministry for Education and Research/DFG) |
2004 | Outstanding Technical Contribution Award (Eurographics Association) |
2008 2013 2013 2014 2015 2016 2019 2025 ongoing | Eurographics Fellow Distinguished Professor at RWTH Aachen University ERC Advanced Grant (European Research Council) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Award (DFG) Member of the Academia Europaea Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts RWTH Fellow Member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy some 25+ Best Paper Awards at various international conferences |
Ausgewählte Publikationen:
PUBLICATIONS
Some 300+ publications in scientific journals and peer-reviewed international conferences (such as, e.g., SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, ACM ToG, Eurographics, SGP, CVPR, ICCV, …). According to Google Scholar, the H-index is currently at 80 with a total number of about 27.500 citations.
REPRESENTATIVE SELECTION OF RECENT PAPERS
(1) P. Trettner, J. Nehring-Wirxel, L. Kobbelt, EMBER: Exact Mesh Booleans via Efficient & Robust Local Arrangements, CM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 41, No. 4, SIGGRAPH 2022
(2) M. Ibing, I. Lim, L. Kobbelt, 3D Shape Generation with Grid-based Implicit Functions, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
(3) M. Lyon, M. Campen, L. Kobbelt, Simpler Quad Layouts using Relaxed Singularities, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 40, No. 5, Symposium on Geometry Processing 2021
(4) P. Schmidt, M. Campen, J. Born, L. Kobbelt, Inter-Surface Maps via Constant-Curvature Metrics, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 34, No. 4, SIGGRAPH 2020
(5) P. Schmidt, J. Born, M. Campen, L. Kobbelt, Distortion-Minimizing Injective Maps Between Surfaces, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 38, Issue 6, Art. 156, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
(6) I. Lim, M. Ibing, L. Kobbelt, A Convolutional Decoder for Point Clouds using Adaptive Instance Normalization, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 38, No. 5, 2019
(7) M. Lyon, D. Bommes, L. Kobbelt, HexEx: Robust Hexahedral Mesh Extraction, ACM Transaction on Graphics (ToG), ACM SIGGRAPH 2016, Volume 35, Issue 4, Article No. 123, ACM New York, 2016
(8) I. Lim, A. Gehre, L. Kobbelt, Identifying Style of 3D Shapes using Deep Metric Learning, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2016
(9) M. Campen, D. Bommes, L. Kobbelt, Quantized Global Parametrization, SIGGRAPH Asia 2015, ACM Transaction on Grahics (ToG), 34(6), Article No. 192, ACM New York
(10) M. Campen, L. Kobbelt, Dual Strip Weaving: Interactive Design of Quad Layouts using Elastica strips, ACM Transaction on Graphics (ToG), Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014, Volume 33, Issue 6, Article No. 183, ACM New York, ISSN 0730-0301
Link zur Liste der gesamten Publikationen:
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=eCsqoJgAAAAJ