{"id":700,"date":"2022-05-06T12:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/?page_id=700"},"modified":"2023-11-09T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:55:12","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/index.php\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.team_container {\n    display: flex;\n    flex-wrap: wrap;\n    justify-content: center;\n}\n.research_div {\n   width: 340px;\n   text-align: justify;\n   margin-left: 20px;\n   margin-right: 20px;\n   margin-top: 5px;\n   margin-bottom: 5px;\n}\n.research_header {\n   background-color: #F7F7F7;\n   color: #000000;\n   font-weight: bold;\n  border-top: 1px solid; \n  border-bottom: 1px solid; \n  width: 340px;\n  text-align: center;\n  font-size: 14px;\n  height: 35px;\n  vertical-align: middle;\n  display: table-cell;\n}\nimg {\ndisplay: block;\n  margin-left: auto;\n  margin-right: auto;\n  border:none;\n}\n<\/style>\n<p>We are interested in a broad range of topics at the interface of visual computing, mathematical optimisation and machine learning:<\/p>\n<div class=\"team_container\">\n<div class=\"research_div\">\n<div class=\"research_header\">3D Shape Analysis and Geometry Processing<\/div>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3dshapes.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:auto;height:200px;border-style: none;\" \/><figcaption>\n<strong>Geometric data<\/strong> is a crucial part of many tasks in computer vision and computer graphics. Our interests include shape deformation models, shape editing and manipulation, correspondences, geometric data curation, and many more.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"research_div\">\n<div class=\"research_header\">Correspondence Problems<\/div>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/multigraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:auto;height:200px;border-style: none;\"\/><figcaption>\nWe develop <strong>optimisation and deep learning<\/strong> approaches for identifying corresponding parts across objects (e.g. for images, graphs, surfaces, etc.).<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"research_div\">\n<div class=\"research_header\">Graph-based Modelling &#038; Graph Algorithms<\/div>\n<figure>\n<img src=https:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/torusrot_web.gif alt=\"  style=\"border-style:none;width:auto;height:200px;\"\/><figcaption>\nMany visual computing problems can be formalised as <strong>graph-theoretic problems<\/strong>, so that they can be solved using <strong>graph algorithms<\/strong>. For example, numerous variants of matching problems can be addressed by finding shortest paths in product graphs.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"research_div\">\n<div class=\"research_header\">Deep Learning<\/div>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/face_graph.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:auto;height:185px;border-style: none;\"\/><figcaption>\nWe study how to incorporate <strong>human knowledge<\/strong> (e.g. in the form of 3D geometry, or physics) into <strong>deep learning systems<\/strong>, so that they can focus on learning the unknown, rather than wasting capacity on rediscovering what humans already know.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"research_div\">\n<div class=\"research_header\">Large Data Collections<\/div>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/mgm.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:auto;height:370px;border-style: none;\" \/><figcaption>\nWe study how we can adequately analyse and process large data collections (e.g. images, shapes, point clouds, matrices, etc.). This includes <strong>efficient algorithms<\/strong> for multi-graph matching, multi-shape matching, and the synchronisation of matrices (e.g. transformations or permutations).<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"research_div\">\n<div class=\"research_header\">Applications<\/div>\n<figure>\n<img src=https:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/medical_imaging.jpg alt=\"\" style=\"width:350px;height:auto;border-style: none;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lovc.cs.uni-bonn.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brainGraph.jpg\" alt=\"\"  style=\"width:350px;height:auto;border-style: none;\" \/><figcaption>\nMany problems that we study are driven by <strong>real-world applications<\/strong>, including (bio)medical image analysis, motion capture, AR\/VR, or 3D reconstruction.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are interested in a broad range of topics at the interface of visual computing, mathematical optimisation and machine learning: 3D Shape Analysis and Geometry Processing Geometric data is a crucial part of many tasks in computer vision and computer graphics. 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