Florian Hecht

fhecht at cs.berkeley.edu
545 Soda Hall
Cell: (510) 717-8562

Mini Bio

I'm currently a second year PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. I'm originally from Germany and I studied at the University of Karlsruhe. I received a Diplom (~Masters) in computer science in 2008. There I worked with Pedram Azad in the lab of Prof. Dillmann on computer vision for humanoid robots. I've spend a year at Georgia Tech working with Greg Turk in 2006/2007 and received a MS in computer science as well.

Research Interests

I'm part of the graphics group here at Berkeley and James O'Brien is my adviser. I'm also working with Jonathan Shewchuk. I'm most interested in physically-based animation of elastic and plastic materials as well as computational fluid dynamics for computer graphics. The other part of graphics I'm very interested in is rendering, expecially pre-computation based methods and frequency domain analysis of lighting phenomena, where I'm working with Ravi Ramamoorthi.

Publications

"Frequency Analysis and Sheared Filtering for Shadow Light Fields of Complex Occluders

Kevin Egan, Florian Hecht, Fredo Durand and Ravi Ramamoorthi, Accepted (\w minor revisions) to ACM Transactions on Graphcis

Example-Based Wrinkle Synthesis for Clothing Animation

Huamin Wang, Florian Hecht, Ravi Ramamoorthi and James F. O'Brien, in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2010, pages 107: 1-8, July 2010

Paper: project website

Virtual Rheoscopic Fluids

Florian Hecht, Peter J. Mucha and Greg Turk, January/February 2010, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

Paper: PDF [4.7 MB]
Video: MOV [5.3 MB]

Human Motion Tracking using a Flexible Model and Appearance Learning

Florian Hecht, Pedram Azad and Rüdiger Dillmann, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009

Thesis: PDF 80 pages [26.6 MB]
Paper: PDF 7 pages [5.0 MB]
Video: MP4 [2.6 MB] MOV [15.8 MB]

Class Projects